1999 – Page 6

A French travel agency, TMR, booked an Air France Concorde for a South America and Caribbean tour of 100 of France’s elite. The Concorde landed in Santo Domingo on 3 December as part of the tour. The visitors stayed at the Hotel Coral Costa Caribe in Juan Dolio. The passengers toured Santo Domingo. Airp, and …

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Juan Guzmán, Pedro Julio Astacio, Ramón Martínez, three successful Dominican Major League baseball players surprised Dodgers scout Elvio Jiménez with a brand new Mitsubishi Montero jeep last Tuesday. The players engaged him in conversation and tricked him into accompanying them to the Quisqueya Ball Park parking lot. There they presented him with a brand new …

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Juan Luís Guerra and his 4-40 group (Roger Zayas, Adalgisa Pantaleón and Kike Rizek) had everyone standing up and swaying to merengue on Saturday evening. He filled the Altos de Chavón amphitheater in La Romana to capacity. An estimated 6,000 persons attended the concert. The concert started at 9 pm and ended at 11:22 pm …

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US Transportation Secretary Rodney E. Slater capped off his tour of Central American and Caribbean by signing an Open Skies aviation accord with the DR yesterday. The agreement is the US’s 9th in the Caribbean and 39th in the world. The agreement is expected to benefit US aviation and DR tourism. Dominican airlines will not …

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US Secretary of Transport in Santo Domingo for an official two-day visit commended the efforts of Rear Admiral Victor García Alecont to combat drug trafficking and save lives. Slater called the work of the Dominican Navy "exemplary," referring to the strong search and rescue program, migrant interdiction and drug trafficking reduction. He believes that the …

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Secretary of Transport Rodney Slater also met with the local director of the Metropolitan Transport Authority, Hamlet Hermann. He had praise for the AMET program. "I am very impressed with the express bus services," he said. He commented the DR could in the future use its telecommunications capabilities to implement Intelligent Transport Technology. He commented …

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Central Bank has placed into circulation new bills for RD$2,000 and RD$10 that will begin to circulate today. The government has issued new bills for RD$500, RD$100, RD$20 and RD$10. The new bills have a special mark so that blind persons can identify the amount. The new RD$2,000 bill is printed in blue and gray.

President Fernández could travel to Asia and Europe early next year. At the end of January, President Fernández could travel to Brussels, to assume his role as president of the African, Caribbean and Pacific bloc of nations, columnist Manuel Jiménez who covers the Presidency for Hoy newspaper reports. Fernández could travel in February to Japan …

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A US firm, Cuyler S.A. won the bid for the purchase of eight Bell 205-A1 helicopters and two AT-6 planes of the Dominican Air Force that were auctioned by the Air Force. They bid US$615,000. The Air Force will use the moneys to repair other planes.

The Ministry of Public Health confirmed that nine children have died from diphtheria in the past two months in the country. Given the low incidence of diphtheria, the outbreak of diphtheria caught the Ministry of Public Health unprepared. In the DR the anti-toxin to fight the disease is not available. Minister of Public Health Juan …

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