Mostly clear skies, calm surge along coasts continue
Local February 20, 2012 | 9:46 am
Santo Domingo.- The National Meteorology Office forecasts that the probabilities of rains are still low nationwide, from an eastward moving high pressure system next to the country and the start of[...]
Naval station to be built by the US unleashes sovereignty debate
Local February 20, 2012 | 9:10 am
HIGüEY, Dominican Republic.- The announced construction of a naval station and pier at Catuano Pass on Saona Island by the US Southern Command has sparked a debate on whether the facility is a[...]
Top official slams Dominican presidential candidate’s trip to Sinaloa
Local February 20, 2012 | 8:45 am
Santo Domingo.- The president of the Ethics Commission on Monday questioned the visit to Mexico’s beleaguered region Sinaloa by opposition PRD party presidential candidate Hipolito Mejia, “righ[...]
Ruling, minority parties alliance seals first ballot win, Fernandez says
Local February 20, 2012 | 8:13 am
SANTO DOMINGO. - President Leonel Fernandez on Sunday said the alliance between the ruling PLD and minority PRSC parties seals the victory in the first balloting of Danilo Medina and Margarita Cede[...]
Joint chase by Dominican, U.S. agencies nets 350 pounds of cocaine
Local February 20, 2012 | 7:51 am
Santo Domingo.- The United States Coast Guard ad Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and the Dominican Air Force and the Navy
168 packages of cocaine headed to Puerto Rico, local media repo[...]
The Government seeks to keep ballooned payrolls
Local February 20, 2012 | 7:24 am
Santo Domingo.- Although the Government must comply with the Constitution which limits the number of vice ministers in each ministry to six, the Public Administration Ministry (MAP) announced that [...]
U.S. plans to build a US$1.5 M naval base in Saona island
Local February 18, 2012 | 10:20 am
Santo Domingo.– Dominican Navy Chief of Staff Nicolas Cabrera announced yesterday that the U.S. Southern Command is planning to build a naval base and a deck in Catuano, in Saona Island, aimed at[...]
Dominican Government backs Argentina in Falklands dispute
Local February 17, 2012 | 4:17 pm
Santo Domingo.- Argentina Foreign Relations minister Héctor Timerman said his country won’t use troops to solve the century-old dispute with Great Britain over the Falklands Islands, during [...]
Most DT readers say nothing can halt boatpeople tragedies
Local February 17, 2012 | 1:24 pm
Santo Domingo.- More that half of DT readers say that nothing can be done to put a halt to the recurrent tragedies involving Dominicans who try to reach Puerto Rico without documents, which this ne[...]
Journalist harshens First Lady bank account allegation
Local February 17, 2012 | 11:44 am
SANTIAGO.- The journalist Marcos Martinez on Friday harshened his allegation that first lady Margarita Cedeño has €43 million account in a Danish bank by stating that if fact, the amount is [...]
Opposition party wants no part in First Lady flap
Local February 17, 2012 | 11:23 am
Santo Domingo.- The General Secretary of the country’s major opposition party (PRD) on Friday distanced itself from Santiago TV journalist Marcos Martinez, affirming that he doesn’t belong to t[...]
Prominent pollster calls opposition party’s candidate “regrettable”
Local February 17, 2012 | 10:58 am
Santo Domingo.- Prominent historian and writer Bernardo Vega Thursday called “regrettable” that the opposition PRD parity didn’t select “a better” candidate than Hipólito Mejía,[...]
Protestant churches warn against political affiliation
Local February 17, 2012 | 8:56 am
Santo Domingo.- The leadership of the Evangelical Unity Council (Codue) Thursday stated its concern that some national evangelical community leaders have expressed support for certain candidates t[...]
Mass remembers a hero and his cause
Local February 17, 2012 | 8:23 am
Santo Domingo.- A group of gray-haired constitutionalists and comrades of “the Colonel of April” Francisco Alberto Caamaño gathered at 5:30pm in the front of Las Mercedes Church, where sev[...]
First Lady’s alleged European bank account spurs media frenzy
Local February 17, 2012 | 8:01 am
Santo Domingo. - An allegation by a Santiago TV program that the vice presidential candidate of the ruling PLD party and First Lady Margarita Cedeño has more than 43 million Euros in an Europe[...]
Drugs czar: Stronger justice, hi-tech equipment needed to fight traffickers
Local February 16, 2012 | 4:39 pm
SANTO DOMINGO. - National Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) president Rolando Rosado Thursday said he’s concerned with what in his view is by the Justice’s weakness in enforcing the drug traffic and [...]
Hoteliers despair on seemingly untouchable eastern mafia
Local February 16, 2012 | 1:11 pm
Santo Domingo.- The hoteliers and tourism business leaders grouped in Asonahores on Thursday rallied behind the executives of the Barceló hotels chain and stated their concern with the Judicia[...]
Internal bickering shrivels once powerful party
Local February 16, 2012 | 11:58 am
SANTO DOMINGO.- The once powerful right of center PRSC party is shriveling amid internal bickering, pitting prior presidential candidate Amable Aristy and surging Ito Bisono against its president C[...]
Agents nab cocaine from passenger on Puerto Rico bound Ferry
Local February 16, 2012 | 11:26 am
Santo Domingo.- A Dominican resident in the United States was arrested by the National Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) last night with 320 bags presumably cocaine, before boarding the Ferry at Santo [...]
New York ceremony starts process to presidential elections
Local February 16, 2012 | 10:04 am
NEW YORK.- Central Electoral Board (JCE) president Roberto Rosario will administer the oaths on Friday to the officials of the Electoral Logistics Coordinating Offices of the United States (OCLEE),[...]
