Monthly Archives: July 1998

A major jet ski competition will be held Sunday at Boca Chica beach, east of Santo Domingo. The competition will kick off at 1 pm with Dominicans competing against a team of Puerto Rico’s best jet ski riders. The event is part of an ongoing championship that will continue in September with a competition in […]

The Dominican Republic defeated Mexico 3-0 to win the gold medal in the Torneo Norte, Centroamericano y del Caribe de Volibol Infantil which took place in Mao, Valverde. Elvis Davidson, of the Dominican team, was chosen the Most Valuable Player of the tournament. By winning the event, the DR team classified to participate in the […]

The Dominican delegation to the XVIII Central American and Caribbean Sports Games set for August in Maracaibo, Venezuela will be made up by 430 persons. There are 256 athletes, 62 coaches, 30 delegates, 62 arbiters, 17 physicians, 12 representatives of Dominican art and culture, 22 journalists and 15 special guests on the delegation. The goal […]

The special commission that is evaluating the contending sites for the celebration of the year 2003 Pan American Games is expected in Santo Domingo today. The Listín Diario reports that the commission that will visit is made up by the vice president of the Government Council of Cuba, José Ramón Fernández and Julio Villalta and […]

Preliminary reports indicate that TWA will launch year-round service to Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic as part of a new expansion of TWA service to the Caribbean this winter. The service, is pending government approval, but is slated to begin December 17 from New York JFK. Service to Puerto Plata will be operated daily. Flight 907 […]

Tropical Storm Alex has maintained its WNW track, which will take it to pass North of the Dominican Republic. The Tropical Storm is expected to bring heavy rains, principally to the north coast. At 5 am AST, the center of Tropical Storm Alex was located near latitude 16.2 North, longitude 48.9W or about 800 miles […]

The Central Bank will release as of Saturday, 1 August RD$304 million retained from commercial banks as part of a plan to force a decline in the interest rates. The funds had been frozen when the run on the peso began.

The Oficina Técnica de Transporte Terrestre, the government department that regulates the public transport vehicles in circulation, has announced it will now be formalizing the circulation of the so-called motorcycle taxis, or "motoconchos". It is estimated that over 1,000 motoconchistas age 18 to 30 that offer their services to over 300,000 persons a day. The […]

The Fernández administration has begun the construction of the Autovía del Este, an ambitious project that will communicate San Cristóbal province with San Pedro de Macorís by way of a major highway, as reported in El Siglo newspaper. Ministry of Public Works contractors have already completed clearing up several kilometers of the areas through which […]

The Ministry of Foreign Relations has confirmed that the President of Cuba, Fidel Castro will visit the DR for five days. The Cuban statesman will participate as an observer in the meetings of the Cariforum, that groups Caribbean members signatories of the Lomé Convention. The chiefs of state of the English-speaking Caribbean, CARICOM nations, will […]