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Captors free kidnapped baby in Dominican Republic
Santo Domingo.– A little Dominican girl, two years old, who had been kidnapped earlier
Dominican agents detain Atlanta-bound American with cocaine
SANTO DOMINGO.- The Dominican Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) confirmed Thursday that the 23 packages of cocaine seized from a United States citizen in Las Americas Airport (AILA) would be taken onto a Delta Airlines flight to Atlanta, Georgia.
Police agents sent to arrest fugitive ex bankers
Santo Domingo.- All eyes are on the Ciudad Nueva courthouse, where Sentencing judge Saulo Diaz expects he surrender of the fugitive ex bankers Manuel A. Pellerano and Felipe Mendoza, whose attorney Fernando Langa had pledged they would voluntarily come in at 10 a.m. Thursday to begin serving an eight year prison sentence, after being convicted in the US$900 million fraud in the collapsed bank Bancredito.
Dominican 'drug-trafficking machinery still intact, ruling party senator says
SANTO DOMINGO. - Peravia province senator Wilton Guerrero yesterday said the government has yet to dismantle the “drug trafficking machinery in the country, and asked the immediate transfer of the National Drugs Control Agency's (DNCD) entire precinct in Banà (south), whose members he again accused of serving narcotics trafficking.
The fugitives Pellerano, Mendoza to surrender today
SANTO DOMINGO. – Former Bancrédito executives Manuel A. Pellerano and Felipe Mendoza yesterday failed to appear before the National District Sentencing Judge to carry out the sentence handed down by Supreme Court, which condemns them to eight years in prison on the conviction of fraud.
Progreso bank's ex chief Castillo fined US$79.7M in Miami
Santo Domingo.- Ex Progreso bank president Pedro Castillo was sentenced Wednesday by a court in Miami to the pay a US$79.7 million fine, after he was found liable in the fraud case, and to recover the funds he transferred to his particular accounts in that nation.
Dominican President sends message to Barack Obama
The Americas face multiple and simultaneous challenges in the coming
Dominican authorities identified suspected organizer of illegal trip
Santo Domingo.– Authorities identified a storekeeper as the suspected
Dead body of Dominican drug mule still unidentified in New York
Dominican woman in passport forgery further remanded in Virgin Islands
Ex banker Pellerano surrenders in Dominican capital
SANTO DOMINGO.- The convicted ex president of the collapsed bank Bancredito Manuel A. Pellerano arrived at Santo Domingo's Ciudad Nueva courthouse at 10:40 a.m., 40 minutes after the hour his attorney had pledge yesterday, when National District Sentencing judge Saulo Diaz issued an arrest warrant.
Cruise ship company denies it stops Dominicans at beach
SANTO DOMNGO.- The foreign company Bahia Cruise Services denied that Dominicans are banned from entering certain beaches at Samaná, mainly Cayo Levantado, as the province's ex senator Milton Ray Guevara denounced.
Dominican senators are no-shows almost half the time
SANTO DOMINGO.- Since August 2006 to date a third of the senators didn't attend the sessions an average of almost 50 percent, and some were out around 75 percent of the time.
Hundreds of officials still don't reveal what they own
SANTO DOMINGO.- As of yesterday only around 1,370 of the more than 2,500 senior officials have submitted their financial statements, as Law 82-79 and decree 287-06 stipulate.
Dominican President also rebukes the U.S. ambassador
La Romana. - President Leonel Fernandez affirmed yesterday that Dominican Republic is a viable country and with guarantees for foreign investment, just one day after U.S. ambassador Robert Fannin questioned the country's state of law, and just hours after Senate president Reinaldo Pared called them “shameless and intolerable interference.
Dominican Senate President slams the U.S. Ambassador
SANTO DOMINGO. – Senate president Reinaldo Pared called United States ambassador Robert Fannin's statements questioning the state of law, and the war against corruption and drug trafficking “shameless and intolerable interference.
Pellerano insists he's innocent, arrives in prison
Santo Domingo.- The former executives of the bank Bancredito Manuel A. Pellerano and Felipe Mendoza appeared in the National District courthouse at a around 10:40 a.m. before Sentencing judge Saulo Diaz, to carry out the Supreme Court sentence, which upheld a sentence dictated by the Court of Appeals' 2nd Penal Chamaber.
Dominican Telecomm chief says computer rooms benefit the young
SANTO DOMINGO.- Dominican Telecomm Institute (Indotel) president Jose Rafael Vargas said the informatics centers contribute to development, as hundreds of thousands of youngsters and adults visit the almost 1,000 digital rooms it has installed across the country daily.
