Greenpeace ranking reveals fashion companies’ action on toxic pollution
World March 19, 2015 | 12:57 pm
Beijing.– Greenpeace East Asia today released its Detox Catwalk, an online platform assessing how effectively major fashion brands are removing toxic chemicals from their supply chains and tackli[...]
US authorities find cocaine hidden in car accessories shipment from DR
World March 21, 2015 | 7:58 am
Cincinnati, US.– Drug smugglers think they've found a clever way to conceal their shipment of cocaine, but it doesn't fool customers and border protection officers at the local DHL facility, loca[...]
Senator Menendez may face U.S. indictment very soon: Bloomberg
World April 1, 2015 | 12:07 am
New York.– Bloomberg reported Monday night that U.S. prosecutors plan to seek an indictment of Senator Robert Menendez as soon as Wednesday on corruption charges tied to gifts and campaign donati[...]
US police bust up alleged drug-trafficking ring in Pennsylvania
World April 1, 2015 | 9:52 am
Reading, Pennsylvania.– U.S. agents seized over US$2.2 million worth of heroin and methamphetamine when they busted up a drug ring, with some members of Dominican origin, that was operating throu[...]
CBP reminds pleasure boaters of reporting requirements for Easter weekend
World April 1, 2015 | 12:03 pm
San Juan, PR.– Easter weekend marks the start of a busy boating season that lasts until the very end of the summer within the islands of the Caribbean. With an increase in navigating traffic thr[...]
US indicts Dominican Republic eye doctor, NJ Sen.
World April 1, 2015 | 5:48 pm
Santo Domingo.- US senator Robert (Bob) Menendez and longtime donor and Dominican ophthalmologist Salomon Melgen, who was at the center of a scandal over X-ray machines for the country’s ports, w[...]
Dominicans, Haitians among boatpeople in custody in Miami
World April 2, 2015 | 7:53 am
Miami.– The U.S. Border Patrol said 16 people are in custody who they think were smuggled into the country and dropped off on Peanut Island around midnight.
According to Border Patrol offic[...]
Fidel Castro appears in public after a 14 month absence
World April 4, 2015 | 12:52 pm
Havana.– Revolutionary icon Fidel Castro made his first public appearance in 14 months, Cuba's state-run newspaper Granma reported today and confirmed that the former president had this week met [...]
The Nature Conservancy, partners launch revolutionary aerial mapping of Caribbean’s coral reefs
World May 3, 2018 | 1:53 pm
Press Release St Croix, US Virgin Islands.- The Nature Conservancy in the Caribbean launched a groundbreaking initiative to create the first-ever high-resolution map of the shallow waters of the [...]
