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Dominican Republic
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Sunday, October 5, 2008
In league with baseball, beaches
Travel |
October 5, 2008
It is sunday morning, and the bell atop the oldest cathedral in the New World is ringing throughout Zona Colonial. Read more
Watch the boys of winter seek stardom
Travel |
October 5, 2008
Baseball has been very, very good to the Dominican Republic. Read more
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Dominican Republic: President Leonel Fernandez vows to boost agriculture / Afghanistan: U.S.-led coalition soldiers kill 30 militants / Germany: Humpback whale in Baltic Sea may be doomed
World |
August 17, 2008
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
President vows to boost agriculture
President Leonel Fernandez promised to boost agricultural production and warned of dire economic times as he was sworn in for a third term. Read more
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Dominican shift
Sports |
April 15, 2008
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – For decades, this island’s gifted young baseball prospects weren’t hard to find or sign – if those in the small fraternity of major league scouts were willing to beat the bushes and endure the hardships to track them down. Read more
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Smugglers see Haiti as a new narcotics route
World |
December 23, 2007
Three beefy men wearing wraparound sunglasses and gold chains
leaned against their SUV at this remote border crossing with the
Dominican Republic. Read more
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Rooting out cause of his problems
Sports |
December 19, 2007
SANTIAGO, Dominican Republic – For more than a week rain had
pounded the fertile farmland surrounding the Dominican Republic’s
second-largest city, knocking down power lines, causing rivers to
overflow and turning unpaved streets into rushing torrents of mud. Read more
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Science in Brief - Shipwreck may be Capt. Kidd’s
Science |
December 15, 2007
A U.S. underwater archeology team announced Thursday that it had
apparently discovered the shattered remnants of a ship once captained
by the notorious buccaneer William Kidd off a tiny Dominican Republic island. Read more
Tropical Storm Olga’s death toll rises to 38
World |
December 15, 2007
The discovery of the bodies of 12 Haitians who drowned on a farm
in the Dominican Republic raised the death toll from Tropical Storm
Olga to at least 38, authorities said Friday. Read more
Sunday, November 18, 2007
World in Brief | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Outbreak linked to tropical storm
World |
November 18, 2007
Standing water from Tropical Storm Noel last month is contributing
to an outbreak of the waterborne disease leptospirosis, killing 19
people and sickening more than 130, the Dominican health minister said. Read more
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
THE WORLD - World in Brief / DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Storm veers; at least 20 die in flooding
World |
October 30, 2007
Tropical Storm Noel veered into the Dominican Republic, causing
flooding and mudslides that killed at least 20 people and left
another 20 missing, officials said. Read more
Monday, October 22, 2007
AFGHANISTAN
World |
October 22, 2007
Taliban said to be using human shields
Taliban militants used Afghan civilians as human shields during a battle with U.S. forces in eastern Afghanistan that left 20 militants and one civilian dead and 11 wounded, officials said. Read more
World in Brief / DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Bankers convicted in ‘03 fiscal crisis
World |
October 22, 2007
Three Dominican banking executives were convicted for their roles
in a 2003 financial collapse that crippled the Caribbean country’s economy. Read more
Friday, October 19, 2007
Nothing sweet about ‘The Price of Sugar’
Entertainment |
October 19, 2007
In the new documentary “The Price of Sugar,” Haitian immigrants
are featured living in medieval squalor and their barefoot children
work next to elderly men, cutting sugar cane on Dominican plantations
that supply U.S. households. Read more
Sunday, July 15, 2007
A city’s poor dig in their heels on trees - Residents join to fight a Santo Domingo plan for palms to replace centuries-old vegetation that shades the parks.
World |
July 15, 2007
To escape her stifling apartment, to unwind from her monotonous job,
to tune out the squalor, noise and crime all around her, Josefina
Filmont has long taken refuge in the cool, green embrace of the old
mahogany trees skirting the fortress built here by the son of
Christopher Columbus. Read more
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Trade pact to be put to a vote
Business |
April 14, 2007
A free-trade pact once thought to be slam-dunk is now up for grabs in
Costa Rica, where President Oscar Arias on Friday announced that his
government would hold a national referendum on the controversial measure. Read more
Friday, April 21, 2006
Dominicans Wary of U.S. Military Presence
World |
April 21, 2006
Anyone casting a glance across the acres of armored vehicles,
aircraft and olive-drab shelters arrayed around an abandoned airstrip
here might be forgiven for assuming the U.S. armed forces have come
to stay. Read more
Monday, April 3, 2006
A New Offshore Money Center?
Business |
April 3, 2006
For a country that has just survived the biggest banking crisis in
recent Latin American history, it might seem a tad ambitious to
launch an offshore financial center. Read more
Wednesday, March 8, 2006
It’s a Long-Ball World for Ortiz and Dominicans
Sports |
March 8, 2006
How appropriate that the clash of Latin titans from the Dominican
Republic and Venezuela in a World Baseball Classic opener was held at
a Disney sports complex Tuesday. Read more
Thursday, January 12, 2006
24 Haitians Suffocate in Smuggling Attempt
World |
January 12, 2006
Police said 24 Haitians crammed into a van that smuggled them into
the Dominican Republic had suffocated. Read more
Monday, May 2, 2005
Columbus’ Purported Remains Are Still Bones of Contention
World |
May 2, 2005
It’s been nearly two years since Spanish scientists asked to examine
the contents of this Caribbean nation’s most celebrated tomb to
determine whether the centuries-old bones are actually those of
Christopher Columbus. Read more
