Mild tremor shakes southeast region
Local December 30, 2013 | 10:59 am
Santo Domingo.– A 4.2 magnitude tremor shook the Dominican Republic's southeast region around 7:54am tocal time Sunday at a depth of 43 kilometers, according to earthquake-report.com.
The m[...]
“Whoever messes with Haiti messes with Venezuela,” Maduro says
Local December 30, 2013 | 9:48 am
Santo Domingo.– Venezuela president Nicolas Maduro said that he mediated formore than a month so that the Dominican Republic and Haiti could agree torestart the bilateral talks after the recent C[...]
Goal of cleaning up Duquesa landfill fails
Local December 30, 2013 | 9:31 am
Santo Domingo.– The goal proposed by the Public Works Ministryof finishing today the project of cleaning up the Duquesa landfill and itssurroundings was not reached.
“Danilistas” and “leonelistas” compete for control
Local December 30, 2013 | 8:46 am
Santo Domingo.– New members of the Central Committee of Dominican Republic’s ruling PLD party will be elected on January 12, when an internal pulse between "danilism" and "leonel[...]
Antinarcotics agents arrest three, seize 103 packs of cocaine
Local December 28, 2013 | 8:20 am
Santo Domingo.– National Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents arrested three men and seized 103 packs containing a white powder presumed to be cocaine[...]
Former president Leonel Fernandez receives birthday wishes
Local December 27, 2013 | 10:57 am
Santo Domingo– Amid congratulations on his 60th birthday, former president Leonel Fernandez said yesterday the door is open to the possibility of aiming for the fourth time to the presidential el[...]
Dominican foreign policy in check
Local December 27, 2013 | 9:59 am
Santo Domingo.– The three-month absence, due to health reasons, of Foreign Relations minister Carlos Morales Troncoso, together with the adverse reactions that on the international level have bee[...]
JCE signs contract to print new ID cards
Local December 27, 2013 | 9:49 am
Santo Domingo.– Central Electoral Board president Roberto Rosario and the president of Copy Solutions International (CSI), Jose M. Rodriguez, signed a contract to print the new personal identific[...]
Environment to monitor operations at Duquesa landfill
Local December 27, 2013 | 8:42 am
Santo Domingo.– It seems the Duquesa landfill operators have found a new place to deposit the garbage, at least up until yesterday at noon, but the situation is still delicate, which has forced[...]
Dominican ambassador returns to Haiti
Local December 27, 2013 | 12:17 am
Santo Domingo.– After being recalled for consultation, and remaining formore than 20 days in the country, the Dominican ambassador in Haiti RubénSilié resumed his functions, [...]
Garbage prevailed in Christmas in Santo Domingo and Santiago
Local December 26, 2013 | 4:35 pm
Santo Domingo.– Greater Santo Domingo and Santiago woke up yesterday full of garbage, mainly in the inside streets of barrios where great piles blocked streets and sidewalks.
The most affec[...]
Haitians call for boycott of Dominican commerce
Local December 26, 2013 | 4:06 pm
Santo Domingo.– The actions by Haitian groups against the recent Constitutional Court ruling that outlines the conditions for citizenship in the Dominican Republic, do not stop. Now "4 Decem[...]
Antinarcotics agents arrest three in Nagua, seize 5 packs of cocaine
Local December 26, 2013 | 2:08 pm
Santo Domingo.– Antinarcotics agents in Nagua arrested yesterday three men aboard a van carrying five packs presumably cocaine, which was hidden inside a black bundle, according to the National A[...]
US deports 2,462 Dominicans in 2013 fiscal year
Local December 26, 2013 | 10:56 am
Santo Domingo.– U.S. Immigration and CustomsEnforcement (ICE) deported 368,644 immigrants during the 2013 fiscal year, of whom2,462 are Dominican Republic nationals, according to the agencyâ€[...]
Disaster risk plan to define policy guidelines
Local December 26, 2013 | 7:59 am
Santo Domingo.– The new National Plan for Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management, approved by President Danilo Medina, will define policy guidelines and basic principles for public and private in[...]
Dominicans begin yearly exodus to their hometowns
Local December 24, 2013 | 10:32 am
Santo Domingo.– Today, Christmas Eve, marks the last day of an exodus by residents of the Dominican capital toward their hometowns around the country, packing all the buses which return nearly em[...]
Dominicans start frenzy in supermarkets
Local December 24, 2013 | 9:51 am
Santo Domingo.– Dominicans of all social classes started converging on the supermarkets since Saturday, to buy the groceries to celebrate the traditional Christmas Eve dinner today Tuesday.
<[...]President Medina will be working normally today
Local December 24, 2013 | 8:38 am
Santo Domingo.– Today, December 24th (Christmas eve) will be a normal day in the agenda of President Danilo Medina, who will be working until the afternoon at the National Palace.
At nig[...]
Fernandez sees as an excess that Caricom asks not to apply court ruling
Local December 24, 2013 | 12:31 am
Santo Domingo.– Former Dominican president Leonel Fernandez considered as an excess that Trinidadand Tobago Prime Minister and president of the Caribbean Community (Caricom), KamlaPersad-Biss[...]
Counterfeit money ring busted
Local December 23, 2013 | 3:14 pm
Santo Domingo.– Antinarcotics (DNCD) agents dismantled a ring that made counterfeit dollars, euros and Dominican pesos to finance its own activities of international drug trafficking.
Acco[...]
