New York.- The Dominican Maria Cordones, who attracted investors for the ponzi scheme TelexFree, on Thursday said that at least six of her countrymen have already taken their own lives in the east region near her hometown El Seibo, where there are several hospitalized with heart ailments and high blood pressure....
Santo Domingo.- Defense minister Sigfrido Pared on Friday confirmed that a group of soldiers with assault rifles hijacked a container with 173 packages of cocaine at Haina Port last Sunday, April 13. ...
La Romana, Dominican Republic.- The Office of the Prosecutor investigates a Thursday night shooting that killed a woman when unidentified gunmen allegedly sought to murder Gregorio Vilorio Pérez (Darío Gasolina), owner of the beerhouse Alto Rango, linked by to drug trafficking cases....
Santo Domingo.- The Justice Ministry has received the first two complaints for alleged fraud against the ponzi scheme TelexFree, Anti-money Laundering Unit director Germán Miranda announced Thursday. ...
Santo Domingo.- Colombian national Andrés Berroa (René Martinez Rueda, El Capi), who served five years for the murder of seven people in the Paya drug trafficking case in 2008, was arrested Monday night by the Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) and the U.S. DEA when, trying to smuggle 600 kilos of cocaine aboard a speedboat from South America....
Santo Domingo.- "Stay alert as to where the wind blows. Wait, wait," said former president Leonel Fernández when asked by when he’ill announce his presidential bid for the 2016 elections....
Santo Domingo.- La Vega deputy Radhames Ramos Garcia (El Chino) on Thursday denied having trafficked Chinese nationals into Dominican Republic while head of the Dominican Consulate in Cape Haitien, a case which earned him his nickname....
Santo Domingo.- The Vatican’s envoy to the Dominican Republic has refused to lend that embassy’s facilities for an activity to which the U.S. Ambassador was slated to participate, acento.com.do reports Thursday....
Santo Domingo.- National District 4th Instruction Court judge Ramon Lambertus on Wednesday recused himself from the case against former Public Works minister Víctor Díaz Rúa, for alleged embezzlement and money laundering....
Santo Domingo.- A panel of National District judges will rule on whether to proceed with the criminal charges against former Dominican Agrarian Institute director Jaime Rodríguez Guzmán, his wife and a brother charged with trying to steal the lands including Bahia de las Aguilas, Pedernales province (southwest)....
Santo Domingo.- Justice minister Francisco Domínguez on Thursday vowed to continue to work tirelessly from all departments to protect Jaragua National Park including Bahía de Las Aguilas, as ecological heritage of all Dominicans....
Santo Domingo.- Former president Hipolito Mejia on Wednesday scored sweet revenge against bitter rival Miguel Vargas, who on Tuesday said it "wouldn’t displease me to share the (presidential) ticket with Mejia’s daughter."...
Santo Domingo.- The Education Ministry’s pavilion for the 17th annual international book fair which starts Friday will be the most expensive ever built for such an event, and which builders working in other similar works estimate its cost at more than RD$50 million, though the government refuses to specify it....
Santo Domingo.- Today marks the 49th anniversary of the start of the April 1965 Revolution, one of the most relevant events in Dominican Republic’s history, for which the Caamaño Foundation, named after the revolt’s hero, will commemorate the date with several activities in the capital....
Santo Domingo,- A shipment of around 600 kilos of cocaine was seized Monday night on a speedboat heading to Barahona (south), where the United States Coast Guard, helped by intelligence from various Colombian and Dominican antinarcotics agencies arrested a Colombian and a Dominican....
Santo Domingo.- It was a hot Monday, April 23, 1984, when the slums in the capital and towns of the interior exploded in a grassroots uprising that ended three days later with an official toll at more than 125 people dead, though other sectors placed it as high as 300....
Santo Domingo.- Just when Dominicans thought their lawmakers couldn’t fall any deeper into the quagmire of scandal after the Senate’s “little coffer” and the Deputies “little barrel” slush funds, a report by diariolibre.com reveals that the Lower Chamber’s 190 members received as much as RD$100.0 million to ensure the traditional Easter dish, “habichuela con dulce” (sweetened beans)....
Santo Domingo.- The national weather office (Onamet) forecasts continuing scattered showers from a front over the northwest, accompanied by occasional thunderstorms....
Boca Chica, Dominican Republic.- Opposition PRD party president Miguel Vargas on Tuesday said "it wouldn’t bother me or dislike" as a ticket mate Carolina Mejia, daughter of former president and bitter rival Hipolito Mejia, for the 2016 presidential election....
Santo Domingo.- U.S. Consulate officials will visit Santiago on tomorrow Thursday as part of its anti-fraud campaign “No le Haga Coro al Maco” (don’t sing the toad’s tune)....