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Daily News Archive: January to December 2008
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Friday, 05 September 2008
  • Weather watch
  • JD's first day on the job
  • Preventive medicine
  • Blackouts a problem
  • Electrical promises
  • UASD suspends classes
  • He said, he said
  • License stickers make money
  • Contraband found
  • Fluff vs. substance
  • MLB wields power
  • A-rod keeps swinging
Thursday, 04 September 2008
  • Weather watch
  • Awaiting Ike
  • School still closed
  • Jaime David accepts Environment
  • Financial free zones a plus
  • Blackouts reported
  • The wrong solutions
  • Where were the consumers?
  • Tejada Holguin quits Ethics Committee
  • Canada negotiations resume
  • Canadian company gets approval
  • Bodyguards for senator Guerrero
  • Sports update
Wednesday, 03 September 2008
  • Rainstorms nationwide
  • Senate moves on bills
  • Evaluating Dominican hotels
  • Tourism needs to benefit community
  • Government on electricity situation
  • Hydropower
  • Propane gas supplies restored
  • Ladom sues Huchi and Nuria
  • New appointments and confirmations
  • Florentino reinstated to government
  • Quirino strikes a deal?
  • Guerrero links high-ups to drugs
  • Commission was comedy
Monday, 01 September 2008
  • Javier Garcia in Puerto Plata
  • One stop office for paperwork
  • Why the no to the IMF?
  • PLD politicians in government
  • Political patronage reigns
  • Environment authorities are accomplices
  • Gas shortage again
  • Two-phase tragic traffic accident
  • Manny Ramirez leads Dodgers
  • Pedro Martinez has a good game
  • DR wins bronze in Centrobasket
Friday, 29 August 2008
  • CB governor on monetary policy
  • Gasoduct to Haiti
  • Santiago tramway
  • AMET to work to clear streets
  • Families will be moved
  • National Police cleans house
  • 'We're sick and tired'
  • Orange warns of fraud
  • We can win more
  • Centrobasket update
Thursday, 28 August 2008
  • Just in case
  • Ozama slums evacuated
  • Vaccinating, fumigating
  • Committed to work together
  • Deputies approve "bonus"
  • JCE to open Haiti office
  • Currency fluctuations "normal"
  • Another M.D. strike
  • Losing a generation
  • No water in the DR?
  • Back to school
  • Free autopsies?
  • Rocked by tragedy
  • Dalai Lama tired
  • Centrobasket update
Wednesday, 27 August 2008
  • Hurricane Gustav report
  • Brand new bridge deteriorates
  • Government appointments
  • Concerns of Santiago industries
  • US donates to Cathedral
  • Vehicle imports up, sales down
  • Immigration out of control
  • Junot Diaz book in Spanish
  • Second Life & ITLA
  • Olympics medal winners are home
  • Dominicans in Centrobasket
  • NBA Star donates Crocs
  • Wednesday sales
Tuesday, 26 August 2008
  • Fernandez new appointments
  • Schools closed
  • Education projects
  • Financial fears hit Central Bank
  • PRA ending
  • Get your sticker
  • Selling Aerodom?
  • Child discharged
  • Diaz and Mercedes arrive
  • State of emergency declared
  • Rains cause havoc
Monday, 25 August 2008
  • Felix Diaz brings gold to DR
  • Cardinal receives support
  • Foreign investment issues
  • 217 Police officers retired
  • Industrialists want less spending
  • Diaz blames Codacsa for holes
  • Many don't get power bills
  • Electricity causes alarm
  • Home sales down by 70%
  • Rains forecast
Friday, 22 August 2008
  • Where will the $$$ come from?
  • Students get scholarships
  • Funglode internships 2009
  • Dalai Lama to visit
  • The 14th wage?
  • Not enough women
  • Steel exports up
  • High hopes for EPA
  • Serbia has consulate
  • Pothole nation
  • Perez gets invitation
  • Travel declines in July
  • Ferry takes break
  • Benitez case still developing
  • Going for gold
Thursday, 21 August 2008
  • Officers confirmed in their posts
  • German assumes post
  • Rule of the law?
  • Cleaning up the Ozama
  • Cement prices too high
  • Large deficit reported
  • Young girl doing ok
  • Soldier remembered
  • Communities getting restless
  • Olympic excitement
  • Mercedes a champ
  • DR b-ball has troubles
Wednesday, 20 August 2008
  • More changes in government
  • What's with Jaime David?
  • New Minister of Tourism
  • Feminists don't want German
  • Ruling on health plans
  • Bishop calls for East highway
  • The high cost of illegal Haitians
  • High-rises could affect Cabarete
  • Lost airplane
  • Cesfront arrests Haitian fishermen
  • Winning at taekwondo at the Olympics
Tuesday, 19 August 2008
  • Changes continue in government
  • Max Puig at Ministry of Labor
  • Rodriguez del Orbe: Legal advisor
  • VP recovers from dengue
  • Low productivity of doctors
  • UASD reopening 25 August
  • Falcondo closing
  • Builders beware
  • Dominican Week: 22-26 September
  • The Navy's drug ties
  • Protests turn violent
  • Olympics update
Monday, 18 August 2008
  • Shuffling the cabinet
  • Fernandez announces ambitious plans
  • Santiago wants equal treatment
  • School year starts today
  • People can change their HMOs
  • Bani prosecutors suspended
  • Tragic Higuey accident
  • Long blackouts still hurting
  • Diaz claims at least bronze
  • Tropical Storm Fay: four dead
Friday, 15 August 2008
  • Inaugural events and preparations
  • Drink if you want
  • PLD leader dies
  • Back to school
  • Doctor's protest march still on
  • Liberians interested in cooperation
  • French ambassador recognized
  • Cibao in a frenzy
  • Moreno calls for zero tolerance
  • HR group wants answers
  • Cocaine colonel to jail
  • Fatal bus accident in the East
  • New US travel requirement
  • Olympics update
  • Strong rains forecast
Thursday, 14 August 2008
  • Supreme Court in favor of free zones
  • *GOB growing
  • Economic secrets
  • CMD calls for another strike
  • Drug investigation continues
  • Wife stole car
  • It's not enough
  • Marranzini on dollarization
  • Community in Spain gets larger
  • Deficit on the rise
  • Fire in Puerto Plata
  • Pay cash for JetBlue tickets
  • 16 years of Dominican Week
  • NY State honors Dominican
  • US Embassy peeved
  • Olympics update
Wednesday, 13 August 2008
  • Heads of state coming for inaugural
  • Supplementary budget approved
  • Constitutional Reform issues
  • Dengue alert
  • Inflation up 1.62%
  • $$$ to send a kid to school
  • ARS vs. Senasa
  • Textile exports are down
  • Power plant issues in POP
  • 2600 stopped at the gate
  • Santiago water and light rationed
  • What about Sun Land?
