Leonel Fernandez congratulates Efe news agency
Local March 29, 2014 | 11:38 am
Bogota.– Dominican former president Leonel Fernández attended the exhibition "75 years in photos. A tribute to Latin America," which the Efe news opened in Bogota. Fernandez took a[...]
Former president denies racism in the Dominican Republic
Local March 29, 2014 | 9:28 am
Bogota.– Former president Leonel Fernandez denied the Dominican Republic is a racist nation, as some sectors affirm based on a Constitutional Court ruling on nationality.
During his speech [...]
Desertions a fatal blow to ex Dominican president’s bid for a comeback
Local March 28, 2014 | 4:25 pm
Santo Domingo.- Opposition party (PRD) leaders Orlando Jorge and Alfredo Pacheco on Friday announced that they’ll not support former president Hipolito Mejía’s efforts to forge a coalition[...]
Naturalization: Medina meets with staunchest opponent to unchecked immigration
Local March 28, 2014 | 12:22 pm
Santo Domingo.- President Danilo Medina on Friday concluded consultations leading to the draft of the naturalization bill, after meeting with Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodríguez, the sta[...]
Ex official slams Dominican govt. ‘doublespeak’ on power plants
Local March 28, 2014 | 11:10 am
Santo Domingo.- Political leader and former Environment minister Max Puig on Thursday slammed the government’s apparent double-speak on power plants, since on the one hand "definitively bans[...]
Espaillat urges U.S. senators to desegregate NY City schools
Local March 28, 2014 | 10:11 am
New York.- Yesterday, a study released by UCLA’s Civil Rights Project found that public school students in New York are severely segregated. The report, which reviewed the historical context of [...]
New Penal Code is tough on thugs, soft on embezzlers
Local March 28, 2014 | 9:50 am
Santo Domingo.- Although the amendment to the Criminal Procedural Code provides for harsher penalties for persons indicted for major felonies, it strips citizens of the right to charge Government [...]
Police deploy Anti-noise cops on the capital’s unbearable din
Local March 28, 2014 | 9:25 am
Santo Domingo.- When she could no longer withstand the din booming out of a colmado right in front of her house in the sprawling Villa Consuelo sector, Julia Medina opted to move to a residential [...]
Dominican Republic opposed to Russia’s annexation of Crimea
Local March 28, 2014 | 8:33 am
United Nations.- The UN General Assembly on Thursday adopted a resolution that supports Ukraine’s territorial integrity, calling the referendum in Crimean “not valid" and calls to peaceful[...]
Dominican Republic looks to punish hero’s murderers
Local March 28, 2014 | 7:29 am
Santo Domingo.- The Justice Ministry on Thursday subpoenaed former Armed Forces secretary Ramiro Matos Gonzalez for questioning next Monday 31 on charges that he and other military under his comman[...]
Medina seeks leaders’ views for a sweeping naturalization bill
Local March 27, 2014 | 12:49 pm
Santo Domingo.- President Danilo Medina Thursday said he doesn’t want to disclose anything about the naturalization bill because he needs to hear the opinions of the various leaders to integrate [...]
Minority parties get a say on Dominican nationality row
Local March 27, 2014 | 11:06 am
Santo Domingo.- President Danilo Medina visited minority pro-government PRSC party president Federico –Quiqui- Antún Thursday morning, as part of his consultations with political leaders, to[...]
Dominican, French forces wrap up ‘Dune’ exercises
Local March 27, 2014 | 10:13 am
Bani, Dominican Republic.- Dominican and French armed forces on Wednesday wrapped up 11 days of intense and demanding military training exercises "Dune 2014" at the Calderas Naval Base, [...]
Soft spoken Juliana at center of Dominican nationality uproar
Local March 27, 2014 | 9:35 am
Santo Domingo.- Juliana Deguis isn’t prone to talk much unlike her equally famous Dominican-born person of Haitian parents, the late Sonya Pie (Pierre). She does admit however that the uproar ove[...]
Dominican leader looks to God to resist vanity, arrogance
Local March 27, 2014 | 8:39 am
Moca, Dominican Republic.- President Danilo Medina revealed Wednesday that he always asks God to resist vanity and arrogance, to allow him to continue being a humble and simple person and close to [...]
Amendment: Official embezzlers face up to 10 years in prison
Local March 27, 2014 | 8:08 am
Santo Domingo.- The Senate on Wednesday passed the bill to amend the Law on Financial Statement and Illicit Enrichment, with penalties of up to 10 years in prison for officials convicted of embezzl[...]
Country under alert on possible chikungunya fever outbreak
Local March 27, 2014 | 7:51 am
Santo Domingo.- Health minister Freddy Hidalgo on Wednesday warned that the country is under a heightened alert from a possible outbreak of chikungunya fever.
He said since it’s possible [...]
Fateful day for Xstrata Nickel’s Dominican Republic mine
Local March 27, 2014 | 7:19 am
Santo Domingo.- The Special Senate Commission that studies the bill that would create Loma Miranda National Park will tour the area Thursday, for an onsite inspection which could make or break Xstr[...]
Dominican Republic to pull half-a-million guns to trim murders
Local March 26, 2014 | 4:41 pm
Santo Domingo.- Dominican Republic seeks a nationwide disarmament based on the success by Brazil, which pulled half a million guns from the streets four years ago, to combat the high homicide rate,[...]
‘Interests’ beleaguer the Constitutional Court: Journalist
Local March 26, 2014 | 12:12 pm
Santo Domingo.- The editor-in-chief of the country’s leading newspaper on Wednesday called Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Court “is being beleaguered by political and other interests.&qu[...]