Dominican News

European Union hails presidential election

Tue, 22 May 2012 19:38:00 GMT
Santo Domingo. - The European Union (UE) on Tuesday hailed the staging of a "peaceful" and "orderly" presidential election in Dominican Republic and congratulated the winner, ruling party candidate Danilo Medina, said chief diplomat Catherine Ashton in Brussels, reported by Efe.

“Very good and positive" polls, observers say

Tue, 22 May 2012 12:26:00 GMT
Santo Domingo. - “Very good and positive" were Sunday's elections for which the Dominican people must be congratulated for the civism and the Central Electoral Board (JCE) for staging the process, according to the international observers, who also criticized the use of taxpayers money to buy voter IDs, and what they called an excessive number of people inside and outside the polling places.

The vote count is in: 29% didn't cast ballots

Tue, 22 May 2012 11:54:00 GMT
Santo Domingo. - A bit more than 29% of the 6.5 million eligible voters didn't do so in Sunday's presidential elections, and 4.6 million did, or 70.2%.

President elect reaches out to defeated rival

Tue, 22 May 2012 11:34:00 GMT
Santo Domingo.- After his electoral win Danilo Medina's main goal is a wide reaching pact with Dominican Republic's opposition party, PRD, for which he invited its defeated ex candidate Hipólito Mejía to work together and solve the problems which all sectors must deal with to reach progress, development and the nation's transformation.

Venezueala, Puerto Rico congratulate the President elect

Mon, 21 May 2012 19:18:00 GMT
Santo Domingo. - The chief executives of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, and Puerto Rico's Luis Fortuño today congratulated the Dominican people and ruling PLD party president elect Danilo Medina for the win victory in Sunday's elections.

OAS lauds Dominicans for voting turnout

Mon, 21 May 2012 17:35:00 GMT
Santo Domingo.- The Organization of American States Electoral Observers Mission (MOE/OAS) lauded Dominican Republic's citizens on Monday for the massive turnout to the polls during the presidential election day.

Losing candidate's supporters await his position on poll results

Tue, 22 May 2012 15:57:00 GMT
Santo Domingo.- Dozens of people are converging at the opposition PRD party campaign headquarters in the Naco sector, where they await ex candidate Hipólito Mejía to state his position on Sunday's elections, which official figures give him 46.94% of the votes in the losing bid.

The US Embassy congratulates the next President

Tue, 22 May 2012 15:32:00 GMT
Santo Domingo.- The United States Embassy congratulated Danilo Medina as president elect from Sunday's polling and called the process “generally open, free and fair."

It's time the president elect starts keeping campaign promises

Tue, 22 May 2012 15:21:00 GMT
Santo Domingo.- The Justice and Transparency Foundation (FJT) expects president elect Danilo Medina to keep his campaign promises in his program for government, but called on the opposition to be firm and critical, to in their view bolster Dominican democracy.

Widely scattered showers, high temperatures

Tue, 22 May 2012 14:21:00 GMT
Santo Domingo. - The National Meteorology Office (Onamet) forecasts seasonably high temperatures and scattered showers for Tuesday afternoon, from the offshore wind.

Haiti leader becomes region's 4th to congratulate Medina

Tue, 22 May 2012 14:00:00 GMT
Port-au-Prince.- President Joseph Martelly congratulated President elect Danilo Medina Tuesday for winning last Sunday's elections, becoming the region's fourth leader to do so.

Losing candidate still counts the votes

Tue, 22 May 2012 13:34:00 GMT
Santo Domingo.- The ex presidential candidate of Dominican Republic's major opposition party (PRD) yesterday said he's still tallying the affidavits sent Sunday by the polling places to compare them with those from the PRD delegates, prior to issuing a statement.

Dominican Republic is a “warehouse" for US-bound drugs

Tue, 22 May 2012 13:19:00 GMT
San Juan.- Rising police pressure along the Mexican border is forcing Colombian drugs to seek alternate routes such as the Caribbean, where Puerto Rico has become one of the major access doors to the U.S., says a report cited Efe which calls Dominican Republic a narcotics “warehouse."