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US Airways announces Aruba and Santo Domingo service

US Airways announced today an Aruba, Netherlands Antilles-Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic connection starting 12 November 2000. This opens up the possibility of selling vacations to Aruba and the Dominican Republic to the American market. US Airways has already announced it will operate one daily flight between Philadelphia and Aruba and between Philadelphia and Santo Domingo …

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Making life easier for those in wheel chairs

The Senate passed a bill yesterday that seeks to enforce provisions to increase employment and education opportunities, while making mobility easier for those in wheel chairs. At present, while there is legislation that obliges architects to incorporate provisions such as access ramps, this is not being fulfilled. The bill reinforces the present legislation. The Listín …

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Segura on the problems affecting power supply

Radhames Segura, the administrator of the state electricity utility (CDE) said that the different government institutions that tackled the electricity problems had major differences which significantly contributed to the delay in the present administration providing relief to the long power outages that still occur in the DR. Segura said that the CDE maintained differences with …

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US$180 million remains in World Bank-DR loan portfolio

President-elect Hipólito Mejía met yesterday with the World Bank representative in the DR, Marco Mantovanelli. Mantovanelli explained that the Fernández administration had been slow in disbursing the US$300 million in loans approved by the institution, and thus only 40% of the money has been used. The PRD administration will be left with US$180 million in …

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