Events at Casa de Teatro
Friday, 7 July. Ballet Concierto. 9 pm. RD$100. Said Cuban music concert. 11 pm. Saturday, 8 July. Ballet Concierto. 9 pm. RD$100. Boleros and More with Pavel Núñez at 11 pm.
Dominican Merengue Festival at Central Park
A Dominican Republic Merengue Festival is planned for Sunday, 9 July in Central Park, New York City. The festival is sponsored by the Ministry of Tourism of the DR, the New York City Hall and the New York City Department of Parks. Merengue-dancing activities start at 3 pm. There also will be a talk on …
Dirty Dancing, the musical, at the National Theater
Dirty Dancing will be the next musical staged at the National Theater. The popular movie’s premier as a musical is set for 7, 8, 9, 14, 15 and 16 July at 8:30 pm. Tickets are selling at the National Theater for RD$400/RD$300 and RD$200. This is a Nuryn Sanlley production. Last year, she staged a …
President's father interned in ICU of Plaza de la Salud
President Leonel Fernández’s father, José Antonio Fernández Collado arrived yesterday from Panama on board an air ambulance. The plane flew into the San Isidro Military Air Base. The President’s 68-year old father was hospitalized in Panama, after suffering two consecutive heart attacks. Shortly after, he was admitted to the intensive care unit of the Plaza …
Alejandro Grullón travels to NY for medical follow up
President Leonel Fernández bid banker Alejandro Grullón off at the Las Americas International Airport. Grullón was taken to New York City for medical follow up after being interned for heart condition on Monday and Tuesday at the Abel González Clinic in Santo Domingo, as reported by his physicians Anis Vidal and Oscar Reyes. President Fernández …
Balaguer opposes developing Saona Island
Former President Joaquín Balaguer said he opposes the plan to develop Saona Island presented by Santo Domingo senator Milagros Ortiz Bosch (today Vice President-elect) and Hato Mayor senator Ivan Rondón. A bill in the Senate seeks to grant municipality status to the island. The municipality status would permit the development of the island that is …
Physician says Balaguer is in good health
Dr. Orestes Guerrero, one of former President Joaquín Balaguer’s attending physicians, said that the 93 year old politician is in perfect state of health. Recently, Balaguer was subject to a cerebral scan that sought to help find the causes for the slight dizziness of which he has complained.
European Union funds would help develop tourism in Haiti
El Caribe newspaper publishes interviews with Madsen Cherubin, head of the Haitian mission in the DR, and Renzo Herrera, of the Lome IV office in the Dominican Republic. The interviews reveal that the European Union funds will be used to build a Dajabón-Cap Haitien highway that will provide a modern thoroughfare along a large part …
President-elect says he will open constitutional reform discussions in 2001
El Siglo reports that President-elect Hipólito Mejía said in Spain, where he was as part of a European tour, that he would convene the National Congress next year to introduce reforms to the Constitutions open discussions. An Asamblea Nacional Revisora would study the reforms. He said that the idea is to make the Constitution a …
President-elect meets with Aznar and King Juan Carlos
El Siglo reports that the head of the Spanish government, José María Aznar committed donations for US$30 million to assist development programs in the DR. The commitment was made to President-elect Hipólito Mejía who met with him at the Palacio de la Moncloa in Madrid. During his trip to Spain, the President-elect also had dinner …