More rain on the way
Local August 13, 2012 | 11:58 am
SantoDomingo.- The National Meteorological Office (ONAMET) is forecasting downpoursand thunderstorms with occasional wind gusts, due to the effects of a tropicalsystem and the cloudy remnants of tr[...]
Police arrest ‘fake colonel’ in Sosua
Local August 13, 2012 | 8:58 am
SantoDomingo.- The National Police arrested a man dressed in police uniform whoposed as a colonel to con Dominicans and foreigners by threatening them for arange of infractions, saying they would b[...]
New school textbooks cause confusion
Local August 13, 2012 | 8:18 am
Santo Domingo.- With only a week togo before the start of the new 2012-2013 school year, some principals andparents have yet to receive information about the new primary school textbooks that areau[...]
Dominican Republic and Mexico sign crimefighting plan
Local August 13, 2012 | 8:03 am
Santo Domingo.-The Dominican and Mexican authorities are planning joint strategies for acomprehensive joint plan to fight crime and drug trafficking, according toJustice Minister Radhamé[...]
UASD launches campus pedestrianization
Local August 13, 2012 | 7:43 am
Santo Domingo.- The Autonomous Universityof Santo Domingo (UASD) is implementing a pilot pedestrianization programcovering the central perimeter of its main campus as of today, according to univers[...]
Plan to reduce public perception of insecurity by 20%
Local August 13, 2012 | 7:20 am
Santo Domingo.- One of the objectives inthe Interior and Police Ministry’s strategic plan for 2012-2015 is to reducethe public perception of insecurity by 20%, bringing it down from the 2011level[...]
President continues inaugurations spree
Local August 13, 2012 | 6:48 am
Santo Domingo.- With three days togo before handing over power, president Leonel Fernández toured the north western borderprovinces of Dajabón and Montecristi to open a training school fo[...]
Antinarcotics agents seize 115 packages of cocaine
Local August 11, 2012 | 10:26 am
Santo Domingo.– The National Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) seized 115 packages of cocaine and arrested seven men during the Sea Storm Operation Friday morning.
The DNCD reported Eleuterio Zor[...]
Health authorities concerned about dengue outbreak
Local August 11, 2012 | 9:08 am
Santo Domingo.– The health authorities expressed their concern about the over 70 cases of dengue fever that have been reported so far in Valverde province (northwest) as well as in other territor[...]
Experts to fight against invasive sea species in the Caribbean
Local August 11, 2012 | 8:14 am
Santo Domingo.– Dominican and Jamaican experts are joining efforts to mitigate the threat of invasive exotic marine species such as the lionfish, in the Caribbean.
According to the Dominica[...]
Readers rate an otherwise aloof Medina as fair on media’s access
Local August 10, 2012 | 3:33 pm
Santo Domingo.- Although close to half of DT readers feel that president elect Danilo Medina hasn’t “pressed the flesh” with constituents prior to taking office on August 16, more than a thir[...]
Deputies bow to intense pressure, will revisit government wage cap bill
Local August 10, 2012 | 2:22 pm
Santo Domingo.- With nearly two weeks of harsh criticism from business, the clergy and civil society, the Chamber of Deputies bowed to pressure Friday and will meet Monday to debate the Senate’s [...]
Seven tons of drugs torched today is biggest since last year
Local August 10, 2012 | 1:35 pm
SANTO DOMINGO. - The National Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) incinerated around seven tons of various types of drugs Friday, especially cocaine and marijuana.
The DNCD said 5, 211 kilos of coca[...]
Government dealings with questioned contractor will cost taxpayers US$45.0M
Local August 10, 2012 | 8:57 am
Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Government will have to pay the highway contractor company Codacsa US$45.0 million, after losing a lawsuit filed on alleged breach of the concession contract to build [...]
Scattered showers for the weekend, cloudy Monday from tropical wave
Local August 10, 2012 | 8:33 am
Santo Domingo.- A tropical wave northeast of the island combined with the east-southeast wind will bring widely scattered showers with thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon over the northeast, sout[...]
Senators reject lower Chambers’ changes to government wage bill
Local August 10, 2012 | 8:22 am
SANTO DOMINGO.- The Senate yesterday rejected the Chamber of Deputies’ amendments to the bill to regulate government wages, which would’ve ratified some of the benefits, incentives and privileg[...]
Fecal coliform scandal: Salamis to have less meat
Local August 10, 2012 | 8:04 am
Santo Domingo.- Locally manufactured salamis could have 50% less meat protein, according to the new rules on its production, revealed pork producer Pedro Jose Fabelo, who participated at the meeti[...]
Dominican lawmakers crop number of generals from 300 to 40
Local August 10, 2012 | 7:44 am
Santo Domingo.- The Senate yesterday amended the Armed Forces Statutory Law, which cuts the number of generals in the military branches from 300 to 40, and changes the names of the National Army to[...]
Antinarcotics Agency to incinerate several tons of drugs Friday
Local August 9, 2012 | 2:40 pm
Santo Domingo.- The National Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) will incinerate several tons of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and crack 9:30am Friday at the of headquarters of the 1st Army Brigade, 25 kilome[...]
Six Dominicans arrested in Puerto Rico, 330 Ks cocaine seized in boat
Local August 9, 2012 | 11:52 am
NEW YORK. - Six Dominicans were arrested Wednesday while allegedly trying to smuggle 330 kilos of cocaine in a fiberglass boat into Puerto Rico, said Police, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) [...]