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, 10 Mar 2010 16:22:18 -0500 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:22:18 -0500 30 Cable theft prompts Dominican Republic ban on scrap metal exports ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --> http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32992970/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:27:18 -0500 Dominican Today http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32992970/ SANTO DOMINGO. – Police chief Rafael Guzmán on Wednesday designated Assistant chief Henry Peralta interim director of the Metropolitan Transit Authority (Amet). Guzman also made temporary appointm... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32989056/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:34:55 -0500 Dominican Today http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32989056/ Santo Domingo.- The Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) seized a Hummer and a Porsche SUV in the exclusive Torre Atiemar, which is at the center of an international drug trafficking and money laundering inves... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32985929/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:53:31 -0500 Dominican Today http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32985929/ Bogota. - The Government of Colombia expressed its gratitude to Dominican Republic chief executive Leonel Fernandez, for his mediation to ease the strained relations between Bogota and Caracas. In a ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32986704/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:53:30 -0500 Dominican Today http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32986704/ Anse-a-Pitre, HAITI. – As part of its continuing disaster relief intervention in Haiti, the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) is dispatching on March 27th a team of 20 dental and medical specialists from ... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32982820/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:02:13 -0500 Dominican Today http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32982820/ Santo Domingo – There is now help available for English speakers with a spiritual inclination here in Santo Domingo. Starting January 3, 2010 and continuing every Sunday thereafter, Christian meetin... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32983901/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:02:13 -0500 Dominican Today http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32983901/ SANTO DOMINGO. - The National Ethics and Anticorruption Commission (CNECC) and the Santo Domingo Technological Institute (INTEC), signed an agreement on Tuesday, to promote ethical values in the acade... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32983902/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:02:13 -0500 Dominican Today http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32983902/ Santo Domingo. - The head of the Economic Development Organization’s (OECD) Latin America Unit yesterday said the country must take advantage of remittances its citizens receive and to turn them int... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32982602/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:02:12 -0500 Dominican Today http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32982602/ PORT-AU-PRINCE-. Haitian and Dominican Technical delegates and World Bank representatives met yesterday to continue preparations for an international conference of donor countries who’ll meet in San... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32982603/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:02:12 -0500 Dominican Today http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32982603/ SANTO DOMINGO.- Local authorities asked Spanish pars for information on the confiscation of 1,200 kilos of cocaine from Dominican Republic, as unconfirmed reports attribute it to Arturo del Tiempo, ow... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32981019/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:24:40 -0500 Dominican Today http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32981019/ Santo Domingo.- The civic movement Citizen Participation (PC) conducted two studies which show that more than 42 percent of Government agencies don’t conduct purchases and contracts correctly, as st... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32981020/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:24:39 -0500 Dominican Today http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32981020/ The total number of motor vehicles in the Dominican Republic reached 2,570,220 at the end of 2009. This represents a 5.1% increase in spite of the drop in the number of vehicles that entered the count... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32981022/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:24:33 -0500 Diario Libre http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32981022/ The Director General of Customs (DGA) issued a temporary prohibition of all copper exports as a way to put a halt to the constant theft of cables and other copper materials. These thefts are affecting... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32981021/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:24:32 -0500 Diario Libre http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32981021/ In a press communiqué, the President's office indicated that the reactions were involuntarily sparked by the country. The national authorities point out that with this agenda Leonel Fernandez wa... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32981023/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:24:31 -0500 Diario Libre http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32981023/ Two old people, of 70 and 65 years of age were arrested yesterday by the National Department of Drug Control (DNCD) as they were caught red-handed selling drugs in Capotillo and Villa Consuelo. The tw... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32981024/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:24:31 -0500 Diario Libre http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32981024/ By Sonia Rosita Boddie The OAS was founded in 1948, at the behest of Washington to promote multilateral dialogue and decision making of a hemispheric nature between governments of the Americas. Its st... http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32966705/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:09:54 -0500 Caribbean Net News http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32966705/ 's (DR) capital city and an important center for creative thought, education and history was named 2010 Cultural Capital by the American Capital of Culture ( http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32960340/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:23:02 -0500 Earth Times http://story.caribbeanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c46827fffedda695/id/32960340/