  • Caribbean Plan against drugs
  • Colonel nabbed with coke
  • Payano keeps hopes for medal
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
  • Guerrero provides proof
  • Commission meets
  • No drugs in government
  • Jorge Isa asks for investigation
  • Ostentatiousness and impunity
  • RD$52 billion missing
  • Fiscal surplus needed
  • New zip codes
  • PLD discusses reform
  • Customs makes bust
  • Bread more expensive
  • Ballplayer gets caught
  • Diabetes warning
  • Olympic round up
Monday, 11 August 2008
  • LPG supply gets a little better
  • Anadegas has 90 ready to go
  • Rice sector denies raising prices
  • Blackouts =RD$250 million in losses
  • In favor of renegotiated contracts
  • Protesting old Smith-Enron
  • Isabela Cement = Smith Enron?
  • Oil leak cause fear and complaints
  • PC: hold Constitution reform
  • Solidarity cards cost RD$21.00
  • First three held in Bani killings
Friday, 08 August 2008
  • Felucho Jimenez wants to move on
  • Jimenez ignores the East
  • Military escort Caribe Tours bus
  • Drug murder case to commission
  • Murder investigation continues
  • Drug flights increase
  • Spanish VP speaks
  • PC on school breakfast program
  • Excuses delay negotiations
  • High-rise development takes streets
  • Journalist killed in drive-by
  • Manny "on fire"
  • Get ready for Beijing
Thursday, 07 August 2008
  • Senate approves extra funding
  • Heads of state coming
  • Taiwan wants FTA
  • DR and Spain sign agreement
  • More IT jobs
  • Where's the investigative journalism?
  • Bani massacre raises concerns
  • Complicity of authorities?
  • Massacre survivor recovers
  • Books more expensive
  • No meeting with Quirino
  • Caribe Tours protests continue
  • Protesting Falconbridge smoke
  • Dominicans put on a show
  • Horford on Telemundo
  • Telemicro to transmit NYC parade
  • Thursday Sales
Wednesday, 06 August 2008
  • Opportunities in garbage
  • Shell sells refinery shares
  • Ministry threatens gas stations
  • 2000 take Dominican citizenship
  • Cost of power is best-kept secret
  • Segura looks at generators
  • Setting new credit card standards?
  • Andeclip threatens to halt service
  • Massacre in Bani
  • Customs gives DNCD four planes
  • Lynchings continue
  • Sales
Tuesday, 05 August 2008
  • New cedulas on the way
  • PRA program update
  • Fitch favors higher power rates
  • Action in Bani dunes case
  • Not enough money
  • Moving towards the dollar?
  • Nuria & Huchi: Nunez lied
  • Supreme Court on lynching
  • Money laundering brothers update
  • 119 dead in July
  • Dominican aspires to Bronx seat
  • Millions for medalists
  • Super Sanchez not sure
  • Hollywood home for Manny
  • Rains will continue
Monday, 04 August 2008
  • Education will provide 3 million cedulas
  • Superintendent says electricity is back up
  • A.M. Life is like that
  • Minister goes to Congress
  • Chief blames justice for lynchings
  • Dams at low levels
  • Tornadoes destroy houses and power lines
  • Middle class is bearing the load
  • Nobody can stop Caribe Tours
  • Environmental agency cannot protect dunes
  • DR chocolate for Italian kids
Friday, 01 August 2008
  • Fernandez in Colombia
  • Business: don't touch CB money
  • CNSS extends coverage
  • Credit card extra is illegal
  • Spanish VP coming
  • No tolls for you
  • JCE suspends cedulas
  • Doctors back at it
  • Basic education in a crisis
  • Social sector at a disadvantage
  • Weather clamps down AILA
  • Killers go to jail
  • Legal Advisor office goes digital
  • Crime on the decline
  • Can't dodge this time
Thursday, 31 July 2008
  • Strengthening ties with Haiti
  • Government deficit at RD$21 billion
  • US$20 million loan for aqueduct
  • Power rates to stay the same?
  • AMET vs. stoplights
  • Fire chief is wrong, says Espaillat
  • Codacsa to sue government
  • Ladom vs. Nuria & Huchi
  • Santiago has dry spell
  • No more RD$3 bread
  • CND takes over
  • Ethanol investment
  • Cuban brothers charged
  • Cop kills himself
  • Manny the Marlin?
  • Thursday sales
Wednesday, 30 July 2008
  • New foreign trade center
  • Fernandez to Colombian summit
  • ITB recommends Sans Souci
  • Tourism suspends Samana constructions
  • Cardinal wants an end to SS conflicts
  • CESFRONT beefs up patrols
  • A warning on mixed service stations
  • Chevron could buy the tankers
  • Electricity rate increase?
