2000 – Page 82

After a decade of a positive trade balance with the US, globalization has turned things around for the DR. According to a report in El Siglo, the US-DR trade balance is now in the US favor. The DR had imported US$134 million more than it had exported in the first semester. Import levels are increasing …

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Bernardo Vega, a well known Dominican historian and economist, writing in the Listín Diario, favors what he describes as the peaceful and civilized repatriation of illegal Haitians living in the DR in order to reduce the presence of Haitians in the DR. He says that the ongoing unchecked massive immigration of indigent Haitians will eventually …

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El Siglo newspaper reports on comments made by the president of the Dominican Olympic Committee and Organizing Committee of the 2003 Santo Domingo Pan American Games. Dr. José Joaquín Puello said on the Uno + Uno television program produced by Juan Bolívar Díaz and Adalberto Grullón on Teleantillas that the Games will cost RD$900 million …

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The National Orchestra of Spain, the most important in Spain, is scheduled for a 14 September performance at 8:30 pm at the National Theater. Theater-goings will be treated to the Concierto de Aranjuez and El Amor Brujo. The orchestra is directed by Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos. Tickets: RD$500 and RD$1,000, RD$300-RD$750 are for sale at …

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Legal Consultant to the Executive Branch, Guido Gómez Mazara said that President Hipólito Mejía will soon make the much-criticized consular invoice a thing of the past. The DR and Paraguay are the only countries in the Americas that still require the consular invoice for imports. The consular invoice penalizes commerce as it creates a time-taking …

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The new Minister of Environment Frank Moya Pons says he is enlisting the assistance of the United States to develop a Dominican forestry service based on the successful models of the US and Costa Rica. This service would manage forestry areas and the protected areas. He announced that USAID would help fund the research of …

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The Instituto Dominicano de Desarrollo Integral (IDDI), a non-governmental organization, signed an agreement with USAID to help improve the quality of life of residents in Santo Domingo slum areas. The project seeks to improve the living conditions of residents in the slum areas of El Hoyo de la Zurza, Capotillo and Los Manguitos, so they …

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The Listin Diario reports that Arthur Valdez, head of the marketing and technology of the Organizing Committee, is hard at work to try to attract the US basketball "Dream Team". Valdez says that if the Dream Team would come, the country would be able to command more money for the television rights of the 2003 …

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The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints, known as the Mormon Church, will open to the general public tomorrow, 26 August through Saturday, 9 September. The US$25 million temple built between Av. Bolivar and Av. César Nicolás Penson in Santo Domingo will be dedicated on 17 September by the president of the Mormon’s, Gordon …

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Former President Leonel Fernandez will travel today, Friday 25 August to Chile to participate in the Seventh Meeting of the Montevideo Circle. The meeting of leading regional economists, social researchers and former Presidents is scheduled for 27-29 August in Santiago de Chile. The former president will travel accompanied by former Minister of Industry and Commerce, …

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