Femicide shatters weeks long lull
Local September 5, 2012 | 11:15 am
Santo Domingo. – Just as society was warming up to an apparent lull in femicides, a woman was killed by her partner of gunshot wounds Tuesday evening in the Sabana Centro sector of Santo Domingo [...]
Clear skies, hot temps, normal surf
Local September 5, 2012 | 9:23 am
Santo Domingo.- For Wednesday afternoon and early evening the weather office (Onamet) forecasts widely scattered showers and thunderstorms for the Northeast, Southeast, Central Mountains and borde[...]
Major gas supplier charged with fraud back in court next week
Local September 5, 2012 | 9:06 am
Santo Domingo.- The Superior Arbitration Court yesterday scheduled a hearing for next week on the criminal complaint filed against the propane gas supplier Propagas, which challenged the fines lev[...]
In a first, a prosecutor tries to arrest a lawmaker
Local September 5, 2012 | 8:05 am
SANTO DOMINGO.- For the first time in the country’s modern history a prosecutor has tried to execute an arrest warrant against a lawmaker while the legislature is in session.
National Dist[...]
Dominican-U.S. operation nets 1,525Ks cocaine at sea
Local September 5, 2012 | 7:05 am
Santo Domingo.- The National Drug Control Agency, the Navy and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) seized 1,525 kilos of cocaine near the coast of Saona island Tuesday, one of the bigg[...]
The government will continue fuel subsidy for buses until year end
Local September 4, 2012 | 5:13 pm
Santo Domingo.- The government decided to continue the fuel subsidy for buses until December 31, Industry and Commerce Minister Jose del Castillo affirmed Monday.
In last week’s meeting of[...]
Anonymus vows to unmask Dominican government officials
Local September 4, 2012 | 12:59 pm
SANTO DOMINGO.- Anonymus Dominicana on Tuesday warned that starting the 24th this month it will unleash "Operation Anti-Deceptions," to hack Web sites of several government agencies’ w[...]
MLB record ban on players roils Dominican Winter ball
Local September 4, 2012 | 11:15 am
Santo Domingo.- A record 66 Dominicans figure in Major League Baseball’s extreme fatigue list announced yesterday, signalling a major setback for the local championship.
The list of the na[...]
Ex president finally admits opposition party’s chasm
Local September 4, 2012 | 10:39 am
Santo Domingo.- Ex president and ex opposition PRD party candidate Hipolito Mejia on Monday admitted a division in the organization,just hours after one of its deputies announced his resignation fr[...]
Local, U.S. agents sweep southeastern island, find 8ks of cocaine
Local September 4, 2012 | 10:10 am
SANTO DOMINGO. - Eight bales of cocaine have been found by local and United States authorities so far, foiling a drug trafficking operation near Saona Island, in the country’s southeast.
Th[...]
Ex top jailer to spend 3 months looking out
Local September 4, 2012 | 9:38 am
Santo Domingo.- Former Prisons director Mario Acosta was transferred under tight security to Najayo prison yesterday, indicted on charges of accepting a more than RD$1.0 million bribe from alleged [...]
High Court rules for squatters’ right’s
Local September 4, 2012 | 8:45 am
Santo Domingo.- a right to the lawful, peaceful, continuous and uncontested possession of rural propertieswas acknowledged by the Constitutional Court on, which on Monday issued ruling TC/0036/12, [...]
Low chance of rain as hot, dry air sets in
Local September 4, 2012 | 8:23 am
Santo Domingo.- The Meteorology Office forecasts a low possibility of rainfall as a mass of dry air has covered most of the territory which remains stable.
It said the prevailing east -southe[...]
The press’ 100 day truce with the Government faces a quick end
Local September 4, 2012 | 8:07 am
Santo Domingo.- Although it’s been three week since president Danilo Medina’s inaugural, the National Palace Communications Department (Dicom) still continues in disarray.
Ooutlet eldia.c[...]
President orders fired government workers reinstated
Local September 4, 2012 | 7:18 am
SANTO DOMINGO.- For the first time in the Dominican democratic history, a sitting President has ordered the immediate reinstatement of all government workers classified as career civil servants, wh[...]
Arrest warrant issued for lawmaker convicted of statutory rape
Local September 3, 2012 | 4:35 pm
Santo Domingo.- A National District sentencing judge issued a warrant to arrest deputy Ramon Antonio Fernandez, sentenced to one year in prison for statutory rape.
Judge Saul I. Diaz ordered [...]
Dominican Government denies IMF pact looms
Local September 3, 2012 | 3:15 pm
SANTO DOMINGO. - The Economy Ministry on Monday denied that a delegation of Economic Cabinet officials will travel to Washington, prior to the Dominican Governmen negotiating an agreement t with t[...]
Cement makers’s donation aims to help storm victims
Local September 3, 2012 | 2:26 pm
Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Association of Cement Producers (Adocem) donated 10,000 bags of cement to the Public Works Ministry, for the reconstruction efforts in areas affected by the flooding [...]
Agents bust ring recruited mules in most notorious drug city
Local September 3, 2012 | 12:49 pm
San Francisco, Dominican Republic. - A drug ring that recruited mules in the northeast city of San Francisco, to send them abroad with narcotics in their stomachs and stuck to their bodies, was bus[...]
Medina’s choices don’t herald much change in Government
Local September 3, 2012 | 11:49 am
Santo Domingo.- More than half of DT readers don’t see much hope for substantial change in the Dominican Government, if gauged by president Danilo Medina's removals and designations in the vario[...]