2000 – Page 189

The second half of the National Symphony Orchestra 1999-2000 season continues at the National Theater in Santo Domingo. The calendar for the upcoming presentations is as follows: Wednesday, 22 March. Julio de Windt, Conductor. Reynaldo Han. Overture of the Mozart opera. Bienvenido Bustamante’s Concert for Flute and Orchestra. Special performance by Luis Ruiz. Franz Liszt’s …

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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 DR1 Daily News Friday release reported that Lurgi Lejes Bischoff of Germany and Acres International and Interteck Consulting, of Canada, would work together to install a power-producing incinerator. The news story said that the incinerator would be installed in "two months". This should have read "two years." This is a project that will be …

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President Leonel Fernández announced the construction of a free zone industrial parks on the frontier with Haiti. "If we build these parks on the frontier, Haitians will be able to come to work in the morning, and return to Haiti once their shift is over," he said. It is expected that urban communities will sprout …

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Spanish-Dominican group, Consorcio OHL-Grupo Alfa was given the full responsibility to build the Santo Domingo Pan Am Games Olympic Village. The eight 23-floor towers with 700 apartments will house an estimated 5,000 athletes and coaches coming for the Summer 2003 Pan American Games. Two other companies that had been assigned three buildings were discarded when …

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The National Police passed on to the District Attorney’s office the investigations regarding the assault on the transporters of values for Vimenca-Western Union. Last year, assailants dressed in National Drug Control uniforms stopped and later fired at the guards, killing three of four, and stealing more than RD$3 million in values. Leftist party leader Narciso …

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Prime interest rates climbed to 24% as a result of the Monetary Junta recent measures. While the measures are primarily targeted at restricting government spending, the constraining of bank lending funds is affecting credit to businesses and individuals in the DR. This will have a negative effect on business expansion and on sectors such as …

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Danilo Medina, presidential candidate for the ruling Partido de la Liberación Dominicana, chose Secretary of Agriculture Amilcar Romero as his running mate. Amilcar Romero is considered a man close to former President Joaquín Balaguer and his family. The PLD candidate needs the PRSC votes to win the presidency. Prior to accepting the nomination, Romero consulted …

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A recent Hamilton Staff-Hoy newspaper survey shows that 94-year old presidential candidate Joaquín Balaguer (PRSC) has the highest acceptance rate of all running political candidates. He received 71% favorable opinion of voters in a recent survey. Runner ups are Hipólito Medina (PRD) with 61%, and Danilo Medina with 46%. In the survey, former Vice President …

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