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Those who enjoy speed car racing should visit the Las Americas International Race Track on the outskirts of Santo Domingo. Located on Las Americas Highway on the road to Las Americas International Airport, the race track will be hosting the 4th Race of the National Speed Car Racing Championship this Sunday.

The National Symphony Orchestra will accompany the winners of the Santander International Piano Concert during their presentation on Wednesday, 8 September at the National Theater. They will be here participating in a benefit for the Asociación Pro Educación y Cultura. The Santander contest is organized by the Foundation Isaac Albeniz, that was founded in 1972 …

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The National Theater’s drama season resumes this evening, 3 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 place primarily in a brothel. Actors play …

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Presidente Beer is sponsoring what is being called its Summer Games. Sumo fights (with contenders inside inflated balloon sumo costumes), races, roulette, beach volleyball and other games are scheduled. There will also be live music with some of the top rock groups, including Al Jadaqui and Toque Profundo, as well as the participation of leading …

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San Lazaro tied the finals of the Santo Domingo Basketball Championship, defeating Mauricio Baez 109-88. The series is now tied 2-2. The fifth game will be played today, Friday, 3 September at 8 pm at the newly remodeled Sports Palace of the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center in Santo Domingo.

President Leonel Fernández returned last night from his three-day official visit to Panama and Colombia. On his way back, he made a stopover in Miami to again spend time with his friend, Director of Customs Miguel Cocco who is interned in a Miami hospital for kidney trouble. Cocco was also found to have pre-cancerous cells. …

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The privatization of electricity continues to be the talk of the town. After the privatization commission and the general manager of the CDE spent months saying electricity bills would not suffer increases as a result of privatization, the true story is quite different. The newly created Superintendency of Electricity published advertisements reclassifying rates and setting …

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Antonio Isa Conde, the president of the Commission for the Reform of Public enterprises (CREP), says that the worst enemies of the privatization process are within the government. He said that government officials promoted the takeover of the State Sugar Council (CEA) sugar mill lands which has brought about major obstacles to the privatization of …

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Deligne Ascención of the Department of Urban Transit of the Municipality of Santo Domingo announced that the city government will install new computerized traffic lights at key intersections, and sign posts as well as number 5,000 apartment building and houses in the Colonial City and metropolitan zone. The plan will cover 750 intersections and will …

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The Chamber of Deputies approved the granting of US$20,000 to save Ilianov de Leon Albino, a 14-year old Dominican who is interned at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York and needs a bone marrow operation. His family is undertaking a major campaign to come up with the RD$7.2 million (US$450,000) cost of the …

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