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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Dominican Republic News.Net http://www.dominicanrepublicnews.net/ en-us Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:40:34 -0500 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:40:34 -0500 30 A United Nations-backed census has been launched in the Dominican Republic to improve to the lives of hundreds of refugees and asylum-seekers. http://www.dominicanrepublicnews.net/story/203314865 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:16:46 -0500 U.N. - Humanitarian Aid, Refugees http://www.dominicanrepublicnews.net/story/203314865 COTUI, Dominican Republic. - President Leonel Fernandez on Tuesday defended the Government's contract with the miner Barrick Gold, which is poised to extract gold in Pueblo Viejo, Cotui ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203307452&cat=c46827fffedda695 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:42:29 -0500 Dominican Today http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203307452&cat=c46827fffedda695 Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Navy announced the arrest Monday of the captain of the makeshift boat (yola) that sank with 55 people on board in Saman bay Friday. It said David Cepeda Calcao is a ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203309695&cat=c46827fffedda695 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:42:28 -0500 Dominican Today http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203309695&cat=c46827fffedda695 SANTO DOMINGO.- The Executive Branch today hosted the official opening of the final evaluation workshop of the Participatory Anti-Corruption Initiative (IPAC) to mark at this stage the ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203309694&cat=c46827fffedda695 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:42:27 -0500 Dominican Today http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203309694&cat=c46827fffedda695 SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - The death toll from the weekend capsizing of a boat ferrying migrants from the Dominican Republic to the neighboring island of Puerto Rico climbed to at least 21 and about ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203309693&cat=c46827fffedda695 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:03:52 -0500 General Sources http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203309693&cat=c46827fffedda695 The Caribbean often provides families with their first taste of the tropics, within the safe confines of resorts that offer all the requisite comforts (kids' clubs, watersports, a variety of ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203307988&cat=c46827fffedda695 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:07:27 -0500 The Independent http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203307988&cat=c46827fffedda695 Santo Domingo. - The National Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) yesterday busted an international drug trafficking ring based in the country's icon resort Casa de Campo, La Romana (east), seized 122 ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203302379&cat=c46827fffedda695 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:35:37 -0500 Dominican Today http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203302379&cat=c46827fffedda695 Santo Domingo.- The high pressure system over the Atlantic coast continues to limit cloud formation and rain activity, but some widely scattered showers can be expected in the northeast, southeast ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203302380&cat=c46827fffedda695 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:35:36 -0500 Dominican Today http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203302380&cat=c46827fffedda695 Santo Domingo.- The vice president and spokesman of the prominent Institutionalism and Foundation Justice (Finjus) on Monday said it would be healthful for the electoral process if the First Lady ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203302381&cat=c46827fffedda695 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:35:35 -0500 Dominican Today http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203302381&cat=c46827fffedda695 SAN FRANCISCO DE MACORIS. In the midst of pain and sorrow of relatives and friends, yesterday in San Francisco de Macoris and in Nagua, they buried seven bodies of the shipwreck last weekend of a ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203302382&cat=c46827fffedda695 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:35:24 -0500 Diario Libre http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203302382&cat=c46827fffedda695 SD. The National Directorate for Drug Control (DNCD) reported that yesterday it busted up a gang of drug traffickers that sent drugs to Puerto Rico and arrested 29 persons, among them five Puerto ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203302383&cat=c46827fffedda695 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:35:23 -0500 Diario Libre http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203302383&cat=c46827fffedda695 SANTO DOMINGO. The Pardon Commission has received hundreds of case files of persons that hope to be granted a pardon next 27 February, and be set free.In the majority, the request have come from ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203302386&cat=c46827fffedda695 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:35:21 -0500 Diario Libre http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203302386&cat=c46827fffedda695 SD. The Association of Young Entrepreneurs (ANJE) confirmed yesterday that they have set April as the date of the first debate of presidential candidates ever carried out in the country, with the ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203302385&cat=c46827fffedda695 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:35:20 -0500 Diario Libre http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203302385&cat=c46827fffedda695 SD. After several months of contradiction over the appointment of Franklin Frias in the director's position of the Computer Center at the Central Electoral Board, the presidents of the ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203302384&cat=c46827fffedda695 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:35:19 -0500 Diario Libre http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203302384&cat=c46827fffedda695 CARACAS, February 7 (Itar-Tass) - Twenty-nine people were arrested in a large-scale anti-drug operation in the Dominican Republic on Monday, and 17 of them are referred to as "Russians," ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203296665&cat=c46827fffedda695 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:42:27 -0500 Itar Tass http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203296665&cat=c46827fffedda695 CARACAS, Venezuela--An eight-nation bloc of Latin American and Caribbean countries agreed on Sunday to deposit 1 percent of their international reserves into a jointly administered development bank ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203296667&cat=c46827fffedda695 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:28:17 -0500 The China Post http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203296667&cat=c46827fffedda695 Santo Domingo, Feb 7 (Prensa Latina) Community and Religious organizations asked the Navy to be more vigilant to stop the departure of illegal vessels, in order to prevent cases like the shipwreck ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203292335&cat=c46827fffedda695 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:54:22 -0500 Prensa Latina http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203292335&cat=c46827fffedda695 Havana, Feb 6 (Prensa Latina) Secretary of State and Executive Director of the Center for Export and Investment of the Dominican Republic Eddy Martinez expressed his interest in promoting trade, ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203287639&cat=c46827fffedda695 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:39:18 -0500 Prensa Latina http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203287639&cat=c46827fffedda695 Rescuers scouring the white-capped waters off the Dominican Republic's coast