Spain

Kingdom of Spain

Synonym
Spanish

Vendors in Spanish Town out, but still shaken by gun violence

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The streets of Spanish Town in St Catherine were buzzing with sellers and commuters on Friday morning, as was customary before the outbreaks of gun violence earlier this week. Businesses were forced to close on Wednesday following a brazen daylight...

St John's Road residents plead for peace, deny blame for attacks

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Householders of 31 St John's Road in St Catherine have rejected claims that migratory residents from the violence-plagued community have sparked an upsurge of violence in Spanish Town.

Update | Body found at car wash along St John's Road in Spanish Town

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The body of a man was discovered this morning by residents at a car wash along St John's Road in Spanish Town, St Catherine. He has been identified as 30-year-old Rayon Daley of a Bog Walk address in the parish. Daley's body was found...

State of Public Emergency declared for St Catherine

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A State of Public Emergency is now underway in the parish of St Catherine whose capital Spanish Town was the site of mayhem this week, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has just announced. Holness said the Government had to act to stem crime and...

Flow of exports between January and April totaled US$4.1 billion

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Santo Domingo, DR.
The Dominican Association of Exporters (Adoexpo), celebrating yesterday the 50th anniversary of its founding, highlighted the potential of the sector, citing that the export volume in this last four-month period of the year totaled US$4.1 billion, a growth of 9.87% compared to January-April 2021 and 31.69% compared to 2019, year.

Catholics Celebrate Corpus Christi Day Today

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Santo Domingo – Catholics celebrate today Corpus Christi Day, also known as the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ. Formerly called Corpus Domini (Body of the Lord), it is a feast of the Catholic Church to celebrate the Eucharist.

Its primary purpose is to proclaim and increase the faith of Catholics in the real presence of Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, publicly giving him the cult of adoration (latria).

Rum and tobacco exports totaled US$425.39 MM

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Santo Domingo, DR.

The export volume of tobacco and rum amounted to US$425.39 million between January and April of this year, both products reflecting critical levels of growth in their sales abroad.

In the case of tobacco, an agricultural item with a variety of derived products, from robust cigars to fruit leaves, its exports in the first four months of the year reached US$384.67 million.