1200+ articles, a total of 750,000 page views from 191 countries - Nothing beat the facts!
"Former President Leonel Fernandez and his PLD government economically raped this small fragile country and left the Dominican Republic with the biggest ever fiscal deficit, resulting in hundreds of protest and higher taxes. And despite that his wife Margarita was elected vice president in the new Medina government to keep the family hands in the cookie jar - That's a real Banana Republic...."READ FULL STORY
Dominican Watchdog is the only international consumer protection watchdog for the Dominican Republic. Under the trademark "The Uncensored Knowledge Center About DR" We strive to educate the world about the Dominican Republic. We are showing the "backbone" of the country and its citizens behavior pattern by collecting important articles from around the world. We link the information together to give our readers a greater understanding of what's happening in and around the DR.
Google statistics by 31. Dec 2012:
Visitors came from 191 countries TO THIS WEBSITE - over 400,000 page views since we started only to this site accoring to google statistics!
Pageviews:408,793
Unique Pageviews:325,871
Avg. Time on Page:00:02:03
Bounce Rate:65.88%
% Exit:42.66%
67.63% Search Traffic
14.97% Referral Traffic
17.40% Direct Traffic
However the real numbers is 45% higher if all blogs and sub domains are added. www.danilo-medina.com alone had over 100,000 visitors in December 2012 and sub domains/blogs 25.000 page views per month See other blogs and domains here
Dominican Watchdog was established in 2009 by Jan Vistisen, -a well known former long term Danish Investor on The North Coast, Santo Domingo, La Romana and Cap Cana. "We are here to expose the problems and I don't care what people thinks about me, if there was not so many problems related to the DR, there would be nothing for me to post and my website would not be such a big international success and attract visitors from 175 countries, it's that simple!"
The obligation of any watchdog organization is to be critical and factual. Dominican Watchdog is not a "Romantic Travel and Real Estate Website" trying to lure investors to the Dominican Republic under misleading advertising. There are hundreds of such websites and blogs out there. We only add products, real estate or services to "Best of DR", which has a proven track record of satisfied clients over a period of minimum 10 years.
It's important to state, that I as editor of Dominican Watchdog do NOT write the articles you see!. 98% is written by respected local or international media. The other 2% is from people who for one reason or another is unhappy with the way they where treated in the Dominican Republic. They have posted their comments in various forums around the world. Due to copyright issues we always name or link to our source. When people contact me with questions or problems I write to the developers and post my questions online. These facts makes Dominican Watchdog strong and trusted!
However, “Freedom of Speech” and “Consumer Rights” do not mix well with investigations and reports on fraud and corruption on the Dominican Republic. Exposure of fraud and corruption in the DR is known to cause serious treats(read this article from US watchdog), and in many cases local media are forced to alter or delete critical articles or videos! However we are determined to host thousands of articles to create the largest research database about the Dominican Republic.
Dominican Watchdog control hundreds of domains, blogs and other online marketing channels to educate the world about the Dominican Republic. We have answered and given advice to more than 700 emails from investors and visitors to the Dominican Republic for FREE!Dominican Watchdog has more than 2600 friends on Facebook and we strongly believe that those who have been defrauded or scammed should have the opportunity to speak up with out being intimidated, killed or forced to leave the Dominican Republic.
Dominican Watchdog is 100% operated by Vistisen Holdings OU. We give free advise to anybody who needs us! Our team spend thousands of hours yearly to ensure that Dominican Watchdog is the most important and trusted source of information about the Dominican Republic. If you find Dominican Watchdog helpful please support us, we do accept donations. Its a simple 2 step process through PayPal. You will find the button in the lower right corner of the website. Thank You!
Those who think the Dominican Republic is a poor country are very wrong!
There would be no need for financial aid to the Dominican Republic if the rich families were sharing the land with the rest of their Dominican brothers and sisters. The problem is that 90% of the wealth in the Dominican Republic belong to 25 famous family names and they have no interest in sharing it, nor do the top of the Dominican Republic like the poor people to become too educated as they might then fight for some of the extreme wealth to be distributed. To understand the difference and deep anti-social behavior of the rich families in the Dominican Republic you just have to visit Casa de Campo, a private mega luxury resort frequented by the rich, the corrupt and the drug lords. They have amazing parties in the marina or Altos de Chavon year round. All the TOP 25 families have villas in Casa de Campo. Arturo del Tiempo andFigueroa Agosto are probably the biggest and most famous drug lords who have spend time or had property in Casa de Campo. Casa de Campo is also used as a safe heaven and exile for Honduras ex President
Some of the absolute largest land owners and richest families with huge financial impact on Dominican Republic are the three sugar families: Campollo, Fanjul and Vicini. Learn more about the Fanjul Sugar Brothers behind the famous Casa de Campo resort and the problems the sugar industry has created in both the Dominican Republic and Florida. Don´t miss "The Price of Sugar" - a documentary movie that the head of the Vicini family, Felipe Vicini is desperately fighting will become public knowledge of the international community. The Vicini Group is also involved in ROCO KI - a failed luxury development not far from Punta Cana.