Santo Domingo.– A little Dominican girl, two years old, who had been kidnapped earlier
Dominican agents detain Atlanta-bound American with cocaine
SANTO DOMINGO.- The Dominican Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) confirmed Thursday that the 23 packages of cocaine seized from a United States citizen in Las Americas Airport (AILA) would be taken onto a Delta Airlines flight to Atlanta, Georgia.
Santo Domingo.- All eyes are on the Ciudad Nueva courthouse, where Sentencing judge Saulo Diaz expects he surrender of the fugitive ex bankers Manuel A. Pellerano and Felipe Mendoza, whose attorney Fernando Langa had pledged they would voluntarily come in at 10 a.m. Thursday to begin serving an eight year prison sentence, after being convicted in the US$900 million fraud in the collapsed bank Bancredito.
Dominican 'drug-trafficking machinery still intact, ruling party senator says
SANTO DOMINGO. - Peravia province senator Wilton Guerrero yesterday said the government has yet to dismantle the “drug trafficking machinery in the country, and asked the immediate transfer of the National Drugs Control Agency's (DNCD) entire precinct in Banà (south), whose members he again accused of serving narcotics trafficking.
The fugitives Pellerano, Mendoza to surrender today
SANTO DOMINGO. – Former Bancrédito executives Manuel A. Pellerano and Felipe Mendoza yesterday failed to appear before the National District Sentencing Judge to carry out the sentence handed down by Supreme Court, which condemns them to eight years in prison on the conviction of fraud.
Progreso bank's ex chief Castillo fined US$79.7M in Miami
Santo Domingo.- Ex Progreso bank president Pedro Castillo was sentenced Wednesday by a court in Miami to the pay a US$79.7 million fine, after he was found liable in the fraud case, and to recover the funds he transferred to his particular accounts in that nation.
Dominican President sends message to Barack Obama
The Americas face multiple and simultaneous challenges in the coming
Dominican authorities identified suspected organizer of illegal trip
Santo Domingo.– Authorities identified a storekeeper as the suspected
Dominican woman in passport forgery further remanded in Virgin Islands
Ex banker Pellerano surrenders in Dominican capital
SANTO DOMINGO.- The convicted ex president of the collapsed bank Bancredito Manuel A. Pellerano arrived at Santo Domingo's Ciudad Nueva courthouse at 10:40 a.m., 40 minutes after the hour his attorney had pledge yesterday, when National District Sentencing judge Saulo Diaz issued an arrest warrant.
Cruise ship company denies it stops Dominicans at beach
SANTO DOMNGO.- The foreign company Bahia Cruise Services denied that Dominicans are banned from entering certain beaches at Samaná, mainly Cayo Levantado, as the province's ex senator Milton Ray Guevara denounced.
SANTO DOMINGO.- Since August 2006 to date a third of the senators didn't attend the sessions an average of almost 50 percent, and some were out around 75 percent of the time.
Hundreds of officials still don't reveal what they own
SANTO DOMINGO.- As of yesterday only around 1,370 of the more than 2,500 senior officials have submitted their financial statements, as Law 82-79 and decree 287-06 stipulate.
Dominican President also rebukes the U.S. ambassador
La Romana. - President Leonel Fernandez affirmed yesterday that Dominican Republic is a viable country and with guarantees for foreign investment, just one day after U.S. ambassador Robert Fannin questioned the country's state of law, and just hours after Senate president Reinaldo Pared called them “shameless and intolerable interference.
Dominican Senate President slams the U.S. Ambassador
SANTO DOMINGO. – Senate president Reinaldo Pared called United States ambassador Robert Fannin's statements questioning the state of law, and the war against corruption and drug trafficking “shameless and intolerable interference.
Pellerano insists he's innocent, arrives in prison
Santo Domingo.- The former executives of the bank Bancredito Manuel A. Pellerano and Felipe Mendoza appeared in the National District courthouse at a around 10:40 a.m. before Sentencing judge Saulo Diaz, to carry out the Supreme Court sentence, which upheld a sentence dictated by the Court of Appeals' 2nd Penal Chamaber.
Dominican Telecomm chief says computer rooms benefit the young
SANTO DOMINGO.- Dominican Telecomm Institute (Indotel) president Jose Rafael Vargas said the informatics centers contribute to development, as hundreds of thousands of youngsters and adults visit the almost 1,000 digital rooms it has installed across the country daily.
