Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
SANTO DOMINGO.- The Inter-American Development Bank’s (I.D.B.) new representative affirmed that the United States financial crisis won’t affect its US$736 million loans portfolio in Dominican Republic, nor the one for the 2008-2012 period to be discussed next month.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Puerto Plata. - United States ambassador Robert Fannin yesterday warned that an immense volume of money originating from drug trafficking is laundered in Dominican Republic and urged industrialists to collabrorate with the government in its war against it.
Talking Chop (Free subscription) | yesterday
BA's International Signing's Wrapup Baseball America posted their wrapup of NL East teams' international signings (subscription required). They listed each of these Braves players who signed for more than six figures: LHP Carlos Perez, Dominican Republic, 16; OF Fredy Gamboa, Columbia, 16; RHP Ernesto Silva, Panama, 16; OF Hector Garcia, Columbia, OF, 16; RHP Wei Cheng Huang, Taiwan, 18; SS Fernando...
MetsBlog (Free subscription) | yesterday
On Tuesday, Mets RHP Ambiorix Burgos surrendered himself to authorities in the Dominican Republic and will serve three months in jail awaiting trail for allegedly killing two women in a hit-and-run accident last week. In a post to his blog, Big League Stew, ‘Duk posts a picture of Dominican authorities taking a smiling Burgos into custody [...]
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Lima.– Peruvian President Alan Garcia accepted Friday the
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Santo Domino.- The new Minister of Tourism yesterday asked the media’s Tourism and Economy editors to have a clear direction to mend what needs to be fixed in the country, in order to increase the arrival of investors and visitors.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
SANTO DOMINGO.- The Justice Ministry yesterday desisted from the prosecution against those convicted of fraud, arguing that the depositors didn’t file any criminal charges against the accused nor showed any interest on the matter.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
SANTO DOMINGO. – Fuel prices will fall as much as RD$13.16. starting Saturday morning, said the Industry and Commerce Ministry on its Web site today.
Miami Herlad (Free subscription) | yesterday
Baseball has been very, very good to the Dominican Republic. Or maybe we should say the Dominican Republic has been very, very good to U.S. baseball, producing some of this country's best players, such as the darling of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Manny Ramirez, and Mets players Pedro Martinez and Jose Reyes. More than 100 players from the Caribbean nation now don Major League Baseball uniforms.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
SANTO DOMINGO.- The National Technical and Vocational Training Institute(Infotep) trains staff needed by the tourism industry, said director Josefina Pimentel, who noted that the entity works with the Tourism Ministry to establish training centers in different tourist resorts.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
SANTO DOMINGO.- Starting 9 a.m. today the Santo Domingo Province Court of Appeals will continue the trial against ex Environment vice minister René Ledesma, charged with importing the industrial waste rockash.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
NAGUA. - New York Mets pitcher Ambiorix Burgos said he’s innocent in the September 30 deaths of Josefina Minaya and Anjeli Faña, killed while riding a motorbike on the Nagua-Cabrera highway, on the Dominican north coast. “I’m innocent…., I’m going to come out of this case because I haven’t committed the fact they blame me for.”
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
New York, USA .- The humorist Freddy Beras Goico launched his book "Part of my Life" in New York's Dominican community on Wednesday, at the Arka Lounge in Upper Manhattan, with a large group of media and local figures present.Present in the ceremony were Vidal Cedeño and Rene Brea, whom for 50 years produced Beras' shows.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Santo Domingo.- Dominican industrialist Fortunato Canaán, whose name figures in Peru’s “Petrogate” corruption scandal, used the political links of Peggy Cabral, the widow of the late political leader Jose Francisco Peña Gomez, to access that country’s power circles including cabinet chief Jorge del Castillo, and even meet with president Alan Garcia.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Santo Domingo.- President Leonel Fernandez last night headed the reinaugural of the Palacio de Bellas Artes, built in 1956, and now remodeled with all its surroundings, placed inthe hands of the Culture Ministry and all Dominicans 52 years later.
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fashionmagus | 09/30/2008
Kendra Wilkinson hosted a party in the Dominican Republic and for whatever reason,pulled her dress down to her waist exposing her breasts..Enjoy the view!
