2005 – Page 135

Another group of Spanish soldiers en route to Haiti arrived at the Cibao International Airport in Santiago, as reported in El Caribe. The troops will form part of the UN Stabilization Force in the neighboring country. The contingent, composed of 101 navy infantry soldiers, is commanded by colonel Juan Baez de la Rosa. They will …

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US authorities handed over a group of 75 Dominicans deported after completing their prison terms, mostly on charges of drug trafficking and other felonies, as reported by Diario Libre. The group arrived at Las Americas International Airport on a charter flight with nine court security guards, who delivered the ex-convicts to the airport’s immigration authorities. …

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After his statement on Monday that he would represent the DR next year’s Classic World Cup, New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez has changed his mind and is now saying that it “is in the hands of Bud Selig to say what the rules are going to be, and I will comply with whatever …

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Hoy reports that Dominican swimmer Marcos Diaz will pursue the world record for swimming the Strait of Gibraltar both ways. The Strait has only been swum both ways twice. The world record-holder is Spaniard Maria Luisa Cabanero who made it in 10 hours 58 minutes on 21 September 1990. The other athlete to swim the …

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A Dominican architect, Juan Alfonso Zapata, was part of the Space for Urban Research (Supersudaca) group that recently won the best entry award in the International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam, The Netherlands (http://www.biennalerotterdam.nl/biennale/item.jsp?item=3872), with the project Al Caribe about tourism and coastal urban developments in the Caribbean. The best entry award was chosen from the …

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The track of Hurricane Emily, a Category 2 storm as of 11 am, puts it passing approximately 200 miles to the south of the Dominican Republic. The government has issued a tropical storm watch from Punta Salinas westward to the DR/Haiti border. The impact in rain storm intensity on the Dominican Republic will depend on …

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The Dominican Republic could take advantage of a program that would provide Dominican students with US$100 laptops, if the government goes ahead with a proposal from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab. The $100 Laptop is a Linux-based, full-color, full-screen laptop, which initially is achieved either by rear projecting the image on a flat …

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The Dominican Republic and Vietnam established diplomatic relations with the signing of a joint communication on Thursday, 7 July. Foreign Relations Deputy Minister of Vietnam, Vu Dung and Foreign Minister Carlos Morales signed the agreement during a ceremony at the Ministry of Foreign Relations. Morales explained that the establishing of relations with Vietnam means an …

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DR Foreign Relations Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso assured Haitian President Boniface Alexandre of the willingness of the DR to continue lobbying for international aid for Haiti and the condoning of that nation’s foreign debt. During a one day visit to Port-au-Prince, Morales Troncoso said: “If Haiti suffers, the Dominican Republic also suffers; if there is …

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DR Ambassador to the Organization of American States, Roberto Alvarez Gil announced that despite economic difficulties, the DR will pay approximately US$1.7 million owed to the multilateral organization, as reported in Diario Libre. Payment will take place in several installments over the next two years, according to Alvarez Gil, who sustained that the chronic budget …

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