2000 – Page 182

The annual Chamber Music concerts season starts tonight at 8:30 pm at the Salón de Actos of the Patronato de la Ciudad Colonial, Calle Isabel la Católica (in front of Columbus Park). The concerts were usually held at the Capilla de los Remedios but this year, the 12 concerts, scheduled for the last Thursday of …

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The nation’s leading exhibition of cattle ranching, farming and industrial production is scheduled to open this Saturday, 25 March lasting through 2 April at the Feria Ganadera on the Malecón. The Feria Nacional Agropecuaria, Industrial, Educativa y Ecológica 2000 is a sale-exhibition of local produce. A new attraction this year is a flower producers competition.

The Paul Taylor Dance Company (www.ptdc.org) will perform in Santo Domingo 24 and 25 March at the National Theater. The group will perform in a benefit for the Fundacion Mir in La Romana. Fundación Ritmos por la Danza brings this company to Santo Domingo. The company has toured 650 cities in 60 countries and was …

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The Ministry of Public Works is allowing traffic on the newly built Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy avenues overpass. The overpass is one of many underway to convert the J. F. Kennedy Avenue into a speedway to cross Santo Domingo East-West/West-East. The Ministry explained that the overpass work is not finished, but traffic is …

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The Junta Central Electoral, the government body in charge of organizing presidential elections in the DR, announces it will be holding an electoral simulacrum on Saturday, 25 March and Sunday, 26 March. Political campaigning is banned while the exercise lasts. The idea is to assist voters to determine where they are assigned to vote, and …

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The Junta Central Electoral announced that starting on Monday it will begin home delivery of cedulas, the voting and identification cards, that have not been picked up by citizens that are eligible to vote. Some 256,066 cedulas still remain to be picked up at JCE offices.

Child mortality has significantly declined in the DR in the past four years, according to Public Health authorities. In 1996 child mortality was 42.4/1,000 births. It was reduced to 25/1,000 in 1999 and an estimated 22.9/1,000 births by the end of this year. National Health Director, Rafael Schiffino said that the most outstanding reductions have …

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