One year after Big Pappy shooting 14 people still in jail
Uncategorized June 9, 2020 | 12:25 pm
Santo Domingo .-- The attack in which Major League Baseball player David Ortíz almost lost his life prompted an investigation by the Office of the Attorney General that put 14 people behind bars, in [...]C-19 in Dominican Republic: 20,415 cases, 544 deaths
Uncategorized June 9, 2020 | 10:33 am
Santo Domingo.-- To date the Dominican Republic registers 20,415 infections and 544 deaths due to the coronavirus, according to the Ministry of Public Health. According to the report, in the last 2[...]Common health protocols are the key to tourism’s safe return
Uncategorized May 29, 2020 | 9:46 am
The View from Europe David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor Since late April there have been virtually no tourist arrivals i[...]Official Dominican presidential candidate rebounds
Local May 28, 2020 | 7:57 am
Santo Domingo.- Gonzalo Castillo, presidential candidate of the Dominican ruling party (PLD), is the only hopeful who has grown in recent months in the intention of votes for the presidential election[...]Time to restore Santo Domingo’s tourism
Uncategorized May 18, 2020 | 12:36 pm
Santo Domingo.- The Santo Domingo Tourism Cluster convened a public-private working table to jointly define the actions necessary to achieve the restoration of tourism in the city, as soon as it is sa[...]Dominican Republic coronavirus: 434 deaths, 12,723 cases
Uncategorized May 18, 2020 | 10:59 am
6,613 people have recovered Santo Domingo.- Public Health minister Rafael Sanchez Cardenas on Mon. announced 12,723 total cases of coronavirus in the Dominican Republic. He said there have been [...]Dominican baseball players would lose US$195.6M for short season
Uncategorized May 13, 2020 | 10:35 am
Santo Domingo.- That Major League Baseball games will be played in 2020 seems less likely today than just five days ago and it is not that the World Health Organization reported this week that COVID-1[...]Dominican Republic’s ‘patient zero’ goes home at last
Uncategorized April 22, 2020 | 4:27 pm
Santo Domingo.- Amid applause, smiles and good wishes, Italian national Claudio Pascualini, the first patient detected with coronavirus in the country, hospitalized since February 29 was discharged fr[...]Over 4.3M people live in 3 hardest-hit provinces
Uncategorized March 26, 2020 | 8:41 am
Santo Domingo.- At least 4.3 million people currently live in Santo Domingo, the National District and the Duarte province, which are the localities identified so far as having community transmission [...]COVID-19 cases soar 70% in northeastern province
Uncategorized March 24, 2020 | 4:57 pm
Santo Domingo.- In just 24 hours the number of infected by COVID-19 skyrocketed 70% in San Francisco de Macorís, capital of Duarte province (northeast). On Tuesday the Public Health Ministry told [...]Arrests of curfew violators soar to 5,711
Uncategorized March 23, 2020 | 1:00 pm
Santo Domingo.- The National Police on Monday reported 1,911 people arrested last night for violating the 6am-to-8pm curfew without justification, in a joint operation with the Armed Forces. The nu[...]Govt. names an anti-coronavirus commission
Uncategorized March 13, 2020 | 12:22 pm
Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Government on Fri, announced the creation of a high-level commission to coordinate actions in response to everything related to coronavirus in the country. The commiss[...]Dominicans gather for a 5th day of protests
Uncategorized February 24, 2020 | 5:50 pm
Santo Domingo .- Protesters are starting to arrive Monday afternoon at Plaza de la Bandera, to continue the manifestations against the members of the Central Electoral Board over the botched municipal[...]OOAS observers to remain in Dominican Republic
Uncategorized February 18, 2020 | 7:59 am
Santo Domingo.- The Organization of American States (OAS), election observer mission on Monday said that it "hails" the decision to implement the manual vote in municipal elections to be held on March[...]Municipal elections to be held Sun., March 15: report
Local February 17, 2020 | 5:37 pm
Santo Domingo.- The Central Electoral Board on Sun. announced that the municipal elections, suspended on February 16, will be held Sunday, March 15, as a source told Diario Libre before a JCE press [...]Puerto Plata receives over 30,000 cruise visitors
Uncategorized February 17, 2020 | 12:59 pm
Puerto Plata.-.Over 30,000 visitors arrived at the tourist destination aboard seven cruise ships that docked last week at the Amber Cove terminal located in Bahia Maimón. The Tourism Ministry affi[...]Two Panama ministers fired on Dominican’s 2nd prison break: EFE
Local February 6, 2020 | 8:02 am
Panama.- The second escape from a Panama prison of the Dominican Gilberto Ventura Ceballos, sentenced to 50 years for the kidnapping and murder of five people, prompted the firing of security minister[...]Top challenges facing Central American countries and DR are:
Uncategorized January 20, 2020 | 4:40 pm
Madrid.– Respect for the environment, native cultures and better transport connections are the main challenges facing Central American countries and the Dominican Republic to promote tourism, one of[...]Dominican Republic’s high Court rules for impunity
Local December 18, 2019 | 8:05 am
Santo Domingo.- The Supreme Court ruling on Tues. to decline the Odebrecht graft case to another court not only sets a precedent, It will force the proceeding to start from scratch. The high Court [...]
