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Santo Domingo.- For the third time in as many months a meeting of the Dominican Republic and Haiti high-level commission has been postponed . It had been scheduled for Thursday morning....

Santo Domingo.- National District prosecutor Yeni Berenice Reynoso on Wednesday voiced what many feel to be true, that Dominican Republic can only be compared with Nobel Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s bizarre town “Macondo.”...

Higuey, Dominican Republic.- One person dead, five wounded and more than one dozen arrests thus far from the violent protests in Higuey, Altagracia province, as part of a 48-hour shutdown in demand for social works....

Santo Domingo.- The ever-widening scandal unleashed by National District prosecutor Yeni Berenice Reynoso’s accusation that an Instruction Court judge took a US$2.0 million bribe from a drug trafficker took a strange twist Wednesday, when the Court of Appeals revealed that judge Margarita Cristo filed the complaint against Reynoso without evidence ...

Santo Domingo.- National District Instruction judge Margarita Cristo on Tuesday announced her withdrawal from the embezzlement case against former Public Works minister Víctor Díaz Rúa, and charged National District prosecutor Yeni Berenice Reynoso with contempt of court, claiming she had been disrespected on her bench, including Reynoso accusing her of taking US$2.0 million from Puerto Rican kingpin...

Santo Domingo.- National District prosecutor Yeni Berenice Reynoso on Friday called the justice system corrupt and that she has experienced it from within, mostly from the pressures she affirms having received for taking on the embezzlement case against former Public Works minister Victor Diaz Rua, a close collaborator of Leonel Fernandez, former president and head of the ruling PLD party....

Santo Domingo.- Relatives of the four men shot dead Saturday by a police patrol on Sunday denied they were "contract killers" as the National Police affirms, and demand a wider investigation. ...

Santo Domingo.- Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez on Monday said an "evil conspiracy" of nations and political and economic powers aim to humiliate the Dominican Republic on issues related to Haiti....

Santo Domingo.- The National Weather Office (Onamet) forecasts scattered showers with thunderstorms for all regions except the East, from a trough over the north coast,....

Santo Domingo.- The mayor of the rebuilt village at Boca de Cachón on Tuesday warned of irregularities in the census to distribute the government-built houses at Nueva Boca de Cachón....

Santo Domingo.- National District Instruction Court judge Margarita Cristo Cristo, who handles the request to drop the embezzlement and money-laundering charges against former Public Works minister Victor Diaz Rua, on Tuesday declined to respond to National District prosecutor’s challenge of her hearing the case....

Santo Domingo.- Supreme Court of chief justice Mariano German on Tuesday revealed an investigation into Instruction court judge Margarita Cristo, in the wake of allegations she has released major drug traffickers and her public dispute with National District prosecutor Yeni Berenice Reynoso....

Santo Domingo.- National District Instruction judge Margarita Cristo on Tuesday announced her withdrawal from the embezzlement case against former Public Works minister Víctor Díaz Rúa, and charged National District prosecutor Yeni Berenice Reynoso with contempt of court, claiming she had been disrespected on her bench, including Reynoso accusing her of taking US$2.0 million from Puerto Rican kingpin...

Santo Domingo.– Cuba’s Sexual Education Center (Cenesex) director Mariela Castro said that Cuba's HIV prevalence is 0.1% percent, which makes the neighboring island one of the countries with the lowest rates in Latin America and the Caribbean. Castro Espin praised the work of the HIV-AIDS Council (Conavihsida), directed by Dr. Victor Terrero, but said that a single entity can not change reality, concerning...

Santo Domingo.– National Police agents yesterday killed four alleged hitmen who were preparing to execute the task of killing two suspected drug traffickers in Lucerna, Santo Domingo East. According to a police report, the incident occurred in the afternoon at the corner of Charles de Gaulle anevue and Simon Orozco, in the Invivienda sector.The dead contract killers, Ruben Dario Amador Arias, Rafael...

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Santo Domingo.– Dominican authorities resumed the search for ...

Santo Domingo.– The binational talks between the Dominican Republic and Haiti were postponed for the fourth time at Venezuela’s request, ...

Santo Domingo.- Six Haitians drowned near Andres, Boca Chica (east) Thursday when a boat capsized with 24 other undocumented immigrants headed to Puerto Rico....

Santo Domingo.- The Justice Ministry on Thursday demanded that Seized Assets Custody Office director Laureano Guerrero release, under inventory, the remaining properties confiscated from drug traffickers and money launders as soon as possible....