http://www.dominicantoday.com The first online newspaper in english language of the Dominican Republic. en-us Copyright 2008 DominicanToday.com Merit Designs ICM 60 News http://www.dominicantoday.com/rss/rss.gif http://www.dominicantoday.com The first online newspaper in english language of the Dominican Republic. http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2009/11/8/33809/Venezuela-to-build-2000-homes-in-Dominican-Republic Santo Domingo.– Venezuela plans to build 2,000 homes for poor families Local Sun, 8 Nov 2009 04:31:00 GMT http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2009/11/8/33809/Venezuela-to-build-2000-homes-in-Dominican-Republic http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2009/11/6/33784/935-kilos-seized-in-Caucedo-Port-3rd-largest-in-3-years SANTO DOMINGO.- The National Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) seized 935 kilos of cocaine in Boca Chica’s Caucedo Multimodal Port at 9 p.m. last night, the third major confiscation in this terminal in the last three years. Local Fri, 6 Nov 2009 11:58:00 GMT http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2009/11/6/33784/935-kilos-seized-in-Caucedo-Port-3rd-largest-in-3-years http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2009/11/5/33780/Controversial-activist-says-violence-against-Haitians-must-end SANTO DOMINGO.- Dominican-Haitian Women’s Movement president Sonia Pierre today called a halt to the violence and mistreatment she affirms Haitians in the country are the victims of. Local Thu, 5 Nov 2009 19:10:00 GMT http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2009/11/5/33780/Controversial-activist-says-violence-against-Haitians-must-end http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2009/11/5/33775/Authorities-link-deputy-to-major-drug-traffickers SANTO DOMINGO.- Although the antinarcotics authorities had called Manuel Emilio Mesa (El Gringo) and his partner Rafael Cordero Martinez (El Chino) the country’s two top drug traffickers for several years, the National District Office of the Prosecutor didn’t press the money laundering case against them in the 4th Instruction Court in January 2007. Local Thu, 5 Nov 2009 12:41:00 GMT http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2009/11/5/33775/Authorities-link-deputy-to-major-drug-traffickers http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2009/11/5/33774/Intercept-planes-ready-to-join-Dominican-Republics-war-on-drugs Santo Domingo.- The first two Super Tucano airplanes, of eight bought by the Government in Brazil, are ready for their flight to the Dominican Republic. Local Thu, 5 Nov 2009 12:12:00 GMT http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2009/11/5/33774/Intercept-planes-ready-to-join-Dominican-Republics-war-on-drugs http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2009/11/4/33772/Doubts-surface-as-treasure-hunter-hits-it-big-off-Dominican-waters MIAMI (PRNewswire).- The treasure hunters Marine Exploration, Inc. has updated its website to include pictures it said it recovered sunken treasure including gold and pearl jewelry, silver fittings, and dynasty china, as a possible conflict with Dominican Republic’s authorities surfaces. Local Wed, 4 Nov 2009 21:35:00 GMT http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2009/11/4/33772/Doubts-surface-as-treasure-hunter-hits-it-big-off-Dominican-waters http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2009/11/7/33805/Dominican-Police-declare-Sobeida-Felix-Morel-a-wanted-fugitive Local Sat, 7 Nov 2009 15:20:00 GMT http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2009/11/7/33805/Dominican-Police-declare-Sobeida-Felix-Morel-a-wanted-fugitive http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2009/11/7/33801/OAS-members-agree-to-strengthen-cooperation-against-violence Santo Domingo.– The Member States of the Organization of American States (OAS) agreed Local Sat, 7 Nov 2009 05:11:00 GMT http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2009/11/7/33801/OAS-members-agree-to-strengthen-cooperation-against-violence http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2009/11/6/33796/The-Government-congratulates-Dominican-winners-in-US-elections Santo Domingo.- Dominicans who live in the United States won important posts in Tuesday’s elections, including Lawrence, Massachusetts, Mayor-elect William Lantigua, the first Hispanic to reach such a position in the State. Local Fri, 6 Nov 2009 18:36:00 GMT http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2009/11/6/33796/The-Government-congratulates-Dominican-winners-in-US-elections http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2009/11/6/33793/Police-look-for-woman-linked-to-Puerto-Rican-fugitive-US46M-seizure Santo Domingo. - Sobeida Feliz, implicated in the confiscation of US$4.6 million seized in a SUV in the case of the Puerto Rican fugitive José Figueroa Agosto, didn’t show up at the National District Office of the Prosecutor to sign the registry as her bail conditions state for which the authorities investigate if she has fled the country. Local Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:16:00 GMT http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2009/11/6/33793/Police-look-for-woman-linked-to-Puerto-Rican-fugitive-US46M-seizure http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2009/11/6/33788/Report-lawsuitsee-rock-ash-link-to-deformed-Dominican-babies SANTO DOMINGO.- Reports by UPI and the Miami Herald on a lawsuit filed in the United States, and babies born with deformities in a Dominican port town eye a potential link with the pollutant rock ash dumped there six years go. Local Fri, 6 Nov 2009 14:02:00 GMT http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2009/11/6/33788/Report-lawsuitsee-rock-ash-link-to-deformed-Dominican-babies http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2009/11/6/33787/Ceremonies-will-mark-165th-of-first-Dominican-Constitution SANTO DOMINGO.- Variouis public events today will mark another anniversary of the first Dominican Constitution, proclaimed in San Cristóbal in 1844, 165 years ago. Local Fri, 6 Nov 2009 13:51:00 GMT http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2009/11/6/33787/Ceremonies-will-mark-165th-of-first-Dominican-Constitution http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2009/11/6/33785/Dominican-Government-officials-seekthe-needys-votes-with-cash MOCA, Dominican Republic.- President Leonel Fernandez yesterday toured communities in this region to supervise the reconstruction of streets and highways and inaugurate a correctional facility, activities marred when some ruling PLD party leaders party running for elected posts and government officials handed out money in yellow envelopes to the hungry throngs. Local Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:23:00 GMT http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2009/11/6/33785/Dominican-Government-officials-seekthe-needys-votes-with-cash