2000 – Page 226

"Chicken Cordon Blue", by Frank Disla is being staged at the Sala Ravelo of the National Theater, as final showing of the National Theater’s drama season. The play will be staged on weekends through 6 February. It tells the story of four Latin Americans who migrate to the United States. Reynardo Disla directs the play. …

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The Caribbean Baseball Championship, known as the Caribbean World Series, opens 2 February in Santo Domingo. It will last through 7 February. Games are slated for 4 pm and 8 pm at the Quisqueya Ballpark. The championship winners from Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Mexico and the DR will vie for the regional title. The Aguilas of …

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Three companies, LH, Alfa and Agroman pre-qualified from six that had shown an interest in participating in the tender to build the Panamerican Olympic Village that is slated to go up across from the Banco Popular headquarters and diagonally across from the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center at John F. Kennedy and San Martín avenues, …

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The Museum of Modern Art is exhibiting starting 27 de January 60 works by leading Dominican painters and photographers that render tribute to the Virgen de la Altagracia, the patron saint o the Dominican Republic. January 21 is Altagracia Day in the DR. The exhibition is entitled "La Altagracia-Jubileo 2000". Anthropologist Virginia Roca, of Evo-Art …

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President Fernández convened the legislative chambers so that can meet to study the US$161 million Brazilian financing secured for the construction of the Northwest Aqueduct. Congress was convened for 15 days. The normal congressional sessions are slated to begin 27 February. The project has met with strong local opposition. Opponents say the proposed project is …

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El Siglo newspaper reported that the US will boost its technical and financial help so that Dominican can be more effective at control drug contraband through the Dominican frontier with Haiti. US Secretary of the Army Louis Caldera visited President Leonel Fernández at the National Palace. US Ambassador Charles Manatt accompanied him. He said that …

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The Listín Diario published results of the Sigma Dos-Gallup International poll carried out in 15 European and 10 Iberoamerican countries. Some 15,988 persons were in polled in Europe and 6,310 in Iberoamerica, including 500 in the DR. The DR leads in expectations for economic prosperity in 2000. 66% of Dominicans feel it will be a …

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The Fernández administration (Decree 12-2000) changed the consul generals in New York, Madrid, Tokyo and Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Máximo Corcino was appointed consul general in New York. He is a resident in that city. He replaces Bienvenido Pérez, who was appointed chief of the Permanent Mission of the DR to the United Nations. He replaces …

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