Subject: Questions in regards to your TV reportage about Dominican Watchdog.
Dear Nuria,
Miami Nov 26, 2011
Thank you for the presentation of Dominican Watchdog in your show.
Dominican Watchdog is the most powerful media in regards to foreign investors in the Dominican Republic. We tell the truth where most other English media is too scared. I have answered 800 emails from defrauded investors and I have arranged settlements between foreign investors and Dominican developers for more than $ 3 Million dollars. I have stopped Ricardo Miranda from selling Punta Perla and I have stopped the Chinese from investing $ 462 Million dollars and much much more, just ask my lawyers.
What I have never done is anything illegal in your country, because I was quite happy in the Dominican Republic and have two beautiful small daughters in Puerto Plata, the whole problem is related to a dispute with a developer in Juan Dolio.
I have never been in front of a judge in the Dominican Republic in connection with falsification or fraud of any kind, but I was denied access to both my lawyers and my embassy when arrested and deported in less than 24 hours. I was never deported to my home country(DENMARK) as you state in your TV show.
What is false is the story planted by the police in the Dominican media and by Ricardo Miranda on the internet. The police has now removed the story from their own website(not a single link to that story is active today). However the police sold the photos you used of me being a criminal to Ricardo Miranda to discredit my website and name. My lawyers have the name of the colonel who sold the photos to Ricardo Miranda.
Nuria, I respect your work and know how hard it is to find the truth in one of the most corrupt countries in the world, but let me tell you that Leonel was personally involved in my deportation. So now I ask you to be so kind as to demonstrate the documentation you got about me being deported to Denmark.
1. Show your viewers the official document about why I was deported and when I can return to see my daughters, because I have no deportation stamp in my passport and never got any document about it.I arrived from Miami the week before being deported!
2. Show your viewers a transcript of the court case in the Dominican Republic were I was convicted for falsification against the DR or defrauding my own country. Feel free to contact the Danish Embassy and ask about if I was wanted in Denmark.
3. Contact the airline companies on the day of my deportation and get passenger-lists from them. You will find that I was forced on to a plane to a completely different destination and the captain of the plane denied for one hour to take me on board. NURIA you are the investigating journalist.... WHAT COUNTRY WAS IT AND WHO WAS BEHIND IT?
Please make yourself familiar with international deportation laws and you will find huge violations of my human rights, more over there is also serious violations of Dominican laws, and I lost all my personal belongings in the Dominican Republic after this illegal activity of your government and is preparing my case for the Human Rights Court.
The reason I ask you to do this is because my lawyers Sigmund Freund and Eduardo Sanz Lovoton from Stafflegal in Santo Domingo has not been able to get any of these documents from the Dominican government, and I would like to return safely to my two daughters whom I have not seen for over 1300 days! These small girls don't understand what happened to their father....
Finally, I have listened carefully to your program about the Dominican Watchdog and you state that my articles are exaggerated. Exactly what articles are you talking about since I have linked to the international or local media where my team found them?
I don't write the articles, I'm only the messenger, and we both know its much worse than the fraction of problems posted on Dominican Watchdog. There are thousand of foreigners being defrauded, but I do not have time or resources to write about it all, however I try to warn them through a network of blogs like these:
We say is as it is - No matter who - No Matter what ! This is an integrated part of the Danish mentality from the time of birth!
Why a "Danish Watchdog" for the Dominican Republic? Because the most fundamental parts of any prosperous society is based on an open democracy with trust and transparency. The main conditions for trust and transparency is swift and immediate prosecution any Citizen committing corruption. Denmark has the lowest level of corruption according to all international studies.
Everybody-is-equal-under-the-law, freedom of speech, consumer protection, high education levels and a social network taking care of the poor and sick is the five most important factors in order to create a successful country in harmony with its citizens, businesses and neighbors. Denmark has earned that reputation worldwide plus respect for our design and innovation.
Below an article from DR1.com of June 24th, which confirms the importance of the "Danish model" in a civilized society:
Corripio suggests better spending
DR1.com - One of the nation's leading businessmen, Manuel Corripio Alonso, has suggested that the government should take major steps to improve the quality of its spending. According to Listin Diario, he said that above all the government's economic team should seek to improve not only the amount of money spent, but also the quality of the expenditure itself. He talked about superfluous or unnecessary expenditures that give the impression that there is a lot of money in circulation and benefit the population "but in reality they become a burden." Corripio, the vice-president of the Corripio Group, one of the largest family-owned enterprises in the country, alongside Vicini, Leon, Ramos and Lama, was interviewed before addressing a group of Business Administration students at UNIBE. He said that it seemed that in the negotiations between the government and the business community the consensus won out, since each sector stated their points of view. He did say that before talking about tax reform, there should be clear signals that the government will exercise some discipline in spending. He pointed out the case of Denmark, where the tax rate is over 50% but the people pay willingly, since most of their needs are met with quality services such as a public school system that is superior to the private schools in the Dominican Republic, and a health system that is truly excellent. He said that the best thing would be for people to receive quality services in return for paying taxes.
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