Dominican Republic News

Fashion Designer Giannina Azar will be presenting her new collection "Colors" at the Repblica Dominicana Fashion Week , that will be celebrated from February 21st--26th in the city of Santiago, Dominican Republic.

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic &#8212 Authorities in the Dominican Republic have recovered 20 more bodies of migrants who were aboard a boat that capsized, raising the death toll to 41, officials said Wednesday.

For centuries, sailors have warned against setting out on Friday, yet that was the day in April 2010 when two defendants left Grenada on a cutter carrying about 550 pounds of cocaine destined for Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

On a recent trip to the Dominican Republic, Shelley Stone, manager of the Ontario Christian Gleaners, was reminded that residents are making a positive impact in many ways on that island.

On Feb. 9, 1822, Gen. Boyer, commander-in-chief of Haiti, invades Santo Domingo, the capital the Dominican Republic, where President JosA© NAoA ez de CA ceres essentially hands over the keys to the city.

David and Kimberly Spackman of Tremonton, and Frank and Traci Walker of Deweyville, are delighted to announce the marriage ofA Katie Ann Spackman and Cade Colby Walker.A They will be married in the Salt Lake Temple on Friday, Feb.

Jordan Morrison, a 19-year-old resident of Barrie, Ont., was killed outside a resort nightclub in Punta Cana on Feb.

Search crews recovered 22 more bodies from the sea off the coast of the Dominican Republic on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 47 after an overloaded migrant smuggling vessel capsized.

There is no bar at Dorchester's Tropical Island Restaurant and Bar. Customers are told, with a motion to the soft drink cooler, that no alcohol is served at all.

Last fall, the New Jersey Defamation League that's driving much of recent cable television sent several of its members on a mission overseas.

A verdict is expected Wednesday in the case of two men charged in the beating death of a Canadian man who was on vacation in the Dominican Republic.

A United Nations-backed census has been launched in the Dominican Republic to improve to the lives of hundreds of refugees and asylum-seekers. According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees the census, which began last week, will provide more accurate data on the number of refugees in the Caribbean nation and will record basic information such ... (more)

The Samana peninsula in the Dominican Republic is a beautiful region with winding beaches, wonderful weather and quiet little beachside restaurants that serve cold drinks and delicious food.

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - The death toll has risen to 21 from the weekend capsizing of a boat overloaded with migrants near the Dominican Republic.

Herbert Ceballos, 54, was charged with breach of peace after police said he created a disturbance at the Fairfield Cab Co.

Coast Guard rescue crews completed a request for assistance Sunday afternoon to search for possible survivors from a capsized migrant boat in Samana Bay, Dominican Republic, after Dominican Republic authorities notified no longer requiring Coast Guard assistance with rescue efforts.

MANILA, Philippines - A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck the central Philippines today, killing a child and triggering a local tsunami alert.

Murder rates in the northeastern city of Salvador have more than doubled since the start of a police strike, media reports said.

THE death toll from the capsizing of a boat trying to take some 70 migrants from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico has risen to 16, authorities said today.

Rescuers have recovered 17 bodies and pulled 13 survivors from white-capped waters off this coastal town after an overloaded boat carrying migrants from the Dominican Republic capsized, officials said Sunday.