Unions warn of walkout as wage talks stall
Source: Dominican Today
Santo Domingo :: Dominican Republic | updated 2013-05-07 13:58:54 -0700 | disasters-news
Tuesday announced they'll cut off talks with employers unless they make a counteroffer to their demands of a wage hike. Rafael Pepe- Abreu said their only hope for a 30% wage increase is Congress, for which they're asking lawmakers to...
Barrick Gold ships US$496M since Dominican leader's warning
Source: Dominican Today
Cotuí :: Dominican Republic | updated 2013-04-30 13:00:22 -0700 | disasters-news
From: Dominican Republic, United States Medina can not bark like a chihuahua, and not follow up with a nasty bite in the ankles. If he would hold the shipments then they would deal, there is still time, since the famous...
Agents seize transgenic marijuana mailed from the U.S.
Source: Dominican Today
Puerto Plata :: Dominican Republic | updated 2013-04-30 13:00:20 -0700 | disasters-news
Tuesday said it seized transgenic marijuana plants mailed to a man deported from the U.S. for drug trafficking and now living in Higuey (east). It said the drug was sent to ex con Teofilo Antonio Zorrilla, deported from the U.S...Zorrilla...
Industries call recent protests unjustified vandalism
Source: Dominican Today
Santo Domingo :: Dominican Republic | updated 2013-04-25 14:49:26 -0700 | disasters-news
Thursday called the recent protests across the country vandalism, affirming that there're no situations in the towns to justify such demonstrations. Ligia Bonetti and vice president Circe Almanzar said the protests in various parts of the country haven't harmed the...
Deputy convicted of statutory rape is back in Congress
Source: Dominican Today
Santo Domingo :: Dominican Republic | updated 2013-04-23 16:14:24 -0700 | disasters-news
Santo Domingo.- The Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday reinstated deputy Ramon A. Fernandez, after the legislator served six months in prison on a statutory rape conviction, The Santiago Rodriguez province lawmaker served his one year prison sentence in Najayo on...
Police arrest 3 in murder of 2 brothers near bank in upscale sector
Source: Dominican Today
Santo Domingo :: Dominican Republic | updated 2013-04-23 16:03:18 -0700 | disasters-news
Three people were apprehended Monday in connection with the assault and murder of two brothers, after they withdrew RD$228,000 from a bank in the upscale sector Bella Vista last week. Danilo Antonio Paulino (El Trepador), 21; Bladimir Diaz Lopez (El...
UASD: Protests At University Bring Injury, Death
Source: Epoch Times
Santo Domingo :: Dominican Republic | updated 2013-04-23 11:08:10 -0700 | disasters-news
Protests on a Santo Domingo State University campus have been ramping up. A police officer died after being shot in the face, and a student and possibly others were injured during demonstrations at the university on April 23, according to...
Dominican Republic needs a US$10.0B energy fix, top official warns
Source: Dominican Today
Santo Domingo :: Dominican Republic | updated 2013-04-18 14:36:37 -0700 | disasters-news
He said US$1.2 billion are needed just on the power lines and transformers of the grid, "which should've been changed more than 50 years ago." Jimenez Bichara said it's time to design a comprehensive plan with all the sector actors:...
Robbers shoot and kill man in upscale sector
Source: Dominican Today
Santo Domingo :: Dominican Republic | updated 2013-04-16 12:39:19 -0700 | disasters-news
Santo Domingo.- One man was shot and killed and his brother seriously wounded in a spectacular robbery around 11:30am Tuesday in the exclusive sector of Bella Vista, where investigators seek clues to the whereabouts of at least two robbers who...
Agents seized 279Ks of cocaine is operation left one smuggler dead
Source: Dominican Today
Santo Domingo :: Dominican Republic | updated 2013-04-12 23:36:02 -0700 | disasters-news
Navy announced Friday morning the confiscation of 279 kilos of cocaine, part of a haul thrown overboard by three men near Boca Chica on Thursday, when one them drowned after jumping in the water with his two companions...Dominican Abraham Aquino...
Needle exchange bill inching forward in the Florida Legislature
Source: Miami Herald
Santo Domingo :: Dominican Republic | updated 2013-04-02 17:28:54 -0700 | disasters-news
Florida legislators are considering a bill to allow needle exchanges as a way to curb HIV, hepatitis and other blood diseases among injection drug users. If approved, a five-year pilot program would be based in Miami-Dade. Two Dominican Republic maids...
16 dead, 11 rescued after boat of migrants capsizes
Source: Fox
Islamabad :: Pakistan | updated 2012-04-06 06:33:29 -0700 | political-news
DE LA MAR, Dominican Republic Sixteen bodies have been recovered and 11 people have been rescued in waters off this coastal town after an overloaded boat carrying migrants from the Dominican Republic capsized, rescue officials said Sunday. Adolfo Javier,...
Amnesty deplores police abuse in Dominican Republic
Source: Reuters
Santo Domingo :: Dominican Republic | updated 2012-01-22 19:24:57 -0800 | political-news
Analysis & Opinion Dominican Republic police officers take part in a military parade in Santo Domingo February 27, 2011. Dominican Republic celebrated the 167th anniversary of independence from Haiti. Amnesty International issued a scathing report on the Dominican Republic on...
Hoteliers warn against cutting Tourism Ministry’s budget
Source: Dominican Today
Santo Domingo :: Dominican Republic | updated 2011-11-24 00:10:34 -0800 | business-news
Smaller Bigger Hoteliers warn against cutting Tourism Ministry's budget Julio Llibre...President Leonel Fernandez to review the decision to keep the Tourism Ministry's budget for next year unchanged since 2005, at around RD$900.0 million. It said keeping Tourism's budget the...
Ramifications in official’s murder rocks Dominican Republic
Source: Dominican Today
Santo Domingo :: Dominican Republic | updated 2011-11-22 02:26:03 -0800 | sports-news
Rolando Rosado affirmed Wednesday noon that vehicle theft was the motive behind the murder of his assistant, Army colonel Cesar Augusto Ubri, gunned down Sunday night in the sector Las Praderas, in the capital. The crime's unprecedented ramifications have stupefied...
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