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Shell signs a deal to sell its business in the countrySANTO DOMINGO. The Shell Company announced yesterday that it signed a sales agreement for its businesses in the Dominican Republic, with the Grupo Sol, with the exception of Lubricantes Dominicanos (Lubridom). The multinational, even though it did not give out the amount that is involved in the sale, reported that the deal has still not gone through, but the agreement includes the service...
Prosecutor details assets of "legal" wife of FigueroaSANTO DOMINGO. The District Attorney for the National District assured reporters that Leavy yadira Nin Batista and/or Fior Jansen Rodriguez, the wife of the fugitive Jose D. Figueroa Agosto, has...
 The JCE holds public hearings todaySANTO DOMINGO. The different factions of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) will face off today in public hearings at the Contentious Chamber of the Central Electoral Board (JCE) that will hear...
 Government to review undefined sections of FTASANTO DOMINGO. The government and local industries are having problems with the DR-CAFTA agreement due to the fact that the agreement did not define the special tax status of many items. The...
 DNCD, Police and Prosecutors fight for supremacySANTO DOMINGO. An assistant prosecutor who complained of a video montage that shows him supposedly stuffing a fistful of Euros inside a bullet-proof vest during a search of the Solano Exchange House,... Authorities submit 40 for stealing electricitySANTO DOMINGO. The electricity authorities released the list with the names of 156 persons and businesses involved in electricity frauds for a total of RD$14 million in detriment of the electricity...
 Dozens flock to job fairSANTO DOMINGO. Joan Mendez left Haina at 7 in the morning with her curriculum in her hand. She took a bus that left her in the Centro de los Heroes (La Feria), next to the Ministry of Labor, where...
 WB approves US$300 million for social reformsWASHINGTON. The board of directors of the World Bank (WB) approved yesterday two loans for US$300 million for the support of reforms aimed at bettering the results in the social sector, mostly for...
A book on the life of Angelita Trujillo to be publishedSANTO DOMINGO. The unpublished work on Angelita Trujillo is in the last phases of printing. The book will be about the life and government of her father, the dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo...
 DNCD arrests 4 more in HigueyHIGUEY. The National Department for Drug Control (DNCD) reported yesterday the capture of 4 more men in the sugar cane fields of the "batey" Palo Bonito related to the small plane captured in...
 Three and an aircraft that brought drugs capturedSD. The National Department for Drug Control (DNCD) occupied a small plane and arrested three men, two Colombians and a Dominican, surprised in a rural community of Higuey, where the aircraft landed... AMET haul away 2,438 vehiclesSD. The hunt by the troops of the Metropolitan Transit Authority (AMET) for vehicles that had not renewed their license plates-basically a sticker on the windscreen-began yesterday. During the hunt...
 Three months in Najayo for Eddy BritoSANTO DOMINGO. The judge of the Sixth Court of Instruction of the National District, Clara Luz Almonte Gomez, ordered Eddy Brito sent to the Najayo Prison for three months of preventive custody....
 Study Reveals DR among the most corrupt SANTO DOMINGO. The Dominican Republic has remained as one of the most corrupt countries in Latin America, as it scored a total of 3.0 (on a scale of 0-10), in the Index of Perception of Corruption...
 Marranzini says lights will be on for ChristmasSANTO DOMINGO. The Dominican power generation equipment is obsolete, in so far as 60^of the generation is based on fuel oil or diesel. Of some 80 plants, 47 use fuels and the rest are hydroelectric...