JULY 2010
Copa Airlines increases flights to and from Santiago
Flights five days a week
BREAKING NEWS: Santiago.- The Panamanian company Copa Airlines, will increase its flight frequencies to and from Santiago de los Caballeros, expanding its operations to this city to five days a week.
Santiago Gonzalez, from the Cibao International Airport public relations department, reported that Copa Airlines will fly from Panama City to Santiago de los Caballeros and vice versa, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
He explained that the airline executives have reiterated their determination to continue to contribute to the development of the Dominican Republic through the promotion of the country as a great place to shop and invest.
He also stated that passengers using this terminal and this line have expressed their satisfaction from customers with the services received.
Cibao International Airport also reported that Jet Blue Airways has increased its daily flights to and from New York City to six becoming the company with the most flights per week carried out at this Airport Terminal, with a total of 42 operations per week.
American Airlines has 21 operations a week to and from, New York, Miami and San Juan, Puerto Rico, while Delta Airlines has seven weekly operations performed by aircraft with much larger capacity.
Similarly, Spirit Airlines is operating daily from Santiago to the airport in Ft Lauderdale, Florida and its connections.
Santiago Live, 01.07.10
Third photo competition in Santiago
Drop by drop is running out
Drop by drop is running outBREAKING NEWS: Santiago.- With the slogan Drop by drop its running out
the third photo contest sponsored by the Corporation of Aqueducts and Sewage was held in this city of Santiago, which encourages the participation of a large number of experts on the art of lens.
The awards show was held at Art House, where the top three contestants, and several honorable mentions, were selected by a jury composed of professional acquaintances Domingo Batista, Danilo de los Santos and Angel Peralta.
The winners were, Iliana Ramos Centeno, with the work Caño de Esperanza
, Vinicio Almonte, with the image Fuente Humana
and Narciso Salguedo with Intimacies of Tacita de Plata II
.
Receiving honorable mention were; Plinio Lora, Mariel Quezada, Anabel Vineyards and Giovanny Maldonado.
Participating in the awards ceremony were; the members of the jury, the director of the Corporation of Aqueducts and Sewage of Santiago, Hamlet Otáñez and the director of Casa de Arte, Idalia Garcia, who stated the purpose of the competition is to encourage creativity in the photographic arts.
Although the themes are not limited to a specific type of photography, they tend to promote awareness of the need to conserve water resources, as essential for human life, as the sponsoring institution works with the administration of the aqueduct of Santiago.
Santiago Live, 16.07.10
Inauguration of a new Chapel on the Southside of Santiago
To provide comfort to people with low incomes
BREAKING NEWS: Santiago.- The administrator of the Aid and Housing Institute (INAVI), Maritza López de Ortiz, and the president of the Endowment Fund of the Reformed Enterprises (FONP), Fernando Rosa, opened the Chapel of the Southside of Santiago, a work constructed with an investment of more than 19 million pesos.
Ortiz López, said the construction was made possible by an agreement signed between her agency, INAVI and FONP, an entity that assumed the construction cost, and Economic Food Services, who donated the land where the modern infrastructure was built.
He explained that the new burial site will support those in the community at the time of a death in the family, and also announced the launch of funeral insurance that the community of this sector will be able to access at a reasonable price.
Mr. Fernando Rosa pointed out the projects undertaken by the government in the south of Santiago and stressed the social work that the administrator INAVI performed for the most impoverished sectors of the country.
He explained that before the arrival of INAVI, the chapel of the north of Santiago was destroyed, but it now looks as modern as a new funeral home
. FONPER president argued that residents in this town can lay to rest their deceased relatives in a dignified way, as they have a suitable place for that purpose.
This work will Benedit the municipalities of: Pekín, Camboya, Cristo Rey, Los Jazmines, Los Héroes, Los Multifamiliares, Vietnam, Conani, Hato Mayor, La Paloma, La Fortaleza, Los Ángeles, Canabacoa, Sabaneta de las Palomas, Villa Olímpica, Matanzas, Villa Noa, La Mina and Samarilla.
In addition to: Licey al Medio, Villa Elena, Urbanización Fernández, Mari López, Residencial Thomen, La Ceibita, El Papayo, Arroyo Hondo, Vista Linda, Los Laureles, Yapar Dumit, Los Girasoles, Villa Jagua, Ensanche Ortega, Nibaje, El Ensueño, El Retiro, El Fracatán and other communities on the Southside of Santiago.
The burial site is a modern one-level building consisting of three chapels, an exhibition hall, an embalming room, air conditioners, florist services, parking and a perimeter fence, among other facilities.
Santiago Live, 19.07.10
Karate national team leaves today for Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
To compete in the Central American and Caribbean Games
BREAKING NEWS: Santiago.- The national Karate team leaves on Wednesday to go to Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, to compete in the Central American and Caribbean Games, an event they have waited all year for and at which they have the hope of winning many gold medals.
