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Narco bad boy to neighborhood hero

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 …

All-Star Game includes 14 Dominicans

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 …

New hotel in Bonao

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 …

Cuban flag at Presidential Palace

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 …

Travel confidence is back

The World Tourism Organization last week released the latest issue of the WTO World Tourism Barometer, where data for the first months of 2004 confirm the upward trend already visible at the end of 2003. The WTO says that with the detente of the major geopolitical tensions, in spite of uncertainty all over the world …

Climate Institute alerts Caribbean

The Caribbean?s islands stand to lose half a meter of land to rising sea levels in the next 50 years, and at least one meter in the next 100 years, said the Climate Institute?s Tom Roper during the recently held Caribbean Media Exchange in St. Lucia. Because the expanding sea level will have a definite …

Time to push tourism up the global agenda

Geoffrey Lipman, the Special Advisor to the Secretary General of the World Tourism Organization (WTO), said that tourism should be the leading issue for Caribbean states in trade and development strategies. Lipman was making a keynote address to the CMEx (Caribbean Media Exchange on Sustainable Tourism), an event that was organized by Counterpart International in …

Enrique E. de Marchena in CHA board

Dominican lawyer Enrique Eduardo de Marchena was elected as the regional vice-president of the Caribbean Hotel Association in the 16 June vote held during the Caribbean Hotel Industry Conference (CHIC 2004) in Puerto Rico. De Marchena will work on the 2004-2006 board that is now headed by Berthia M. Parle of St. Lucia. Other members …

Caribbean recognizes Dominican journalist

Dominican investigative reporter Arelis Pena Brito of El Caribe newspaper captured a second regional award on 27 June during the Caribbean Media Exchange held in St. Lucia. Her award at the 6th CMEx was for journalistic excellence in her coverage of the struggles between commerce and the environment in the Dominican Republic. Just days earlier, …

4th July in Puerto Plata

Sea Horse Ranch, the Puerto Plata upscale residential community, announces they will be celebrating US Independence Day in Cabarete, Puerto Plata on day ahead, on Saturday, 3 July. For the event, a jazz concert with the best musicians from Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Dominican Republic, plus Mediterranean dinner with Chef Pasquale is scheduled. Jazz …

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