In wake of shakeup, Foreign Affairs to relaunch foreign policy
Local October 9, 2014 | 8:30 am
Santo Domingo.- Recently-designated Foreign Affairs minister Andrés Navarro on Wednesday announced the relaunch of the Dominican Republic’s foreign policy and diplomacy, prioritizing stronge[...]
Infants’ deaths trumps government corruption in Dominican Republic
Local October 9, 2014 | 7:48 am
Santo Domingo.- Dominican Republic's attention suddenly shifted from the various investigations into government corruption and is now focused on the results of the probe into the death of 11 infant[...]
Senator charges senior official with plotting to kill her
Local October 8, 2014 | 4:03 pm
Santo Domingo.- Dajabon province senator Sonia Mateo on Wednesday charges dams and canals agency (Indhri) director Olgo Fernández of plotting to kill her, in an accusation filed with the Justi[...]
Ex Dominican Republic leader handily beats all comers: Poll
Local October 8, 2014 | 12:36 pm
Santo Domingo- Only former president Leonel Fernández and vice president Margarita Cedeño would win in a first round as presidential candidates if the elections were held today, according[...]
UN official refuses to leave Dominican Republic ‘in peace’
Local October 8, 2014 | 12:09 pm
Santo Domingo.- Despite being asked by several organizations to “leave the country in peace,” the UN High Commission for Refugees’ (UNHCR) outgoing representative in the Dominican Republic ag[...]
Truckers unions agree to lift blockade of country’s biggest port
Local October 8, 2014 | 9:49 am
Santo Domingo.- After having blocked freighttransport at Boca Chica’s Caucedo Multimodal port -the country’s largest – the twotruckers unions which vie for control on Tuesday agreed not to ha[...]
Senator in graft probe ‘owns’ RD$3.1B in properties
Local October 8, 2014 | 8:58 am
Santo Domingo.- Many of the properties allegedly owned by senator Félix Bautista’s corporate network over which prosecutors have placed liens are worth around RD$3.1 billion, while others ar[...]
Dominican Republic leader in ‘shock’ from death of 11 infants
Local October 8, 2014 | 7:21 am
Santo Domingo.- President Danilo Medina on Tuesday said he’s in “shock” and expressed outrage for the death of 11 infants in Robert Reid Cabral Children’s Hospital last weekend.
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Authorities launch probe into deaths of 11 infants
Local October 7, 2014 | 3:59 pm
Santo Domingo.- Several National District prosecutors went Tuesday to the Robert Reid Cabral Children’s Hospital to investigate the deaths of 11 infants over the weekend, blamed on an oxygen syst[...]
More priests join National Park demand in Dominican Republic
Local October 7, 2014 | 3:47 pm
Santo Domingo.- Military troops and police agents have been deployed around the National Palace since Tuesday afternoon to await the imminent arrival of dozens of protesters accompanied by at least[...]
New US-Dominican Republic treaty respects extraditables’ rights: U.S. envoy
Local October 7, 2014 | 12:38 pm
Santo Domingo.- U.S. ambassador James Brewster on Tuesday said the human rights of anyone accused will be respected under the revised Washington-Santo Domingo extradition treaty, dating to 1909, wh[...]
Priests heading walk to the Palace demand National Park
Local October 7, 2014 | 11:51 am
San Francisco DM, Dominican Republic. -The religious group Herder Camara and grassroots organizations began a 100-kilometer walk to the National Palace in Santo Domingo shortly after 8am Tuesday to[...]
Senator wants no press in embezzlement case against him(Update2)
Local October 7, 2014 | 10:45 am
Santo Domingo.- Defense attorneys for embattled senator Félix Bautista on Tuesday asked the court to keep media out of the hearing in the embezzlement case against him, after the Prosecutor pl[...]
Dozens celebrate UN Refugees rep’s departure
Local October 7, 2014 | 10:27 am
Santo Domingo.- To the beat of merengue dozens of members of the Children of Duarte Association celebrated the departure of UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) representative Gonzalo Vargas L[...]
One of the country’s “owners” halts freight transport at major port
Local October 7, 2014 | 9:54 am
Santo Domingo.- National Police agents have taken control of freight traffic in and out of Caucedo Multimodal Port, after truckers of Dominican Republic’s powerful Fenatrado union halted operatio[...]
Senior official slams cousin, ex Foreign Minister on corruption
Local October 7, 2014 | 8:23 am
Santo Domingo.- The former head of the cronyism-fraught Dominican Municipal League (LMD) on Monday revealed that former president Leonel Fernández asked him not to seek re-election for the po[...]
Electric utility executives visit GE plant in New York
Local October 7, 2014 | 8:02 am
Santo Domingo.- Numerous officials of Dominican Republic’s State-owned Electric Utility (CDEEE) traveled to Schenectady, New York, to tour the facilities of General Electric, which was contracte[...]
Hospital failures claim 11 infants in Dominican Republic
Local October 7, 2014 | 7:29 am
Santo Domingo.- Eleven infants died in the capital's Robert Reid Cabral children’s hospital over the weekend; two on Friday, four Saturday and the remaining five on Sunday.
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Dominican Republic, U.S. to amend 1909 extradition treaty
Local October 6, 2014 | 5:00 pm
Santo Domingo.- The Dominican ministries of Justice, of Foreign Affairs, and the Presidency’s Legal Advisor, and the U.S. Embassy will discuss Tuesday the amendments to the extradition treaty si[...]
Agents seize 165 bricks of drug at Haina port
Local October 6, 2014 | 1:07 pm
Santo Domingo.- Antinarcotics (DNCD) agents seized Monday 165 bricks presumably cocaine or heroin early Monday, inside a container of Stoer Trader, in transit on a freighter from Colombia which doc[...]