2000 – Page 184

The nation’s leading exhibition of cattle ranching, farming and industrial production is scheduled to open this Saturday, 25 March at the Feria Ganadera on the Malecón. The Feria Nacional Agropecuaria, Industrial, Educativa y Ecológica 2000 is a sale-exhibition of local produce.

Free trade negotiations for the first protocol for the free trade agreement between the DR and Caricom concluded in Basse-Terre, St. Kitts yesterday. The agreement took 16 rounds of negotiations and almost four years. A first draft was signed 22 August 1998 in Santo Domingo during a Caribbean heads of state summit. The agreement grants …

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Engineer Roque Napoleón Muñoz confirmed in an interview with Hoy newspaper that the tender to choose the builders of the Pan American village should have been annulled. He said none of the builders filled the minimum specifications. That is, none of the companies guaranteed the sale of the apartments necessary to pay back the investment …

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The Junta Central Electoral rejected the impugning of the presidential candidacy of former President Joaquín Balaguer by relatives and friends of assassinated journalist Orlando Martínez. The candidacy challenge was rejected on grounds that it was "unfounded and lacking of legal base." The relatives of the assassinated journalist had requested that Judge Francisco Ortega order the …

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The Partido de la Liberación Dominicana formally put into circulation its government platform for 2000-2004. The program focuses on promoting sustainable economic development, an increase in social equity, consolidation of democracy and improvement of government management. Temístocles Montás, Technical Secretary of the Presidency and member of the party’s Political Committee said that the strategy presented …

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Dominican prostitutes celebrated their Second National Congress of Sexual Workers with the opening taking place at the National Library. The workshops are taking place at the headquarters of the Instituto de Formación y Acción Sindical (INFAS), a union training center. Movimiento de Mujeres (MODEMU) which has a membership of 400 sexual workers organizes the congress. …

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A second edition of the book by Henri Alain Liogier, discoverer of the Flor de Bayahibe, an endemic flower, will be released tomorrow during a ceremony at the Central Bank. The second edition of the Botanical Dictionary of the Dominican Republic contains common names for the flora available in the DR. It features 80 color …

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The president of the Junta Central Electoral, Dr. Manuel Ramón Morel Cerda alerted that persons who are buying the cedulas, or identification and voting cards, of citizens identified as most likely to vote for an opposition party will lose their money in the transaction. Dr. Morel said that the persons that sell their cedulas will …

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Consumption of fuel increased 29% in the first two months of the year, despite the 20% price increase in October 1999. The increase in consumption makes things worse for the government because it comes at a time when world market prices are extraordinarily high. It means the government will need more dollars to pay for …

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Bank profits were RD$2,078.37 million last year, or 84.9% compared to the previous year’s RD$1,556.3 million, according to a Central Bank report write up in El Siglo newspaper. Assets of commercial banks at the end of 1999 were RD$110,818.6 million, up 21.7% compared to 1998. Commercial bank profitability was 34.3%, 11 points more than in …

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