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Santo Domingo.- Justice minister Francisco Dominguez Brito issued a statement saying it was just and positive for the Vatican to ...

Santo Domingo.- The PRD Economics Department director Yvan Rodriguez said Tuesday that before continuing the dizzying run of public debt or trying to create new taxes, the government should reduce and rationalize public expenditure policy. Rodriguez, quoted by elnuevodiario.com.do, pointed out that neither the people nor the productive consumer and commercial sectors are able to assimilate new taxes,...

Puerto Plata, DR.- Police authorities reported today that ten inmates escaped this morning from the prison at the National Police headquarters in Puerto Plata, in Dominican Republic's nothern region. The prisoners, whose identity is still unhown, broke the prison bars with a hacksaw. All of them are on remand and some are minors. They were in the same cell.General Romer Lopez said the police launched...

Santo Domingo.- The Chamber of Deputies approved in two consecutive readings Tuesday night the bill that declares Loma Miranda a National Park, the same bill that was modified by the Senate...

Santo Domingo.- President Danilo Medina met Monday with a ...

Santo Domingo.- The National Meteorology Office (Onamet) forecasts scattered showers accompanied by electrical storms and gusts of wind over the ...

Santo Domingo.- Despite reporting a month ago that chikungunya fever cases were declining in the Dominican Republic, the latest figures from the Public Health Ministry reveal that nearly half a million persons haven been affected by the disease in the country.Quoted by Diario Libre, Public Health minister Freddy Hidalgo said that with the 13,336 new suspected cases of the chikungunya virus registered...

Santo Domingo.- Dominican Republic’s Land Court on Monday ruled to void all land titles in the hands of individuals for southwestern Bahia de las Aguilas beach, at the core of the country’s biggest land fraud case ever....

Santo Domingo.- The request for an injunction against president Danilo Medina and U.S. ambassador James W. Brewster was declared inadmissible today by judge Danilo Ceballos, from the Second Chamber of the National District Civil and Commercial Appellate Cour. Christian Church of Salvation pastor Eusebio Arismendy Debord had filed the request at the National District Civil Court, claiming that Brewster’s...

Santo Domingo.- President Danilo Medina on Friday signed into Law legislation approved by Congress Wednesday which expedites naturalization and grants nationality to offspring of foreigners irregularly enrolled in Dominican Reublic’s Civil Registy....

Santo Domingo.- A senior member of Dominican Republic’s ruling PLD party on Friday slammed his organization’s top echelon the Political Committee for in his view increasingly degrading it into a party of the system, "without the dreams needed toward a more just society with solidarity."...

Santo Domingo.- A National District Court on Friday acquitted former Dominican Agrarian Institute (IAD) director Jaime Rodríguez Guzmán, his brother Rafael Antonio and his wife Reina Margarita Martinez, citing the Statute of Limitations in the Bahía de las Águilas land fraud case....

Santo Domingo.- Just two weeks after the scandal with taxpayers money to pay cronies for the traditional Easter dish “sweet beans,” the lower Chamber 190 deputies’ will this time receive a cool RD$176.0 million in appliances and other gifts to hand out during Mother's Day on Sunday....

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Santo Domingo.- Prosecutors on Thursday motioned Dominican Republic’s Land Court to annul all real estate transfers, transactions, boundaries, subdivisions and any operation obtained through forged documents or other illegal action involving Bahia de las Aguilas (southwest) since 1990....

Santo Domingo.- The UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the International Labor Organization (ILO) on Thursday warns that sluggish economic growth could affect unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean, where the urban unemployment rate has fallen from 6.4% in 2012 to 6.2% in 2013....

Geneva.- The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay on Friday praised the approval of the law which makes it easier to obtain the Dominican nationality but, warned the country that it will be “watchful” as to what “happens next,” EFE reports....

Santo Domingo.- Embattled National District judge Margarita Cristo Thursday night set bail at RD$500,000 to release controversial plastic surgeon Edgar Contreras, again charged with malpractice by one of his many patients....