2018News

Showing of collector’s outstanding works by leading Dominican artists

The National School of Visual Artes presents “El Dibujo en Colecciones Dominicanas,” a selection of 60 drawings, ceramics and sculptures by outstanding Dominican artists that are part of private national collections. Diario Libre says this could be the most important exhibition of the year. The curators for the exhibition are Alonso Cuevas and Rosalba Hernandez. …
2018News

FIFA orders special commission for Dominican Football Association

The Bureau of the Football International Federation Association (FIFA) Council has decided to appoint a normalization committee for the Dominican Republic Football Association (Fedofutbol) in accordance with the FIFA Statutes. The decision concerning the Dominican Republic comes after a joint FIFA/Concacaf mission, which was dispatched to Santo Domingo following the recent decision of the FIFA …
2018News

Employee on remand in jail for stealing confiscated motorcycles

National District judge José Alejandro Vargas has handed down coercive measures of three months in preventive custody to a former employee of the National District Prosecution Office. Ramón Antonio Paulino Suriel is accused of stealing 19 motorcycles that had been confiscated as evidence in different judicial cases. Via a press release, the Prosecution Service said …
2018News

Haiti announces freezing of Felix Bautista company accounts

Port-au-Prince Haiti’s Government Commissioner Clamé-Ocnam Daméus has issued an order to freeze the bank accounts of 36 companies linked to the supposed corruption detected in the Petrocaribe program of the Venezuelan government. The decision was taken following an investigation ordered by the Haitian government into the program by means of which Venezuela provided petroleum to …
2018News

More protection for tourists

The directors of the National Institute of the Protection of Consumer Rights (Proconsumidor) and the Specialized Corps of Tourist Security (Cestur), Anina del Castillo and Juan Carlos Torres Robiou, respectively, have signed an agreement to respond more efficiently and effectively to complaints made by tourists. The complaints tourists most often report are about changes in …