2005 – Page 48

The Ministry of Tourism has confirmed that approximately 5,000 tourists who were stranded in Miami, Cancun, and the Mayan Riviera are being taken to hotels in Puerto Plata and Punta Cana destinations in the DR. Reports are that the tourists arrived on charter flights, mostly from Cancun. The Ministry is expecting an additional 5,000 in …

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Twenty Dominicans who were lost at sea for 18 days were brought back to the DR from the Turks & Caicos Islands having ended up there after trying to reach Puerto Rico on a boat. The bodies of two men also were brought home. The group had left the municipality of Gaspar Hernandez on 7 …

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Yesterday, the US dollar was selling between 25 and 50 cents higher than the day before and closed at RD$33.75 and RD$34.00. Listin Diario reports that the purchasing price closed at RD$33.30 and RD$33.40 per US$1.00. According to the Dominican Association of Foreign Exchange Remittance Companies, no one has been able to explain the increase …

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Two crucial plays by Dominican shortstop Juan Uribe were crucial to the 1-0 Chicago White Sox win that landed them their first World Series Championship in 88 years. In the seventh inning of the game, Juan Uribe left Houston players in second and third base with two outs with a strike out. And then in …

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The government plans to invest between US$50 and US$100 million in the construction of the Santo Domingo Metro over the next year, according to Presidential Technical Secretary Temistocles Montas who was speaking in the presence of Customs Director Miguel Cocco and Tax Department Director Juan Hernandez. The first line of the Metro will begin to …

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According to the president of Santo Domingo Re-Development, Eulogio Santaella, soil extracted for the construction of the Metro could be used as landfill for the artificial island, as reported in Diario Libre. The project proposes the extension of the city of Santo Domingo towards the sea, from Winston Churchill Avenue to the breakwater near the …

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An engineer specializing in mega-projects estimates that the minimum time it would take to build the proposed Metro in Santo Domingo would be six years. However, under normal conditions, the time would be eight years and in the case of unforeseen events-such as geological problems during excavations, a natural disaster or financial problems-the project could …

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During the groundbreaking ceremony of “Torres Atiemar” to be built with Spanish investment in Santo Domingo’s La Esperilla neighborhood, President Leonel Fernandez expressed his satisfaction with the growth of the construction industry during the current administration, and commented that it was due to the confidence in the stability the DR has acquired. As an example …

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The General Prosecutor for Environment and Natural Resources, Andres Chalas, is considering pressing charges against those responsible for the gas leak that caused the hospitalization of more than 40 children and adults in Santo Domingo last Monday (see DR1 Daily News 25 October 2005), as reported in Diario Libre. Dominican Petroleum Refinery (Refidomsa) president Aristides …

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Eduardo Rodriguez, the new President of the Dominican Petroleum Refinery, has stated that his main goal as an individual and public official is to get the Petro-Caribbean Agreement signed between the DR and Venezuela, into operation. According to Diario Libre, he let it be known that his modus operandi would be totally different to the …

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