Santo Domingo.- One of An Dominican Republic’s leading newspapers affirmed Friday that an audit by the Accounts Chamber of the Insurance Superintendence during the election year of 2008 found various irregularities totalling RD$111.8 million, a figure which escalates the war of words between Diario Libre and the head of that agency, Euclides Gutierrez....
Santo Domingo.- Cell phones thefts are among the most common crimes which occur across the country, especially the Santo Domingo and Santiago metropolitan areas....
New York, NY- Today at noon, NYS Senator Adriano Espaillat, NYS Assembly Member Gabriela Rosa and NYC Council Members Ydanis Rodriguez, Transportation Committee Chair and Mark Levine, Parks Committee Chair will join community leaders and organizations in calling for a major shift in community responsiveness as the US$183.2 million redevelopment of GWB Bus Terminal moves forward....
Santo Domingo.- The Denationalized Peoples Solidarity Committee on Friday stated "victory" with the bill submitted by president Danilo Medina to Congress Thursday to allow mostly Dominicans of Haitian descent to opt for naturalization, local media report....
Santo Domingo.- The National Weather Office (ONAMET) forecasts scattered showers and thunderstorm over mostly mountainous areas and the central part of the country, from a weak trough over the national territory....
Santo Domingo.- The Chamber of Deputies on Friday passed the bill that provides a quick path to Dominican citizenship for persons born in the national territory who figure in the country’s Civil Registry and on naturalization, less than 24 hours after president Danilo Medina submitted it to congress Thursday....
Santo Domingo.- Several Senators on Wednesday railed against what they call an "industry of the hit-men" surging in the Dominican Republic, and asked the Defence Ministry and the National Police to "put them down" those criminals....
Santo Domingo.- A clear majority of Dominican voters, 70% of those surveyed by Penn, Shoen & Berland, agree with a Constitutional reform to allow president Danilo Medina to seek re-election in 2016....
Santo Domingo.- Real estate properties and other belongings worth millions of dollars go on the auction block today, including nine apartments, seven lots, three houses, 11 motor vehicles, luxury watches and a catamaran, seized form money laundering and drug trafficking convicts Quirino Paulino and José Figueroa August....
Santiago.- A pitbull dog mauled a three year-old boy in the highland city of Constanza on Tuesday, La Vega province police announced Wednesday....
Santo Domingo.- Dominican Republic’s Presidency on Thursday submitted to the Chamber of Deputies the draft of the bill that seeks to regularize the status of foreigners living irregularly in the country....
Santo Domingo.- Of the more than 30 real estate and other seized properties place on public auction Thursday, only two drew buyers, forcing the authorities to scrub the bidding on the other items....
SD.- In a ceremony at Defense Ministry headquarters, Dominican Republic’s Border Security Agency (CESFRONT) on Thursday shredded thousands of packs of cigarettes smuggled from Haiti....
Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Government irons out the logistics to start the National Plan to Regularize Foreigners on June 1, National Immigration Council (CNM) president José Ramón Fadul announced Wednesday....
Santo Domingo.- The bill submitted to Congress by the Executive Branch Thursday will benefit the offspring of foreigners born in national territory from June 1929 to April 2007, but registered irregularly in the country’s Civil Registry,...
Santo Domingo.- Interior and Police minister José Ramón Fadul revealed at the National Palace Tuesday that the naturalization bill is the result of a consensus and in the hands of president Danilo Medina to send to Congress. ...
Santo Domingo.- Several specialists call the Public Health Ministry’s work to halt the spread of the chikungunya virus “very timid," and their concern is further stoked by the approaching hurricane season, whose downpours which can aggravate it even more....
Santo Domingo.- Titled “Judge-prosecutor showdown, what you see and what you don't see,” one of Dominican Republic’s most prominent political commentators on Wednesday warned Dominicans that there’s more to the recent row pitting National District prosecutor Yeni Berenice Reynoso against Instruction judge Margarita Cristo....
Santo Domingo.- The National District Office of the Prosecutor on Tuesday subpoenaed former Public Works minister Víctor Díaz Rúa, to face charges of money laundering and embezzlement....
Santo Domingo.- Justice minister Francisco Domínguez on Wednesday came out in defense of the embattled prosecutor of the National District, affirming that the complaint filed by Instruction judge Margarita Cristo against her, "doesn’t have any basis."...