Provides the latest RSS feeds for Dominican Republic News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Caribbean Herald.com http://www.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/10/id/c46827fffedda695/ en-us Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:52:38 -0500 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:52:38 -0500 30 A United Nations-backed census has been launched in the Dominican Republic to improve to the lives of hundreds of refugees and asylum-seekers. http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203314865/cs/1/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:16:46 -0500 U.N. - Humanitarian Aid, Refugees http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203314865/cs/1/ Santo Domingo, Feb 7 (Prensa Latina) A network of drug traffickers who sent drugs to Puerto Rico, was dismantled in the east of the Dominican Republic. The National Drug Control Office (DNCD) ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203317077/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:05:09 -0500 Prensa Latina http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203317077/ Sabana de la Mar, Dominican Republic.- Rescuers found the bodies of two women and a man noon Monday, two of which couldn't be identified because of their advanced decomposition. The number of ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203317901/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:39:02 -0500 Dominican Today http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203317901/ SANTO DOMINGO.- "I've neither signed any request for a pardon, nor have I authorized anybody else to do so in my name. Apparently, I was included by error, because I would hate to think ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203317902/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:39:00 -0500 Dominican Today http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203317902/ NEW YORK.- Federal authorities have charged a Dominican man and woman of defrauding the IRS out of millions, and face as much as 75 years in prison if found guilty. Carlos de Leon and Judith ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203317900/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:38:59 -0500 Dominican Today http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203317900/ Santo Domingo.- Manuel Arturo Pellerano and Andres Aybar Bez, convicted of fraud in two of the country's three worst ever bank failures, figure on a list with 371 inmates who've asked a ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203315645/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:38:57 -0500 Dominican Today http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203315645/ SANTO DOMINGO.- Several months of griping by the opposition PRD party on the designation of Franklin Frias as head of the Central Electoral Board's (JCE) Informatics center came to an Monday ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203317903/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:38:56 -0500 Dominican Today http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203317903/ Santo Domingo.- Barrick Corporation president and CEO Aaron Regent arrived in the country Tuesday to tour the miners' operations in the Pueblo Viejo (central) gold mine, in its final stage of ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203316053/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:38:52 -0500 Dominican Today http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203316053/ Dominican Republic , which soon will house the country's largest baseball academy when the team completes its 50-acre complex. Ricketts toured the building site in La Gina, which will be a ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203317895/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:03:27 -0500 General Sources http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203317895/ SANTO DOMINGO, Feb 6 (Reuters) Dominican officials are investigating the capsizing of an overloaded immigrant smuggling boat that left 17 people dead and another 20 or more missing off the Dominican ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203317897/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:03:22 -0500 General Sources http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203317897/ Going into today’s final day of competition, the Dominican Republic had already clinched the 2012 Caribbean Series championship. The Dominican team won its first four games in the CS then ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203317896/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:03:21 -0500 General Sources http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203317896/ Vogue contributing editor Lauren Santo Domingo, is in transition. Once accessible only via application, the year-old site is opening its doors and bolstering its content offerings in an attempt to ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203317898/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:03:17 -0500 General Sources http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203317898/ SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The number of victims who died after a boat overloaded with migrants capsized this weekend near the Dominican Republic has risen to 21, officials said ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203317899/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:02:58 -0500 General Sources http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203317899/ COTUI, Dominican Republic. - President Leonel Fernandez on Tuesday defended the Government's contract with the miner Barrick Gold, which is poised to extract gold in Pueblo Viejo, Cotui ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203307452/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:42:29 -0500 Dominican Today http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203307452/ Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Navy announced the arrest Monday of the captain of the makeshift boat (yola) that sank with 55 people on board in Saman bay Friday. It said David Cepeda Calcao is a ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203309695/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:42:28 -0500 Dominican Today http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203309695/ SANTO DOMINGO.- The Executive Branch today hosted the official opening of the final evaluation workshop of the Participatory Anti-Corruption Initiative (IPAC) to mark at this stage the ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203309694/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:42:27 -0500 Dominican Today http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203309694/ The Caribbean often provides families with their first taste of the tropics, within the safe confines of resorts that offer all the requisite comforts (kids' clubs, watersports, a variety of ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203307988/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:07:27 -0500 The Independent http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203307988/ Santo Domingo. - The National Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) yesterday busted an international drug trafficking ring based in the country's icon resort Casa de Campo, La Romana (east), seized 122 ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203302379/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:35:37 -0500 Dominican Today http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203302379/ Santo Domingo.