Travel – Page 513

The Ministry of Tourism announced the celebration of the Merengue Festival. The event will take place 18-29 July. The inaugural event is set for Wednesday, 18 at the Palacio Bellas Artes at 8 pm. That evening, several “perico ripiao” music groups will play in the west gardens of the Palacio Bellas Artes. Following that event, …

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The National Theater and the Opera de las Americas company announced the staging of Giuseppe Verdi’s “Rigoletto,” a tale of love and betrayal, in August at the National Theater. Foreign and international talent will come together to tell the tale of a humpbacked jester, his innocent daughter, a lascivious nobleman, a hired assassin and a …

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President Hipolito Mejia met with Mikhail Gorbachev at the Casa de Campo villa of Maximo Pellerano, president of Omnimedia, publisher of Diario Libre, a free distribution newspaper. The press was not given access to the gathering, but reportedly they talked for about an hour. Gorbachev spoke in Russian, was translated into English, and then into …

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Canada, Jamaica, Barbados and the Dominican Republic will compete starting today for two available berths in the World Volleyball Cup to be held in 2002 World Championship in Germany. The top two teams of the four team round robin will gain the berths. The games will be played at the Volleyball Pavilion of the Juan …

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The Minister of Public Works Miguel Vargas signed an agreement with a Colombian company to build the 120-km. highway to Samana from Santo Domingo. The highway will cut the distance 76 kilometers. The shortest route today is 196 kms. long, through Cotuí. The company will make the US$125 million investment over a three-year period and …

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Samana gets its own sailing competition this weekend, 13-15 July, when Dominican and visiting competitors gather for the Windsurf & Hobie Cat Regatta Portillo 2001 organized by the Dominican Association of Windsurfing. Portillo Resort in Las Terrenas will be the site of the event. Pupo Alorda, president of the Dominican Association of Windsurf said that …

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