 Nearly 100 Dominican Poachers Arrested In The Bahamas |
This is the second case with in months that Dominicans have been cought fishing illegal around the Bahamas. According to BBC news some conservation organisations in Africa are operating a shoot-to-kill policy against poachers.......
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| Read more | 06 Dec 2010 |
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| Dominican Drug Agents Detain 18 Military Officials In Cocaine Case(Update 3) FREE on bail |
| Here we go again! Authorities detained 18 military officials and two U.S. pilots after stopping a cocaine-laden airplane from taking off. 145x1kg bricks of cocaine and was bound for Puerto Rico. Agents also found $70,000 in cash inside a car that belongs to one official. Update 2 - Family fighting for American pilotes release as it looks like it was a undercover operation to catch corrupt DEA agents....Watch the TV clip.... Update 3 FREE on bail......
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| Read more | 27 Dec 2010 |
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| CDC issues travel notice for Dominican Republic because of cholera |
| More than 9 cases of Cholera has now been confirmed in DomRep, and The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a travel notice today for US travelers going to the Dominican Republic...... |
| Read more | 02 Dec 2010 |
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| Dominican model faces jail for injecting fake Botox |
| With promises of better buttocks than those of Jennifer Lopez, Dominican model Anivia Cruz Dilworth used fake pharmaceuticals such, pipe cement, Krazy Glue and other false procedures to scam at least six compatriots who suffered long-term infections...... |
| Read more | 30 Nov 2010 |
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| Five Hurt in Clashes on Dominican-Haitian Border |
| The trouble began when a number of Haitian civilians attacked Dominican border guards with sticks and stones. The border guards opened fire, wounding a 19-year-old, then the Haitians set fire to a truck bringing Dominican cement into Haiti........ |
| Read more | 30 Nov 2010 |
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| Largest Caribbean drug case points to high level corruption in Dominican Republic, Update - Mexican drug cartel active in DR! |
| Federal indictments of alleged drug kingpin José “Junior Cápsula” Figueroa Agosto and suspected members of his organization point to high-level corruption in the Dominican Republic navy, national police force and government. Many of them are living or spending their dirty money in Casa de Campo...... |
| Read more | 19 Nov 2011 |
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| Flight passenger from DomRep to Miami hospitalized after showing symptoms of cholera |
| The man is a doctor who had been treating cholera patients. It was unclear where he had been working. Dominican Republic has had several confirmed cases of cholera. Neighboring Haiti has now over 1604 death and 30,000 hospitalized from cholera...... |
| Read more | 27 Nov 2010 |
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| U.S. says Dominican Republic must do more against money laundering |
| Lambert said the report reveals that in December 2009, more than 20 properties worth millions of dollars were seized from a Spanish citizen linked to an international trafficking network which used the country to launder hundreds of millions of dollars....... |
| Read more | 26 Nov 2010 |
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| Blast at hospital in the Dominican Republic kills at least 9 |
| The explosion, believed to have been caused by a problem with electricity supply cables, happened at the Ney Arias Lora Hospital in Villa Mella. The blast and a resulting fire killed nine people and left several others injured....... |
| Read more | 25 Nov 2010 |
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| Russia may restrict travel to Dominican Republic amid cholera fears(Update 2) |
| Russia's sanitary watchdog will decide this week on whether to temporarily ban Russians from traveling to the Dominican Republic due to cholera outbreak in neighboring Haiti, Russia's chief doctor said. Update2 -
"Vacationing on a minefield is a very specific kind of vacationing. You might walk through a minefield and everything might end up okay, but you might be blown up as well," Onishchenko told Interfax earlier. |
| Read more | 28 Nov 2010 |
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| Cop halts ambulance to let pass Dominican official’s motorcade |
A minor was in critical condition in an ambulance headed to a hospital yesterday, when its driver was ordered to stop for several minutes to let pass a Government official’s motorcade. That created a public outcry also from readers, read the comments.......
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| Read more | 19 Nov 2010 |
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| Dominican cops were hired to kill journalist, many more on the list(Update) |
The contract hit against the lawyer and journalist Jordi Veras was planned from a cell in Santiago’s Rafey prison by the millionaire Adriano Roman, who paid former and active policemen to carry out the murder. Police investigators found in possession of an alleged ring of hired killers a list with the names of important national personalities and government officials...... UPDATE - Police officers forced to retire, don't expect them to go to jail....
