Major drug cartel linked to TV host sent US$12M per month abroad
Local March 15, 2013 | 7:48 am
Santo Domingo.- Justice minister Francisco Dominguez on Thursday said the money-laundering network comprised of Venezuelans, Colombians and Dominicans linked to TV personality Angie Agramonte, is o[...]
Dominican lawmaker who served time for rape can return to Congress
Local March 14, 2013 | 5:16 pm
Santo Domingo.- A senior lawmaker in Dominican Republic’s Chamber of Deputies revealed Thursday that his colleague from Santiago Rodríguez province, Ramón "Papo" Fernandez, wh[...]
Customs chief says it was he who halted Barrick Gold shipment
Local March 14, 2013 | 12:40 pm
Santo Domingo.- Customs Agency director Fernando Fernandez on Thursday affirmed that it was he who halted a shipment by Barrick Gold at Las Americas International airport Wednesday, and not on inst[...]
Prosecutor seeks at least 20 fugitives in Bahia de las Aguilas fraud
Local March 14, 2013 | 12:33 pm
Santo Domingo.- National District prosecutor Yeni Berenice Reynoso on Thursday announced the investigation of at least 20 people declared fugitives in 2003, wanted in connection with the Bahia de l[...]
Water rationed as months-long drought parches the country
Local March 14, 2013 | 8:24 am
Santo Domingo.- The months-long drought parching the country has prompted the rationing of water in various sectors of Greater Santo Domingo province receive water potable, water utility (CAASD) di[...]
UNDP won’t bow to pressure from protests against Xstrata Nickel
Local March 14, 2013 | 7:47 am
Santo Domingo.- United Nations Development Program (UNDP) local representative Valerie Julliand on Wednesday defended the impartiality of the six technicians hired on the Dominican Government’s r[...]
Dominican government halts a Barrick Gold shipment(Update)
Local March 14, 2013 | 7:23 am
Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Republic government Wednesday halted a gold shipment worth millions which the Barrick Gold Pueblo Viejo Corp. was about to export to Canada via the United States, from[...]
Mild quake registered near Samana
Local March 13, 2013 | 1:15 pm
Santo Domingo.- A magnitude 3.3 quake was registered near Samana at around 11am local time (GMT/UTC Time 10:58:01), at a depth of 33 kilometers.
The US Geodetic Survey reports that tremor occ[...]
Dominican in NYC crash that killed 3 indicted today
Local March 13, 2013 | 12:17 pm
Brooklyn, New York. – Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes today announced the indictment of (Dominican Republic national) Julio Acevedo, for fleeing the scene after allegedly driving [...]
Washington DC Interpol help local agents arrest murder suspect
Local March 13, 2013 | 12:01 pm
Santo Domingo. - Police agents assigned to Dominican Interpol on Tuesday arrested in Santiago’s Cibao International Airport, a fugitive wanted in the city Santo Domingo West.
The Dominican[...]
Dominican media abuzz with the president’s public safety plan
Local March 13, 2013 | 11:15 am
Santo Domingo. - Dominican Republic’s online media are abuzz with expectation awaiting president Danilo Medina’s National Citizen Safety Plan, a project touted from the very day his tenure bega[...]
Agents arrest man in SUV with official plate, six packages of cocaine
Local March 13, 2013 | 10:43 am
Santo Domingo. - The National Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) on Wednesday arrested a man in an SUV with an official license plate, carrying six packages of cocaine.
The DNCD said Francis Domingu[...]
Navy rescues 4 American fishermen adrift near Saona Island
Local March 13, 2013 | 10:03 am
Santo Domingo. – A Navy patrol on Tuesday rescued and took to La Romana four Americans who on Monday set off to fish aboard a boat that went adrift some 33 miles south of Saona Island.
Cull[...]
Shaman makes dupe’s cash vanish
Local March 13, 2013 | 9:41 am
SANTO DOMINGO.- The National Police on Tuesday arrested a Haitian “witch doctor” accused of defrauding several people out of more than 12 million pesos, on promises of making them "billion[...]
Artisans slam mining chief on illegal larimar exports
Local March 13, 2013 | 9:00 am
Santo Domingo.- The artisans of the barrios grouped in Frebadeco on Tuesday denounced the illegal export of raw larimar, which in their view threatens the country’s handicraft production.
F[...]
Ex top prosecutor: I didn’t handle Bahia de las Aguilas criminal file
Local March 13, 2013 | 7:36 am
Santo Domingo.- Former Justice minister Victor Cespedes on Tuesday said the Bahia de las Aguilas criminal file was never in his power during his tenure as the country’s top prosecutor.
He s[...]
Statelessness of Dominicans of Haitian descent “worsened”
Local March 13, 2013 | 7:18 am
Santo Domingo.- The American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on Tuesday said the denationalization of Dominicans of Haitian descent "worsened" and see the authorities’ harassment whe[...]
Crews battle forest fire near the country’s tallest peak
Local March 12, 2013 | 5:15 pm
Santo Domingo.- The Environment Ministry said its crews work to douse a forest fire that began Monday afternoon in the area known as Valle de los Caos, near Pico Duarte, in Dominican Repubilc's rug[...]
Medina could announce anticrime Plan this afternoon
Local March 12, 2013 | 11:45 am
Santo Domingo. - President Danilo Medina will announce the details of the National Public Safety Plan as soon as Tuesday afternoon, just weeks after revealing the push to fight widespread crime, du[...]
Prosecutor to reveal TV hostess in case of US$300,000 hidden in SUV
Local March 12, 2013 | 11:22 am
Santo Domingo.- Justice minister Francisco Dominguez on Tuesday said in the next few hours the name will be reveal of the television hostess, in whose SUV was found US$300,000 hidden under a fake f[...]
