Drug-smuggling assets to go on the block
Local November 14, 2013 | 6:14 am
Santo Domingo.- The Anti-Asset Laundering Committee chairman, Fidias Aristy, says that the assets confiscated from drug barons José David Figueroa Agosto and Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo, [...]
No more businesses with bags of money, Dominican officials warn
Local November 14, 2013 | 6:06 am
Santo Domingo.- The Superintendents of Banks, Pension, Securities and Insurance, the Justice Ministry and other institutions on Wednesday made a proposal aimed at strengthen those agencies and prev[...]
Son of Arab-American mogul kept from traveling to the U.S.(Update)
Local November 13, 2013 | 4:57 pm
Santo Domingo.- Immigration Agency officials stopped Dominican-American of Arab ancestry, Karim Abu Naba´a from boarding a plane on Wednesday, and was told he had a court-ordered travel ban, a[...]
Dominican woman arrested in Miami turned out to be male
Local November 13, 2013 | 1:21 pm
Santo Domingo.- Bonao City Council president Fiordaliza Pichardo was arrested in the U.S. last week on drug trafficking charges, U.S. media report.
Pichardo, senior local leader of the pro-go[...]
Haitian thugs fire at border town Police patrol, make death threats(Update)
Local November 13, 2013 | 9:04 am
Montecristi, Dominican Republic.- Alleged Haitian criminals shouted insults and made death threats to a Municipal Police patrol, the second similar incident to take place in the village of Judea, i[...]
Dominican Government official calls New York lawmaker a “charlatan”
Local November 13, 2013 | 8:41 am
Santo Domingo.- “Opportunist and charlatan,” is what a senior Dominican government official called New York assemblyman Adriano Espaillat in the aftermath of the Constitutional Court’s contro[...]
Dominican Republic’s lame duck deputy mayors smack of “reverse feminism”
Local November 13, 2013 | 7:51 am
Santo Domingo.- Of Dominican Republic’s 392 deputy mayors of municipalities and municipal districts, 91 percent have no function, says their national federation, FENAVI.
Guild president Vic[...]
Bidder wants probe of Dominican Republic-Kentucky coal-fired plant deal
Local November 13, 2013 | 7:29 am
Santo Domingo.- One of the companies taking part in the tender to build two coal-fired plants on Tuesday asked the Government Purchasing Office to suspend the process, investigate breach of contrac[...]
Journalist doubts lawmakers can probe senator’s embezzlement case
Local November 12, 2013 | 4:59 pm
Santo Domingo.- Investigative journalist Nuria Piera on Tuesday said has doubts about the conclusions which the bicameral Commission that probes the alleged embezzlement by San Juan senator Fé[...]
Murder fugitive among 21 boatpeople returned by the U.S.
Local November 12, 2013 | 4:37 pm
Santo Domingo.- Puerto Rico authorities on Monday handed 21 Dominicans over to the Dominican Navy, 24 of which were detained while trying to reach its territory illegally on a yola type boat.
Senator steals from the people, donates to church: Veteran politico
Local November 12, 2013 | 12:51 pm
Santo Domingo.- Veteran politico and physician Humberto Salazar on Tuesday railed against La Altagracia senator Amable Aristy as “a false donor” of the Catholic Church, referring to the lawmake[...]
Deputy: U.S. heads push for Dominican solution to Haiti’s problems
Local November 12, 2013 | 12:20 pm
Santo Domingo.- Washington heads the open or disguised push to establish "a Dominican solution to Haiti's problems," as evidenced by the Inter-American Human Rights Commission’s (IACHR[...]
Dominican, U.S., Interpol agents bust pimps, people traffickers
Local November 12, 2013 | 11:05 am
Bica Chica, Dominican Republic.- After several raids police and officials of the Santo Domingo Province Office of the Prosecutor arrested five people in Boca Chica, accused of pimping prostitutes a[...]
“Fugitive” visits newspaper, denies heading drug trafficking ring
Local November 12, 2013 | 7:47 am
Santo Domingo.- The businessman and supposed “fugitive” Winston Risik yesterday rebuffed accusations that he’s the leader of a powerful drug trafficking ring which allegedly operates in the [...]
Dominican-American lawmakers jump into Haitian immigrant fray(UPDATE)
Local November 12, 2013 | 6:55 am
Santo Domingo.- New York State senator Adriano Espaillat will start a campaign to inform on the United States to explain to pro-Haitian groups and NGOs that oppose the Constitutional Court ruling [...]
Prosecutor calls alleged bribe to buy Brazilian planes ‘serious’
Local November 11, 2013 | 4:47 pm
Santo Domingo.- Justice Ministry Anti-corruption prosecutor Laura Guerrero on Monday called the alleged bribes to a Dominican official to buy eight Brazilian Super Tucano aircraft “serious.”[...]
Shippers say stowaways ‘threaten lives,’ must be punished
Local November 11, 2013 | 12:59 pm
Santo Domingo.- Dominican Republic’s shippers grouped in the ANRD on Monday called for the full weight of the law against stowaway, calling it a "scourge that poses a serious hazard to huma[...]
Probe shows La Romana mayor embezzled RD$200.0: Prosecutor
Local November 11, 2013 | 8:48 am
Santo Domingo.- Justice Ministry Anticorruption prosecutor Laura Guerrero on Sunday said the investigation into suspended La Romana mayor Juan Antonio (Tony) Adames revealed that he embezzled aroun[...]
Facebook helped Polish priest flee Dominican Republic justice
Local November 11, 2013 | 8:23 am
Santiago.- The investigation by the Santiago Office of the Prosecutor has yet to determine who tipped off the priest Wojciech Gil escape indictment on child abuse.
To sneak out of the countr[...]
Police colonel with rap sheet in Massachusetts linked to 13 murders
Local November 11, 2013 | 7:58 am
San Cristobal, Dominican Republic.- San Cristóbal district prosecutor Diomeris Soto on Sunday said the investigation continues into National Police Lt. Col. Johan Liriano’s alleged links to [...]