  • No cedulas for Haitians
  • EPA signing postponed again
  • Mets invest US$8 million in ballplayers
Tuesday, 29 July 2008
  • The complementary budget
  • IDs: a national priority
  • Haitian cedulas for Haitians
  • The art of not deciding
  • Cacao experiencing a boom
  • Indotel rules in favor of DGTEC
  • OTTT denies ban on Samana
  • Building gets expensive
  • Herrera criticizes propaganda
  • Danilo back in the mix
  • Caamano's head found
  • Bank accounts blocked
  • Dementia...what?
  • Heat wave
  • Manny Gate 08
Monday, 28 July 2008
  • A focus on the electricity subsidy
  • Brazilian ethanol
  • Romero calls for flexible financing
  • Today is LPG Day
  • "2 for 1" textile bill
  • Hotels call to end transport monopolies
  • Chevron accepts mediation
  • Charge cards charged
  • Cibao has serious energy issues
  • Lower crude prices not at pumps
  • You don't have a 50/50 chance
Friday, 25 July 2008
  • Andalucia gives funds
  • Alicia Alonso coming for inaugural
  • FTZs will get boost
  • Running the Chamber of Accounts
  • A nuclear commission
  • School drink parameters
  • DNCD cleans house
  • Schools that don't teach
  • EU not kicking anyone out
  • No need for visa
  • Who threw the baby away?
  • Crime and survival
  • Scammer's apartments seized
  • WBO certifies Dominicans
  • Pedro says goodbye to dad
Thursday, 24 July 2008
  • Taiwan President to visit
  • Fernandez submits bill
  • Drugs: True catastrophe for DR
  • Montas defends government
  • Eighteen new FTZs
  • Guatemala VP visits
  • No more untouchables
  • AmCham behind Chevron & Caribe Tours
  • US will cancel visas
  • JCE into real estate development
  • Lowering the standard for breakfast
  • No Parlacen slots for PRD
  • Polo wins gold
  • Thursday sales
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
  • President rewards good students
  • President chairs Chevron meeting
  • Tax Office offers incentives
  • Standard & Poor's ups rating
  • Overview by three economists
  • Clinics say they will keep charging
  • Debts burden the electricity markets
  • Contraband from Haiti hurts local crop
  • Docs or supply salesmen?
  • Caribe Tours protest
  • PRD ratifies opposition to government
  • Narcs pay "tolls" to operate
  • US$43 million for Luis Castillo
  • Wednesday sales
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
  • Fernandez and Light Bulb Program
  • Energy subsidy limited
  • Government to renegotiate
  • Nuclear energy could be costly
  • Government gives cartel hope
  • Government ignores 2007 Austerity Law
  • Valentin on clientelism
  • Global Solidarity Fund
  • Car sales down
  • Taiwan donates scholarships
  • No jail for Vivian Lubrano
  • Big Red Machine coming
  • Tuesday Sales
Monday, 21 July 2008
  • CDEEE promises to get better
  • Fuel tankers dispute judgment
  • Propane back in stations
  • Another conflict of interests
  • Subsidized diners under scrutiny
  • 2009 will be Year of Juan Bosch
  • Public Works to hire 10,000
  • No pre-payments in health care
  • Free Zones ask for continued support
  • Timid economic measures
  • JCE halts fake weddings
  • Bani jail becomes a center
  • A spin of drug dealing
Friday, 18 July 2008
  • Fernandez presents plan
  • Commenting on the President's proposals
  • Government tax bonanza
  • Heliport inaugurated
  • We can't do it
  • Shipments will be fumigated
  • FTZs recover
  • HD TV coming
  • History relived
  • Money-changing business
  • Medicare hunts turns interesting
  • Alvarez Renta to jail
  • Guzman among the best
  • Super Sanchez leads delegation
Thursday, 17 July 2008
  • Expectations for speech high
  • Picking up a big oil debt
  • Final details on OMSA buses
  • Congress saves energy
  • Genao's proposal for saving
  • DR depends on tourism
  • Small business bill could pass
  • Consular worries
  • Studying border poverty
  • Justice served in Baninter case
  • Protests continue in Santiago
  • Was it an execution?
  • Horford chosen
Wednesday, 16 July 2008
  • Dario Contreras gets new ER
  • Fernandez to announce measures
  • Salary Committee wants to know
  • Propane without subsidy will be RD$100
  • Geologist says "No way!"
