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=224166 DL English SANTO 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... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=224166 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=224165 DL English SANTO 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 multiple assets, besides the fact of her excessive economic growth, which cannot be justified by any legitimate source.In a brief in which he asks the judge of the Sixth Court of Instruction, Clara Luz... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=224165 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=224164 DL English SANTO 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 The unpublished work on Angelita Trujillo is in the last phases of printing.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 Molina.The source that informed Diario Libre regarding this scoop said that the release date has been set for 15 January 2010. The source did not discard the possibility that the book might go on sale before... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=224164 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=224163 DL English SANTO 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 the challenges imposed against the results of the XXVII Ordinary National Convention.The PRD president, Miguel Vargas Maldonado, announced that lawyers Hugo Tolentino Dipp and Enmanuel Esquea... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=224163 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=224162 DL English HIGUEY. 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 the province of La Altagracia on Wednesday morning.The persons detained are the Colombian Jose Luis Moreno Torres, the Venezuelan Jose Eltinio Vivas, the Haitian William Boyer-La Rata-and the... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=224162 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=224015 DL English SANTO 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 information was offered by Rafael Camilo, the Customs director, who said that the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with this region has sections for free zones, the return of taxes and the payment of income tax and... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=224015 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=224014 DL English SD. 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 and probably was unloaded of its cocaine cargo. The authorities are trying to establish the whole story and carrying out searches in different areas of the provinces of La Altagracia and La... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=224014 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=224013 DL English SANTO 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, warned that "we are fighting against interests that are encrusted in security agencies of the State that are accustomed to stealing in the most gross and unpunished manner the assets seized from... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=224013 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=224012 DL English SD. 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 they rounded up 2.438 vehicles, of which 1,161 were in Greater Santo Domingo, the North region (505), the East (399), the South (204) and in the Northeast (169).The vehicle owners that had not... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=224012 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=224011 DL English SANTO 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 distributors.Of those involved, in the majority in the National District, 116 have made deals with the Distributors (EDEs), while 40 were sent to stand trial, including 15 persons which were issued... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=224011 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=224010 DL English SANTO 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. Brito has been implicated in the file of laundering money from drug trafficking together with his ex-wife Sobeida Felix Morel and the Puerto Rican Jose D. Figueroa Agosto, both fugitives.Meanwhile, the... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=224010 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=223840 DL English SANTO 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 starting yesterday they are holding a job fair."I want a job so I can go back to school and finish my degree that I had halted because of a lack of money", he explained when asked what his... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=223840 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=223839 DL English 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 2009 (IPC), published yesterday by the Transparency International organizations in the Global Barometer of Corruption.According to the study, the country occupies the 21st position of the 31 countries... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=223839 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=223838 DL English WASHINGTON. 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 social protection, education and health, as well as for the quality and efficiency of public expenditures, at a time when this will lessen the impact of the global recession in the public finances of... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=223838 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=223837 DL English SANTO 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 stations.Fully 36.7% of the installed megawatt capacity as of December 2008, equal to 1,153.7 megawatts, functions with fuel oil #6. There is an installed capacity of 466.4 megawatts that uses fuel oil... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=223837 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=223698 DL English LONDON. The Minister of Tourism, Francisco Javier Garcia, announced that a group of Spanish investors will travel in two weeks to the country to present a formal proposal to the government with the idea of providing capital to the national airline Air Dominicana, an operation that they feel would require a US$300 million investment.He said that "these investors are going to completely... Tue, 17 Nov 2009 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=223698 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=223697 DL English SANTO DOMINGO. The search for Sobeida Felix Morel has extended its range of action to the city of Gaspar Hernandez where the Police carried out several searches and held the former father in law, Saturnino Brito, for questioning.According to the National Police (PN), Saturnino Brito, the father of former husband Eddy Brito, "gave a lot of information that cannot be revealed".Meanwhile,... Tue, 17 Nov 2009 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=223697 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=223696 DL English SANTO DOMINGO. The principle savings and loan associations and commercial banks were full of people who waited until the last minute to renew their vehicle license plate stickers.The three month period set out by the Director General of Internal Taxes (DGII) for the renewal of the stickers (called ‘marbetes') comes to a close today, 17 November, and the authorities reported that there will be no... Tue, 17 Nov 2009 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=223696 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=223695 DL English Even though it has received RD$1.5 billion, the city council of Boca Chica cannot show one public works project worth more than RD$10 million built with their own money. Their principle asset, the beaches, are uncared for; there is no market or municipal slaughterhouse and most of the streets looks to be in disrepair. The council has a monthly income of RD$10 million. BOCA CHICA. The mid-term... Tue, 17 Nov 2009 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=223695 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=223694 DL English SANTO DOMINGO. The National Development Council (CND) met for three hours yesterday and approved the budget proposal of income and public expenditures for 2010. They approved RD$378.9 billion pesos, RD$50.0 billion more than this year.At the end of the meeting Minister of Hacienda Vicente Bengoa held a press conference in the Orlando Martinez Room of the Presidential Palace where he explained... Tue, 17 Nov 2009 -0400 http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=223694