2003 – Page 295

The National Police has confirmed that the charred body of a woman found in the sugarcane fields of Batey La Gorda de Gautier, north of Boca Chica, is that of 23-year-old Puerto Rican student Maritza Colon Berrios. Over the weekend, police arrested Richard Jovanny Amarante, a 30-year-old taxi driver suspected in the killing of the …

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El Caribe newspaper reports that 92 percent of Dominican consumers pay all their credit obligations on time, and 88 percent do not allow themselves to fall behind in payments at all. Studies carried out by Credit Information Center of the Americas (CICLA) and Consultores de Datos del Caribe (Data Credito), two local credit bureaus, show …

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AES Andres received its first shipment of natural gas over the weekend. General manager Stephen Dahm told the press that the gas will be used to test the new installations located in Andres. The company will be supplying its Los Mina power generation park with natural gas and the 300-megawatt power plant in Andres, Boca …

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The Channel 13 TV show La Casa de Cristal presents the lives of two 23-year-old Dominicans, Julio Mercedes Holguin and Yoselin Payano, both born and bred in Santo Domingo, who have come together for a chance to win RD$50,000.  The twosome will win the cash award if they can survive 33 days living together in …

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Dominican singer Audrey Campos has made it to the semifinals of the International Festival of Song taking place in Vi?a del Mar, Chile. Other finalists hail from Spain, Venezuela, United States and Italy. Audrey Campos will sing ?Si te vas?, a merengue written by Frank Ceara. This is the first time a merengue has qualified …

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24 February is the big night for Dominican show business, as the 19th Casandra Awards get set to take the stage at the National Theater. The awards ceremonies will be broadcast by RNN Channel 27 and Telecentro Channel 13. Special guests this year are trumpeter Willie Colon, salsa musician Eddy Santiago and balladist Jose Feliciano. …

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Hoy newspaper reports that the government will spend US$15 million to remodel the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Stadium, the designated site for track and field events and the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2003 Pan American Games. The repairs have been entrusted to the Dominican-Venezuelan firm of Jantesa-Casalca-Diconsa. Hoy newspaper says that the company …

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Santo Domingo will host the Pan American Karate Championships this coming 31 March to 6 April, at which competitors from 25 countries are expected. The championship will be a qualifying event for participation in the karate competitions of the Santo Domingo 2003 Pan American Games.

President Hipolito Mejia said yesterday that he would not negotiate with the National Association of Gas Stations (Anadegas), saying that their demands are coercive and their timing is off. ??Forget about it! They are not getting anything?they are just blabbering?? said Mejia. Anadegas is fighting for an increase to the profit margins of gasoline and …

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The Hoy newspaper-Hamilton Beattie and Staff poll conducted in early February shows that the PLD would be the most likely winner if presidential elections were held now. The answers of the 1,200 people surveyed to three possible combinations of candidates were: 1) Leonel Fernandez 45% (PLD), Hipolito Mejia 27% (PRD), Jacinto Peynado 16% (PRSC) 16%.  …

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