  • Congress should handle the sale
  • Speculation or government priorities
  • Plastic manhole covers
  • JCE admits it cannot control fraud
  • Small business bill could pass
  • Beauty products export boom
  • Deficit with US doubles
  • Prices slow home sales
  • Car sales down
  • Priest sentenced for rape
  • Duarte Anniversary
  • Wednesday sales
Tuesday, 15 July 2008
  • Chavez and Fernandez agreements
  • Bengoa explains PetroCaribe
  • Shell news
  • Explaining the blackouts
  • Northern express connection
  • Digital cities
  • Change not enough
  • Decisional paralysis traps government
  • Janice Jacobs visits JCE
  • Government audits show fraud
  • Wage increase
  • Eliminating small parties
  • Crafts make money
  • All-Star Game tonight
  • Tuesday sales
Monday, 14 July 2008
  • PetroCaribe eases terms
  • PetroCaribe pipeline to Haiti
  • Chavez to help farmers
  • DGII will call on 50,000
  • Metro to start in December
  • New funds from Europe
  • IMF closes office in DR
  • Economic structure changes
  • Demand for foodstuffs falls
  • People take steps to save fuel, energy
  • JCE will debate its resolutions
  • Not really an honor
  • Supreme Court denies appeal
  • DR third in Miss Universe
Friday, 11 July 2008
  • Thinking local, acting global
  • Valentin makes suggestion
  • OMSA gets credit line
  • Mobile documentation unit
  • Government and doctors at impasse
  • Blackouts are back
  • Basques donate for ducts
  • Government to help immigrants
  • USAID supports farmers
  • DR big hit at Zaragoza
  • Soldier's body found
  • Swedes want Dominican cacao
  • A doctor's final gift
  • DR at Miss Universe contest
Thursday, 10 July 2008
  • Fernandez on crime
  • RD$24m/deputy
  • More of the same rhetoric
  • Chevron maintains its stance
  • Terrero leaves Chamber of Accounts
  • FENATRADO gets subsidies and raises rates
  • Customs bust
  • Tourist worker wages fall
  • The drug cycle
  • D.N. getting smaller
  • Handball players desert
  • Thursday sales
Wednesday, 09 July 2008
  • New budget request
  • Central Bank defends policies
  • Attorney Generals meet in Punta Cana
  • More money for subsidies
  • Government presents a proposal on Chevron
  • More than a trucking issue
  • Cocco asks Congress for approval
  • A.M. Questions
  • Salary increases divides management
  • Northeast gets JCE office
  • Pols and civil society agree on something
  • DPCA visits Terrero
  • Santiago is Santiago
  • DR at expo
  • Hurricanes and Tropical Storms
Tuesday, 08 July 2008
  • Presidential press conference
  • Economic reshuffling needed
  • Tourism & exports
  • Export products
  • Single house Congress proposed
  • Agreement null
  • Terrero still at work
  • Tower construction halted
  • More credit for fuel
  • Gas-guzzling vehicles
  • Banks take advantage
  • AFS president visits
  • Inoa signing investigated
  • A little Yankee panky
  • Dona Goya is 118
Monday, 07 July 2008
  • Leonel off to Margarita, Venezuela
  • 5 to Chamber of Accounts?
  • Thousands learn English
  • Environment admits it goofed
  • Police won't back down
  • There is avgas
  • AmCham for Chevron settlement
  • CONEP wants a pow-wow
  • ANJE wants deeds not words
  • A call to spread the subsidies
  • Food and transport eat budgets
  • Cardinal to head Council
  • Authorities say Bertha's okay
  • Dominican to PSOE post
  • Dominican stars in the All Star Game
Friday, 04 July 2008
  • Government butters up transporters
  • Problems delay arrival buses
  • Chevron ordeal reaches aviation
  • Homes for TS Olga victims
  • An exemplary province
  • Foreigners beware
  • Prison population rises
  • Economic actions needed now
  • "El Torito" for President
  • Major League gossip
Thursday, 03 July 2008
  • Congratulations, Colombia
  • A look at the economy
  • Got change?
  • Transport issues resolved?
  • Drivers take advantage
  • ANADEGAS suspend protest
  • Chamber of Accounts hearing
  • Drugs came from DR
  • FSA urges wage raise
  • Dominicans to the moon
  • Lorenzo in midst of controversy
  • Inoa's signing official
  • Thursday sales
Wednesday, 02 July 2008
  • Chamber of accounts trial starts today
  • CDEEE announces end to subsidy
  • FENATRADO work stoppage today
  • Government talks to doctors
  • Eleven filling stations closed
  • Tax break for 92 companies
  • Unions ask for special prices
  • Dairy farmers can supply breakfasts
  • NGO calls JCE memo illegal
  • Baninter appeal nearly complete, says Subero
  • Nowhere to hide?
  • More rains
Tuesday, 01 July 2008
  • Seems like everyone's connected
  • Deputies defend themselves
  • Fake drugs claim "exaggerated"
  • Banking decreases
  • Swiss love DR
  • CONEP presents report
  • Macarulla on monetary policy
  • Teachers honored
  • UASD confirms findings
  • Manny goes off
  • Inoa sets record
  • Tuesday shopping
  • Jazz Cowboys in Santo Domingo
Monday, 30 June 2008
  • I&C suspends diesel subsidy
  • Civil Registry earns millions for JCE
  • Fdez Zucco calls for service
  • Grullon blasts Central Bank
  • Foodstuffs go up again
  • Millions of gallons of good water lost
  • Twelve products for export
  • Las Americas is lit up again
  • Industrialists say new law far from perfect
  • More increases in fuel prices
  • Taiwan to re-equip Azua hospital
  • A.M. Chamber of Accounts trial
  • Thousands of Dominicans could leave Spain
  • Cost of living increases missed payments
  • GREEN ALERT
Friday, 27 June 2008
  • Fernandez positive
  • New council created
  • CA members quit
  • Councilors in trouble
  • US$140 and rising
  • Reform on the way?
  • Deputies do well
  • Southwest could fly to the DR
  • Nestle exits DR ice cream market
  • Arrest now; ask later
  • Office for victims
  • Almeyda doing well
  • Dominicans dominate in Cabarete
Thursday, 26 June 2008
  • Duarte highway closing
  • Parents take note
  • ISPRI initiated
  • EU donates funds
  • Fernandez receives ambassadors
  • IMF agreement welcomed
  • DR could be fined
  • Auditors go on trial
  • Colmados don't get food
  • Where's the change?
