Poll: 47.7% say Medina should seek a 2nd term in 2016
Local September 19, 2013 | 11:04 am
Santo Domingo.- The ruling PLD party’s presidential candidate for the 2016 elections should be president Danilo Medina, said 47.7% of those surveyed in a Gallup-Hoy poll.
The number[...]
New U.S. Embassy, Consulate open February in upscale sector
Local September 19, 2013 | 10:15 am
Santo Domingo.- U.S. diplomats on Wednesday announced that Washington’s Embassy in Dominican Republic as well as other offices scattered around the capital will be moved next February to a new co[...]
AERODOM denies US$550M bond violates airports contract
Local September 19, 2013 | 8:48 am
Santo Domingo.- the company which manages Dominican Republic’s State-owned airports on Wednesday said its US$550 million bond doesn’t violate the concession contract and isn’t guaranteed by t[...]
Police, antinarcotics will no longer publish suspects’ photos
Local September 19, 2013 | 8:15 am
Santo Domingo.- Justice minister Francisco Domínguez on Wednesday instructed the National Police and the National for Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) not to publish photos of suspects until theyâ[...]
No ‘secret deal’ for financier jailed in US$2.5B bank collapse
Local September 19, 2013 | 7:04 am
Santo Domingo.- The lawyers for money laundering convict Luis Alvarez Renta on Wednesday said the financier has paid voluntarily or with properties appropriated by the authorities, at least three t[...]
Mayors agree to put an end to the crisis over the landfill
Local September 18, 2013 | 4:00 pm
Santo Domingo.- The mayors of the five cities that comprise Greater Santo Domingo, and Boca Chica on Wednesday agreed to seek a long term solution to the problems of the waste dump at Duquesa, and [...]
Former public works chief, Arab-American businessman sought to embezzle; Lawyers
Local September 18, 2013 | 1:07 pm
Santo Domingo.- The lawyers grouped in the organization Cona oni Wednesday asked National District Appellate Court prosecutor Jose Sepulveda to investigate complaints against former public works mi[...]
Bizarre twist turns Colombians’ money laundering case suspicious
Local September 18, 2013 | 11:38 am
Santo Domingo.- The prosecutor of the National District Appellate Court on Wednesday started the process for the release of Colombian brothers Huber and Angel Buitrago, charged with heading the mon[...]
‘Put up or shut up’ appellate court judge tells top prosecutor
Local September 18, 2013 | 9:48 am
Santo Domingo.- Justice minister Francisco Dominguez’s statement that drug trafficking has permeated the judiciary, the police and the Antinarcotics Agency (DNCD) were called ‘earth-shaking’ [...]
Scattered showers, high temps today, taper off Thursday
Local September 18, 2013 | 9:24 am
Santo Domingo.- The National Meteorology Office (Onamet) forecasts scattered showers with thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon, from trough over the eastern part of the country.
It said the [...]
Three bodies found in a torched pickup(Update2)
Local September 18, 2013 | 9:07 am
San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic.- The bodies of three men were found Wednesday morning in a white pickup truck that had been torched in a field near the sugar mill at the village Yaguate, Sa[...]
A 4.3 magnitude tremor shakes southern region
Local September 18, 2013 | 8:27 am
Santo Domingo.- A 4.3 magnitude tremor shook Dominican Republic’s southern region around 4:19am Wednesday, with no damages reported thus far.
According to the U.S. Geodetic Survey, the quak[...]
‘Not one clean government agency,’ top auditor says
Local September 18, 2013 | 8:03 am
Santo Domingo.- Accounts Chamber president Licelott Marte revealed Tuesday that the country’s 232 municipal districts have many irregularities which she promised to disclose in the coming days, [...]
National emergency system 9-1-1 ready to launch
Local September 18, 2013 | 7:41 am
Santo Domingo.- Presidency chief of staff Gustavo Montalvo met Tuesday with the mayors of Greater Santo Domingo to apprise them of the launch of the national emergency assistance and safety system [...]
Former President Mejia blinks first in opposition party staredown
Local September 17, 2013 | 6:04 pm
Santo Domingo.- After months of heated and often violent confrontations within Dominican Republic’s major opposition party PRD, supporters of former president Hipolito Mejia on Tuesday announced [...]
WANTED: Armed and Dangerous
Local September 17, 2013 | 3:42 pm
Santo Domingo.- The national police on Tuesday released the photo of the main suspect in the of killing of a young windshield washer in the busy corner of Sarasota and Jiménez Moya avenues on [...]
Santo Domingo’s subway reports its first birth
Local September 17, 2013 | 10:45 am
Santo Domingo.- A woman gave birth Monday night in Santo Domingo Metro’s second subway line, where a security agent assigned to the station helped in the delivery.
After giving birth to a b[...]
Interpol arrests Italian fugitive who spent big in La Romana
Local September 17, 2013 | 10:23 am
Santo Domingo.- Dominican police assigned to Interpol on Tuesday announced the arrest of Italian fugitive Giovanni Costa, 63, sentenced to 16 years in prison for money laundering, armed robbery an[...]
Another judge orders release of Colombian ‘money laundering’ brothers
Local September 17, 2013 | 9:39 am
Santo Domingo.- The ping-pong case of the Colombian brothers charged with money laundering took yet another turm Monday, when National District Criminal Court judge Teófilo Andújar upheld[...]
Medina orders government austerity to continue until year end
Local September 17, 2013 | 8:10 am
Santo Domingo. - President Danilo Medina on Monday decided to continue the government austerity policy until 31 December, and issued executive order 262-13.
He said the measure has been satis[...]