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Santo Domingo.- The National Office Weather –Onamet- forecasts widely scattered showers across the Dominican Republic today and into the weekend, with low probability of precipitation...

Santo Domingo.- Pro-government PRSC party leader Humberto Salazar on Friday asked the Banks Superintendent to disclose the list of people with defaulted loans from the State-owned National Housing Bank (BNV) and to appraise properties placed as collateral, in the heels of the scandal at the entity headed by PRSC president Federico Antun (Quiqui)....

MERIDA, Mesico.- President Danilo Medina on Wednesday said Dominican Republic recognizes that climate change is one of the most serious threats in the world today....

Santo Domingo.- The country faces a chikungunya epidemic, Public Health minister Freddy Hidalgo warned Wednesday and demanded that various City councils improve their trash collection to eliminate mosquito breeding sites....

Managua. – The head of Russia’s federal antinarcotics agency reiterated in Managua Tuesday his country’s willingness to collaborate with Central America –including Dominican Republic- in training agents to fight drug trafficking, AFP reports....

Washington.- Costa Rica and Uruguay are still the only two Latin American countries with a free press in 2013, according to the annual report on the freedom of expression by Freedom House....

Santo Domingo.- On International Labor Day, hundreds of workers of the country’s major labor unions set off from the barrio Villa Juana toward the National Palace Wednesday morning, to protest against efforts to amend the labor code and to demand better conditions....

Barahona, Dominican Republic.- Dominican Republic has advanced the draft leading to a trade agreement to be signed with Haiti at the high-level meeting on Tuesday....

Santo Domingo.- On May 16 a National District panel court will hear a defense motion to drop the criminal charges against former Dominican Agrarian Institute director Jaime Rodríguez Guzman, accused of forging titles to steal the lands surrounding the 7-kilomenter beach at Bahia de las Aguilas (southwest)....

Santo Domingo.- With the vote of most of the deputies, Senate president Reinaldo Pared made good on his promise, as ruling PLD party presidential hopeful, to used car importers to raise the import limit on used vehicles from 5 to 7 years....

Santo Domingo.- Several of the killings reported in the last few days are likely not the work of common thugs, which often occur during assaults or gang turf wars....

Santo Domingo.- The Environment Ministry on Tuesday announced the halt to the extraction of sand and other construction aggregates from the Yasica River, northern Espaillat province....

Santo Domingo.- Italian mobster Nicola Pignatelli, one of his...

Santo Domingo.- "It’s unfortunate that an individual who’s been sentenced to 30 years for murder, and is also charged with committing other crimes, was released to commit another heinous crime," said National Police chief Manuel Castro Wednesday in reference to the murder of a Public Health Ministry official in front of his niece at a school in the Luperón district Tuesday....

Santo Domingo.- A senior leader of the conservative pro-government FNP on Wednesday affirmed that powerful sectors linked to Haiti’s Government and international NGOs pressure the Civil Court at Monte Plata (east) which hears the case of the birth certificate of Juliana Deguis, to obtain a ruling which in his view would challenge the Constitutional Court’s authority on nationality....

Washington.- The heads of the United States Southern...

Moca, Dominican Republic.- Immigration inspectors, police agents and officials of the Office of the Prosecutor arrested around a dozen Haitian nationals in various towns of Espaillat province over the weekend, in connection with the insult to the Dominican flag by a group of the foreigners while a dancing a ritual known as ga-ga, that was filmed by a bystander....

Santo Domingo.- British ambassador Steven Fisher on Monday called the work by the National Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) "formidable" with timely and permanent confiscation of drug shipments and dismantling international crime networks, which in his view have stunned the South American cartels’ operations iin his country and other European nations....

Santo Domingo.- The Justice Ministry’s high tech crimes unit and the Police high tech investigation Dept. (DICAT) on Monday conducted raids on cell-phone stores in the Capotillo and Villa Francisca barrios and on Duarte Av., where they seized thousands of mobile devices and made 23 arrests....

Santo Domingo.- National District Sentencing judge...