CDEEE vice-president Radhamés Segura this week admitted having around 40 relatives on its payroll, after an exposé by the journalist Nuria Piera......

Dominican Watchdog has received several consumer complaints about Lifestyle Holidays and Lifestyle Haciendas in Puerto Plata and we recommends that you read the Facebook site and forums set up to warn against Lifestyle Holidays here......

Diario Libre is reporting that copies of the recently held National Standardized Exams were sold to students throughout the country in advance of the exams and in San Cristobal each was sold for RD$1,200.......

Somebody of course has to pay for the "Report opens Dominican Energy czar’s can of worms" as mentioned in Yesterdays article, and since over 2 million are not paying for the electricity the consume, the prices are again going up. This makes DR one of the most expensive countries in the 3rd world where to live or operate factories......

Dominican Republic’s energy czar has donated RD$6 million to foundations of legislators, and the catholic and evangelical churches since 2008, has to 43 relatives with high salaries on the Dominican State-owned Electrical Companies (CDEEE) payroll.............

For the first time in fourteen years a Dominican airline will begin flights to another destination today Monday, after the country lost its international category to do so with regular flight............

Culture Minister Jose Rafael Lantigua said the honored book, “offends the memory of those who gave their lives with the aim of freeing out country from the Trujillo dictatorship, which turned the Dominican Republic into a huge plantation for the dictator and his family"...........

The proximity to the U.S. has been convenient for Michael Diaz Jr., a Miami lawyer whose team of investigators has been making frequent trips to this 517-year-old former Spanish slave colony........

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"My husband couldn't reach the toilet when we were there, they said put a nappy on him to take him to the medical centre", "Some people had to have new mattresses because they hadn't made it to the toilet in time", "There were children screaming all over the place and pregnant women."........

Police have identified the following area codes as being used in the US lottery scam: (809) Dominican Republic; (284) British Virgin Islands; (649) Turks and Caicos; (876) Jamaica..........

A 50-year woman died Tuesday of swine flu in the Dominican Republican, becoming the second person to die of the A(H1N1) virus in the Caribbean nation, Health Minister Bautista Rojas said........

The Justice Ministry has recovered 11 of the more than  22 million Euros swindled by a alleged international network including two Dutch arrested in the country after having bilked around 900 investors in the Netherlands and fled to the Dominican Republic to live........

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - The Consumer Rights Protection Institute (Proconsumidor) announced that it filed charges against the company Peravia Industrial, for selling and donating products not fit for human consumption and discarded from the market........

DominicanToday.com - Dutch and Dominican prosecutors met Monday morning to discuss the investigation of a fraud of more than 100 million Euros allegedly laundered in the country........

"Punta Cana - The Missing City" could be the next campaign from the Dominican Tourist Minister. Large hotels in the DR is bad for the locals and even worse for the tourists. Learn from the mistakes in Punta Cana and Don't make the same mistake in Jaragua National Park in Pedernales........... 

For years now there has been talk about the manner in which the Caribbean might mobilise its sizeable silent army, the diaspora as rich governments keep adding traveltax to flight tickets hurting the poor Caribbean nations......

Hundreds of holidaymakers have won compensation totalling more than £2.5million(USD 4 Million) after they fell ill when sent to the dirty Bahia Principe Hotel in the Dominican Republic.......

A COUPLE are suing a travel firm after sickness ruined their dream holiday in the Dominican Republic. Wilkonson's said it was a disastrous stay at the Fun Royale Hotel because about 70% of the guests in the hotel was sick.........

Police Department’s High-Tech Crimes Division -DICAT- operation aims to put a stop to the practice of illegally activating mobile telephones by stealing the identity of citizens.........