Approaching cold front brings more downpours
Local April 11, 2012 | 9:11 am
SANTO DOMINGO.- A cold front approaching from the west will bring heavy downpours and electrical storms, the National Meteorology Office (ONAMET) forecast Wednesday.
It said most of the rain [...]
Fernandez prays for Chavez, hails relations with Venezuela
Local April 10, 2012 | 12:50 pm
Santo Domingo.- President Leonel Fernandez on Tuesday noon hailed Dominican Republic’s relations with Venezuela, and praised president Hugo Chavez’s solidarity and cooperation with his country [...]
Airline refutes debts with airports management company
Local April 10, 2012 | 12:06 pm
Santo Domingo.- The airline MAS on Tuesday affirmed it pays the airports management company Aerodom as much as US$68,000 monthly for its operations that include offices, counter, hangar, landing, p[...]
Murder convict to fight extradition to New York
Local April 10, 2012 | 11:31 am
SANTO DOMINGO. - The extraditable Angel Guridi, wanted in New York on murder charges, halted the negotiation for voluntary extradition and requested trial in this country, for which the Supreme Cou[...]
Flash flood warnings in several provinces from downpours
Local April 10, 2012 | 10:55 am
Santo Domingo. - The National Meteorology Office (ONAMET) maintains the flash flood and mudslide warnings for Monseñor Noel, Sanchez Ramirez and La Vega provinces, as a low pressure system has[...]
TV station yanks program of journalist in row with First Lady
Local April 10, 2012 | 10:33 am
Santiago.- The owner of Channel 55 on Tuesday denied that the journalist Marcos Martinez’s program in his TV station was pulled on political pressure, and affirmed that it was a voluntary decisi[...]
Journalist defends scathing report against powerful senator
Local April 10, 2012 | 8:07 am
Santo Domingo.- The journalist Nuria Piera on Monday said she doesn’t understand why people who helped her investigative work in the case of the senator Felix Bautista are being questioned and th[...]
OAS to send 60 observers for May 20 elections
Local April 10, 2012 | 7:45 am
Santo Domingo.- Around 60 observers headed by Uruguay ex president Tabaré Vásquez will be the Organization of American States (OAS) delegation that will come to the country to observe the[...]
Dominican Republic reels from Sinaloa Cartel’s tentacles
Local April 10, 2012 | 7:23 am
Santo Domingo.- The arrest of the pilot of Sinaloa Cartel chief Joaquin “Chapo” Guzmán and another alleged member of that organization, brings to 10 the number of Mexican narcotics traffic[...]
Plane theft case hearing postponed as jailers fail to escort main suspect
Local April 9, 2012 | 2:38 pm
Santo Domingo.- The preliminary hearing against John E. Percival Matos, his wife and two others was postponed for May 7, in the case of an airplane stolen from La Isabela International Airport at H[...]
Veteran journalist says criminal plan aims to eliminate him
Local April 9, 2012 | 12:37 pm
SANTIAGO.- The journalist and former editor in chief of newspaper La Informacion de Santiago, yesterday denounced a criminal plan to physically eliminate him.
Apolinar Núñez, quote[...]
Latest poll gives ruling party presidential candidate a wide lead
Local April 9, 2012 | 11:40 am
Santo Domingo.- The pollster Benenson Strategy Group on Monday said ruling PLD party presidential candidate Danilo Medina heads Dominican Republic’s electoral preference 48% to opposition PRD riv[...]
Flash flood warnings issued on expected downpours
Local April 9, 2012 | 9:58 am
Santo Domingo.- The National Meteorology Office forecasts occasional downpours and thunderstorms from a frontal system and the prevailing northeast wind, with flash flood and mudslide warnings issu[...]
Throngs visit artificial beach, some question idea
Local April 9, 2012 | 8:40 am
Santo Domingo. – As many as 230,000 people visited the artificial beach built along a 400 meter span of Santo Domingo’s seaside avenue Malecon from Thursday to Sunday, when the capital’s dwel[...]
Top Dominican official confirms arrest of Mexican cartel chief’s pilot
Local April 9, 2012 | 8:01 am
Santo Domingo.- The pilot of Joaquin “Chapo” Guzmán, head of the Sinaloa Cartel and one of the world’s powerful drug lords, for whom the United States offers a US$30.0 million reward, h[...]
Easter holiday death toll jumps to 38 (Update)
Local April 9, 2012 | 7:40 am
Santo Domingo.- In his final report Monday noon, Emergency Operations Center (COE) director Juan Manuel Méndez said 31 of the 38 deaths attributed to the Easter break were in traffic accidents[...]
Presidential campaign has its first fatality
Local April 9, 2012 | 7:22 am
Santo Domingo. – The first fatality in Dominican Republic’s unusually calm presidential election campaign occurred Sunday, when a man shot another dead with one hurt amid a hail of bullets and [...]
Vacationers face major traffic jams at buckled bridge
Local April 7, 2012 | 5:38 pm
Bonao, Dominican Republic.- Downpours in the last few hours had swelled a river which collapsed a bridge in Monseñor Noel province, in the central part of the country, forcing the close of the[...]
COE reports 13 dead so far during Easter break
Local April 7, 2012 | 12:14 pm
Santo Domingo.– The Emergency Operations Center (COE), in its latest bulletin, said 13 people died nationwide for different causes during the Easter break so far as of noon Saturday.
Accord[...]
Medina calls Mejía a “pickpocket”
Local April 7, 2012 | 9:48 am
New York.– Speaking last night at the United Palace Theatre in upper Manhattan, the ruling PLD presidential candidate Danilo Medina responded to allegations of corruption against the government, [...]
