http://www.diariolibre.com/ es-es Copyright 2008 Diario Libre powered by OverKontrol 60 News http://www.diariolibre.com/rss/rss.gif http://www.diariolibre.com/ Todas las noticas que se publican en nuestra portada. http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255418 DL English SANTO DOMINGO. In the face of the pressure mounted by the business sector and the opposition parties who are against the indexing of the fuels and the modification of the law that created Proindustria, the administration convened a dialogue and a meeting to be held this Monday at the Presidential Palace with President Fernandez and his economic team. The information was offered yesterday by... Fri, 30 Jul 2010 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255418 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255423 DL English WASHINGTON. The report by the high-level commission of the OAS regarding Honduras says nothing regarding the future of the country in the organization and while it does recognize advances, it also reports evidence that key aspect are still pending resolution, such as the situation of the deposed president Manuel Zalaya and human rights. The document has seven recommendations that should serve... Fri, 30 Jul 2010 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255423 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255422 DL English SANTO DOMINGO. The president of the Social Christian Reformist Party (PRSC), Carlos Morales Troncoso, reported yesterday that this political organization is discussing with its political ally the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), the presidencies of 65 city councils in different municipalities. He indicated that even though both organizations are "talking" also about the Dominican... Fri, 30 Jul 2010 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255422 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255421 DL English SANTIAGO. After accepting the request by the District Attorney for Santiago, the judge for the Court of Instruction, Agueda Garcia, ordered coercive measures consisting of eight months preventive custody for the three defendants in the case of the multi-million fraud case in the local Customs office. At the same time, she declared the case to be complex. While the defendants, Miguel Angel... Fri, 30 Jul 2010 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255421 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255420 DL English SANTO DOMINGO. The Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) voided, by means of Sentence 199, the contract for picking up the garbage in the city of East Santo Domingo (SDE) and ordered the mayor Juan de los Santos to hold a new, transparent and orderly tender, where all of the companies that so desire can take part. The contract for garbage pickup was granted to the Higiene Integral company, but the... Fri, 30 Jul 2010 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255420 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255419 DL English SANTO DOMINGO. A new, national anti-dengue campaign for the prevention of the disease gets underway today. It will continue through Sunday, headed by the Ministry of Public Health and other state institutions, and aimed at stopping the propagation of the disease in the population. The scenario chosen for the beginning of the outreach is the La Cienega barrio in the National District, where,... Fri, 30 Jul 2010 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255419 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255267 DL English SANTIAGO. The judge of the Court of Instruction in Santiago withdrew herself from the proceedings on coercive measures against the persons accuses of an alleged embezzlement of RD100 million committed in the regional offices of the Director General of Customs (DGA) in Santiago. Magistrate Agueda Garcia said that she had to inhibit herself because she has close ties with the parents of one of the... Thu, 29 Jul 2010 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255267 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255266 DL English SANTO DOMINGO. President Leonel Fernandez will receive today the President-elect from Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, in the Presidential Palace. Santo will arrive in the Dominican Republic a little after 6:00 o'clock in the evening and will go at once to the seat of government. At 7:15 p. m. he will hold a working meeting with the Dominican leader in his office at the Presidential Palace. At... Thu, 29 Jul 2010 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255266 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255265 DL English SANTO DOMINGO. The medical and nursing personnel at the Dr. Arturo Grullon Regional Children's Hospital in Santiago in order to better attend the patients affected with dengue fever that are hospitalized in the facility where so far this year there have been 16 fatalities due to the disease. The announcement was made by the Vice Minister of Public Health, Jose Rodriguez Aybar, at the end of a... Thu, 29 Jul 2010 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255265 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255263 DL English SANTO DOMINGO. The American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) suggested yesterday that the Administration "carefully weigh" the tax measures that are being studied, such as the indexation of the fuels and the elimination of fiscal incentives because in the actual context they might aggravate the effects of the deceleration