SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- The Member States of the Organization of American States (OAS) agreed on Thursday in Santo Domingo to institutionalize the Meeting of Ministers Responsible for Public Security in the Americas (MISPA) to strengthen cooperation against delinquency. read more...

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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- The President of the Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernández, met Wednesday with the Secretary General of the Organization of American States, ministers, vice ministers and heads of delegation attending the Second Meeting of Ministers Responsible for Public Security... read more...

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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (Reuters) -- The Dominican Republic will conclude in the next 15 days the sale to Venezuela of a 49 percent stake in its Refidomsa oil refinery, at a price of $131.5 million, the Caribbean nation's government said on Wednesday. Finance Minister Vicente Bengoa said... read more...

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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, called on Wednesday for closer cooperation among authorities in the hemisphere to fight crime and violence, during his speech at the opening ceremony of the Second Meeting of... read more...

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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AFP) -- Venezuela's state-owned oil giant PDVSA has agreed to buy nearly half of the government-owned Dominican Oil Refinery for 131.5 million dollars, Dominica's finance minister said. Talks to sell 49 percent of the refinery shares concluded late Thursday. read more...

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WASHINGTON, USA -- The Second Meeting of Ministers Responsible for Public Security in the Americas (known by its Spanish acronym, MISPA II) was described on Friday by the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, as a meeting of great importance. read more...

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BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CUOPM) -- New flights by British Airways to St Kitts and other Caribbean destinations will mean an additional 2,000 seats to the region. BA will operate a total 55 flights a week from London to the Caribbean, with 11 destinations served from Gatwick and three from Heathrow. read more...

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WASHINGTON, USA (Reuters) -- The Inter-American Development Bank on Wednesday approved a $500 million loan to support social programs and to streamline energy subsidies in the Dominican Republic. "The country will use the IADB financing to increase spending on targeted subsidies, education..." read more...

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SANTO DOMINGO (Bloomberg) -- The Dominican Republic has hired Barclays Plc and Citigroup to arrange the country’s first international dollar bond sale in more than three years. The government may sell as much as $600 million of bonds, said Roberto Cabanas, head of general financing at the Public Credit Office. read more...

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CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti (AFP) -- Former US president Bill Clinton, visiting Haiti in his capacity as a United Nations special envoy, wrapped up a two-day trip with a call for tourists to visit the Caribbean country. "I love this place. It's wonderful. I see the potential," he said as he visited Cap-Haitien, on the country's north coast. read more...

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BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) -- Venezuelan magnate Gustavo Cisneros will build a $2 billion tourist resort in the Dominican Republic to be called The Tropicalia, a statement issued by Cisneros' business group said on Wednesday. The resort is expected to take about 20 years to build. read more...

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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (BGIS) -- Barbados' Minister of Foreign Affairs, Senator Maxine McClean, and her Dominican Republic counterpart, Carlos Morales Troncoso, have discussed bilateral cooperation between the two nations, with a view to identifying ways and means of deepening that friendship. read more...

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MIAMI, USA -- The Dominican Republic has extended Marine Exploration, Inc's "in-country" contract for another two years. Further, the contract expands the contracted search area into waters that are of high interest to Marine Exploration. Marine Exploration anticipate locating and recovering historic shipwrecks. read more...

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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- Proposed changes to the constitution of the Dominican Republic could lead to a ban on abortions, putting the lives of women and girls at risk and potentially increasing maternal deaths in the country, Amnesty International has warned. read more...

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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- Different sectors in the Dominican Republic have reacted with outrage about what they describe as "a persistent, unfair and slanderous" campaign the English-Spanish priest Christopher Hartley Sartorius has waged in relation to the treatment given to Haitian workers. read more...

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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- US Coast Guard Cutters Venturous, Kodiak Island and several vessels from the Dominican Republic Navy concluded a seven-day joint maritime law enforcement operation in the Mona Passage Saturday off the southeastern coast of the Dominican Republic. read more...

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The Haitian-New York Diaspora as well as the Florida and the Canadian Diaspora are well accounted for in their contribution in helping Haiti to sustain itself while the country is still in coma. Yet the 1.2 million Haitians in the Dominican Republic are soon becoming one of the largest mass of middle class stock on the island. read more...

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) -- Tropical Storm Erika weakened to a tropical depression in the northeast Caribbean on Thursday but still threatened Puerto Rico and neighboring islands with heavy rainfall, the US National Hurricane Center said. Most government offices and schools closed early on Thursday. read more...

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KINGSTON, Jamaica (Panos) -- Thirty young environment advocates from 12 Caribbean islands met in the Dominican Republic recently to discuss climate change issues in the region and to gain insights into effective ways to get the public and their respective governments to engage with climate change. read more...

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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (Reuters) -- The Dominican Republic will open formal talks with the International Monetary Fund this week aimed at securing $1.5 billion in new assistance from the multinational lender. A possible standby agreement with the IMF was announced by the central bank. read more...