All the guys have the necessary tools and abilities to bring back gold medals around their necks
, said the president of the Dominican Federation of Karate (FEDOKARATE), Angel Acosta.
The athletes were subjected to an intense process of training in the Barranquita sports complex and the Dojo of Julio Martinez, Los Jardines.
They are in optimum physical and mental condition, and ready to compete in the methods of kata and kumite, or combat.
Mr. Acosta, along with General Secretary of the federation, Jose Luis Ramirez (Borola), and coaches Antonio Volquez, Julio Martinez and Juan Carlos Mars, have done everything possible to prepare the seventeen athletes who will be in action on Friday the 23rd, Saturday the 24th and Sunday the 25th of July.
The members of the national team who will compete in the combat portion are; , Dionisio Gustavo, Norberto Sosa, Jorge Pérez, Juan Carlos Valdez, Karina Diaz Ana Montilla, Deivi Ferreira, Johanny Sierra, Rusbel Solomon, Ana Villanueva, and Luz Bethania Redman.
Competeingin the kata forms will be: Maria Dimitrova, Heydi Reynoso, Franchel Velasquez, Ariel Perez, Carlos Segura and Francisco Cuevas.
Those athletes who win gold medals in the Central American and Caribbean Games will receive cash prizes of RD $125 thousand from the Ministry of Sports and RD $100 thousand from the telephone company Tricom.
Santiago Live, 21.07.10
Santiago Patronales Festivities end on Sunday the 25th
The Mercedarias Sisters and La Salle Brothers to be honored
BREAKING NEWS: Santiago.- The Catholic Church together with the Permanent Committee of the Patronale festival in honor of St. James Major, continues to develop the activities of the Patron Saint of this city.
Several Masses were held, one of which was given by bishop Monsignor Agripino Nunez Collado, rector of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra and figure par excellence in the national dialogue.
The Mass was offered at Emmaus House, and at the end awards were given to the Brothers De La Salle, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of their presence in Santiago, and the Mercedarias Sisters and the Daughters of Jesus for the 100th year anniversary of their foundation.
The organizing committee for the celebrations of the Patron Santiago consisted of: the Archdiocese, the Governor of the Province, the Town Council and the Association of Wholesale Supplies Santiago (AMAPROSAN).
All events will run until Sunday the 25th of July with a schedule full of Masses, talks, Meringue, jazz, fairs and religious processions.
Santiago Live, 23.07.10
Strategic agreement to develop Santiago signed
By the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development and the Strategic Development Council of Santiago
BREAKING NEWS: Santiago.- The Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development (MEPyD) and the Strategic Development Council of the City and the Municipality of Santiago signed an agreement on Friday to work together for the management and development of the territorial demarcation, in the context of a proposal for the National Development Strategy (END).
The agreement states that, in the municipality of Santiago, actions will be taken to strengthen the processes of territorial development in order to consolidate a platform towards improving the living conditions of the people living in their localities.
The Cooperation and Coordination Agreement was signed by Economy Minister, Temistocles Montas, and the Prime Minister, Carlos Alfredo Fondeur Victoria at the conference room of Business Building, in Santiago, at an event which was begun with an invocation by Archbishop Monsignor Ramon Benito de la Rosa, who is also chairman of the Technical Committee on Governance.
The minister directed his speech toward persuading the Dominican to see the assets in place of the liabilities when stock is passed to the historical processes registered in the country.
In this sense he claimed that contrary to the recent historical experience of other Latin American countries, the Dominicans, except for four years, from 1961-1965, have had political stability and therefore have been able to agree and reach consensus.
He recalled that in 1950, the levels of development of the Dominican Republic were even lower than those of Haiti, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Guatemala, and today we have surpassed them not only these matters but also on political stability, alternation of power and ability to reach consensus.
He urged business, commercial, industrial and representatives of neighborhood associations and other stakeholders present at the ceremony to endorse the proposals of the National Development Strategy.
Santiago Live, 26.07.10
Shell unveils new image
At hotel Gran Almirante Santiago
BREAKING NEWS: Santiago.- Entrepreneurs and investors in the automotive sector gathered together for the unveiling of the new image of the Shell oil company, during a ceremony held in Hotel Gran Almirante in Santiago.
Company executives presented the new line of Shell products: Helix Ultra, Shell Helix HX7, Shell Helix HX5, and Shell Helix HX3 and its products designed specifically for diesel engines, Shell Rimula
.
The meeting was headed by Demetrio José Almonte, general manager, Pablo Mustonen Del Castillo, manager of lubricants, and Jonathan Briceño, manager of distributors in the Western Caribbean, who explained the innovations of the new products.
Santiago Live, 27.07.10
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