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[...]
Violence rate down 40%, Police say
Local December 23, 2013 | 12:10 pm
Santo Domingo.– National Police deputy chief general AlejandroDipre Sierra said that in fifteen sectors of the country with thehighest violence rates, criminal and violent incidents have been[...]
Preventive detention for 21 people involved in casino raid
Local December 23, 2013 | 10:07 am
Santo Domingo.– Judge Margarita Cristo issued yesterday a month of remandagainst 21 of the 23 people accused in last Thursday's Dream Sport casino robbery, Los Proceres Avenue, which also invo[...]
Christmas safety plan starts today in Dominican Republic
Local December 23, 2013 | 8:33 am
Santo Domingo.– The ChristmasOperation Plan to reduce traffic accidents and other threats to public safety duringthe holidays, starts today at 2:00 pm until Wednesday 25 at 8:00 pm, the Emergency[...]
U.S. National Bar Association cancels conference in DR
Local December 23, 2013 | 12:46 am
Santo Domingo.– The National Bar Association of the United States announced the cancellation of the Dominican Republic as its location for its annual conference, to be held in March 2014.
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Gold rush hits a bureaucratic slowdown in DR, Reuters reports
Local December 23, 2013 | 12:27 am
Santo Domingo.–
[...]JCE president calls for religious, political and social tolerance
Local December 21, 2013 | 10:09 am
Santo Domingo.– Central Electoral Board (JCE) president Roberto Rosario yesterday urged the population to make use of religious, political and social tolerance to contribute to the climate of pea[...]
Girl, 13, gives birth to triplets fathered by 61-year-old man
Local December 21, 2013 | 1:16 am
Santo Domingo.– A 61-year-old man is still on the run after the 13-year-old girl he had a sexual relationship with recently gave birth to triplet boys, the police reported.
The man is now b[...]