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Dominican Republic receives flights bound for Mexico

The vice president of the hoteliers and restaurateurs grouped in Asonahores Friday said more than 50 flights with tourists who were headed to Mexico will arrive in the country this week, after the H1N1 virus that affects that nation prompted a change of destination. Arturo Villanueva said those flights are being received via an agreement with Mexican hoteliers, as a show of solidarity. He said all the necessary preventive measures have been taken across the country’s ports and airports and all necessary equipment have been acquired to gauge body temperatures. The hotelier also lauded president Leonel Fernandez’s decision to allocate 50 million pesos to purchase antiviral medicine. Villanueva said in addition to the measures the authorities have taken in hospitals and hotel zones, any person with an abnormal body temperature is subjected to an examination.

Dominican hoteliers join forces to boost tourism in Puerto Plata

Puerto Plata.– Puerto Plata, the most important city in Dominican Republic’s north coast owns countless tourist attractions and sites of great historic and cultural value that should be taken better advantage of and put to better use. For this purpose, the Associations of Hotels, Restaurants and Tourism Business of Puerto Plata (Ashonorte), the Playa Dorada Hotel, Condominium and Commercial Establishment Owners Association (AHPD) and the Association of Hotels and Restaurants of Sosua and Cabarete (Ashoresoca) have joined forces and signed a strategic alliance. According to the document, the alliance will set in motion a plan to promote Puerto Plata as a tourist destination and will stimulate the creation of new businesses and complementary offers and will cooperate with the city´s Historic Center Office in its tasks of remodeling, beautifying and revitalizing this cultural and commercial area.

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Dominican Republic Jazz Festival

Celebrarán la novena edición del Dominican Republic Jazz Festival

Por novena ocasión será celebrado el Dominican Republic Jazz Festival, del 6 al 9 de noviembre en Santiago y Cabarete. Este evento iniciará en el Gran Teatro del Cibao, Santiago, el 6 de novimebre a partir de las 8:30 de la noche. Los artistas que participarán en el concierto serán Jochy Sánchez y su Banda de República Dominicana, con un homenaje a los 50 años del Bossa Nova, Salsa-Jazz Masters, de Puerto Rico y Cuba quienes harán un homenaje de Salseros al Latin Jazz e Ismael Miranda, Puppy Santiago & Luis “Perico” Ortiz. El viernes 7, la celebración inicia 8:30 de la noche, totalmente gratis, en la playa de Cabarete donde realizarán sus interpretaciones en representación del país Ambar Jazz Group, con participantes de Estados Unidos y República Dominicana Dave Valentín & PR All Start Latin Jazz y Eric Figueroa, Endel Dueño, Javier Oquendo y Eddy “Guagua” Rivera. A partir de las 8:30 de la noche, el sábado  8, se estarán presentando, Sandy Gabriel & Electric Jazz del país, Giovanni Hidalgo & Descarga Boricua Quintet de Puerto Rico, Eric Figueroa, Tito de Gracia, Piro Rodríguez y  Eddy “Guagua” Rivera  y la Descarga de Congueros: Giovanni Hidalgo, Tito de Gracia, Javier Oquendo y Chichí Peralta regalarán al público sus mejores notas sin costo alguno. Para finalizar, el domingo 9, en Playa Cabarete, desde las 9:00 de la noche el público podrá disfrutar gratis del cubano Fidel Morales Trío y el dominicano, el Prodigio en Jazz quienes serán los encargados de cerrar el evento ofertándole a los amantes del Jazz lo mejor de su repertorio.

Hand made jewellery

These are some samples of necklaces which are made of Amparos students, great stuff, very creative and something completly different. They are made of coffe beans, red beans, lima beans and many other seeds found here. By the end of this month they have to deliver the first order of 500 pieces, so you can imagine how happy the girls are. This way they make some money while at home taking care of their kids and family,,,,it truly is a marvellous project.

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Dominican Republic Tourism Boom

Santo Domingo.- Entrepreneurs will invest more than US$9 billion in tourist projects in Dominican Republic’s major resorts, said Tourism minister Francisco Javier Garcia Wednesday.

The works will begin in the coming weeks in Bavaro, Punta Cana, Miches, Sabana de la Mar and Juan Dolio, in the east; Puerto Plata in the north, and San Juan River and Samana in the northeast, investments he said will strengthen the Dominican destination in the world’s major markets, especially Europe.

Garcia said the investments are also to build golf courses, international tennis courts and a convention center in Santo Domingo, among others. “Tourism is emerging as a market of high quality and it’s booming. Domestic and foreign investment is at its best, even better than in the past 20 years.”

The official noted that there’s currently no Latin American or Caribbean tourist destination with better profitability that Dominican Republic’s, “where reuests to develop new investment projects arrive daily. This compels us to develop a plan of vital infrastructure.”

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Tropical Wave Eastern Caribbean

The National Meteorological Office (ONAMET) issued green alert for Montecristi, María Trinidad Sánchez, La Vega, Monseñor Nouel, Duarte, Elías Piña, Dajabón, Azua, Sánchez Ramírez, San Cristóbal, Independencia, Hermanas Mirabal, Santiago, Espaillat, Monte Plata and San Juan de la Maguana.

Also under green alert are other provinces, such as San José de Ocoa, Santiago Rodríguez, Valverde Mao, Santo Domingo, Peravia and Puerto Plata due to a tropical wave in the eastern Caribbean near the Lesser Antilles that continues to get better organized.

Forecasters give the system a medium -or 20 to 50 percent chance- of developing into a tropical depression within the next hours. The computer models predict it will aim generally northwest, potentially putting the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, the Bahamas and Florida in its path.

 

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Juan Luis Guerra

UNESCO director-general Koïchiro Matsuura will designate the Dominican musician Juan Luis Guerra UNESCO Artist for Peace during a ceremony on 15 September (6 p.m.) at the Organization’s Headquarters in Paris.

Guerra will receive this designation “in recognition of his efforts for the benefit of children with disabilities and children in need, and his dedication to the ideals and aims of the Organization.”

The song writer and performer is an internationally recognized merengue musician. His band, 4.40, is one of the most successful Caribbean popular music groups. It is the recipient of several Grammy and Latin Grammy Awards. He has lent his talent to several causes, namely the association La Ventana de los Cielos (Window to Heaven) and the foundation America Latina en Acción Solidaria.

Appointed for two years, Guerra will lend his support to UNESCO’s actions for youth violence prevention.

UNESCO Artists for Peace are internationally-renowned personalities who use their influence, charisma and prestige to help promote UNESCO’s message and programmes. Among them are musician Manu Dibango (Cameroon), actress Patricia Velasquez (Venezuela), musician Gilberto Gil (Brazil), dancer Miyako Yoshida (Japan), soprano Sumi Jo (South Korea), singer and founder of the musical group Gypsy Kings Chico Bouchikhi (France) and conductor Valery Gergiev (Russian Federation).

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