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Dominican Government ups basic food subsidies
Senior Dominican bishop favors using scanners to transmit vote results
SANTO DOMINGO.- Dominican Episcopate Conference president Ramon Benito de la Rosa y Carpio said the use of scanners to transmit the voting results on May 16 doesn't endanger the reliability of the elections' final results.
After leaders stampede, 3rd largest Dominican party files purges
SANTO DOMINGO.- Dominican Republic's third largest political party yesterday submitted a resolution to the electoral court to formalize the expulsion of 395 senior leaders and members of that organization, who chose to support president Leonel Fernandez's re-election bid or who left it to join other political groups.
Case of Supreme Court justice's son points to drugs, Dominican Customs chief says
SANTO DOMINGO.- Customs director Miguel Cocco yesterday said he would prefer to resign before concealing a case of contraband or another illicit action, and affirmed that the US$569,412 seized last week from the pilot of a small plane which brought it from Puerto Rico have characteristics of money from drug trafficking.
Penn, Schoen poll: Dominican President would win elections with 56%
Santo Domingo.- Dominican President Leonel Fernandez would win the May 16 elections with 56 percent of the votes in the first ballot, while his closest challenger Miguel Vargas would get 37 percent.
Lawmaker says foreign interests seek to ignore Dominican sovereignty
SANTO DOMINGO.- A veteran lawmaker today said "powerful foreign interests and local accomplices" seek to ignore the State's legislation on nationality, immigration and civil registry, and warned Dominicans to become responsible and militant against what he described as a dangerous antinational maneuver.
Dominican Republic receives US$10 million for protected areas
Dominican President still ahead in polls
Univision's WXTV to cover Dominican presidential elections
Fernandez inaugurates works costing RD$567M in Puerto Plata
PUERTO PLATA.- President Leonel Fernandez headed ribbon-cuttings for several works in this province Thursday, built at a cost of RD$567 million, among them the remodeling of the San Felipe Cathedral and Plaza Independencia park.
A Dominican President meets Mormon leaders for the 1st time
Santo Domingo.- President Leonel Fernandez met Thursday with representatives of Dominican Republic's 105,000 member-strong Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons), in their temple located on Bolivar avenue in this city.
Citizen Forum works to build strong Dominican society
Santo Domingo.- When assuming their Foro Ciudadano (citizen forum) posts, the members of its new Follow-up Committee stress the need for the country to count on a strong civil society and a commitment to with the country's wellbeing, mainly with the most needy and impoverished.
Anti-corruption group seeks to annul Jarabacoa hotel lease
Santo Domingo.- The journalist Marino Zapete filed a complaint in the Justice Ministry to annul the rental contract of the Hotel Montaña, on grounds it violates the State Company Reform Law (141-97).
Fewer Dominican boatpeople try to reach Puerto Rico, Coast Guard says
SANTO DOMINGO.- The United States Coast Guard service reports illegal trips by Dominican boatpeople to Puerto Rico fell 67 percent from October 1, 2004 to April 6, 2008.
Dominican energy chief guarantees power during presidential elections
SANTO DOMINGO.-The vice president of the Dominican State-owned power companies (CDEEE) on Thursday guaranteed that despite the world fuel crisis and the constant rises in the price of oil, there'll be no blackouts during the elections of May 16.
Dominican voters are forced to chose 'least worse, expert says
SANTO DOMINGO.- Abstention in next week's presidential elections will be 27 percent more than in 2004 and Dominican voters will be forced to elect the “least worse, affirmed the political analyst Pedro Catrain yesterday.
As Dominican forests are ravaged, endemic species vanish, ecologists warn
SANTO DOMINGO.- Two prestigious ecologists yesterday warned that Dominican Republic must protect its forests to prevent droughts and the extinction of many endemic species, threatened by the high depredation levels.
Senior Dominican bishop favors using scanners to transmit vote results
SANTO DOMINGO.- Dominican Episcopate Conference president Ramon Benito de la Rosa y Carpio said the use of scanners to transmit the voting results on May 16 doesn't endanger the reliability of the elections' final results.
SANTO DOMINGO.- Dominican Republic's third largest political party yesterday submitted a resolution to the electoral court to formalize the expulsion of 395 senior leaders and members of that organization, who chose to support president Leonel Fernandez's re-election bid or who left it to join other political groups.
Case of Supreme Court justice's son points to drugs, Dominican Customs chief says
SANTO DOMINGO.- Customs director Miguel Cocco yesterday said he would prefer to resign before concealing a case of contraband or another illicit action, and affirmed that the US$569,412 seized last week from the pilot of a small plane which brought it from Puerto Rico have characteristics of money from drug trafficking.
Penn, Schoen poll: Dominican President would win elections with 56%
Santo Domingo.- Dominican President Leonel Fernandez would win the May 16 elections with 56 percent of the votes in the first ballot, while his closest challenger Miguel Vargas would get 37 percent.
Lawmaker says foreign interests seek to ignore Dominican sovereignty
SANTO DOMINGO.- A veteran lawmaker today said "powerful foreign interests and local accomplices" seek to ignore the State's legislation on nationality, immigration and civil registry, and warned Dominicans to become responsible and militant against what he described as a dangerous antinational maneuver.
Dominican Republic receives US$10 million for protected areas
Dominican President still ahead in polls
Fernandez inaugurates works costing RD$567M in Puerto Plata
PUERTO PLATA.- President Leonel Fernandez headed ribbon-cuttings for several works in this province Thursday, built at a cost of RD$567 million, among them the remodeling of the San Felipe Cathedral and Plaza Independencia park.
A Dominican President meets Mormon leaders for the 1st time
Santo Domingo.- President Leonel Fernandez met Thursday with representatives of Dominican Republic's 105,000 member-strong Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons), in their temple located on Bolivar avenue in this city.
Citizen Forum works to build strong Dominican society
Santo Domingo.- When assuming their Foro Ciudadano (citizen forum) posts, the members of its new Follow-up Committee stress the need for the country to count on a strong civil society and a commitment to with the country's wellbeing, mainly with the most needy and impoverished.
Santo Domingo.- The journalist Marino Zapete filed a complaint in the Justice Ministry to annul the rental contract of the Hotel Montaña, on grounds it violates the State Company Reform Law (141-97).
Fewer Dominican boatpeople try to reach Puerto Rico, Coast Guard says
SANTO DOMINGO.- The United States Coast Guard service reports illegal trips by Dominican boatpeople to Puerto Rico fell 67 percent from October 1, 2004 to April 6, 2008.
Dominican energy chief guarantees power during presidential elections
SANTO DOMINGO.-The vice president of the Dominican State-owned power companies (CDEEE) on Thursday guaranteed that despite the world fuel crisis and the constant rises in the price of oil, there'll be no blackouts during the elections of May 16.
Dominican voters are forced to chose 'least worse, expert says
SANTO DOMINGO.- Abstention in next week's presidential elections will be 27 percent more than in 2004 and Dominican voters will be forced to elect the “least worse, affirmed the political analyst Pedro Catrain yesterday.
As Dominican forests are ravaged, endemic species vanish, ecologists warn
SANTO DOMINGO.- Two prestigious ecologists yesterday warned that Dominican Republic must protect its forests to prevent droughts and the extinction of many endemic species, threatened by the high depredation levels.
