 USAtoday, Challenges of Tourism in the Dominican Republic |
| The Dominican Republic and Haiti carry a risk of mosquito-borne malaria, and travelers should take oral anti-malaria medication and use insect repellent for these destinations. The Dominican Republic and Haiti's gnats, lice, sand flies and mosquitoes carry diseases like leishmaniasis -- the so-called "flesh-eating disease" -- as well as filariasis, oropouche virus and typhus........ |
| Read more | 26 Jul 2010 |
| More Than 27,000 Displaced by Rains in Dominican Republic |
| Downpours have flooded 5,454 houses and completely destroyed another five, according to the COE, which said 27 towns have been cut off due to swollen rivers. That alert level indicates a possible threat of damage to people, infrastructure and personal belongings........ |
| Read more | 26 Jul 2010 |
| German murdered in his house in Santo Domingo |
| Two people were shot late Wednesday at a house in the Rosmil urbanization, belonging to the German Werner Munch, who lived alone in his 2 storey house, which he was in the process of remodeling.......... |
| Read more | 24 Jul 2010 |
| Puerto Rican Man Murdered in Dominican Republic(Update 2) |
| Police told the press that Luz Maria Medina and a 16 year old girl admitted during questioning that they killed the Puerto Rican. The two women confessed that they gave Douglas Jones a glass of oats containing a poisonous substance that later caused his death. They used the money they stole from their murder victim to buy drugs and go to beauty parlors....... |
| Read more | 21 Jul 2010 |
| Earthquake Magnitude 3.4 - La Romana Dom Rep |
| Friday, July 16, 2010 at 08:53:33 AM at epicenter 15 km (10 miles) NNW of La Romana, Dominican Republic |
| Read more | 18 Jul 2010 |
| Dominican bishops lament increasing violence |
| The bishops of the Dominican Republic issued a statement at the close of their recent annual meeting lamenting the violence that is afflicting the Caribbean nation....... |
| Read more | 16 Jul 2010 |
| All of Samaná’s antinarcotics agents arrested in sting |
| The entire contingent of the Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) in Samaná is under arrest, accused of charging money from pushers. The senator of Peravia province yesterday revealed that on instructions from president Leonel Fernandez, the country’s antinarcotics agency (DNCD) will recruit civilians, to not have to rely on military or National Police agents....... |
| Read more | 16 Jul 2010 |
| Expert lists safety violations in top Dominican tourism region |
| “Tourists come here looking to enjoy their vacations in a safe place and unfortunately it’s the last thing they find” - from DominicanToday July 15th....... |
| Read more | 16 Jul 2010 |
| More and deadlier dengue in Dominican Republic(Update 2) |
| The death rate from dengue has been higher in the first half of 2010 than at any time over the past four years, according to official figures compiled since January 2006 up until July of this year....... |
| Read more | 18 Jul 2010 |
| Dominicans charged with conspiring to mutilate fingerprints of illegal aliens in the US(Update 2) |
| Dominicans coordinated patients to receive the fingerprint removal procedure performed by Zaiter-Pou, a physician with a clinic in the Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Zaiter-Pou comes to the United States to perform the procedure for $4,500, prosecutors said....... |
| Read more | 14 Jul 2010 |
| Suspected Drug Dealers, Gunmen Killed in Dominican Rep. |
| Drugs and murders are exploding - Four men linked to drug running and murder-for-hire were gunned down in two separate violent incidents in the northern Dominican Republic. Also wounded in the gun battle were three officers and a prosecutor, the National Police said...... |
| Read more | 07 Jul 2010 |
| Most of Dominican capital’s residents say it’s unsafe, poll |
| 66.5% of Santo Domingo’s residents say it’s an unsafe or very unsafe city, affirms the "Survey of the Government on Security" conducted by the National District City Council’s Citizen Observatory....... |
| Read more | 06 Jul 2010 |
| Earthquake Magnitude 3.1 - DOMINICAN REPUBLIC |
| Smaller earthquake registered between La Romana and Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic...... |
| Read more | 05 Jul 2010 |
| The genealogy of a stateless family – Haitians needs to become citizens in Dominican Republic |
| "Trujillo sent the trucks to pick us up," says Mr. Jean. The Dominican Republic has enslaved Haitians for years in all industires because they are to lazy to do any hard work themselves. Still they do not give these Haitians their basic human rights...... |
| Read more | 05 Jul 2010 |
| Puerto Rico indictment says Dominican authorities helped notorious drug trafficker |
| This is not the first time that Dominican authorities helped local drug kings and their criminal network with “logistics” and “intelligence” to transport cocaine and heroin from South America to Dominican Republic, and then to U.S. territory....... |
| Read more | 30 Jun 2010 |
| USAID report: Dominican farms still use highly toxic pesticides |
| The study, which focused on harvests of cacao, coffee, fresh fruits and Oriental vegetables, oregano, cassava and casaba, said the consequences from the use of toxic pesticides includes health risks for the consumers, including cancer....... |
| Read more | 30 Jun 2010 |
| Dominican Republic worst in Latin America in real estate transparency |
Latin America scores low on the Global Real Estate Transparency Index 2010 from Jones real estate company Lang LaSalle, although there is some progress being made in Brazil and Mexico.....
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| Read more | 30 Jun 2010 |
| Earthquake Magnitude 3.4 - ISLA SAONA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC |
- Tuesday, June 22, 2010 at 06:55:49 UTC - epicenter 50Km from La Romana in the Dominican Republic
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| Read more | 25 Jun 2010 |
| Tropical wave pounds Dominican Republic’s south coast, one dead, hundreds evacuated |
| One dead, a teenage girl missing and 750 people evacuated as the downpours from a second tropical wave within three days, drenching most of the country....... |
| Read more | 24 Jun 2010 |
| Prestigious entity blasts the Government’s lack of will to fight corruption |
| The CEO of the prestigious Institutionalism and Justice Foundation (Finjus) regrets that despite the constant denunciations of corruption by journalists and others in society, the country lacks the will to fight it, and reiterated his criticism that Government officials don’t render account...... |
| Read more | 24 Jun 2010 |
