- Dominicans Juan Luis Guerra, Pavel Núñez vie for Latin Grammies - 08/09/2010
LOS ANGELES. - The Dominican singer songwriters Juan Luis Guerra and Pavel Núñez will compete in the Latin Grammy Awards prizes, the Latin Recording Academy revealed today.
- Court issues warrant for prosecution witness in Bani murders - 08/09/2010
Santo Domingo.- The National District 3rd Collegiate Court today issued a bench warrant for the arrest of a Prosecution witness in the trial against the 22 defendants in the case of the seven Colombians murder in Paya, Bani (south).
- Venezuela to retain US$30M from US$133M refinery deal - 08/09/2010
SANTO DOMINGO.- Venezuela will retain more than US$30 million from the total pledged to the Dominican Government for the purchase of a 49 percent stake in the country’s only refinery Refidomsa, as payment for oil and derivates supplied to Santo Domingo through the Petrocaribe deal.
- Dominican military chief denies radar glitch, dodges reporters - 08/09/2010
SANTO DOMINGO. - Armed Forces minister Joaquin Perez Felix denied on Wednesday that the radar brought recently from Israel to control the airspace and halt drug airdrops isn’t functioning.
- Non-Profit competes to fund scholarships for Dominican, Haitian youth - 08/09/2010
Santo Domingo.- Yspaniola Incorporated was founded as a non-profit in 2009 with the mission to end the marginalization of impoverished batey communities in the Dominican Republic. Yspaniola’s latest project to fund university scholarships for talented Dominican and Haitian youth seeks to empower young community leaders to make lasting change for their communities.
- Greenpeace responds to BP report - 08/09/2010
Amsterdam.- Responding to BP’s report on the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Tzeporah Berman, head of Greenpeace International Energy Campaign, said:
- Winston Paulino comes home for urban mambo blast - 08/09/2010
Santo Domingo.- The Environment Ministry included merengue singer and composer Winston Paulino to perform urban mambo in its Green Summer concerts staged in the inaugurations of the various Ecological Parks created by the agency.
- Israel’s Ambassador in Dominican Republic grim on mediation’s success - 07/09/2010
Santo Domingo.- Israel Ambassador at Large in the country, Yair Recanati, affirmed Tuesday that the success of US president Barack Obama’s mediation for peace between his nation and Palestine will depend on the latter’s control over the groups opposed to the process in that territory.
- Tropical storm’s remnants to bring showers - 07/09/2010
SANTO DOMINGO.- The National Meteorology Office (Onamet) forecasts scattered showers with thunderstorms and wind gusts in the East, Northeast, Southeast and Central Mountain regions for today Tuesday.
- Liza Minnelli to perform in Santo Domingo, websites report - 07/09/2010
SANTO DOMINGO.- Contemporary music and Broadway legend Liza Minnelli has been invited by the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (Funglode) to perform in Santo Domingo’s National Theater on November 22.
- Upper Manhattan residents attack Dominican politicos’ campaign bus - 07/09/2010
NEW YORK.- Residents Upper Manhattan’s Inwood sector attacked the bus used by the campaigns of the Dominicans Adriano Espaillat and Guillermo Linares, who seek the 31st District Democratic candidacies for State Senate and the Assembly of the 72nd Demarcation, as a result of their high rejection rate, especially the latter’s.
- Current chief, 16 others seek Electoral Board posts - 07/09/2010
Santo Domingo.- The current Electoral Board (JCE) president Julio Cesar Castaños Guzmán formalized his request to the Senate to remain in that entity, along with 16 other candidates.
- Lawmaker wants oil explorations urgently - 07/09/2010
Santo Domingo.- The presidential hopeful of the minority FNP party on Monday proposed a national policy to urgently explore for oil, citing good reasons and important indications to do so without further delay.
- Dominican Republic auto dealers: money launderers, Wild West bandits - 07/09/2010
Santo Domingo.- In a searing response to allegations of “money launderers” voiced by the country’s authorized auto dealers (Acofave), who represent the automakers, the importers of used vehicles grouped in Anadive, Asocivu and Adeci on Monday said “the times of assaults in the West are over,” and hailed the Customs Agency for what they view as upholding the law in the levy of import duties on vehicles.
- Santiago officials’ row over Customs fraud prompts probe - 07/09/2010
Santo Domingo.- Justice minister Radhamés Jiménez yesterday instructed Assistant DAs of the National District and San Cristóbal offices of the Prosecutor to conduct a sweeping investigation of the row between the prosecutor of the Santiago Appellate Court and the prosecutor of that same jurisdiction.
- Anticorruption chief under fire for admitting failure - 07/09/2010
Santo Domingo.- Several personalities have proposed shuttering the Government’s Anti-corruption Department (DPCA) as inoperative and a burden on taxpayers.
- Truck accident kills at least 20 Haitians near Dominican border(UPDATE) - 07/09/2010
Santo Domingo.- As many as 20 Haitians died in an accident of the truck on which they traveled from the Dominican Republic border town DajabĂłn, where they took part in the binational market, local media report..
- Drugs czar asks the U.S., Sobeida Felix to reveal names - 06/09/2010
SANTO DOMINGO.- The Presidency’s Antinarcotics adviser asked the money laundering defendant Sobeida Felix to reveal information on the politicians allegedly linked to the Puerto Rican murder convict and her paramour Jose Figueroa Agosto’s network.
- Customs pact with companies to yield RD$1.3B in revenue by yearend - 06/09/2010
SANTO DOMINGO. - The Customs Agency today signed another agreement through which 28 medium companies included under the Proindustria Law 392-07 agree to "voluntarily yield" and pay the Industrialized Goods and Services Transference Tax (ITBIS) in advance until December 2011.
- Used car importers launder money, authorized dealers say - 06/09/2010
Santo Domingo.- The dealers of the world’s automakers grouped in Acofave denounced that many used car importers have managed to break the law and affirm that the lack of supervision allows some of them to launder money from local sources as well as from abroad.