  • Murderers sentenced
  • Best tips for summer
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
  • IMF to monitor DR
  • AIRD says oil not the only problem
  • Blackouts not 'financial' says Segura
  • Bishop and business urge dam completion
  • Trial for accountants
  • Supreme Court approves ranks for judges
  • Billions in tourist projects
  • AMCHAM and corruption
  • Cibao Airport for private aviation
  • Jobs for disabled people
  • Good man works hard to survive
  • Three years for embezzler
  • Lightning kills one, injures another
  • COE issues warnings for 24 provinces
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
  • IMF official voices concern
  • Blackouts are back
  • School more expensive
  • Wages will stay the same
  • Haitians in DR embassy protest
  • Unions still owe
  • Telefonica coming to DR
  • Trash becomes an issue
  • Claro loses money
  • Rains will continue
  • OMD Dominicana wins at Cannes Lions
  • Museum honors Sixto
  • Dominican entrepreneurs in Philly
  • Kiteboard championship begins
Monday, 23 June 2008
  • IMF to meet with Fernandez
  • DR signs loans for US$75 million
  • Ag Bank to sell headquarters
  • The real price of diesel is closer to RD$200
  • Black beans for black gold
  • Poor showing for DR education
  • Dominican heads hotel association
  • Dominican Jesuit wins science prize
  • Medicines and milk go up
  • Electricity kills hundreds
  • Weather and chaos
Friday, 20 June 2008
  • Losing the fight against corruption
  • Please, eliminate bureaucracy
  • US continues help
  • UNDP on Metro
  • British media keeps mum
  • New free trade companies
  • Americans want mangos
  • DR will receive money
  • Hubieres keeps threatening
  • Doctors fight; no one listens
  • Almeyda recovering
  • Placido is here
  • Miss DR in Vietnam
Thursday, 19 June 2008
  • Government revenues up
  • Fuel prices impact poverty
  • More details from CC
  • Too many taxes
  • Eliminating "ghost NGOs"
  • Cigar news
  • Fares go up; passengers angered
  • Subsidy removed
  • DR joins coalition
  • US travel warning was old
  • Drugs associated with crime
  • Medicare fraud connected to DR
  • Vigilantes kill fugitive
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
  • Fernandez asks UN for fund
  • Melanio orders diesel audit
  • Millions for greenhouses
  • Debt climbed 3.3% in first quarter
  • Promipyme loans millions
  • We pay a lot of fuel taxes
  • Free Zone bill goes to committee
  • Chamber of Accounts under fire
  • State Department memo causes stir
  • Untold millions taken from official
  • Inflation hits construction hard
  • French aid vessel in port
  • Ecuador without visas
  • Mangoes in Bani
  • DR-Korean trade grows
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
  • The Catch-22 of fuel taxes
  • Time to pay for PetroCaribe
  • Consumers and retailers feel crunch
  • Housing slows rhythm
  • Agreement with Spain continues
  • Fake pill market is big
  • Minister defends school drink
  • Deputies question auditors
  • Politur defends the DR
  • Mercer ups Santo Domingo ranking
  • A look at the trade deficit
  • Cid Wilson to NCLR Board
  • Future stars in the making
  • Horford sets example
  • From California to El Limon
  • Tuesday Sales
Monday, 16 June 2008
  • Government wont eliminate fuel taxes
  • 150,233 more vehicles
  • Three bookmobiles for the DR
  • Lights out in Santo Domingo
  • Inflation hits 5%
  • Government to protect basic foodstuffs
  • Chicken prices up again
  • US vets don't find bird flu
  • Chamber's mea culpa
  • Transporters on fare increases
  • A.M.: They don't get it
  • New jail for Macoris
  • Police nab 200 in Santiago
  • Red Alert continues
  • Go get that second passport
  • In the Heights musical wins Tony
Friday, 13 June 2008
  • Fernandez tackles rising prices
  • OMSA buses in trouble
  • Doctors' strike not successful
  • Domestic airlines feel the crunch
  • Tourism on the up
  • Asia gobbles up metal scraps
  • Banks up rates
  • DN mortality rate high
  • Importing beggars
  • DNCD plays waiting game
  • Wrong medicine case
  • Friday sales
Thursday, 12 June 2008
  • Tourism action plan
  • Air Dominicana to start 16 June
  • Subsidy to stay
  • "Water + sugar" for breakfast
  • Cranes aren't regulated
  • Tragedy at Dario Contreras
  • DNCD keeps at it
  • Mana fights for environment
  • Big Papi is a big citizen
  • 18 tons of baseball equipment
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
  • President on high cost of oil
  • Longer drinking hours for some
  • Bye-bye propane subsidy
  • Subero doesn't want the job
  • On corruption in government
  • ANJE calls for spending cuts
  • Robberies at civil registry offices
  • Agriculture needs RD$31 billion
  • Airlines ask for tax-free fuel
  • Samana Expressway: nice but dear
  • Yet another small docs' strike
  • Lighter beer popular
  • Trade deficit with US grows
  • Struggle over control of security
  • Chief supports Santiago cops
  • Wednesday sales
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
  • Fernandez is back
  • ECLAC calls for change
  • 911 Emergency
  • Disarming the population
  • Reorganizing the work of doctors
  • Reviving the Haitian trade topic
  • Trade with South Korea
  • DR/Guatemala trade issues
  • Jeepetas not as popular
  • DR could help air travelers
  • Mejia denies revival
  • Name-calling leads to murder
  • Dominican doctor defended
  • Million dollar ballplayers
  • Tuesday sales
Monday, 09 June 2008
  • Leonel in Barcelona
  • Consumer Protection Law
  • Low protein drink for breakfast
  • IMF boots DR rep
  • ECLAC meets in Santo Domingo
  • US aid exceeds US$45.2million
  • Fewer flights = lower income
  • JAD looks for an airplane
  • Hipolito revives team
  • Police chief moves to Santiago
  • Marranzini : higher paid cops
  • Quirino mate turns tail
  • Rains to continue, alerts still on
  • Pan Am Volleyball Cup: gold & bronze
  • Cincinnati honors Geronimo
Friday, 06 June 2008
  • Fernandez attends mass in Rome
  • Renewable Energy Ruling passed
  • Free zone industry bill to Congress
  • Using Mexican fabrics
  • Free zones alive and kicking
  • DR and relations with China
  • Airline cuts hurt travel and cargo
  • Aviation taxes
  • Ferry will have own port
  • Church on Environment Day
  • Doctors' strike cause strife
  • What relocation project?
