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2000 News

Playwright assaulted in Santiago

Playwright and poet Scherezada (Chiqui) Vicioso lived moments of terror, movie-style, when she and family members were about to sit down for dinner at her mother’s home in the El Embrujo neighborhood in Santiago. Vicioso was visiting her mother when five hooded and gun-porting delinquents assaulted the house. With her were her husband Fidelio Despradel, …

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PLD unites to fight corruption charges

The Political Committee of the PLD announced the formation of a legal team to defend former officers of the PLD from corruption acts accusations by the present government. The lawyers will begin working on cases against Luis Inchaustegui, director of the Programa de Empleo Mínimo Eventual y Acción Barrial who is accused of using state …

2000 News

President Mejía leaves for NY

President Hipólito Mejía travels tomorrow to New York City to participate in the United Nations Summit of the Millennium. He will remain in the US through Saturday, 9 September. He is scheduled to speak at the United Nations on Wednesday, 6 September at 4:30 pm. The speech will be televised to Dominican audiences by Channel …

Minister of Public Works announces what's coming

Pedestrian overpasses at John F. Kennedy, Las Americas and 27 de Febrero avenues New traffic lights — US$17 million program Expressways: San Pedro de Macorís-Verón (La Altagracia) Baní-San Cristóbal Santo Domingo-Samaná (RD$2,000 million cost) Minister Miguel Vargas said that mechanisms to privatize the construction of the expressways are being sought. (5 September 2000)

2000 News

Drugs confiscated at Punta Cana International

Government drug control forces confiscated a third cargo of drugs in less than three days yesterday. The 17 kilos of pure cocaine would have been shipped to Rome on board a charter flight leaving from Punta Cana International Airport. Major General Manuel Antonio Lachapelle Suero, director of the Department of Drug Control (DCND) said that …

2000 News

The opening of a can of worms

The prosecution of a Fernández government minister seems to have brought out into the open the reality of strikes in the Dominican Republic. News reports now have made transparent that the government was paying RD$25-RD$31 million a month in checks to the "tigueres" or troublemakers resident in several Dominican barrios. The government, instead of building …

2000 News

Former Vice President urges government officers to get to work

Former Vice President Jacinto Peynado urged the new government officers to leave prosecution of former government officers to second rate employees of the state. He urged them to concentrate on the jobs for which they were appointed. "If the government is going to spend all its time making accusations, pointing out wrongs in the past …

2000 News

More provinces to come

The Coctelera column in Hoy newspaper says that the people of Constanza are pushing to become a separate province. The newspaper writes that Constanza would join Ocoa, then would follow Yamasa, Sainagua, Loma del Chivo, Cabo Cabron, La Sanoa and a thousand more surely to come. The country could have then have 100 provinces, and …

2000 News

Nephew of Freddy Beras Goico shot by supposed assailant

33-year old lawyer Octavio Beras, son and nephew, respectively, of TV producers Tutín and Freddy Beras Goico died yesterday in a shoot out with supposed assailants. The killing occurred around noon in front of the St. George School on Abraham Lincoln Ave, where his oldest daughter, a six year old, studies. News reports say that …

US Airways gets ready for 12 November flight to DR

US Airways has appointed Caribe S.A. as its reservation center, sales and ticketing office. US Airways is already in computer systems making it possible to book the direct flights the airline will be offering to Santo Domingo from Philadelphia, USA as of 12 November. The reservations office number in Santo Domingo is 809 540-0505. The …

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2000 – Page 76

Playwright assaulted in Santiago

PLD unites to fight corruption charges

President Mejía leaves for NY

Minister of Public Works announces what's coming

Drugs confiscated at Punta Cana International

The opening of a can of worms

Former Vice President urges government officers to get to work

More provinces to come

Nephew of Freddy Beras Goico shot by supposed assailant

US Airways gets ready for 12 November flight to DR