have found 17 bodies and 13 survivors from a boat overloaded with migrants that capsized almost two days ago, ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203288124&cat=c46827fffedda695 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:49:52 -0500 General Sources http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203288124&cat=c46827fffedda695 Mexico City - The Mexican Navy rescued six Cuban migrants who were adrift in the Caribbean off Isla Mujeres, near the resort city of Cancun, the Navy Ministry said ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203287117&cat=c46827fffedda695 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:34:35 -0500 M & C http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203287117&cat=c46827fffedda695 Havana, Feb 6 (Prensa Latina) The future joining of three countries of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) to the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) as full members proves the ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203282392&cat=c46827fffedda695 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:44:16 -0500 Prensa Latina http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203282392&cat=c46827fffedda695 Santo Domingo. - Dominican Republic's Social Security (SS) system yesterday received another blow to its image, just two days after the Transparency and Justice Foundation called it ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203283008&cat=c46827fffedda695 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:23:40 -0500 Dominican Today http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203283008&cat=c46827fffedda695 After four years of coping with a stagnant economy, probably the last thing you want to hear is how important it is to sock away money for a rainy day - you already know that. But hear me out, just ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203282639&cat=c46827fffedda695 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:23:38 -0500 Dominican Today http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203282639&cat=c46827fffedda695 Santo Domingo.- Antinarcotics Agency (DNCD) president Rolando Rosado on Monday said "there's no drug in the country," to specify that the purity of that narcotic which enters ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203283007&cat=c46827fffedda695 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:23:37 -0500 Dominican Today http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203283007&cat=c46827fffedda695 Santo Domingo. - Trade between Dominican Republic and Cuba jumped to US$61.36 million or 45% more compared with the previous year, though the government's target is US$700 million, so that both ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203282391&cat=c46827fffedda695 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:23:36 -0500 Dominican Today http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203282391&cat=c46827fffedda695 Santo Domingo.- Tourism minister Francisco Javier Garcia said the national tourism sector had one of its best economic performances last year, given the global financial crisis. He said the ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203281054&cat=c46827fffedda695 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:23:35 -0500 Dominican Today http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203281054&cat=c46827fffedda695 SABANA DE LA MAR, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC : The death toll after a migrant boat capsized off the eastern coast of the Dominican Republic over the weekend has risen to at least 18, officials said on ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203283005&cat=c46827fffedda695 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:55:00 -0500 General Sources http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203283005&cat=c46827fffedda695 Santo Domingo.- The American Chamber of Commerce, AMCHAMDR, through its Business Social Responsibility Committee, and the Foundation Inter American (FIA), activated their donations plan on Friday ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203277648&cat=c46827fffedda695 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:35:43 -0500 Dominican Today http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203277648&cat=c46827fffedda695 Santo Domingo. - The State-owned Power Companies (CDEEE) Monday announced that it has the bases for the call for tenders to buy energy generated with natural gas or coal, on its Website ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203276646&cat=c46827fffedda695 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:35:42 -0500 Dominican Today http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203276646&cat=c46827fffedda695 WASHINGTON, - The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Monday announced a US$130.0 million loan to the Dominican company, Vas Concesionadas, to finance the reconstruction, construction, operation ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203277827&cat=c46827fffedda695 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:35:41 -0500 Dominican Today http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203277827&cat=c46827fffedda695 Santo Domingo.- The Electoral Central Board (JCE) closed the voter register with 6,502,968 Dominican citizens eligible to cast their ballot in the May 20 elections for president and vice president. ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203277828&cat=c46827fffedda695 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:35:40 -0500 Dominican Today http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203277828&cat=c46827fffedda695 Santo Domingo.- Dominican Republic's Navy has confirmed that the number of deaths in the sinking of a makeshift (yola) boat in Samana Bay has now reached 18, with 13 undocumented travelers ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203276574&cat=c46827fffedda695 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:35:39 -0500 Dominican Today http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203276574&cat=c46827fffedda695 Santo Domingo. - The miner Falcondo Xstrata Nickel earns around 300 million dollars and pays around US$60 million income tax, but could produce U$600 million, with US$200 million more for government ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203276432&cat=c46827fffedda695 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:35:38 -0500 Dominican Today http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203276432&cat=c46827fffedda695 Club Med, once an all-inclusive chain for swinging singles, now appeals to families and couples as well as solo vacationers with dozens of resorts ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203277219&cat=c46827fffedda695 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:27:20 -0500 The Seattle Times http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203277219&cat=c46827fffedda695 FICO Capstone Decision Accelerator software, combined with a set of FICO predictive models, to maximize profitability of its decisions on credit applications, and approve more credit while meeting ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203277823&cat=c46827fffedda695 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:08:16 -0500 General Sources http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203277823&cat=c46827fffedda695 Catholic News Service SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (CNS) -- Trinidad's only Catholic seminary educated future clergy members for six decades, sending graduates to ministries throughout ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203277824&cat=c46827fffedda695 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:08:07 -0500 General Sources http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203277824&cat=c46827fffedda695 RCL ) has reported fourth-quarter 2011 earnings of 17 cents per share, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 14 cents. Earnings showed a modest improvement from 15 cents per share posted the ... http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203277221&cat=c46827fffedda695 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:36:42 -0500 Nasdaq http://feeds.dominicanrepublicnews.net/?rid=203277221&cat=c46827fffedda695