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2001 News

New venues for the Pan Am Games

Jose Joaquin Puello, president of the Dominican Olympic Committee and the 2003 Santo Domingo Pan American Organizing Committee said that winners of the construction tender for the new Pan Am Games venues will be announced in the first week of May. These new structures will go up in the Mirador del Este Park. He told …

2001 News

President Mejia has a very successful Quebec Summit

The Dominican Republic’s proposal for the Hispaniola Investment Fund met with the support of President George Bush at the Quebec Summit last week. President Mejia participated in a two-hour meeting with President Bush, US Secretary of State Colin Powell and President Jean Bertrand Aristide of Haiti to discuss the benefits of the plan. The Dominican …

2001 News

Ministers brawl in Quebec

El Caribe newspaper reports that Minister of Industry and Commerce Angel Lockward and Minister of Foreign Relations Hugo Tolentino Dipp had a bitter argument during the Quebec Summit. El Caribe sources say the discussion started when Minister Tolentino criticized Lockward for wanting to participate in a meeting to which only heads of state and Ministers …

2001 News

President Ricardo Lagos of Chile visits

President Mejia returned last night from Quebec on the Chilean presidential plane with President Ricardo Lagos of Chile. They landed at 7:45 pm at the Las Americas International Airport. President Lagos is traveling with his wife, Luisa Duran de Lagos. Vice President Milagros Ortiz Bosch received them. President Lagos is staying at the Hotel Embajador. …

2001 News

US$25 million for congressional facilities

Hoy newspaper reports that the National Congress has plans to invest US$25 million (about RD$340 million) to build new offices for the 149 deputies, 30 senators and their advisors. Congress will be using financing from the Interamerican Development Bank (US$22 million) and the government of Taiwan (US$3 million) to construct two buildings of four floors …

Old terminal at Las Americas rebuilt

Hoy newspaper reports that the old terminal of the Las Americas International Airport could be operational this December. The terminal was closed in 1992 after an unexplained fire damaged the area. The newspaper reports that Aerodom, which manages the airport, is installing new migration and administrative areas, luggage conveyors, air conditioning and elevators in the …

What happened with German tour operator?

Minister of Tourism Ramon Alfredo Bordas explained to Hoy newspaper the reshuffling that occurred in Germany and England that led to the discontinuation of the Puerto Plata flights of Britannia Airways (owned by Thomson of England) and the discontinuation of the low cost packages of FTI, a German wholesaler. He said that LTU airline will …

Caoba Tours clarification

Mayo Gonzalez, legal counsel of Caoba Tours, wrote to DR1 Daily News to clarify that a statement about the closing of several hotels in Sosua was not made by Ruben Gutierrez of Caoba Tours. The story said that the hotels were closing due to more complaints than usual from German tourists regarding hotel services in …

2001 News

Dominican consuls issue many visas for Haitians

El Siglo reports that the Dominican consuls in Haiti are issuing a record numbers of visas. The newspaper reports that consuls issue visas for a single entry (US$40) and also for multiple entry (US$200). The newspaper points out that a "significant portion of the cost of the visa is kept by the consuls." El Siglo …

2001 News

Major conflict of interest did not prevent allocation of CDE to Spanish firm

The former administrator of the CDE, Ramon Perez Martinez, said it was "immoral" for the Spanish company Union Fenosa to participate in the tender for the purchase of the Dominican Electricity Corporation. Perez Martinez explained that Union Fenosa had a seven-year contract financed by the Interamerican Development Bank in which they consulted with management to …

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2001 – Page 146

New venues for the Pan Am Games

President Mejia has a very successful Quebec Summit

Ministers brawl in Quebec

President Ricardo Lagos of Chile visits

US$25 million for congressional facilities

Old terminal at Las Americas rebuilt

What happened with German tour operator?

Caoba Tours clarification

Dominican consuls issue many visas for Haitians

Major conflict of interest did not prevent allocation of CDE to Spanish firm