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Puerto Plata prepares for Jazz Festival

The music concert of the year in Puerto Plata, this year’s Dominican Republic Jazz Festival is bringing former New York Yankee and critically acclaimed jazz musician Bernie Williams, along with jazz legends Abraham Laboriel, Sr. (Mexico), Marco Pignataro (Italy), Ramon Vazquez (Puerto Rico), Grammy Award winner Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez (Cuba), Rufus Reid (USA), George …
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Centro Leon celebrates its 10th year with Duarte exhibit

The leading Santiago museum, the Centro Leon has chosen to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Dominican Republic’s main founding father, Juan Pablo Duarte, with an exhibition that also commemorates its own 10th anniversary. The exhibition will run from Thursday 3 October to Tuesday 31 December 2013. “Duarte. Collective Visions in Related …
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Fodatur set for October

Dominican Annual Tourism Forum (FODATUR) is scheduled to take place from 29-30 October. The event is being organized by the Dominican Tourism Competitiveness Consortium (CDCT). Now in its third year, this year’s Forum will focus on Tourism Planning from the angle of the National Development Strategy (END) and the government’s presidential objectives. The organizers say …