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Santo Domingo.- The Industry and Commerce Ministry froze most fuel prices for the second straight week from Saturday, November 21 to Friday, the 27th, when a gallon of premium gasoline will still cost RD$160.80, and RD$150.60 for regular.

Santo Domingo.- Homegrown Hollywood movie star and producer Manny Perez will bring his latest film to the country\s most coveted venue, as part of the 3rd Global Film Festival inaugurated by president Loenel Fernandez on Monday with a special tribute to Omar Sharif.

Santo Domingo.- President Leonel Fernandez will visit the country’s eastern region tomorrow Saturday to inaugurate the paving of streets and avenues in El Seibo, and break ground for the construction of the Villas Puerto Marina, in Cap Cana.

International.-- An independent expert, commissioned by Greenpeace, has concluded that two nuclear reactors, currently under construction in Finland and France, suffer from serious safety flaws....

Santo Domingo.- The ruling PLD party on Friday announced Rafael Calderon as its Azua province (south) senatorial candidate for next year’s elections, after the ex senior leader of the opposition PRD had expelled him on Wednesday.

Santo Domingo.- Austria’s Development Bank has 100 million euros available for the Dominican Government or businesses interested in investing in renewable energy, whose only requirement is to present a well structured business plan.

Santo Domingo.- The National District prosecutor on Thursday affirmed that Forensics confirmed that the video the Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) provided to blame one of his officials isn’t real, an incident which reveals a growing turf war the local media has reported recently

Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Government on Thursday bestowed the Heraldic Order Cristóbal Columbus on the legendary Egyptian actor Omar Sharif, in recognition of his successful film career .

Santo Domingo.- Armed Forces minister Pedro Rafael Peña announced that several Dominican pilots will fly to Brazil next week to bring the first two of the nine Super Tucanos airplanes the country acquired to intercept drug trafficking flights.

Santo Domingo.- The Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) yesterday announced it arrested four more men in the sugarcane fields at the village Palo Bonito, in connection with the single engine plane seized in Altagracia province (east) Wednesday morning.

SANTO DOMINGO. – U.S. officials warned on Thursday that Dominican Republic and Haiti have become the main bridges to traffic drugs from Venezuela to his country and Europe, a criminal link which includes West Africa and the Caribbean.

Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Electrical Industry Association’s (ADIE) Council of Directors met Wednesday with State-owned Power Companies (CDEEE) executive vice president Celso Marranzini, to deal with the topic of the Dominican energy sector’s current and future situation.

Santo Domingo.- The Progreso bank’s basketball team performed flawlessly in Bancentralianos Games Santo Domingo, winning in several the sport’s categories of annual activity hosted by the Central Bank.

Santo Domingo.- A National District judge on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling which sent Manuel E. Mesa Beltre (El Gringo) to prison, on money laundering and drug trafficking charges.

Santo Domingo.- As of Thursday noon Metropolitan Transit Authority (AMET) agents have impounded 2,438 vehicles nationwide, for being on the roads without the license plate renewal label, in the second day of a relentless operation.

SANTO DOMINGO. - The company Shell agreed to sell its commercial and industrial service stations, its distribution and marketing of lubricants in the Dominican Republic to the group Sol, though the negotiations don’t include Lubridom.

Santo Domingo. – While tensions from the raging dispute for internal posts continue in the country’s biggest opposition party PRD, and the once powerful but now skeletal PRSC hangs on to the hopes of reaching government posts to survive, the ruling PLD appears to increasingly enjoy the trimmings of being in power.

SANTO DOMINGO.- National District Instruction Court judge Clara Luz Almonte sent Eddy Brito to the jail at Najayo, in connection with the money laundering and drug trafficking case also involving his ex wife Sobeida Felix and the Puerto Rican Jose Figueroa Agosto, both fugitives.

SANTO DOMINGO.- Dominican Republic is abuzz with talk of gold as opponents criticize the mining contract with the company Barrick Gold, while the GoldQuest Mining Corp announced on Wednesday that it has closed the transaction with Gold Fields Dominican Republic.

Santo Domingo.- President Leonel Fernandez and the First lady Margarita Cedeño Wednesday night headed the inaugural of the 3rd Dominican Global Cinema Festival in the National Theater, where a special recognition was bestowed on the actor Omar Sharif.

Santo Domingo.- Opposition PRD party president Miguel Vargas on Wednesday received from Economy minister Temístocles Montas, the National Development Proposal 2010-2030, which contains a series of initiatives and measures to be applied in the short and medium terms....

Santo Domingo.- The sheer number of drug trafficking cases and the recent investigations have exposed a fierce struggle between the law enforcement agencies and criminal persecution entities.

SANTO DOMINGO. - Customs director Rafael Camilo said Wednesday that some of the points in the U.S., Central America, Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (Dr-Cafta) were not well defined and is in favor of revising the pact.

Santo Domingo.- Aimed at developing the towns Cotuí, Fantino and Maimón, the Labor and Health Public ministries signed a cooperation agreement with the gold mining company Pueblo Viejo Dominicana Corporation (Barrick Gold), designed to reduce unemployment and to prevent and reduction dengue and the AH1N1 flu virus.

Viña del Mar, Chile.- The more than 300 customs agents from Latin America and the Caribbean present, the International Association of Professional Customs Agents of the Americas (Asapra) held its General Assembly in Viña del Mar, Chile, where a tribute was rendered to Dominican Republic’s late Customs director Miguel Cocco....

Higüey. - In a raid headed by Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) chief Rolando Rosado in a sugarcane plantation today agents seized a small, Venezuelan registry plane presumably loaded with drugs, for which a Dominican and two Colombians were detained.

Rome. – The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon opened on Monday, a UN food security summit in Rome, while the troubles of the world hunger seemed unimportant to the leaders of the world's wealthiest nations.

SANTO DOMINGO. - As promised yesterday, the Electricity Superintendence (SIE) today announced that charges will be filed against 40 people and companies for stealing energy, among luxurious condos and mansions.

Santo Domingo.- Customs director Rafael Camilo on Tuesday discarded opposition PRD party president Miguel Vargas Maldonado’s criticism on the handling of the economy, and on the contrary, the international organisms have hailed the Government’s performance in maintaining macroeconomic stability.

Santo Domingo.- The president of the Dominican Exporters Association (Adoexpo) demanded the repeal of the 1% tax on the value of assets, to promote investment, and affirmed that his sector is a victim of China’s policies.