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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (Bloomberg) -- The Dominican Republic’s dollar bonds will “outperform” the market as the country moves closer to reaching an agreement with the International Monetary Fund, Barclays Plc said. The country’s economic growth slowed to 1 percent in the first quarter. read more...

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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (Reuters) -- The Dominican Republic will seek a fresh loan from the World Bank or Inter-American Development Bank to help finance a fiscal deficit triggered by a severe economic downturn, authorities said. The government has flatly ruled out tax increases to cover the deficit. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The Population Reference Bureau's 2009 World Population Data Sheet released recently shows a significant number of nationals in five Caribbean countries live on less than US$2 a day. Those countries are: Haiti, St Lucia, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and Suriname. read more...

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The saying that old wounds run deep has never proven truer than in the case of the relationship between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, the two countries sharing the island of Hispaniola. Since declaring independence from its neighbor in 1844, the Dominican Republic has visibly outmatched Haiti read more...

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NEW YORK, USA (Reuters) -- Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz said taking nutritional supplements may have caused him to land on a 2003 list of Major League players who tested positive for performance-enhancing substances. The burly, 33-year-old Ortiz was among 104 players who tested positive. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Guyana and the Dominican Republic (DR) may sign an agreement allowing their citizens to travel between the two countries without a visa, aimed at increasing trade and cultural interchange between the nations. This was agreed to Tuesday during a luncheon hosted by the DR’s President. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- President of Guyana and current chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Bharrat Jagdeo is to be a special guest of the government during this weekend's Emancipation celebrations in Jamaica. Jagdeo made this disclosure on Tuesday during a media conference here. read more...

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) -- Haiti and the Dominican Republic reinforced troops at their shared border after violence broke out at a protest in the Dominican Republic demanding extradition of a Haitian man accused of murder in both countries, Haiti's foreign minister said on Monday. read more...

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WASHINGTON, USA -- The government of the Dominican Republic recently ratified the Inter-American Convention to Facilitate Disaster Assistance. The ratification document was formally deposited before the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS), in Washington, DC. read more...

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NEW YORK, USA (Reuters) -- A tropical wave over the Dominican Republic and Haiti won't develop into a tropical cyclone over the next day or so, and will not reach the oil rich Gulf of Mexico, the US National Hurricane Center and weather models forecast on Wednesday. read more...

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- The crew of US Coast Guard Cutter Matinicus repatriated 11 Dominican migrants to La Romana, Dominican Republic on Tuesday, following an at-sea interdiction by the Coast Guard Cutter Key Largo on Sunday. The crew of the Key Largo detained two other Dominican men. read more...

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TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- Elio Rojas of the Dominican Republic scored a resounding points victory over Takahiro Aoh of Japan to become the new World Boxing Council (WBC) featherweight champion on Tuesday. The three judges scored it 116-113, 117-111, 118-110, all in favour of Rojas. read more...

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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- Urging island nations to harness the power of the oceans for their energy needs, development experts have unveiled some of the world's most innovative technologies using cold sea water. "We're talking about using cold sea water to make cold, hard cash" ... read more...

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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- Enrique De Marchena Kaluche, president of the Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association, is urging the Caribbean to “strengthen international advertising and programs” to counter the effects of the tourism reductions seen across most of the region. read more...

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IRVINE, USA.-- Men and women in the Dominican Republic will soon have access to genetic tests for predicting the risk of male or female hair loss thanks to a distribution agreement announced on Tuesday by pharmacogenomics research and development innovator PharmaGenoma, Inc. and its subsidiary HairDX, LLC. read more...

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NEW YORK, USA (Bloomberg) -- Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes SA, Brazil’s second-largest airline, is adding routes to the Caribbean and smaller domestic cities while scaling back flights in the rest of South America as demand slows, Chief Executive Officer Constantino de Oliveira Jr. said. read more...

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CORAL HARBOUR, Bahamas (BIS) -- As a result of information received from US law enforcement officials, a Dominican-registered vessel with 11 persons onboard was arrested for allegedly fishing in the territorial waters of The Bahamas by the Royal Bahamas Defence Force. read more...

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WASHINGTON, USA -- The Permanent Representative of the Dominican Republic to the Organization of American States (OAS), Ambassador Virgilio Alcántara, was unanimously elected to chair the Joint Working Group of the OAS Permanent Council and the Permanent Executive Committee of the... read more...

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BASSETERRE, St Kitts (Reuters) -- Venezuela has agreed with the Dominican Republic to acquire a 49 percent stake in the country's Refidomsa oil refinery after the Dominican government bought out the half share in the plant held by Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Venezuela's oil minister said. read more...

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Matinicus and a Dominican Republic Navy Shiprider repatriated 11 Dominican migrants to La Romana, Dominican Republic on Friday afternoon.
The migrants were interdicted at-sea by Caribbean Border Interagency law enforcement authorities Thursday. read more...

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