Travel – Page 523

Continental has added a second flight from Santo Domingo to Newark for summer travelers. Summer is the peak travel season for the Dominican Republic. The flight starts 14 June and will continue through 6 September. The flight’s schedule is also attractive for flight connections. Flight CO729 departs Newark at 1:05 am arriving in Santo Domingo …

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The Listin Diario reports that Dominicans living abroad bringing appliances and clothes into this country as gifts for family and friends will no longer pay import taxes on them. Ana Ortiz, deputy collections agent at the Las Americas International Airport, requested permission to implement the measure after receiving complaints from many passengers who said people …

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Administrative Secretary of the Presidency, Pedro Franco Badma, and  the Minister of Tourism, Ramon Alfredo Bordas, formally delivered 30 DT motorcycles and 15 four-wheel bikes to the Tourism Police Department. Upon receiving the equipment that will be used to patrol tourism areas,  the director of the Tourism Police, Rear Admiral Hector Antonio Lizardo  Jorge, said …

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Bass Hotels & Resorts announced it will open two Crowne Plaza hotels in the DR by 2003. The hotel chain is working with Coral Hotels & Resorts on the project. Crowne Plaza will operate a 22-floor hotel at the Malecon Center, presently under construction along George Washington Avenue, Santo Domingo’s sea-front boulevard. This will be …

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The Ministry of Environment announced the start of the lobster fishing ban. It extends from 1 April to 31 July and is intended to give the lobsters a chance to breed. The capture, possession, processing and marketing of lobsters during this season is prohibited by a Fishing Law that dates back to 1962. During this …

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