Dominican News

Transparency and Justice calls Dominican Social Security “ruthless"

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 15:31:00 GMT
SANTO DOMINGO. - The Justice and Transparency Foundation (FJT) on Friday railed the Social Security System as a “ruthless fund raising machinery at the service of the factual powers, becoming a sort of white elephant characterized by injustice, exclusion, lack of information and little transparency in its actions."

Southwest charcoal traffickers get jail time, lose truck

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 14:33:00 GMT
Santo Domingo. - Agents of the Environment Ministry Bahoruco Province office made two arrests for the illegal transport of 148 sacks of charcoal, said Army major general Francisco Ventura.

Fernandez heads Funglode Awards ceremony

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 13:48:00 GMT
Santo Domingo. - President Leonel Fernandez headed the Funglode (Global Foundation Democracy and Development) 2011 Awards ceremony Wednesday night, in the categories poetry, essay, story, journalism, photography and documentary.

Top road toll scandal continues, group wants answers

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 13:23:00 GMT
Santo Domingo. - Justice and Transparency Foundation (FJT) president Trajano Potentini yesterday called the Government's 30 year concession contract with roads builder and concessioner company Codacsa, “leonine, harmful and injurious" to the national interest.

Mild tamps continue, widely scattered showers possible

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 12:48:00 GMT
Santo Domingo.- The National Meteorology Office (ONAMET) for Thursday forecasts widely scattered showers for the northeast, southeast and Central Mountains, brought by a weakening high pressure system, which along with the prevailing east-northeast wind continues to influence the weather.

Colonial Zone hospital gets US$15.0M revamp

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 12:32:00 GMT
Santo Domingo.- President Leonel Fernandez yesterday unveiled the Colonial Zone's Padre Billini hospital, rebuilt at a cost of US$15.0 million and noted that the work will benefit the health of thousands of people from greater Santo Domingo and different parts of the country.

Millions in seized fireworks go up in smoke

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 19:09:00 GMT
Santo Domingo.- The Interior and Police Ministry on Friday incinerated 3.1 million pieces of fireworks, of the 5.3 million seized from various businesses nationwide during yearend festivities.

Local man extradited to South Carolina faces charges in wife's murder

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 15:08:00 GMT
Santo Domingo. - A Dominican wanted for allegedly shooting his wife to death was extradited to the United States last night, to face charges of “intentional and premeditated murder" in Hill Rock, South Carolina, the National Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) announced today.

Attackers gun down Antinarcotics agent

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:38:00 GMT
Santo Domingo.- An Antinarcotics (DNCD) agent was gunned down by unidentified attackers 10am Thursday, jus a few minutes after the victim left his house in Santo Domingo East.

Friday marks 39 years since Caamaño's failed revolt against repression

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 19:24:00 GMT
Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. - On February 3, 1973, or 39 years ago nine men headed by the head of the 1065 Revolution, colonel Francisco Alberto Caamaño, disembarked at Caracoles beach in southwester Azua, in a mission to unleash a guerrilla movement to confront then president Joaquin Balaguer's repressive regime.

Police to oversee burials after gang leader's raucous funeral

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 18:27:00 GMT
Santo Domingo.- Police chief Jose A. Polanco today announced he'll order all commanders and supervisors nationwide to oversee the funerals of known gang members killed by its agents, to prevent situations such as Wednesday's when an alleged gang leader was buried with booze and guns in his coffin.

Massachusetts man faces rape, murder charges in Rosana Camilo's death, boston.com reports

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 17:18:00 GMT
Santo Domingo.- A man from Roxbury, Massachusetts faces rape and murder charges in the death of Dominican woman Rosana Camilo, who relatives say had moved to Boston to get medical care for her son, boston.com reports.

Boatpeople mishap in Samana, several injured, arrests

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 15:34:00 GMT
Samana, Dominican Republic.- Navy sailors and other military arrested a group in Samaná, from where they tried to reach Puerto Rico illegally in a yola type boat that ran aground in the Mona Passage, with two people of them hospitalized with various injuries.