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| Read more | 08 Feb 2011 |
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| Agents arrest two Dominican city officials wanted in Florida(Update 2) |
| The Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) on Friday arrested two La Vega city officials both wanted in the United States on drug trafficking charges. When detained Sanchez had a Lieutenant’s ID of the La Vega Municipal Police, issued during the tenure of the ex mayor Fauto Ruiz, and a second national ID card. Update - Full story from Miami Herald about their acitvities........
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| Read more | 18 Nov 2010 |
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| The UN marks the murder of the Mirabal Sisters |
| With its campaign “Under the wings of the butterflies” the Office of the United Nations (UN) marks the International Day against Violence against Woman, in memory of the Mirabal sisters murdered by the tyranny of Rafael Trujillo. In Santo Domingo and Santiago around 123 women were murdered until August, and 867 were victims of feminicides from August 2005 to 2009...... |
| Read more | 16 Nov 2010 |
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| Problems with shipping christmas stuff to Dom Rep from New York |
Lawmakers are warning New Yorkers about a shipping scam that targets Hispanic immigrants who send Christmas presents to their families back home. Queens resident Edison Santos, sent boxes to family members in the Dominican Republic last Christmas. He took the gifts to a shipping company on Roosevelt Ave. Between shipping costs and the price of the presents, he said he spent about $3,000 and the stuff never arrived to his family......
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| Read more | 15 Nov 2010 |
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| Problems with travel insurance in the Dominican Republic(Update 3) Mike is dead! |
A dispute between the hotel Riu Palace in Punta Cana and the travel insurance company "Travel Underwriters" about who has to pay the USD 70,000 air ambulance back to Canada has left a young Canadian man stranded and confined to a hospital bed with bleedings in his brain. Update 2 - Mike died in his hospital bed in the Dominican hospital....., Update 3 - Travel Underwriters say sorry!......
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| Read more | 24 Nov 2010 |
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| More than 5,000 Dominican agents linked to crimes in just 3 years |
| Drug trafficking has seeped the echelons of the very people assigned to fight it, with more than 5,000 military, Police and Antinarcotics (DNCD) agents charged, penalized or expelled in the last three years. Dominican cops hired to kill journalist, many more prominent people on the list.......
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| Read more | 14 Dec 2010 |
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| Dominican agents bust a Police major with 400K of cocaine |
| Police major Miguel Rodriguez is part of a network which received narcotics from Colombia to then take it to Puerto Rico and the U.S. The group was intercepted on the Duarte highway around 25 kilometers north of the capital, next to the toll plaza, in three SUVs, in an operation using several DNCD units, including a helicopter. Customs nabs US$1.3M on speedboat from Puerto Rico....... |
| Read more | 12 Nov 2010 |
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| Dominican Republic lags behind similar nations,in health, education, UN report |
| Dominican Republic’s important advances in health, education and a basic standard of living in the last decades are overshadowed by a continued delay and less improvement in those areas than other nations with equal or less wealth. United Nations Program for Development (UNPD), that ranks Dominican Republic 88 among the 169 countries analyzed....... |
| Read more | 12 Nov 2010 |
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| Dominican electric grid among region’s worst, analysis |
| The Dominican Republic has Latin America’s worst electricity infrastructure, according to the Latin Infrastructure Index from Latin Business Chronicle, based in Miami, Florida...... |
| Read more | 12 Nov 2010 |
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| DEA Warns Of Extortion Scam by DEA Impostors |
Victims Told To Pay Fines Via Wire Transfer, one wired nearly $10,000 to individuals in the Dominican Republic..... |
| Read more | 11 Nov 2010 |
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| Titles mafia reigns in Dominican Republic’s top resort region |
| The head of the East Region Hotels and Tourist Projects Association yesterday called the Higüey (Punta Cana and Bavaro) Titles Registrar “disorder and mafias” which creates uncertainty, threatens and scares away foreign investment...... |
| Read more | 10 Nov 2010 |
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