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Dominican capital observes U.S. Navy warship's maneuvers
SANTO DOMINGO.- The U.S. Navy's amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge since Friday conducts maneuvers along the Dominican capital's seaside boulevard El Malecon, as part of a medical assistance mission in various Latin American countries, according to the U.S. Embassy.
USAID, Batey Relief Alliance feed bateyes' poor and hungry.
NEW YORK.- The Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) launched this month another year of food aid, distributing 75 metric tons of food in the Dominican Republic, with the financial and technical assistance of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Entities mark International Day of the Right to Know
SANTO DOMINGO.- The National Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (CNECC), the State Reform Council (CONARE) and other institutions celebrated the International Day of the Right to Know, stressing the objective of Law 200-04 on Free Access to Public Information (LGLAIP) and as a way of ensuring transparency in the Dominican Republic.
Another Dominican senator says judges, prosecutors help drug traffickers
SANTO DOMINGO.- La Vega province senator Euclides Sanchez affirmed that a complicity between the judges and prosecutors with narcotics traffickers and other criminals, because when arrests are made for even kilos of cocaine, they are set free and pay only a fine or bail.
Storm-weary Dominican farmers to get RD$2.5B in funding
SANTO DOMINGO.- President Leonel Fernandez instructed the Agricultural Bank to disburse starting today the first RD$1.0 billion of the RD$2.5 billion allocated to recover production of the farms damaged by the spate of storms in the last few months.
Electoral judge rejects unified elections, prefers limiting campaign time
SANTO DOMINGO.- A Central Electoral Board judge today defined the unification of the elections in president Leonel Fernandez's proposal to reform the Constitution an electoral step back, and instead proposed limitations to the electoral campaign period.
Dominican journalist Frank Comarazamy turns 100
Santo Domingo.– Writer and
Union leaders march to business group offices, demand wage increase
SANTO DOMINGO .- The leaders of the Dominican labor union CASC marched to and staged a vigil in front of the National Business Council (Conep) offices, to demand a wage increase, stabilized prices, and consensus between business and unions.
Dominican Post Office assigns more than 150 motorcycles
Santo Domingo .- The Dominican Postal Institute (Inposdom) director Modesto Guzman yesterday handed over 150 motorcycles to facilitate the daily work done by postal workers. The handover took place at the Inposdom offices in the Center of the Heroes at 11 a.m.
Dominican riot Police yank protesting doctors out of Health Ministry (Update)
SANTO DOMINGO.- The members of the Dominican Medical Association whom occupied the Public Health Ministry's offices yesterday morning were violently removed early Thursday by riot Police.
La Vega's judges challenge the senator to prove drug allegations
SANTO DOMINGO.- The La Vega Judicial District penal judges yesterday challenged senator Euclides Sanchez to publicly present the evidence that proves their alleged complicity with drug trafficking.
Dominican court starts RD$14B fraud trial against Pedro Castillo
SANTO DOMINGO.- A National District Court on Wednesday heard the initial charges in the criminal trial against Pedro Castillo, accused of fraud RD$14 billion peso when he was president of the Progreso bank and affiliate companies.
Dominican bank frauds among world's worst, IMF confirms
Santo Domingo. - Although the hundreds of billions used to ease the U.S. financial crisis makes it without a doubt the greatest financial rescue in history, other bank failures, such as Dominican Republic's in 2003, were relatively higher as to the local Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and fiscal cost.
U.S., Dominican agents seize more than 2 tons of cocaine on the high seas
SANTO DOMINGO.- United States agents helped by Dominican authorities seized 4,250 pounds of cocaine on the high seas, transported on board a boat loaded in a South American country.
Prosecutors want Bani bloodbath suspects behind bars
BANI.- Peravia province Judicial District (south) prosecutors asked the San Cristobal Court of Appeals to revoke a lower court ruling that released on bail two of the suspects in the murders of seven Colombians in Ojo de Agua, Bani.
SANTO DOMINGO.- The U.S. Navy's amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge since Friday conducts maneuvers along the Dominican capital's seaside boulevard El Malecon, as part of a medical assistance mission in various Latin American countries, according to the U.S. Embassy.
USAID, Batey Relief Alliance feed bateyes' poor and hungry.
NEW YORK.- The Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) launched this month another year of food aid, distributing 75 metric tons of food in the Dominican Republic, with the financial and technical assistance of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
SANTO DOMINGO.- The National Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (CNECC), the State Reform Council (CONARE) and other institutions celebrated the International Day of the Right to Know, stressing the objective of Law 200-04 on Free Access to Public Information (LGLAIP) and as a way of ensuring transparency in the Dominican Republic.
Another Dominican senator says judges, prosecutors help drug traffickers
SANTO DOMINGO.- La Vega province senator Euclides Sanchez affirmed that a complicity between the judges and prosecutors with narcotics traffickers and other criminals, because when arrests are made for even kilos of cocaine, they are set free and pay only a fine or bail.
Storm-weary Dominican farmers to get RD$2.5B in funding
SANTO DOMINGO.- President Leonel Fernandez instructed the Agricultural Bank to disburse starting today the first RD$1.0 billion of the RD$2.5 billion allocated to recover production of the farms damaged by the spate of storms in the last few months.
Electoral judge rejects unified elections, prefers limiting campaign time
SANTO DOMINGO.- A Central Electoral Board judge today defined the unification of the elections in president Leonel Fernandez's proposal to reform the Constitution an electoral step back, and instead proposed limitations to the electoral campaign period.
Dominican journalist Frank Comarazamy turns 100
Santo Domingo.– Writer and
Union leaders march to business group offices, demand wage increase
SANTO DOMINGO .- The leaders of the Dominican labor union CASC marched to and staged a vigil in front of the National Business Council (Conep) offices, to demand a wage increase, stabilized prices, and consensus between business and unions.
Santo Domingo .- The Dominican Postal Institute (Inposdom) director Modesto Guzman yesterday handed over 150 motorcycles to facilitate the daily work done by postal workers. The handover took place at the Inposdom offices in the Center of the Heroes at 11 a.m.
Dominican riot Police yank protesting doctors out of Health Ministry (Update)
SANTO DOMINGO.- The members of the Dominican Medical Association whom occupied the Public Health Ministry's offices yesterday morning were violently removed early Thursday by riot Police.
La Vega's judges challenge the senator to prove drug allegations
SANTO DOMINGO.- The La Vega Judicial District penal judges yesterday challenged senator Euclides Sanchez to publicly present the evidence that proves their alleged complicity with drug trafficking.
Dominican court starts RD$14B fraud trial against Pedro Castillo
SANTO DOMINGO.- A National District Court on Wednesday heard the initial charges in the criminal trial against Pedro Castillo, accused of fraud RD$14 billion peso when he was president of the Progreso bank and affiliate companies.
Santo Domingo. - Although the hundreds of billions used to ease the U.S. financial crisis makes it without a doubt the greatest financial rescue in history, other bank failures, such as Dominican Republic's in 2003, were relatively higher as to the local Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and fiscal cost.
U.S., Dominican agents seize more than 2 tons of cocaine on the high seas
SANTO DOMINGO.- United States agents helped by Dominican authorities seized 4,250 pounds of cocaine on the high seas, transported on board a boat loaded in a South American country.
Prosecutors want Bani bloodbath suspects behind bars
BANI.- Peravia province Judicial District (south) prosecutors asked the San Cristobal Court of Appeals to revoke a lower court ruling that released on bail two of the suspects in the murders of seven Colombians in Ojo de Agua, Bani.