  • It wasn't me
  • Venezuelans arrested for bank robbery
  • Dominican gets drafted
  • Friday sales
Thursday, 05 June 2008
  • Fernandez at World Food Summit
  • Spotlight on rural communities
  • Media linked for emergencies
  • DR, Cuba work towards agreement
  • Doctors strike - again
  • Ozama for the rich?
  • Edward Osborne Wilson in Punta Cana
  • MAP angry about rockash
  • Ship with toxic cargo ordered out
  • AA cuts start in September
  • Persons Trafficking report
  • Loft shooter out on bail
  • DR volleyball on a roll
Wednesday, 04 June 2008
  • Fernandez on ethanol in Rome
  • Government to meet on IMF issue
  • Frontier Corps gets new chief
  • Las Placetas dam loan approved
  • ECLAC to meet in Santo Domingo
  • Bigger government
  • Proposal to cut financing to politics
  • Drivers put fare hikes on hold
  • Sediment fills reservoirs
  • Government creates a dam committee
  • School tuition fees climb steeply
  • The best athletes of the year
  • Wednesday sales
  • GREEN ALERT for much of the DR
Tuesday, 03 June 2008
  • Leonel is Food Summit VP
  • Free trade with South America?
  • DR Stock Exchange: 607% growth
  • Public transport update
  • Customs seizes lots of money
  • Responsible dam management
  • Shelter for a million
  • Delta cancels JFK-SDQ
  • BPD Bank in Santo Domingo
  • Illiteracy rates
  • Electrocution kills more than dengue
  • BAT goes to bat
  • On to 600
  • DR volleyball keeps going
  • Tuesday sales
Monday, 02 June 2008
  • Fernandez off to Europe
  • Shell agrees to sell for US$110 million
  • European Bank loans RD$1.1 billion
  • Greater Caribbean export opportunities
  • Caribbean airline alert
  • Local authorities monitor airline situation
  • Business backs UNDP report
  • Drivers put fare hikes on hold
  • Experts question dam conditions
  • Good coffee sells well
  • Dangerous accident
  • Vigilante justice in Constanza
  • More contraband money
  • Lenient sentences favor drug dealing
  • Contraband grows and sales slip
  • Manny bats his 500th
Friday, 30 May 2008
  • Leaders take Fernandez's advice
  • Customs signs agreement
  • 1:30hr to Samana
  • Country prepares for hurricanes
  • Deputies approve IDB loans
  • Pared passes the buck
  • OAS on constant campaigning
  • Dominicans need to keep calm
  • Flight cancellations hurt Santiago
  • Better Internet in the east
  • Hubieres jailed; freed
  • Impromptu strike causes problems
  • Remembering history
  • Friday sales
Thursday, 29 May 2008
  • Fernandez receives certificate
  • Barrick Gold meeting at Palace
  • Ending child labor
  • Doctors strike yet again
  • UN Report: Empower the People
  • Endesa: DR social snapshot
  • Women want rights
  • ECLAC to meet in DR
  • Haiti still big partner
  • Man kidnapped in Cabrera to pay loan
  • Dominicans lead All-Star voting
  • Ramirez hits 499
  • US vs DR in boxing
  • Thursday sales!
Wednesday, 28 May 2008
  • Leonel off to C.A. and Europe
  • Colored rice
  • Uneasiness over livestock feed
  • Unions call for lower fuel prices
  • Fares going up 4 June?
  • PetroCaribe alert
  • Petrol funds invested in highways
  • CONEP calls for changes
  • High taxes hurt local airlines
  • American Eagle cancels Samana
  • New women's clinic at Cedimat
  • 80% are living dangerously
  • More rains
  • Omega goes free
  • Lopez races to the poles
  • Wednesday sales
Tuesday, 27 May 2008
  • Official offer to Shell
  • Pushing for hybrids
  • Fare increase announced
  • Subsidy to go if fares are raised
  • Subsidies for 3 more months
  • Natural gas not the answer
  • CMD back at it
  • Trade not balanced
  • EPA to force Caribbean integration
  • 2012 already?
  • 46 random kilos of cocaine
  • Sextuplets are a year old
  • Placido Domingo at Chavon
  • Tuesday sales
Monday, 26 May 2008
  • OMSA buses run on biofuel
  • Ministry of Energy next?
  • Spike in fuel prices
  • Unions to discuss fair hikes
  • Subsidy could be removed
  • Opposition to focusing LPG subsidy
  • Electricity subsidy: US$134 million
  • Dengue campaign shows results
  • Different stories on subsidized foods
  • Possible changes in Supreme Court
  • Opposition to constitutional reform
  • New style prisons
  • The ministers and their worth
  • Orange explains blackout
  • ITLA offers scholarships
Friday, 23 May 2008
  • Fernandez to Rome
  • Diandino: Metro to run for Xmas
  • GLP subsidy to poor households
  • Example starts at top
  • Tax increase not the answer
  • Avocados a big hit
  • RIP Luis Augusto Caminero
  • Woman gets 15 years
  • "La Piedra" kills a man
  • Internet porn causing problems
  • Mother's Day shopping
  • Mother's Day Concert
  • Update on American football in DR
Wednesday, 21 May 2008
  • No tax reform looming
  • Montas: rigid austerity
  • Vega sees troubled future
  • US$42 million for electricity
  • Shell sale ready to sail
  • Senators vs. Deputies on reforms
  • Subero and Sun Land
  • PRD won 88 municipalities
  • "Motoconchistas" raise fares
  • FBI investigates player signings
  • Dominican valedictorian
  • Ramon Mateo: chess grandmaster
  • Felipe Alou ready for final win
  • Wednesday sales
  • DR1 breaks for Corpus Christi
Tuesday, 20 May 2008
  • Revisiting the doctor issue
  • Subsidies maintained for now
  • CPI at 1.88% for April
  • Subsidies maintained for now
  • The increase in food prices took years
  • More austerity, fewer subsidies
  • Organic exports prevail
  • "Dominicans" sold in Japan
  • WTO reasserts EU banana ruling
  • Constitutional reform again
  • JCE did well
  • JCE post-election agenda
  • The end of the PRSC?
