2000 – Page 210

The Superintendence announced the start of operations of the Organismo Coordinador, the body that will regulate the operations of buyers and sellers of power in the DR. As of the entry of the coordinating organization, the state electricity utility, CDE, desists in its role as intermediary between the private generators and the private distributors. News …

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The Fernández administration inherited a US$70 million debt with the private generators, primarily Dominican Power Partners and Smith Enron Cogeneration Limited Partnership, when it took office in August 1996, according to El Siglo newspaper. As of 1 February, that debt had increased to US$102 million. The Executive Branch proposed to pay US$40 million to the …

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The second half of the National Symphony Orchestra 1999-2000 season opens 16 February at the National Theater in Santo Domingo. The program for tonight is: 16 February. Julio de Windt, Conductor. Cesar Franck. Symphony in D minor. Dairus Milhaud. Concert for Percussion and Orchestra Opus 109. Special performance by percussionist Miguel Angel Castro. Peter Tchaikovsky. …

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Players that will be part of the US professional volleyball circuit that starts action in January 2001 have pending a final game in Santo Domingo. The US players, under coach Arie Selinger, winner of two gold medals in Olympic Games, are playing members of the Dominican volleyball team at the Volleyball Pavilion of the Juan …

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Club de Polo Casa de Campo in La Romana will host regional trials for World Polo Cup on 24-27 February. The International Polo Federation coordinates the trials. Glen Holden, president of the Federation, was in the Dominican Republic this week to attend planning meetings. Guatemala, Costa Rica, Jamaica and the DR will vie for a …

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"To do politics today, is to find new investment capital, and that is what I am doing with much earnestness and interest," President Fernández told Dominican journalists covering his tour of Asia. President Fernández is the first Dominican statesman to ever visit Japan while in office. News correspondents covering President Leonel Fernández’s trip to Asia …

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The managerial and technical weaknesses that have affected the organization of the 2000 presidential election for the past two years are making headlines again. Thousands of persons had to go home empty-handed when the Junta Central Electoral, the board in charge of organizing the presidential election, was not able to deliver on promises of having …

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The committee in charge of the construction of the Pan American Games villa complex announced that the tender was postponed for Friday. It had been scheduled to take place on Monday, 14 February. The event was postponed at the request of two of three of the companies that would be participating. The committee that has …

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Hoy newspaper publishes the results of the Hamilton poll on political alliances today. According to the poll, 31% of Dominicans able to vote favor an alliance between the PLD and the PRSC, 30% favor an alliance between the PRD and the PRSC. 48% of the PRSC followers favor an alliance with the PLD and 18% …

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