Dominican central banker sticks to his guns on low-wage flap
Local September 16, 2015 | 12:40 pm
Santo Domingo.- CentralBanker Hector Valdez Albizu on Wednesday told big business his statement thatlow wages lead to higher crime is something the population complains about andhas even been voice[...]
Medina´s brother´s pitch to help booze joint goes viral
Local September 16, 2015 | 10:18 am
Santo Domingo.- Anassistant of president Danilo Medina´s brother sent a letter on Presidency letterheadto Santo Domingo province prosecutor Raquel Cruz Diaz, asking her "consideration&quo[...]
Icon Dominican beer marks 80 years
Local September 16, 2015 | 9:59 am
SD.- The DominicanNational Brewery (CND) on Tuesday celebrated the 80 years since the debut of itsleading product: Presidente beer.
CND president FranklinLeon said initiatives and innovations[...]
Active tropics could end Dominican Republic´s 12-month drought
Local September 16, 2015 | 9:16 am
Santo Domingo.- TheNational Weather Office (Onamet) forecasts moderate showers from a tropicalwave over the Mona Passage which will reach the country Wednesday afternoon.
The expected downpou[...]
Haiti bans the overland entry of Dominican products
Local September 16, 2015 | 8:19 am
Port-au-Prince.- Haiti´sEconomy and Finance Ministry has barred 22 types of Dominican products fromentering its territory overland, which can enter only by sea and air throughPort-au-Prince an[...]
Fraud puts Dominican Republic Social Security at edge of collapse
Local September 16, 2015 | 7:57 am
Santo Domingo.- TheSenate on Tuesday announced an investigation into an alleged fraud in the millionsagainst the Dominican Social Security System, in which partial wages werereported through bogus [...]
Dominican Gov. plays blame game as 2 dam workers die, 18 sick
Local September 15, 2015 | 6:05 pm
Santiago.- The deathof two workers and 18 others severely ill at Tavera dam (central) has led to ablame game among Dominican Republic´s canals and dams agency (INDRHI) and the hydroelectricgen[...]
Tenth million Dominican is a bouncing boy ´in perfect health´
Local September 15, 2015 | 4:28 pm
Santo Domingo.- Atthe very minute predicted the 10 millionth Dominican was born 1:28pm in La Altagraciamaternity hospital, in the nation´s capital, delivered by the facility´sdirector
[...]Official: More Haitians sneaking into Dominican territory, report
Local September 15, 2015 | 12:44 pm
Dajabon, Dominican Republic.-The number of Haitians looking to enter Dominican territory, using the Montecristi-Dajabónarea as the main route has jumped recently, said Border Security Corps(Ce[...]
Dominican grandma wins a ticket to see the Pope
Local September 15, 2015 | 10:43 am
New York.- Dominican-born Carmen Esteras, a grandmotherwho´s lived in the Bronx 26 years, caretaker of the elderly, with an injured kneeand a staunch Catholic, was the lucky winner of the raf[...]
Cloudy Tuesday afternoon, scattered showers Wednesday
Local September 15, 2015 | 10:26 am
Santo Domingo.- TheNational Weather Office (Onamet) forecasts increasing cloudiness Tuesday afternoonwith scattered showers over mostprovinces
It said there’ll be asignificant increase i[...]
Dominican politics too expensive: Big business
Local September 15, 2015 | 9:38 am
Santo Domingo.- NationalBusiness Council (Conep) president Rafael Blanco on Monday called the economiccost of the country´s political campaign immeasurable, both internally and for thepolitica[...]
X-Ray machines have been down since 20l4: Airports chief
Local September 14, 2015 | 5:25 pm
Santo Domingo.- AirportsDept. director Marino Collante on Monday revealed that in 20l4 he had informedthe Customs Agency that the X-ray machines had were out of service, not only inthe Las Americas[...]
Official denies giving tax breaks for members of ruling party to buy vehicles
Local September 14, 2015 | 12:37 pm
Santo Domingo.- PresidencyAdministrative minister Jose Ramon Peralta on Monday denied the government providestax breaks for groups of its members to buy vehicles and called the allegationspart of t[...]
Public Health issues alert on 53 confirmed dengue deaths
Local September 14, 2015 | 12:09 pm
Santo Domingo.- The PublicHealth Minister on Monday issued an alert to deal with the outbreak of dengue acrossthe country, with 53 officially recorded deaths.
Public Health ministerAltagracia[...]
Major Dominican parties´ electoral pact is ´perversely obscene´
Local September 14, 2015 | 11:05 am
Santo Domingo.- Independentdeputy and president of the Democratic Choice party Minou Tavarez Mirabal on Sunday,calledthe electoral alliance between Dominican Republic’s ruling party (PLD) and the[...]
Scattered showers for most regions
Local September 14, 2015 | 10:39 am
Santo Domingo.- TheNational Weather Office (Onamet) watches three areas of unstable air over the country thatcould bring showers and thunderstorms to the country over the next few days.
It s[...]
Nations can learn from Dominican deportations: Huffington Post
Local September 14, 2015 | 9:37 am
Santo Domingo.-Dominican ambassador to the United States Jose Tomas Perez on Sunday said whilemany countries around the world are struggling with a distressingly largenumber of undocumented migrant[...]
Dominican leader, ruling party, again at center of major scandal
Local September 14, 2015 | 8:27 am
Santo Domingo.- DominicanRepublic´s ruling PLD party is again at the center of a major scandal, in which375 of its east region provincial and municipal leaders were provided Customstax "f[...]
Dominican guards halt 300 Haitians with forged papers at border
Local September 14, 2015 | 8:08 am
Dajabón.- BorderSecurity (Cesfront) agents have returned nearly 300 undocumented Haitians totheir country, some of them accompanied by children and adolescents trying toenter Dominican territo[...]