Agents seize 9 suitcases of drug in Venezuela plane (Update)
Local March 17, 2015 | 12:44 pm
Santo Domingo.- All security departments, the National Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) and the National Police at Las Americas International Airport have converged around a private plane which came to [...]
Prosecutor questions 10 military, police in US$100M Peravia bank fraud
Local March 17, 2015 | 12:17 pm
Santo Domingo.- National District prosecutor Yeni Berenice Reynoso interrogates 10 members of the military and police officers in connection with the failed bank Peravia, of a total of 25 linked to[...]
Puerto Rico agents nab 14 Dominicans, one ton of cocaine: EFE
Local March 17, 2015 | 11:38 am
San Juan.- Puerto Rico Police United Rapid Action Force (FURA) agents on Tuesday seized 1.1 tons of cocaine and arrested 14 Dominicans who were awaiting for the drug aboard a boat near the islandâ[...]
US Embassy launches “Beware of that Toad” anti-fraud campaign
Local March 17, 2015 | 11:09 am
Santo Domingo.- The US Embassy’s Consular Section launched a new anti-fraud campaign "Beware of that Toad," to educate the public about the correct and legal way obtain resident and tou[...]
Political maverick says opposition leader embezzled RD$1.2B
Local March 17, 2015 | 10:25 am
Santo Domingo.- Opposition party PRD leader Guido Gomez on Monday filed embezzlement and breach of trust charges against organization president Miguel Vargas and two other officers, at the National[...]
Government’s Land Titling Plan doomed to fail: Think tank
Local March 17, 2015 | 9:29 am
Santo Domingo.- The Government’s National Land Titling Plan is stagnant and doomed to fail, the Institutionalism and Justice Foundation (Finjus) affirmed Monday.
The think tank’s report [...]
Loma Miranda row: Priest plans to block traffic on main Dominican highway
Local March 16, 2015 | 4:27 pm
Bonao, Dominican Republic .- Catholic priest Nino Ramos on Monday asked all brave Dominicans to urgently help hinder traffic on the Duarte Highway next Wednesday, just outside Camp Loma Miranda to[...]
Venezuela group asks Dominican Republic to release 4 pilots
Local March 16, 2015 | 3:37 pm
Santo Domingo.- A group of Venezuelan civilian pilots on Monday asked Dominican judicial authorities to release four of their colleagues being held in Santo Domingo, on charges of attempted theft, [...]
Agents seize 70 bricks of drug at Caucedo Port
Local March 16, 2015 | 12:28 pm
Santo Domingo.- The National Drugs Control Agecny (DNCD) on Sunday seized 70 bricks of a white powder presumably cocaine or heroin, in a container at Puerto Caucedo, bound for Rotterdam, Holland.[...]
Interpol nabs Canadian fugitive in Dominican Republic
Local March 16, 2015 | 12:02 pm
Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.- Interpol’s Dominican branch on Sunday arrested a Canadian wanted on an international warrant in connection with fraud and money laundering.
Richard Dale J[...]
Mostly sunny, mild temperatures
Local March 16, 2015 | 11:17 am
Santo Domingo.- The National Weather Office (Onamet) forecasts widely scattered showers mainly in the afternoon in all provinces, except the southwest, from an approaching weak pre-frontal trough.<[...]
Top official warns Medina on ‘silence’ over ruling party flap
Local March 16, 2015 | 10:21 am
Santo Domingo.- Government Ethics Commission director Marino Vinicio Castillo on Monday warned president Danilo Medina that his "silence" on the ruling PLD party’s current situation &qu[...]
Medina helps town where ‘everyone works together’
Local March 16, 2015 | 9:16 am
San José de Ocoa, Dominican Republic.- President Danilo Medina on Sunday allocated a plant to package avocados and vegetables, in recognition of the community’s effort of working where every[...]
Dominican leader coy as calls to run again grow
Local March 16, 2015 | 8:43 am
Santo Domingo.- Presidency administrative minister José Ramón Peralta on Sunday said a recent survey found that 94.2% of the population approves of president Danilo Medina’s job perfor[...]
Dominican Republic consulates to reopen 2 weeks after attacks in Haiti
Local March 16, 2015 | 7:43 am
Santo Domingo.- Dominican Republic’s five consulates in Haiti will reopen fully Tuesday, two weeks after the attacks by mobs of Haitians in that country, said Commercial attaché in that coun[...]
Amable Aristy says 75% of reformist activists support his project
Local March 14, 2015 | 1:14 pm
Santo Domingo.– Amable Aristy, veteran politico and president of the minority PLRD party "La Estructura," said that over seventy percent of the reformist activism will support his polit[...]
Foreign minister meets with Elias Piña authorities to discuss new foreign policy
Local March 14, 2015 | 12:24 pm
Santo Domingo.– Foreign Affairs minister Andres Navarro began this morning one of two workshops that he will hold on Saturday with public authorities and civil society representatives from Elias [...]
PRM presidential candidate to visit Peravia, Hermanas Mirabal provinces
Local March 14, 2015 | 11:16 am
Santo Domingo.– Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) presidential candidate Luis Abinader will travel this weekend to Hermanas Mirabal, Peravia and San Jose de Ocoa provinces to continue making conta[...]
Supreme Court chief justice says corruption cannot be forgiven
Local March 14, 2015 | 9:26 am
Santo Domingo.– Supreme Court chief justice Mariano German warned that corruption can not be forgiven, because it is contrary to the basics of social sensitivity.
German explained that when[...]
US Embassy touts attributes of American potatoes
Local March 13, 2015 | 5:07 pm
Santo Domingo.- The Potato Board US (USPB) with support from the US Embassy’s Dept. of Agriculture hosted a cooking workshop to prepare recipes for foodies with fresh potato varieties imported fr[...]