2001 – Page 64

2001 News

Challenges for the government

Hoy newspaper’s Hamilton-Beattie & Staff poll, dated 23-30 July, tells what Dominicans of voting age want most from government: more jobs (42%), less blackouts (38%), less poverty (29%) and lower prices of consumer goods (28%).

2001 News

Pluses and minuses of Mejia’s first year

An El Caribe editorial today focuses on the pluses and minuses of the first year of President Hipolito Mejia’s government. Pluses: President is not flirting with re-election as his predecessor Leonel Fernandez did. Success in education and environment efforts. Government has taken advantage of its majority in Congress to pass important bills, with others still …

2001 News

Lockward left off PRSC board

The Listin Diario reports that the committee appointed by PRSC party leader, Joaquin Balaguer, to resolve an impasse following its July general assembly has left Angel Lockward off the executive committee even though it decided to expand its membership from 50 to 76. Lockward, a controversial former Minister of Industry and Commerce in the Mejia …

2001 News

Heart attack killed Lachapelle

Vertilio Cornielle Segura, director of the Institute of Pathology, said yesterday that lieutenant Oscar Lachapelle de los Santos, son of the director of the National Department of Narcotics Control (DNCD), died of a heart attack. He was found dead in his car which was parked in a lot three blocks from his workplace. He went …

Tourism sector wants more government coordination

The President and Vice President of the National Hotel & Restaurant Association, Ramon Prieto and Arturo Villanueva, have both complained that government practices are hurting the tourism industry. Ramon Prieto told Hoy newspaper that the President has not fulfilled promises he made while campaigning and after becoming President. Prieto commented that recently the President met …

Elizabeth Taylor visits colonial city

Hollywood’s Elizabeth Taylor is staying more than a week in the DR. Diario Libre reports that she has been invited to the Mir Foundation Spring Gala Benefit at Casa de Campo, La Romana. She is staying at the resort but news reports say she has toured Santo Domingo’s colonial city and other parts of the …

Felix Sanchez qualifies with best time

Felix Sanchez, ranked 9th in the World by the IAAF, is the man to beat for the gold medal in the 400 meter hurdles at the Edmonton World Athletics Championship. He is representing the DR along with high jumper Juana Arrendel. His time was the best in the semifinals, at 48.07. The finals will take …

2001 News

Choral concert at the Cathedral

Not to be missed today, Thursday, 9 August, is the 8 pm concert at the Basilica Catedral Santa Maria de la Encarnacion, the first cathedral in the Americas. Italian maestro Antonio Braga composed the “Cantata Bendita seas America” that will be performed by the cathedral choir. The concert is in honor of Cardinal Nicolas de …

Food Festival set for 14-15 August

The Hotel Association of Santo Domingo is hosting the 27th Santo Domingo Gastronomical Festival at the V Centenario Inter-Continental Hotel on the Malecon. The 14-15 August event will be a benefit. Tickets are RD$500 per person/per night. For more information and tickets, call the Santo Domingo Hotel Association at 686-3451.

2001 News

1.8% growth in second quarter of the year

The Dominican economy is gradually recovering, according to the most recent economic update of the Central Bank. A preliminary report on the economy released to the National Council of Business (Conep) indicates this is a turn around from the first three months of the year, when the economy declined 1.5%. This would bring the first …

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2001 – Page 64

Challenges for the government

Pluses and minuses of Mejia’s first year

Lockward left off PRSC board

Heart attack killed Lachapelle

Tourism sector wants more government coordination

Elizabeth Taylor visits colonial city

Felix Sanchez qualifies with best time

Choral concert at the Cathedral

Food Festival set for 14-15 August

1.8% growth in second quarter of the year