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Minister of Agriculture Eligio Jáquez announced the construction of a US$60 million produce market at Km. 22 of the Autopista Duarte. Construction of Merca Santo Domingo will start in November. The market is expected to be in operation 18 months later. Merca Santo Domingo will replace the chaotic Mercado Nuevo (Avenida Duarte). The Dominican state …

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El Siglo newspaper reports that the Navy began dredging the Ozama and Isabela rivers, in the area of the Port of Santo Domingo. The dredging is part of an effort to attract cruise ships to Santo Domingo. The dredging should bring the depth of the river near the port docks to 36 feet. (4 September …

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President appointed Pedro Antonio Peralta González director of the Corporación de Fomento de la Industria Hotelera y Desarrollo del Turismo (Corphotel), the government institution in charge of state-owned hotels. President Mejía also appointed Magaly Josefina Gonell Villanueva as the new director of the Tourism office in Montreal, Canada. Hector Antonio Lizardo Jorge was appointed chief …

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Minister of Public Works Miguel Vargas told El Siglo newspaper that the construction of the Aeropuerto International La Isabela in northern Santo Domingo will be postponed until a private partner is found to take up the project. The project was intended to be operational in April 2000, but at the end the Fernández government abandoned …

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Arturo Villanueva, executive vice president of the National Hotel & Restaurant Association, said that the fact that Dominican vacation packages are pegged to the US$ is working against Dominican hotels this year. With the Euro dropping in value to the US dollar, Dominican holidays are becoming more expensive for Europeans. Villanueva pointed out that the …

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