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Dominican President's efforts to end Chavez -Uribe tiff fizzle
Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Government yesterday said Venezuela president Hugo Chavez, would come to the country to seek, together with Dominican par Leonel Fernandez, a solution to that nation's conflict with Colombia.
Business leaders: Sectors 'want to party with Dominican workers' pension funds
SANTO DOMINGO.- The business leaders of Santo Domingo Province and of the Herrera industrial zone (AEIH) stated their concern over the “hunger which different public and private sectors reveal for the pension funds and warned that they must be invested in profitable and secure areas, and that some “want to party with the money.
Dominican leader makes last ditch effort to ease Chavez-Uribe tension
SANTO DOMINGO.- President Leonel Fernandez will meet near noon today with Venezuela Foreign Relations minister Nicolas Maduro, in what may be the last effort to spur a dialogue and ease relations between presidents Hugo Chavez and Alvaro Uribe.
Heavy surf warning issued for Atlantic coast
Santo Domingo.- The National Meteorology Office advised on Friday that a low pressure system may cause higher than normal surges and flood low-lying areas along the Atlantic coast provinces Montecristi, Samaná and Maria Trinidad Sanchez
Agents seize prosperities of Puerto Rican fugitive's associate
Santo Domingo. – Assistant DAs and Drugs Control (DNCD) agents yesterday seized several properties and businesses of the fugitive Ramon Antonio del Rosario Puente (Toño Leña) in San Pedro (east) valued at RD$100 million.
Customs has its Access to Public Information Office
SANTO DOMINGO. - The Customs Agency (DGA) on Thursdays inaugurate its Access to Public Information Office, to guarantee the citizens' right to seek information on the work of Customs officials, as Law 200-04 stipulates for all Government agencies and organisms.
Cocaine bust n Spain prompts searches in exclusive sectors
Santo Domingo.- The National District Office of the Prosecutor and the Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) conducted at least six searches, including the the luxury condo tower Atiemar, of the upscale sector La Esperilla, looking for evidence leading to the traffickers who shipped 1,200 kilos of cocaine from Dominican Republic, seized in Spain last week.
Dominican generals on 'lists of U.S. authorities
Santo Domingo.- The United States will reportedly question Prisons director, retied general Manuel de Jesus Perez, for the hundreds of phone calls on drug trafficking operations allegedly made from Dominican jails, as the alleged involvement of some of the country's generals in drug trafficking now focuses on “lists.
Slippery fugitive Figueroa is worth US$80M, Dominican authorities say
Santo Domingo.- The fugitive Jose Figueroa Agosto had properties worth 80 million dollars, Dominican authorities told Puerto Rico news source end.com, based in San Juan and included farms, apartments and vehicles. It says he had become the Pablo Escobar of the Caribbean.
Journalist Huchi Lora placed in ICU after allergic reaction
Santo Domingo. – The journalist and music historian Huchi Lora has been taken to the Intensive Care Unit of the medical center Cedimat, where Saturday he underwent a successful catheter procedure to unblock one pg his arteries.
Zelaya returns to Dominican Republic with a Chavez post
CARACAS.- Honduras ex president Manuel Zelaya returned to Dominican Republic on Saturday, after president Hugo Chávez designated him " new chief coordinator and policy adviser for the defense, independence and democracy," of the Petrocaribe oil allotment program, during his trip to Venezuela.
Drugs are behind yanked visas, retirement of at least 10 generals, lawyer says
NEW YORK. - The United States cancelled the visas of more than 10 now retired generals, for their alleged link to the case of ex Army captain Quirino Paulino, but which the government will never divulge, said the lawyer of the detainee being held in a federal prison facility in Manhattan.
Fog strands travelers in the central mountains
Santo Domingo. – Travelers were left stranded in highland regions, mainly in towns and tourist areas of Constanza Sunday afternoon, when dense fog veiled the roads into the Central mountain range.
Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Government yesterday said Venezuela president Hugo Chavez, would come to the country to seek, together with Dominican par Leonel Fernandez, a solution to that nation's conflict with Colombia.
Business leaders: Sectors 'want to party with Dominican workers' pension funds
SANTO DOMINGO.- The business leaders of Santo Domingo Province and of the Herrera industrial zone (AEIH) stated their concern over the “hunger which different public and private sectors reveal for the pension funds and warned that they must be invested in profitable and secure areas, and that some “want to party with the money.
SANTO DOMINGO.- President Leonel Fernandez will meet near noon today with Venezuela Foreign Relations minister Nicolas Maduro, in what may be the last effort to spur a dialogue and ease relations between presidents Hugo Chavez and Alvaro Uribe.
Heavy surf warning issued for Atlantic coast
Santo Domingo.- The National Meteorology Office advised on Friday that a low pressure system may cause higher than normal surges and flood low-lying areas along the Atlantic coast provinces Montecristi, Samaná and Maria Trinidad Sanchez
Agents seize prosperities of Puerto Rican fugitive's associate
Santo Domingo. – Assistant DAs and Drugs Control (DNCD) agents yesterday seized several properties and businesses of the fugitive Ramon Antonio del Rosario Puente (Toño Leña) in San Pedro (east) valued at RD$100 million.
Customs has its Access to Public Information Office
SANTO DOMINGO. - The Customs Agency (DGA) on Thursdays inaugurate its Access to Public Information Office, to guarantee the citizens' right to seek information on the work of Customs officials, as Law 200-04 stipulates for all Government agencies and organisms.
Cocaine bust n Spain prompts searches in exclusive sectors
Santo Domingo.- The National District Office of the Prosecutor and the Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) conducted at least six searches, including the the luxury condo tower Atiemar, of the upscale sector La Esperilla, looking for evidence leading to the traffickers who shipped 1,200 kilos of cocaine from Dominican Republic, seized in Spain last week.
Dominican generals on 'lists of U.S. authorities
Santo Domingo.- The United States will reportedly question Prisons director, retied general Manuel de Jesus Perez, for the hundreds of phone calls on drug trafficking operations allegedly made from Dominican jails, as the alleged involvement of some of the country's generals in drug trafficking now focuses on “lists.
Santo Domingo.- The fugitive Jose Figueroa Agosto had properties worth 80 million dollars, Dominican authorities told Puerto Rico news source end.com, based in San Juan and included farms, apartments and vehicles. It says he had become the Pablo Escobar of the Caribbean.
Journalist Huchi Lora placed in ICU after allergic reaction
Santo Domingo. – The journalist and music historian Huchi Lora has been taken to the Intensive Care Unit of the medical center Cedimat, where Saturday he underwent a successful catheter procedure to unblock one pg his arteries.
Zelaya returns to Dominican Republic with a Chavez post
CARACAS.- Honduras ex president Manuel Zelaya returned to Dominican Republic on Saturday, after president Hugo Chávez designated him " new chief coordinator and policy adviser for the defense, independence and democracy," of the Petrocaribe oil allotment program, during his trip to Venezuela.
Drugs are behind yanked visas, retirement of at least 10 generals, lawyer says
NEW YORK. - The United States cancelled the visas of more than 10 now retired generals, for their alleged link to the case of ex Army captain Quirino Paulino, but which the government will never divulge, said the lawyer of the detainee being held in a federal prison facility in Manhattan.
Santo Domingo. – Travelers were left stranded in highland regions, mainly in towns and tourist areas of Constanza Sunday afternoon, when dense fog veiled the roads into the Central mountain range.
