Dominican President: there will be no extension to alien regularization plan
Local February 28, 2015 | 8:58 am
Santo Domingo.– President Danilo Medina said in a speech Friday that no foreign nation or international body may require the country to make sacrifices outside its constitutional and legal order,[...]
Dominican Republic drug lord arrives in the country
Local February 28, 2015 | 8:58 am
Santo Domingo.– Confessed drug trafficker Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo, who served a 10-year sentence in the United States following a plea deal, arrived in the Dominican Republic Friday morn[...]
Dominican President: “2014 was a year of fulfilled promises”
Local February 27, 2015 | 11:39 am
Santo Domingo.– "The year 2014 was a year of fulfilled promises and realized dreams," said President Danilo Medina, in his State of the Nation speech at the National Assembly.
Amo[...]
Dominican Republic prosecutor expects justice in Senator’s case
Local February 27, 2015 | 10:23 am
Santo Domingo.– Dominican Republic’s top prosecutor said he expects no impunity in the case against Felix Bautista and those charged with embezzling over US$100.0 million from the State Works S[...]
Dominican ambassador warns on plans to destabilize relations with Haiti
Local February 27, 2015 | 10:15 am
Panama City.– Dominican ambassador in Panama, Cesar Medina, said that the Dominican Republic has to be careful, "since it is clear that there are sectors interested in upsetting relations wi[...]
Nobel laureate Mohan Munasinghe meets with Presidency chief of staff
Local February 27, 2015 | 8:57 am
Santo Domingo.– Presidency chief of staff Gustavo Montalvo met with Nobel Peace Prize, Professor Mohan Munasinghe at the National Palace Thursday, together with representatives of the Coalicion R[...]
President Danilo Medina visits Congress prior to speech
Local February 27, 2015 | 8:54 am
Santo Domingo.– Dominican President Danilo Medina last night visited the National Congress to personally verify that everything was in order, especially concerning his anticipated speech today Fe[...]
Dominicans celebrate Independence Day
Local February 27, 2015 | 12:04 am
Santo Domingo.– Today the Dominican Republic celebrates its 171 anniversary of Independence from the Haitians.
All official and most private business activities will be suspended.
Tod[...]
Ruling on Senator’s embezzlement case set for March 27
Local February 26, 2015 | 4:47 pm
Santo Domingo.- Supreme Court Special Instruction judge Alejandro Moscoso on Thursday ruled to end the preliminary hearings in the money laundering and embezzlement case against senator Felix Baut[...]
NYC conviction deals another blow to Dominican ex president: Acento
Local February 26, 2015 | 11:43 am
Santo Domingo.- Ruling PLD party leader Danilo Diaz, a close collaborator of former president Leonel Fernandez, was found guilty of fraud by a New York court which ordered him and codefendants to r[...]
Casa de Campo readies International Blue Marlin Classic Tournament
Local February 26, 2015 | 10:55 am
Santo Domingo.- Casa de Campo La Marina executives on Tuesday announced the Casa de Campo International Blue Marlin Classic fishing tournament, starting March 17.
Speaking at Hotel Barcelo S[...]
Another week, another political party ‘irregularity’
Local February 26, 2015 | 10:26 am
Santo Domingo.- Press and Law Foundation president Namphi Rodriguez on Wednesday said an Accounts Chamber audit found that the pro-government PRSC party inconsistently handled more than RD$112.0 mi[...]
Dominican tourism chief rebuffs US envoy in gay tourism flap
Local February 26, 2015 | 8:56 am
Santo Domingo.- Tourism minister Francisco Javier García on Wednesday denied that Dominican Republic discriminates "against anyone on sexual preference" as US ambassador James Brewst[...]
Attack on consulate stuns Dominican Republic-Haiti ties
Local February 26, 2015 | 7:57 am
Santo Domingo.- The government of the Dominican Republic last night protested the attack on the Dominican Consulate in Haiti Wednesday which according to local media were thousands of people who ma[...]
Consortium aims to rid Hispaniola of malaria by 2020
Local February 25, 2015 | 2:00 pm
Collaborative initiative funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant
Press Release
Atlanta, GA.- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is leading a cons[...]
‘The cup runneth over’ in Senator’s embezzlement case
Local February 25, 2015 | 1:29 pm
Santo Domingo.- Justice minister Francisco Dominguez on Wednesday said the embezzlement case against senator Felix Bautista “the cup runneth over" on corruption, in which the prosecution di[...]
More Santiago sectors protest against threats to sovereignty
Local February 25, 2015 | 12:57 pm
Santiago.- Residents of the sector Cienfuegos on Wednesday marched for peace, Dominicanism, national sovereignty and defense of the national symbols.
Representatives from the Catholic and Eva[...]
Sunny skies, mild temperatures Thursday, Friday
Local February 25, 2015 | 11:48 am
Santo Domingo.- The National Weather Office (Onamet) forecasts little chance of rain as a high pressure system continues over the country, except for widely scattered showers late Wednesday after[...]
Dominican Republic beefs up security on Haiti protest
Local February 25, 2015 | 11:21 am
Santo Domingo.- Defense minister Maximo W. Muñoz on Wednesday said security a the Dominican Embassy and all national agencies in Haiti has been beefed up, after groups in that country announc[...]
Police can now watch crimes live across the Dominican capital
Local February 25, 2015 | 11:02 am
Santo Domingo.- The National Police on Tuesday launched the first stage of the Crime Control Center, to monitor crimes in real-time in Greater Santo Domingo, with plans to install similar facilitie[...]