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  • Dominican merchants close key border market in protest over Haiti ban of poultry egg imports

    SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- Merchants in the Dominican Republic have shuttered a large border market in protest over neighboring Haiti's ban on poultry and egg imports. The Dajabon market was closed Monday seeking to pressure Haiti to drop the ban. A Dominican board says the country sells about 25 million eggs and 8 million chickens to Haiti every month. Early in June, Haiti said ...

  • Dominican President AES Corp. CEO meet in the National Palace

    Santo Domingo.- AES Corporation CEO and President, Andrs Gluski, met today at the National Palace with President Danilo Medina and Vice President of CDEEE, Rubn Bichara, to announce the platform expansion plan of the company in the Dominican Republic. This expansion, which will be developed by AES, the Government and other strategic partners, involves over a billion dollars in the next five ...

  • Medina asks industrialists “what’s your effort”

    San Cristobal, Dominican Republic.- During president Danilo Medina's now traditional surprise visits on Sunday, he called on the San Cristobal Industrial Park cluster to make a greater sacrifice, when its beneficiaries asked him for the steel buildings, a power plant, money to purchase machinery and working capital. "You cannot ask the government to pay for the warehouses, to give ...

  • UN’s Valerie Julliand leaves with fondness for Dominicans

    Santo Domingo.- UN Program for Development (UNDP) coordinator Valerie Julliand called Dominicans a working, hospitable and caring people, with an extraordinary desire to progress and develop. The UN official, who is leaving after concluding her tenure in the country, said she'll always remember Dominican Republic's solidarity as a nation to help the Haitian people in 2010 when the ...

  • Haiti ban shows Hispaniola commission’s lack of clout on trade rows

    Santo Domingo.- The row unleashed by Haiti's ban on Dominican eggs and poultry has shed light on the Joint Dominican-Haitian Bilateral Commission's lack of clout in the current disputes among the two Hispaniola island nations, despite being "two wings of the same bird." The row also shows both countries' weakness toward dialogue and the bungled handling of their ...

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The Bourne Legacy

The Bourne Legacy is not so much a reboot of the genre-redefining series of espionage thrillers as it is an offshoot, a breakneck turn into a parallel universe that overlaps just enough with the last film narratively, thematically, and aesthetically to make them feel as if ... ...

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  • Four-hour meeting fails to lift Haiti ban on Dominican products

    Santo Domingo -After meeting for more than four hours, the Haitian and Dominican authorities failed to reach an agreement to lift the ban on poultry and eggs imports. FILE. Haiti Foreign minister Pierre Richard Casimir and Dominican counterpart Carlos Morales are in a closed-door talks since 12: 20pm, looking to lift the ban of Dominican egg and chicken exports to the neighboring country. To ...

  • Agents nab “highly dangerous” Iranian wanted in France

    Santo Domingo.- Iranian national Larki Ashtari, wanted in France on burglaries, grand theft and kidnappings was arrested in the city Wednesday, by National Investigation Department (DNI) agents. The DNI called Ashtari a highly dangerous criminal who entered Dominican Republic from Paris, via Punta Cana Airport on July 21, 2012, returning to that nation on September 15 of that year. It said the ...

  • Alleged killer victim’s daughter found on Web extradited to NYC

    New York.- Dominican Justo de los Santos shot compatriot Jose Martinez twice in the chest killing him on November 22, 1986 , and was arrested in Miami after the victim's daughter searched for him since 2006. He was extradited to New York on Friday. The suspect, 43, who was 16 when he killed Martinez 26 years ago, was working as in Florida where he settled after fleeing Upper Manhattan to ...

  • What to do when a loved one dies

    Whether it's expected or accidental, the death of a loved one can shake you to the core. The last thing you want is to have to interrupt grieving to deal with mundane tasks, but unfortunately there are many actions that must be done on behalf of the deceased. Some must be taken immediately, while with others you can take your time and reflect on the best path to follow. Here's a ...

  • Canadians in Dominican post-wedding fight face jail $100K fines

    Stacey Vernon and her new husband, Nick Miele, just hours before he was arrested after a fight at the Bahia Principe Esmeralda resort in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. (Courtesy Vernon ...

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