- The high pressure system over the Atlantic coast continues to limit cloud formation and rain activity, but some widely scattered showers can be expected in the northeast, southeast ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203302380/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:35:36 -0500 Dominican Today http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203302380/ Santo Domingo.- The vice president and spokesman of the prominent Institutionalism and Foundation Justice (Finjus) on Monday said it would be healthful for the electoral process if the First Lady ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203302381/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:35:35 -0500 Dominican Today http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203302381/ SAN FRANCISCO DE MACORIS. In the midst of pain and sorrow of relatives and friends, yesterday in San Francisco de Macoris and in Nagua, they buried seven bodies of the shipwreck last weekend of a ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203302382/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:35:24 -0500 Diario Libre http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203302382/ SD. The National Directorate for Drug Control (DNCD) reported that yesterday it busted up a gang of drug traffickers that sent drugs to Puerto Rico and arrested 29 persons, among them five Puerto ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203302383/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:35:23 -0500 Diario Libre http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203302383/ SANTO DOMINGO. The Pardon Commission has received hundreds of case files of persons that hope to be granted a pardon next 27 February, and be set free.In the majority, the request have come from ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203302386/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:35:21 -0500 Diario Libre http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203302386/ SD. The Association of Young Entrepreneurs (ANJE) confirmed yesterday that they have set April as the date of the first debate of presidential candidates ever carried out in the country, with the ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203302385/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:35:20 -0500 Diario Libre http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203302385/ SD. After several months of contradiction over the appointment of Franklin Frias in the director's position of the Computer Center at the Central Electoral Board, the presidents of the ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203302384/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:35:19 -0500 Diario Libre http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203302384/ CARACAS, February 7 (Itar-Tass) - Twenty-nine people were arrested in a large-scale anti-drug operation in the Dominican Republic on Monday, and 17 of them are referred to as "Russians," ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203296665/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:42:27 -0500 Itar Tass http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203296665/ CARACAS, Venezuela--An eight-nation bloc of Latin American and Caribbean countries agreed on Sunday to deposit 1 percent of their international reserves into a jointly administered development bank ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203296667/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:28:17 -0500 The China Post http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203296667/ Rescuers scouring the white-capped waters off the Dominican Republic's coast have found 17 bodies and 13 survivors from a boat overloaded with migrants that capsized almost two days ago, ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203288124/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:49:52 -0500 General Sources http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203288124/ Mexico City - The Mexican Navy rescued six Cuban migrants who were adrift in the Caribbean off Isla Mujeres, near the resort city of Cancun, the Navy Ministry said ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203287117/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:34:35 -0500 M & C http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203287117/ Havana, Feb 6 (Prensa Latina) The future joining of three countries of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) to the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) as full members proves the ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203282392/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:44:16 -0500 Prensa Latina http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203282392/ Santo Domingo. - Dominican Republic's Social Security (SS) system yesterday received another blow to its image, just two days after the Transparency and Justice Foundation called it ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203283008/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:23:40 -0500 Dominican Today http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203283008/ After four years of coping with a stagnant economy, probably the last thing you want to hear is how important it is to sock away money for a rainy day - you already know that. But hear me out, just ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203282639/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:23:38 -0500 Dominican Today http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203282639/ Santo Domingo.- Antinarcotics Agency (DNCD) president Rolando Rosado on Monday said "there's no drug in the country," to specify that the purity of that narcotic which enters ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203283007/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:23:37 -0500 Dominican Today http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203283007/ Santo Domingo. - Trade between Dominican Republic and Cuba jumped to US$61.36 million or 45% more compared with the previous year, though the government's target is US$700 million, so that both ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203282391/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:23:36 -0500 Dominican Today http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203282391/ Santo Domingo.- Tourism minister Francisco Javier Garcia said the national tourism sector had one of its best economic performances last year, given the global financial crisis. He said the ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203281054/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:23:35 -0500 Dominican Today http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/203281054/