Increasing cloudiness scattered showers
Local September 17, 2012 | 9:47 am
Santo Domingo.- The Meteorology Office (ONAMET) forecasts increasing cloudiness and scattered showers for the next 24 to 48 hours, from an approaching tropical wave.
It said an upper-level tr[...]
Assaults on major highway prompts more patrols
Local September 17, 2012 | 9:34 am
Santo Domingo.- The ongoing robberies on the Duarte highway prompted the U.S. Embassy’s warning to its citizens several weeks ago against driving on that road at night.
In recent months att[...]
Watch out for sand in your sugar
Local September 17, 2012 | 9:05 am
Santo Domingo.- The Consumer Protection Agency (Proconsumidor) yesterday warned of sand in sugar from Brazil, which is being sold in the country since July.
It said the Health Ministry notifi[...]
Xstrata mine protest reaches Dominican Republic’s National Palace
Local September 17, 2012 | 7:26 am
Santo Domingo.- Hundreds of people walked to the National Palace on Sunday to ask president Danilo Medina to halt the open pit mining by the Canadian company Xstrata-Falcondo at Loma Miranda, Centr[...]
Over 22,000 volunteers clean up the beaches
Local September 15, 2012 | 9:38 am
Santo Domingo.– The Annual International Coastal Cleanup is under way today in the Dominican Republic, one of the 127 countries involved in the global initiative.
Each year, thousands of v[...]
Dominican Chapter of Citizen Dialogue on Biodiversity
Local September 15, 2012 | 1:51 am
Santo Domingo.– Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD), together with its sister institution in the Dominican Republic, Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLO[...]
Convict in US$2.5B bank fraud given house arrest, appeal announced
Local September 14, 2012 | 1:02 pm
Santo Domingo.- Justice minister Francisco Domínguez Brito on Thursday announced an appeal to the judge's ruling allowing house arrest for the inmate Luis Alvarez Renta, convicted of fraud in [...]
A weekend of showers over much of the country
Local September 14, 2012 | 10:39 am
Santo Domingo.- The National Weather Office (Onamet) forecast showers Friday and all weekend over much of the country, with some thunderstorms.
It the showers will start today noon over the [...]
NY senator Espaillat in easy win over countryman
Local September 14, 2012 | 10:04 am
New York. - New York State senator Adriano Espaillat will be on the ballot in November's elections by defeating Assemblyman Guillermo Linares by double digits in one of the most hotly contested cam[...]
Dominican-born judge breezes into NYC Surrogate Court
Local September 14, 2012 | 9:45 am
New York.- Manhattan Civil Court judge Rita Mella on Thursday won a bench in that borough’s Surrogate Court with 59% of the votes, a major jump in the fledgeling career of the Dominican-born atto[...]
Canadian Council for the Americas’ kudos for ex president
Local September 14, 2012 | 9:25 am
Santo Domingo.- Former president Leonel Fernandez will be recognized by the Canadian Council of the Americas with the Statesman of the Year Award in Toronto.
The Canadian organization is a th[...]
Academy of Sciences joins Xstrata mine’s opponents
Local September 14, 2012 | 8:58 am
Santo Domingo.- The Academy of Sciences yesterday said to allow open pit mining at Loma Miranda by the company Xstrata Falcondo Nickel is folly and inconherent.
It said that action would be a[...]
Attorney confirms plot of popular trials against ex president
Local September 14, 2012 | 8:33 am
Santiago.- Prominent Santiago attorney Ramon Antonio (Negro) Veras yesterday confirmed the reports that a personality approached him to propose he form part of a band of hecklers and stage “popul[...]
Antinarcotics rejects Senator’s charge, reveals major drug bust
Local September 13, 2012 | 5:22 pm
Santo Domingo.- Dominican Republic’s Antinarcotics Agency (DNCD) on Thursday rejected senator Wilton Guerrero’s charge that it let 300 kilos of cocaine slip into the country, but revealed that [...]
As public hospitals agonize, Health chief “finds” RD$1.0B debt
Local September 13, 2012 | 12:42 pm
SANTO DOMINGO.- The recent cash crunch which has delayed disbursements to the public hospitals is likely from the RD$1.0 billion debt which Health minister Freddy Hidalgo on Thursday said he “fou[...]
Mucho trouble ahead for Medina, 52% DT readers say
Local September 13, 2012 | 12:22 pm
Santo Domingo.- More than half of DT readers see nothing but trouble ahead for president Danilo Medina and his administration, and blame the previous chief executive Leonel Fernandez of leaving a h[...]
We’d leave within 5 years if denied mine permit, Xstrata warns
Local September 13, 2012 | 11:54 am
Santo Domingo. - The mining company Xstrata Nickel Falcondo will shutter Dominican Republic operations in less than five years if it doesn’t get the go ahead to exploit Loma Miranda, in central L[...]
Feisty senator calls Antinarcotics Agency a “latrine”
Local September 13, 2012 | 11:28 am
BANI, Dominican Repubilc.- The country’s most outspoken senator on Thursday called the Antinarcotics Agency a “latrine” in which most of its members work on everything but the war on narcotic[...]
Showers continue today, decrease Friday
Local September 13, 2012 | 9:19 am
Santo Domingo.- Rains will continue for much of the country from a trough over the Mona Passage and the prevailing East-Northeast wind, the National Weather Office (Onamet) forecast Thursday.
Deputies have no clue of contract’s taxes, Barrick
Local September 13, 2012 | 8:16 am
Santo Domingo.- The miner Barrick Pueblo Viejo on Wednesday said some deputies in the Energy Commission don’t understand the tax aspects of its contract with the Dominican Government .
It s[...]