  • PRD grows, PLD grows less
  • DNCD continues the fight
  • Sales
Monday, 19 May 2008
  • President Fernandez reelected
  • PLD sweeps in Santo Domingo
  • 29% abstention rate
  • Parties lose official standing
  • Guillermo Moreno's first try
  • OAS praises process
  • Hospitals see holiday increase
  • PC exit polls were right on
  • Voting overseas
  • Fernandez allies add 9%
  • Clientelism in the 2008 election
  • Swap short for long-term politics
  • Montas calls for "adjustments"
  • Three strategic areas
  • Cardinal calls for unity
Friday, 16 May 2008
  • Live electoral commentary
  • Electoral facts & figures
  • The provinces to watch
  • Many don't bother to vote
  • The candidates
  • Explaining the effect of clientilism
  • The most recent polls
  • Expatriate vote
  • Election rules
  • The arbiters
  • Election No. 13
Thursday, 15 May 2008
  • Fernandez going for four?
  • PRD closes campaign
  • Political publicity in the millions
  • International eyes on elections
  • Three more campaign victims
  • Loud campaigning shuts down
  • Court rules on Sun Land complaint
  • Metro more important than court
  • Scrap metal makes money
  • One vehicle for every four residents
  • Plaza de la Salud foot clinic
  • Helicopter falls from sky
  • Smuggling US$520,000
  • Thursday sales
Wednesday, 14 May 2008
  • Tomorrow work off after 12
  • Political parties take over radio
  • JCE sets rules for elections
  • Plenty of cops for elections
  • OMSA to give free rides
  • A.M. on Droit de Seigneur
  • Foreign firms to do exit polls
  • AIRD reject post-election tax reform
  • Possible IMF agreement looms
  • Non-traditional exports: US$277 million
  • Rescued baby now with grandma
  • Cops catch S&L killer
  • Lucky guy!
  • "In the Heights" leads Tony Awards
  • Wednesday sales
Tuesday, 13 May 2008
  • Greenberg poll: Fernandez 55%
  • PLD ends campaign
  • You'll just have to wait
  • Schools used for voting
  • Topics fall by the wayside
  • Need to control government spending
  • Tourism still doing well
  • Foreign investment a constant
  • Small business bill
  • More call centers in DR
  • Manny inches closer
  • Dominican track runs well
  • Tuesday sales
Monday, 12 May 2008
  • JCE tests scanners
  • Enthusiasm for voting abroad
  • Freeze on gasoline prices
  • Government halts audits
  • Central Bank audit
  • Need for constitutional procedures
  • Codetel in the countryside
  • IIBI suggests substitutes for flour
  • Chicken prices climb again
  • Trade deficit with the US
  • Housing sales are way down
  • CNN's Palacios looks at the DR
  • Deaths on campaign trail
  • Traffic toll is 40 deaths in two months
  • Workers demand pay in Santiago
  • Rescued baby doing well
Friday, 09 May 2008
  • Fernandez in Puerto Plata
  • US$10 million for protected areas
  • Bautista welcomes doctors' decision
  • The JCE scanners are here
  • After the elections
  • Time to foster exports
  • Edes feel fuel pinch
  • More policemen to jail
  • Bank robbed
  • Friday sales
Thursday, 08 May 2008
  • Fernandez leads polls
  • Scanners will be tested Sunday
  • Politics very costly in DR
  • PRSC strikes back
  • DR can be food self-sufficient
  • Morales on DR food supply plan
  • No strikes for now
  • Government gives out rice
  • Labels cause export issues
  • Killer cops could get 30
  • The Luciano Corominas plane
  • A star in the making
  • Thursday sales
Wednesday, 07 May 2008
  • No exit polls on 16 May
  • Top ten electoral provinces
  • Breadbasket of the Caribbean
  • Spain grabs low-skilled workers
  • Energy issues in tourism sector
  • Protected park areas
  • INESPRE outlives usefulness
  • Ikea in Santo Domingo
  • Farm costs ever higher
  • Bus stop businesses
  • Meat exports still on hold
  • Sun Land not on the agenda
  • Policemen fired for brutality
  • Red Alert
  • Wednesday sales
Tuesday, 06 May 2008
  • The JCE's new scanners
  • Young could decide elections
  • Voter stats
  • Book Fair extended to 9 May
  • The Metro power controversy
  • Renewable energies ruling on hold
  • 'Popular' taxis will be popular
  • Energy deficit balloons
  • Asthma concerns
  • Fire at Mercado Nuevo
  • Ovalles and the US$569,000 case
  • No one guilty in passport scandal
  • Horford and Hawks out
  • Tuesday sales
Friday, 02 May 2008
  • DR1 takes a break
  • New industrial parks
  • US$80M for disaster rehab
  • We don't know
  • Housing feels crunch
  • Air Dominicana grounded
  • Saturating voters?
  • US$569,000 in undeclared cash
  • Colonel dead
  • Awarding the Dumas
  • Legislators recognize Junot Diaz
  • Can he do it?
