1999 – Page 68

The second electrical breakdown in two days affected incoming evening flights to Las Americas International Airport, the country’s main port of entry. The failure of the main runway lights system was attributed to a lightning discharge that occurred on Saturday evening around 9 pm. The problem was supposedly repaired by Sunday afternoon, but a repeat …

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The Commission for the Reform of the Public Enterprise (CONEP) announced the tender for the 30-year lease of sugar cane fields, cattle fields and ranches, as well as sugar mill infrastructure and production facilities will take place today. This is the first phase of the privatization of the State Sugar Council (CEA) property. A second …

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The president of the Commission for the Reform of Government Enterprise, CREP, Antonio Isa Conde called for business organization and civic society groups to support the privatization process and confront those that want the process to be reverted. Despite the flaws, he feels privatization has been a step forward. Isa Conde urged the private electrical …

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Haiti and the DR again sat down to three-day discussions of bilateral issues. The talks are held within the framework of the Interinstitutional Technical Committee on Dominican-Haitian Migratory Frontier Affairs. The talks are being held at the Diplomacy School of the Ministry of Foreign Relations in Santo Domingo. The issues that are being covered were …

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While all the attention is now focusing on the monstrous Hurricane Floyd, residents and travelers to the DR should closely monitor Hurricane Gert, the seventh hurricane to enter the Atlantic Basin. "Some of our models put Gert in the same position (as Floyd) five or six days from now," National Hurricane Center Director Jerry Jarrell …

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Dominican TV’s darling, Nuria Piera weds journalist Pablo McKinney this afternoon. McKinney is known as the right hand of Vice President Jaime David Fernández Mirabal. News reports say that less than 40 persons have been invited to the wedding that will be held at the apartment of a close friend. The couple reportedly will honeymoon …

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Dr. José Joaquín Puello, president of the Dominican Olympic Committee and the 2003 Pan Am Games Organizing Committee, said in San Juan, Puerto Rico that construction of the Pan Am Village in Santo Domingo will begin this coming February 2000. The village will be built diagonally across from the main site of competitions, the Juan …

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National Theater Drama Season continues this weekend The National Theater’s drama season resumes this weekend, 15-19 September with the presentation of the play, "Bachata para María Viveza." This play will last through 26 September. Radhamés Polanco wrote and directs this play that was chosen "best drama" by Casa de Teatro in 1997. The action takes …

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The presidents of Brazil and Uruguay, the International Monetary Fund and the Interamerican Development Bank will be in Santo Domingo for the 6th Meeting of the Uruguay Circle. The event will be held 12-13 November in Santo Domingo. The central issue to be discussed is social cohesion within the general framework of governability as countries …

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The President of the Supreme Court of Justice, Jorge Subero Isa said that the dossier with the case for corruption against former President Salvador Jorge Blanco showed up along with 5,000 other cases pending in the judiciary. He said that the dossier was located by investigators of the Departamento de Inspectoría Judicial in the Penal …

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