 Two brothers alleged hired killers extradited to NYC (Update one more extradited) |
| Two Dominican brothers were extradited Thursday night to the United States where they accuse of several murders for hire in New York City, the Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) announced...... Update - another contract killer extradited to USA...... |
| Read more | 18 Jun 2011 |
| Cholera death toll rises to 36, doctors and nurses go on strike |
| While the cholera epidemic that broke out in November last year killing 36 persons so far, doctors and nurses at one of the few hospitals in with the capacity to treat cholera patients went on strike this week after a nurse became infected with the disease...... |
| Read more | 13 Jun 2011 |
| General flees as Dominican pop star scandal widens |
| The retired brigadier general Miguel Antonio Encarnacion de la Rosa, who allegedly helped the pop music star Antonio Peter de la Rosa (Omega) sneak by security checks at the Las Americas International Airport fled aboard a flight to a Caribbean island...... |
| Read more | 13 Jun 2011 |
| Judicial “thugs” again harrass a hotel chain |
| Organized mobs operate in different parts of the country to execute alleged sentences against different companies, bringing terror and unrest, but mostly fomenting and giving the impression that legal security doesn’t exist in our country....... |
| Read more | 15 Jun 2011 |
| Travel Warning, Eggs Front and Center of Crime Spree in Dominican Republic |
| Thieves and assailants are now using eggs mixed with water to carry out robberies and assaults on cars and trucks. Their tactic, generally employed at night, is to throw eggs at a vehicle’s windshield, and when the driver’s near-automatic reflex of engaging the wipers produces an opaque mess, the driver is forced to stop in order to clean the mess, and the assailants make their move...... |
| Read more | 03 Jun 2011 |
| “Miches is just like any hot slum,” community leader warns |
| Crimes such as burglaries, armed assaults, and drug consumption in the coastal town of Miches are so rampant, that in the last 10 years drug trafficking has become the main source of jobs for the community’s youngsters, Artes Miches Foundation president Servido Candelario denounced Monday....... |
| Read more | 01 Jun 2011 |
| Dominican censorship, judge jails TV host after defamation trial opens |
| Again Reporters Without Borders is after the censorship of information in the Dominican Republic after journalist was jailed for 3 months in a complete nonsense case by the DA to prevent freedom of speech and the truth to get out........ |
| Read more | 01 Jun 2011 |
| Dominican sentenced in U.S. after 3rd illegal entry |
| Polanco was first deported to his home country in 2001 after being convicted on drug charges. Friday that Reynaldo Hilario Polanco was sentenced after he completed a separate sentence for larceny. Polanco was arrested on that charge in March 2008...... |
| Read more | 28 May 2011 |
| 'I shot the cruellest dictator in the Americas' |
| Henry Dearborn, de facto CIA station chief in the Dominican Republic, wrote: "If I were a Dominican, which thank heaven I am not," I would favour destroying Trujillo......, Read also about the grusome lifes of the 3 Mirabal sisters! |
| Read more | 28 May 2011 |
| Dominican police officer fatally shot by colleague during dispute at cash machine |
| Authorities in the Dominican Republic say a policeman has been shot to death by a fellow officer in apparent dispute over use of a cash machine on payday...... |
| Read more | 27 May 2011 |
| Dominican Republic general linked to underworld case, but not alone! |
| An interrogation of the details behind an ID of the National Investigations Department (DNI) issued to the Puerto Rican drug baron Jose Figueroa Agosto has finally led to what was widely suspected, the involvement of senior military officers and government officials in the money laundering, drug trafficking, and murder-for-hire case...... |
| Read more | 03 Sep 2011 |
| Dominican Republic takes action to stop Haitian immigrants |
The Dominican Republic authorities has launched clamp down to stop the flow of undocumented Haitian immigrants into its capital. Military and the migration authorities stopped public and private transportation vehicles in four major highways leading to Santo Domingo and arrested large amounts haitians.....
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| Read more | 25 May 2011 |
| Dominican Republic native in prison on gun and silencer charges in Antigua |
| Antiguan police arrested Dominican, Ramon Valezquez when walking down the street with a .380 Taurus gun and a silencer...... |
| Read more | 25 May 2011 |
| Dominican Health Ministry finally declares cholera alert - Spreding all over the country! |
| A wave of new cholera cases has prompted the Dominican Republic's Health Ministry to declare a state of alert in 17 neighbourhoods in the capital....... two deaths in recent days! Update 2 - Cholera has spred all over the country!
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| Read more | 25 May 2011 |
| Marijuana Plants Discovered In Dominican Prison |
| A spokesman for the National Drug Control Agency says officers making a surprise inspection found 33 plants inside two cells in a prison in Najayo, just outside the capital of Santo Domingo....... |
| Read more | 17 May 2011 |
| Man Wanted In 2008 Death Arrested In Dominican Republic |
| Federal authorities said they traveled to the Dominican Republican to arrest Carlos Luis Pinelas-Mejia suspected in the 2008 shooting death of a Rock Hill woman....... |
| Read more | 17 May 2011 |
| Dominican Sentenced to 24 Yrs in Prison for Drug Smuggling Through Port of Savannah |
| Disguised as longshoremen, who had disembarked the M/V Cosco Boston, they boarded a taxi to take them to the gate of the Garden City Terminal. When the taxi driver advised the men to have their identification ready, they jumped out of the taxi and ran into a wooded area. The three men were eventually apprehended in the woods with 4 kilo of cocaine........ |
| Read more | 13 May 2011 |
| Cement mafia operating in the Dominican Republic - Update 2 |
| Caribbean Cement shipped its first batch of 2,500 tons of cement to the Dominican Republic - which has the capacity to absorb three million tonnes of the commodity annually - and declared its intention last month to capture at least 10 per cent of that market over time. but the cement was seized to avoid competition....... Update 2 - Jamaica issues cerment ultimatum to Dominican Republic..... Update 3 - Cement, rebar 15% jump roils construction, draws boycott threat........
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| Read more | 21 Oct 2011 |
| Willy Aybar was imprisoned for beating his wife back in January |
| Willy Aybar was sentenced to three months in prison in the Dominican Republic after he beat his wife. Aybar’s wife ended up in intensive care for an extended period of time, in critical condition........ |
| Read more | 12 May 2011 |
| 2 Dominicans killed during protests |
| Welcome to the 3rd. world - Tourists beware, the conflict about little to no money spend on education in the DR is growing. On Wednesday, 22-year-old student Aquiles Nunez was fatally shot by a stray bullet while she traveled in a bus near the protest site...... |
| Read more | 12 May 2011 |
| Canadian man left to die in Dominican hospital |
| Ronayne said his big trouble started in October when he went to a cell phone store to exchange a phone that wouldn't work even though it was new. He said he was provoked by a woman in line, which is part of a common scam against tourists, and was arrested when she claimed he had assaulted her. The charge landed him in jail and later in the hospital......... |
| Read more | 30 Jun 2011 |
| IPI Says State of Press Freedom in the Americas Still Alarming |
| In the Dominican Republic, where nine incidents of violence against journalists were reported in January alone. In a move against impunity, however, Dominican officials in February brought charges against police who allegedly plotted last June’s attempted assassination of journalist Jordi Veras...... |
| Read more | 10 May 2011 |