  • Aguayo jumps in the rankings
  • Friday sales
Thursday, 01 May 2008
  • Fernandez makes promises
  • Subsidy for chicken
  • Pakistan investing in the DR
  • Germany/Spain will donate
  • Education Plan criticized
  • Health Minster talks tough
  • DR's beef with Guatemala
  • Minier of the Congos honored
  • Junot Diaz speaks at CMS
  • Padres inaugurate complex
  • DR boxers qualify for Beijing
  • Horford doubles; Hawks lose
  • Thursday sales
Wednesday, 30 April 2008
  • IKEA in Santo Domingo
  • Fernandez on corruption
  • New 10-Year Education Plan
  • Generic meds will cost less
  • Chinese medicine at HOMS
  • Small business needs simplicity
  • Basic foods are "assembled"
  • Porvenir produces sweet millions
  • The EU has millions for bananas
  • FTA needs revisions
  • Tragic accident near Azua
  • A.M. A cop once more
  • Derek Walcott speaks tonight
  • COE issues YELLOW ALERT
  • Wednesday sales
Tuesday, 29 April 2008
  • FTZ get renovated
  • ILO says DR doing better
  • Paredes defends subsidies
  • Taiwan donates more
  • Derek Walcott here
  • Current accounts deficit balloons
  • Central American advantage
  • Life after the election
  • Energy subsidy not sustainable
  • PLD challenges colleges
  • Pepe Goico acquitted
  • Zayayines back in the fold
  • Weather report
  • Horford, Hawks even series
  • Tuesday sales
Monday, 28 April 2008
  • National debt hits US$14 billion
  • CODETEL guarantees transmissions
  • Metro trials extended
  • Wheat subsidy triples
  • Rice wholesalers cry foul
  • UP up up
  • A.M. A time of lean cows
  • Bani suffers water shortage
  • Forty-eight hours without crime
  • Aid mission to Haiti attacked
  • Accidents cause blackouts
  • Assailants get thirty years
  • South wins student games
  • More rains today
  • Monday sales
Friday, 25 April 2008
  • Expatriate voting times
  • Resurrecting the CB
  • Tourism Dept clashes
  • Dominican economic outlook
  • Fifth time won't be lucky
  • Rains cause damage
  • Venezuela to revisit PetroCaribe
  • Cheaper rice shipped to Haiti
  • DR exporting yuca
  • Linking Haiti, PR and DR?
  • Dominicans earn more
  • DR spared new US baggage rules
  • Ortiz jersey nets big cash
  • DR wins 3 bronze in FINA masters
  • Friday sales
Thursday, 24 April 2008
  • Fernandez inaugurates works
  • Plantain theft clampdown
  • Earning peanuts is utopian
  • CB money not enough
  • Taiwan on DR ties
  • Taiwanese warships here
  • JCE says prove it
  • Vargas at AmCham
  • Women doctors march
  • DR 4th for overseas prostitution
  • Florian still in jail
  • Remembering history
  • Horford good; not a magician
  • Thursday sales!
Wednesday, 23 April 2008
  • Thousands flock to Book Fair
  • Metro: major attraction at Book Fair
  • Government sends foods to small shops
  • Heliport under construction
  • Small business DR-CAFTA workshop
  • Penalties for collecting without working
  • Privatization = jobs for politicians
  • Paying for luggage
  • Loto money divides family
  • His freedom lasted seven hours
  • Bomb factory in Bonao
  • Stealing plantains!
  • COE issues red and green alerts
  • Wednesday sales
Tuesday, 22 April 2008
  • Fernandez at Feria del Libro
  • Money laundering common
  • Central Bank injects US$100M
  • Why imports don't cost less
  • New business magazine
  • UASD students get funds
  • Car buyers prefer pre-owned
  • Veganos begin rebuilding
  • Tornados are not so rare
  • Hillary loves the DR
  • Call centers catch on
  • Florida is Presidente territory
  • Papi woke up
  • Horford does well in debut
  • Tuesday sales
Monday, 21 April 2008
  • Fernandez leads in Gallup poll
  • Book Fair opens today
  • Metro to offer free rides to fair
  • KEPCO in the DR
  • Maternity hospital deaths
  • Flea Market overflows
  • Tourism not reaching the poor
  • Ten-year plan for agriculture
  • Diesel behind hikes in food
  • Euro adds to medicine bills
  • Alert system for Tavera
  • Tornadoes hit three provinces
  • Green Alert for much of the DR
  • Car falls three floors
  • Cyber-criminals jailed
Friday, 18 April 2008
  • Fernandez reaches deal
  • Chinatown opens
  • DR should be OK
  • Anyone can be general
  • Strike IV and do it again
  • Customs getting stronger
  • Workers raises
  • Animal Welfare Conference
  • Appeal denied Figueroa to jail
  • On his way to 500
  • "I'm thirty uh..."
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
  • Elections on schedule
  • Campaign closings
  • Poultry farmers start getting paid
  • Commission to look at prices
  • Cost of living and jobs are main issues
  • ANJE looks at government spending
  • Banreservas: RD$9.5 billion earnings
  • Cardinal calls for aid for Haiti
  • ER doctors call for bike lanes
  • Teachers march today
  • Doctors reject government proposal
  • Armed Forces on alert on frontier
  • Goal: zero corruption at DNCD
  • Rain on the way
  • Wednesday sales
Tuesday, 15 April 2008
  • CID poll: PLD 40.6%
  • Fernandez speaks
  • Vargas proposes cutting taxes
  • JB bridge getting makeover
  • NG plays down effects of recession
  • We have food
  • Trying to keep prices down
  • Prices up, consumption up
  • Taking on more foreign debt
  • IDB is big lender
  • DR urges Haitian stability
  • Coke galore
  • Killer cops go free
  • Manny's the man
  • Jersey brings curse?
  • Tuesday sales
Monday, 14 April 2008
  • 1000 jobs at Metro
  • Presses roll on May ballots
  • Hamilton-El Dia: Fernandez 48%
  • Jewish leaders in Sosua
  • Food dependency is a worry