2004 Travel News Archive – Page 11

JetBlue Airways has just announced a fare sale on tickets to Santo Domingo. The airline is offering Caribbean service from New York starting at just US$69 for a one-way ticket, from JFK to Santiago and Santo Domingo. Fares from the DR start at US$78, with the inclusion of the value-added tax. With all taxes and …

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Bowing to the pressure being exerted in the Dominican Republic and in Spain by Greenpeace Spain, Spanish businessman Juan Jose Hidalgo announced he would desist from his plan to build a resort on National Park of the East property. Hidalgo had sought to develop his hotel after receiving an authorization to do so by President …

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The 5th Annual Latin Grammy Awards will include nominations for five Dominican artists. The awards recognize the best of those recordings released from 1 April 2003 to 31 March 2004. Those Dominican artists in the Latin Grammy running are: Johnny Ventura (Best Merengue Album: ?Sin Desperdicio?), Alex Bueno (Best Merengue Album: ?20 Anos Despues?), Frank …

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Merengue Festival 2004 is set to begin on 16 July on the main stage of the Pueblito Merengue, Plaza Juan Baron, along Santo Domingo?s Malecon. The activities, as organized by the Ministry of Tourism and assisted by the artistic promotion company of Luis Medrano, call for cultural and folkloric performances to take the stage as …

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Golf legend Jack Nicklaus was recently in Cap Cana, the US$3-billion, 30,000-square acre resort and residential community on the East Coast, to examine the progress being made on his first Dominican golf course, scheduled to open in April 2005. Properties there are selling from US$480,000 to US$1.2 million, and Nicklaus?s visit coincided with the closing …

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Azzurro Club Cabarete and Azzurro Club Estrella, both in the northern beach town of Cabarete, are hosting an event called Summer Break ?04 to take place this Saturday, 17 July. These hotels, catering to those aged 15 to 35 who seek a fun vacation with time for adventure and water sports, will feature a lively …

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Juan Rodriguez is an actor seen by millions upon millions of people in his role as a very nasty hitman in the movie Crocodile Dundee II, as well as in many other movies in which he plays the ?bad guy,? like A Man Apart or The Savage. But, Rodriguez is also a man from the …

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Fourteen Dominicans will appear on the Major League Baseball team rosters for the All-Star Game scheduled for Tuesday, 13 July in Houston, Texas. Texas second baseman Alfonso Soriano led all players with a record 3,466,447 votes, marking his his third consecutive All-Star Game appearance. Last year, National League St Louis Cardinals first baseman and fellow …

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Bonao, located 85km from Santo Domingo and 70km from Santiago, will soon boast a big city hotel with modern amenities. Hotel entrepreneur Bahamian Mario Wells chose to open the hotel to provide comfortable lodging for those headed to the Candido Bido art museum, the ferry rides at Hatillo Dam, cave exploration, horseback riding, and river …

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The Cuban flag was hoisted inside the Presidential Palace over the weekend for the filming of scenes from “The Lost City,” a film being produced by actor Andy Garcia. The Presidential Palace staff took the weekend off so the government headquarters could be lent out to the filmmakers. The script included loud detonations of explosives …

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