A few showers, mild temps for the weekend
Local November 22, 2013 | 9:02 am
Santo Domingo.- The weekend arrives with a few showers and partly cloudy skies for much of the country, from the prevailing east-northeast wind and a trough over Puerto Rico.
The National Met[...]
Dominican Republic defends controversial ruling as sovereign measure
Local November 22, 2013 | 7:53 am
Santo Domingo.- The National Immigration Council meets today to hear the proposals made to the Government on the National Plan to Regulate Foreigners, ordered by the Constitutional Court’s contro[...]
NY AG charges ruling party leaders in real estate scam
Local November 22, 2013 | 7:21 am
Santo Domingo.- Danilo Díaz, senior leader of Dominican Republic’s ruling PLD party, said the fraud charges announced by the New York State Attorney General on Thursday is a civil suit and [...]
More Police officers fired, forced to retire amid purge for misconduct
Local November 21, 2013 | 4:18 pm
Santo Domingo.- The National Police Council on Thursday recommended the firing forced retirement of a Lieutenant Colonel, eight first lieutenants and five second lieutenants for their alleged conne[...]
U.S. lawmaker meets with Dominican deputies as court ruling draws visits
Local November 21, 2013 | 2:53 pm
Santo Domingo.- U.S. representative (R-Florida), Heather Fitzenhagen met with the Chamber of Deputies Justice Committee on Thursday, interested in how the country’ lower chamber functions.
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Venezuela the peacemaker in Dominican nationality row
Local November 21, 2013 | 12:41 pm
Santo Domingo.- Dominican Republic and Haiti will meet in the next few days after the dialogue between the two countries started in Venezuela, in the aftermath of the Constitutional Court ruling, t[...]
Customs chief: Not enough money to prosecute smugglers
Local November 21, 2013 | 12:13 pm
Santo Domingo.- For the first time in recent history Dominican Republic’s Customs Agency cited lack of money to prosecute a group of alleged smugglers, that include sons of former officials of th[...]
Dominican Republic tops traffic death rate; Brazil is fatality king, EFE reports
Local November 21, 2013 | 11:02 am
Rio de Janeiro.- Dominican Republic’s 41.7 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants tops the list of countries with the most traffic violence, but whose absolute number of deaths of 4,143 in 2010, is nearl[...]
Feds nab local doctor, nurse for removing criminals’ prints in Boston
Local November 21, 2013 | 10:18 am
New York.- Federal agents in Boston on Wednesday arrested Dominican physician Danilo Montero Ramirez and his assistant Teresa Araujo Martinez, charged with removing the fingerprints of deported Dom[...]
Human Rights delegation to seek suspension of controversial ruling
Local November 21, 2013 | 8:53 am
Santo Domingo.- A seven-member delegation of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) will come to the country on December 2 to ask the Dominican Government to suspend the enforcement [...]
Scattered showers, mild temperatures
Local November 21, 2013 | 8:28 am
Santo Domingo.- The Meteorological Office (Onamet) forecasts widely scattered showers Thursday afternoon for the Northeast, Southeast, Southwest and Central Mountains, from a trough over the countr[...]
Senior official calls Caricom’s threats ‘noise and smoke’
Local November 21, 2013 | 8:09 am
Santo Domingo.- “Noise and smoke” is what Dominican Republic sees in the Caribbean Community’s (Caricom) threats to punish it in the heels of the Constitutional Court’s controversial rulin[...]
First-ever openly gay U.S ambassador arrives to bolstered security
Local November 21, 2013 | 7:46 am
Santo Domingo.- The arrival of Washington’s firs ever openly gay ambassador in the country has prompted the U.S. Embassy officials and Dominican authorities to bolster security at Las Americas In[...]
Nationalist group calls prominent journalists ‘traitors to the nation’
Local November 20, 2013 | 12:37 pm
Santo Domingo.- A nationalist group on Wednesday filed a complaint charging the movement Citizen Participation and the journalists Juan Bolivar Diaz and Huchi Lora of sedition, hostility and rebel[...]
Come clean on coal-fired plants, group warns Dominican government
Local November 20, 2013 | 11:45 am
Santo Domingo.- The grassroots movement Toy Jarto (I’m Fed Up) on Wednesday warned the Dominican Republic’s State-owned Electric Utility (CDEEE) to clarify within 10 days the doubts around the [...]
Joint U.S., Dominican military exercises slated for April
Local November 20, 2013 | 8:54 am
Santo Domingo.- Dominican Republic will host two humanitarian and civic exercises jointly with the U.S. Southern Command next year, called "Beyond the horizon."
U.S. medical personn[...]
Senate wants Dominican government to control Bahia de las Aguilas
Local November 20, 2013 | 8:09 am
Santo Domingo.- The Senate on Tuesday unanimously approved a resolution to support Pedernales (southwest) senator Dionis Sánchez in his push for the Dominican government to take control of the[...]
Dominican high court rules for privacy on telecom data-gathering
Local November 20, 2013 | 7:47 am
Santo Domingo.- The Constitutional Court on Tuesday struck down 14 articles of a Dominican Telecomm Institute (Indotel) provision on the collection and gathering of data and information by telecom [...]
Former antinracotics official linked to executions off to prison (Update)
Local November 19, 2013 | 11:52 am
San Cristobal, Dom. Rep.- Former Police Lt. Col. Johan Liriano was remanded to the prison at Najayo for three months to await trial on charges in connection with several underworld murders, outlets[...]
Dominican city official nabbed in Miami spent 25 years on the run
Local November 19, 2013 | 10:55 am
New York.- Dominican city council official Fiordaliza Pichardo's fast, prominent leader of the conservative PRSC party was charged with forming part of a drug trafficking ring on June 23, 1988 in t[...]