of the world economy in the country. This was the position taken by... Thu, 29 Jul 2010 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255263 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255262 DL English SANTO DOMINGO. A judge ordered the release on a bail bond for the Colombian German Eduardo Duque Garcia, an alleged partner of Arturo del Tiempo Marquez, who is implicated in a stash of 1,200 kg of cocaine that were seized on 2 March in Spain. The acting magistrate of the Seventh Copurt of Instruction of the National District, Nataly Nova changed the coercive measure of preventive custody for an... Thu, 29 Jul 2010 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255262 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255128 DL English SANTO DOMINGO. The principle industrial associations called on the population yesterday to now allow themselves to be confused by the arguments presented by the Minister of the Hacienda, Vicente Calderon, who is trying to modify the Law on Industrial Competitiveness and Innovation that was created by Pro-industry because it supposedly promotes tax evasion. Likewise, they requested the urgent... Wed, 28 Jul 2010 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255128 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255127 DL English SANTIAGO. The embezzlement of more than RD$100 million that was discovered in the regional offices of the Director General of Customs (DGA) has created a major scandal in the city of Santiago, because four officials of the government office were arrested yesterday and put under investigation in relation to the fraud. The scandal has mainly impacted the membership of the administration's... Wed, 28 Jul 2010 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255127 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255126 DL English SANTO DOMINGO. President Leonel Fernandez will travel to Barahona today in order to kick off the construction of the Monte Grande Dam, as well as the refurbishing and complementary works of the Sabana Yegua Dan. The ceremony of the first earth movement is scheduled for 4:00 o'clock this afternoon. The infrastructure project, with its projected investment of US$270 million, has created great... Wed, 28 Jul 2010 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255126 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255125 DL English SANTO DOMINGO. Sobeida Feliz Morel arrived in Puerto Rico on a speedboat after escaping through the eastern part of the Dominican Republic. According to reliable sources to which Diario Libre has access, Felix Morel has revealed to Dominican and Puerto Rican authorities the manner in which she abandoned the country after obtaining her freedom on bail. Sobeida is supposed to have said that... Wed, 28 Jul 2010 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255125 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255124 DL English SANTO DOMINGO. Faced with the high number of fatalities attributed to the dengue fever that have been reported in Santiago, the authorities from Public Health decided to intervene today in 16 barrios of the city and in Villa Gonzalez with the objective of reducing the breeding places of the mosquito vector. So far in 2010 there have been 16 fatalities attributed to dengue in Santiago. This new... Wed, 28 Jul 2010 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255124 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255121 DL English SANTO DOMINGO. The Executive branch sent to the Senate, in the hands of the Minister of the Hacienda, three legislative proposals. One of them modifies the 2010 Budget, another unifies the administration, collection and controls of the Selective Consumer Taxes applied to fossil fuels and those derived from petroleum and the third deals with the rationalization of exemptions and tax expenses and... Wed, 28 Jul 2010 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=255121 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=254959 DL English SANTO DOMINGO. The Chamber of Deputies made into law the legislation that creates the Council of the Judicial Power (CPJ) that will be the permanent body for the administration and discipline of the Judicial Branch with the attributions assigned by the Constitution and the law. The Council of the Judicial Power will be made up of five judges that will remain in their posts for five years, with... Tue, 27 Jul 2010 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=254959 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=254958 DL English SANTO DOMINGO. The attitude of the local authorities regarding cases that they are investigating makes one think of the stanza of that song by "El Caballo" Johnny Ventura that talked about "feinting but never hitting". On several occasions, "earthshaking" ne information or names of persons involved in criminal cases have been threatened to be released but they are never... Tue, 27 Jul 2010 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=254958 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=254957 DL English SANTO DOMINGO. Another minor died because of hemorrhagic dengue in Santiago, bringing the number of fatalities from the disease in the province to 16. The victim is Rosa Nicole Sanchez, 11, who died during the min-morning of Sunday in the Intensive Care Unit of the Dr. Arturo Grullon Children's Hospital in Santiago. The provincial director of Public Health, Ramon Martinez Henriquez, confirmed... Tue, 27 Jul 2010 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=254957