Leftist group to stage strike in Salcedo against corruption
Local April 11, 2015 | 11:21 am
Santo Domingo.– Leftist organization FALPO called a 48-hour shutdown next week to protest against corruption and impunity, police abuse of young people and what they call "indolence" of[...]
Chief justice calls on Congress to pass the Civil Procedure Code
Local April 11, 2015 | 8:48 am
Santo Domingo.– Supreme Court chief justice Mariano German asked the Senate Judiciary Committee the knowledge and approval of the Civil Procedure Code, El Nuevo Diario reported Friday.
Afte[...]
Casa de Campo enters Preferred Hotels & Resorts Legend Collection
Local April 11, 2015 | 12:45 am
Santo Domingo.– Casa de Campo has been accepted into membership of Preferred Hotels & Resorts Legend Collection. The 7,000-acre luxury resort and golf destination in La Romana feature exq[...]
Threat to action: Dominican Republic traffic cops push out vendors
Local April 10, 2015 | 1:03 pm
Santo Domingo.- A group of street vendors who sell food and other items and windshield washers cleaner at the busy corner of Gomez 27 de Febrero avenues demand to their right to work and support th[...]
After murder, uneasy calm in northern city as Haitians flee(Update)
Local April 10, 2015 | 10:46 am
Moca, Dominican Republic.- An uneasy calm prevailed in a sector of, Moca Thursday, one day after enraged Dominicans destroyed houses inhabited by Haitians and expelled several of them, while at lea[...]
Weekend: Scattered showers, mild temperatures
Local April 10, 2015 | 10:18 am
Santo Domingo.- The National Weather Office -Onamet- forecasts scattered showers with thunderstorms over some provinces Friday afternoon, from a trough and the prevailing east wind.
It said t[...]
Immigration ‘needs more funds’ to repatriate illegal aliens
Local April 10, 2015 | 8:48 am
Santo Domingo- Immigration director Jose Ricardo Taveras on Thursday said his agency needs more funds to enforce the immigration policy, after the deadline stipulated in the Plan to Regularize Fore[...]
Impunity protests rock Dominican Republic’s biggest cities(Update)
Local April 10, 2015 | 7:41 am
New York.- In what’s considered the second largest Dominican city, dozens of people held a vigil against corruption and impunity in their country, at Upper Manhattan’s Juan Pablo Duarte square [...]
Dominican filmed killing of unarmed black man, feared reprisal: BBC
Local April 9, 2015 | 1:08 pm
Santo Domingo.- The Dominican native who on his cell phone video filmed the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by a white police officer in South Carolina though of erasing the key evidence on [...]
Protest in major city demands jail for senator, mayor
Local April 9, 2015 | 12:06 pm
Santo Domingo.- Dozens of community and politicalorganizations of San Francisco de Macoris (northwest) on Thursday are protestingthe acquittals of senator Felix Bautista and local mayor Felix Rodri[...]
Dominican Republic gets UN’s failing grade in youth schooling: EFE
Local April 9, 2015 | 11:30 am
New Delhi.- Just overhalf of Latin American countries have achieved universal schooling and onefifth of students drop out before finishing basic education in a region which advances, but nearly fo[...]
‘Fed up’ Dominicans call for protests, demand zero impunity
Local April 9, 2015 | 9:53 am
Santo Domingo. - The civic movement ‘TOY JARTO (I’m fed up) but I believe in my country’ on Thursdayasked citizens to join the demand from various organizations for Zero Impunity,to confront [...]
Haitian migrants continue to complain of delays to get IDs
Local April 9, 2015 | 9:24 am
Santo Domingo.- Migrantswho apply for the program to provide an ID and documents to Haitian immigrantsin Dominican Republic (PIDIH) continue their complaints.
Three months afterthe National P[...]
‘Corrupt’ ex Dominican Republic Customs chief slams Sen. Menendez
Local April 9, 2015 | 8:23 am
Santo Domingo.- A former Customs Agency director on Thursday revealed being pressured by Salomon Melgen, a top campaign contributor and friend of US Sen. Robert Menendez, to accept a contract to o[...]
American Airlines receives single operating certificate
Local April 8, 2015 | 6:03 pm
Fort Worth, Texas /PRNewswire/.- American Airlines today received a single operating certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for American and US Airways, marking a major mileston[...]
Dominican Republic’s top prosecutor ‘immature,’ Chief Justice rants
Local April 8, 2015 | 5:57 pm
Santo Domingo.- “Immature, thoughtless and disrespectful” ranted Supreme Court chief justice Mariano German against Justice minister Francisco Dominguez on Wednesday, revealing once again Domin[...]
Deputies who back Medina’s 2nd bid will be expelled, opposition warns
Local April 8, 2015 | 12:46 pm
Santo Domingo.- The lower Chamber spokesmen for Dominican Republic’s two major opposition parties on Wednesday warned that any lawmaker who supports a Constitutional amendment to let president Da[...]
Widely scattered showers, mostly cloudy skies
Local April 8, 2015 | 9:55 am
Santo Domingo.- The National Weather Office forecasts low chance of rain across the country Wednesday, except for widely scattered showers, with mostly cloudy skies and humidity dragged by the sout[...]
Premium Latin acquires rights to Winston Paulino’s ‘Puppy 3D’
Local April 8, 2015 | 9:34 am
New York. - The label Premium Latin, through its music publisher, acquired the rights to the "Puppy 3D (Walk like a dog then a you cock up and piss)" musical work composed by Winston Paul[...]
Recent rulings roil the high courts
Local April 8, 2015 | 8:32 am
Santo Domingo.- The National Business Council’s (Conep) warning Tuesday of a “crisis of confidence” faced by the judiciary is backed by lawyers and National District prosecutor Yeni Berenice [...]