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/2012/2/9/42616/Ten-metal-recyclers-to-be-charged-with-stealing-power-lines-towers Santo Domingo.- State-owned Power Companies (CDEEE) CEO Celso Marranzini revealed Thursday that around 10 owners of metal recycling companies will be charged with stealing power line cables and electricity towers. Local Thu, 9 Feb 2012 19:20:00 GMT http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2012/2/9/42616/Ten-metal-recyclers-to-be-charged-with-stealing-power-lines-towers http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2012/2/8/42601/US-funded-NGO-changes-director-hours-after-top-officials-rebuke Santo Domingo. - The NGO Citizen Participation (PC) announced the designation of Francisco Alvarez as its new general coordinator, just hours after Interior and Police minister Jose Fadul disqualified the entity to send observers to the May 20 presidential election, affirming that its previous coordinator, Samir Chami Isa, “was at the service of opposition PRD party presidential candidate Hipolito Mejia.” Local Wed, 8 Feb 2012 18:49:00 GMT http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2012/2/8/42601/US-funded-NGO-changes-director-hours-after-top-officials-rebuke http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2012/2/8/42595/Top-official-slams-US-funded-agency-as-unfit-to-observe-election SANTO DOMINGO.- The Minister of Interior and Police and senior member of the ruling PLD party asked the Central Electoral Board (JCE) to reject Citizen Participation (PC) as an observer in the next presidential election, affirming that it has lost the objectivity which those organizations should ascribe to. Local Wed, 8 Feb 2012 15:38:00 GMT http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2012/2/8/42595/Top-official-slams-US-funded-agency-as-unfit-to-observe-election http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2012/2/8/42593/Naval-Auxiliaries-join-search-for-boatpeople-onerescued Santo Domingo. - Dominican Naval Auxiliaries (AND) actively participated in the operation to search for and rescue the boatpeople whose makeshift craft sank in Samaná Bay Saturday. Local Wed, 8 Feb 2012 14:53:00 GMT http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2012/2/8/42593/Naval-Auxiliaries-join-search-for-boatpeople-onerescued http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2012/2/8/42591/Widely-scattered-showers-today-decreasing-Friday SANTO DOMINGO. – Starting Wednesday afternoon cloudiness will increase over several zones of the country, with widely scattered showers more frequent for the East and Northeast regions. Local Wed, 8 Feb 2012 13:41:00 GMT http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2012/2/8/42591/Widely-scattered-showers-today-decreasing-Friday http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2012/2/8/42590/As-row-over-aqueduct-material-rages-official-are-mum Santo Domingo.- The small and medium businesses grouped in Codopyme yesterday joined the Industries Association which on Tuesday stated its opposition to the imports of materials the Spanish contractors Abi-Karram Morilla has started for the construction of the aqueduct at Peravia (south), without notifying the local industry which produces these materials on a competitive quality and price. Local Wed, 8 Feb 2012 13:17:00 GMT http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2012/2/8/42590/As-row-over-aqueduct-material-rages-official-are-mum http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2012/2/9/42615/Swindled-Major-League-Baseball-player-also-demands-investment-protection Santo Domingo.- Major League Baseball player Julio Lugo, swindled out of RD$50.0 million (US$1.2 million) in the purchase of a lot in the upscale sector Las Praderas in the Capital, vowed Thursday not to invest “one single cent” in the country if his case isn’t resolved in court. Local Thu, 9 Feb 2012 18:58:00 GMT http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2012/2/9/42615/Swindled-Major-League-Baseball-player-also-demands-investment-protection http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2012/2/9/42610/People-linked-to-deadly-crossing-face-up-20-years-in-prison Santo Domingo.- The people who organized, guided and were accomplices in the illegal trip by boatpeople who tried to reach Puerto Rico Saturday, but which sank in Samaná bay where at least 48 of its 60 occupants drowned thus far, face up to 20 years in prison. Local Thu, 9 Feb 2012 15:58:00 GMT http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2012/2/9/42610/People-linked-to-deadly-crossing-face-up-20-years-in-prison http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2012/2/9/42609/Agents-seize-24-guns-grenade-from-alleged-gun-runners-drug-traffickers Santo Domingo.- Police investigators seized 24 weapons of various calibers and a hand grenade from an alleged ring gun runners and drug traffickers operating out of the sector Ensanche Kennedy Thursday morning. Local Thu, 9 Feb 2012 14:51:00 GMT http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2012/2/9/42609/Agents-seize-24-guns-grenade-from-alleged-gun-runners-drug-traffickers http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2012/2/9/42607/Widely-scattered-showers-for-the-next-24-to-48-hours Santo Domingo.- The prevailing east-southeast wind will continue to drag cloudiness towards the national territory, with widely scattered showers for some parts of the Northeast, Southeast and Central Mountains. Local Thu, 9 Feb 2012 14:01:00 GMT http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2012/2/9/42607/Widely-scattered-showers-for-the-next-24-to-48-hours http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2012/2/9/42606/Top-Spanish-hoteliers-also-say-the-country-lacks-legal-security PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic.- The Spanish hotel chain Grupo Barceló on Wednesday joined a growing choir of foreign companies which have complained of a lack of requested legal security for foreign investment, just two months after a similar complaint by the Ambassador from the United Kingdom. Local Thu, 9 Feb 2012 13:07:00 GMT http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2012/2/9/42606/Top-Spanish-hoteliers-also-say-the-country-lacks-legal-security http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2012/2/9/42604/Among-the-worst-boatpeople-tragedies-47-deaths-and-rising Santo Domingo. – Rescuers found 18 more bodies Wednesday, and the number of dead rises to 47 from the makeshift boat that san in Samaná last week, and at least 25 survived, of the 75 boatpeople headed to Puerto Rico illegally. Local Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:06:00 GMT http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2012/2/9/42604/Among-the-worst-boatpeople-tragedies-47-deaths-and-rising http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2012/2/9/42603/After-nearly-12-years-Dominican-leader-admits-morass-in-military-ranks Santo Domingo.- The President of the Dominican Republic Wednesday asked the heads of the Armed Forces and the National Police to revise the ranks in their entities, because he noticed inequality within the same categories. Local Thu, 9 Feb 2012 11:53:00 GMT http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2012/2/9/42603/After-nearly-12-years-Dominican-leader-admits-morass-in-military-ranks