 Dominican Customs uncovers major fraud, ex official indicted |
| The main accused is Alberto Daniel Hernandez Peña, former head of Haina’s Bulk Merchandise Department, whom the Justice Ministry says illegally cashed eight checks from several companies, one of them for RD$9.6 million...... |
| Read more | 18 Feb 2010 |
| Swaying Palms Dominican Republic - Questions to the developer |
| Dominican Watchdog has sent several requests to the developer to provide proof of the promised 180% profit that investors will receive via a BUY BACK GARANTEE if they buy land in this project..... |
| Read more | 17 Feb 2010 |
| Corruption tell-all: Woman of the Year |
| DR1 - Dominicans have chosen Nuria Piera, the TV journalist who exposed several government corruption scandals in 2009, as Diario Libre`s Woman of the Year. |
| Read more | 17 Feb 2010 |
| Was Jorge Puello part of a trafficking network working out of Haiti? |
| Salvadoran police discovered the operation after three Nicaraguan girls escaped from a home and sought help at the Nicaraguan embassy. Police found two Dominican women and two more Nicaraguan girls at the home along with a credit card and documents in Puello's name........ |
| Read more | 17 Feb 2010 |
| Manhunt in the Dominican Republic for Jorge Puello |
| Dominican police and U.S. agents are seeking to detain Jorge Puello, who acknowledged Monday that he is wanted in El Salvador for alleged involvement in a human smuggling ring allegedly luring women and girls into prostitution with bogus offers of modeling jobs........... |
| Read more | 16 Feb 2010 |
| TWC Group settles with the Dominican Republic |
| TWC had been seeking some US$ 680 million for alleged violations of the Central America-Dominican Republic-United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR)....... |
| Read more | 15 Feb 2010 |
| Tourist tells of baggage thieves at Puerto Plata airport |
| I arrived back to Toronto from Puerto Plata last night. The baggage handlers at the Dominican Republic airport went through a lot of luggage and stole anything and everything valuable......... |
| Read more | 14 Feb 2010 |
| Dominican lawyer for Haiti missionaries could be trafficker according to police |
| El Salvador police are investigating whether Jorge Puello, who is representing 10 Americans charged with kidnapping in Haiti is the same person wanted for human trafficking in the Central American nation, police said.......... |
| Read more | 14 Feb 2010 |
| Bride asks if Dominican wedding was a fake |
| TheStar, Toronto - Local couples fear they may have been duped in fake wedding scam in Dominican Republic........ |
| Read more | 14 Feb 2010 |
| Dominican lawyer for Americans in Haiti has no license |
| The Dominican man giving legal advice to 10 Americans detained in Haiti on child-kidnapping charges has no license to practice law in the Dominican Republic, an official said......... |
| Read more | 14 Feb 2010 |
| Earthquake Magnitude 2.6 - DOMINICAN REPUBLIC |
- Friday, February 12, 2010 at 00:21:52 UTC
- Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 08:21:52 PM at epicenter........
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| Read more | 12 Feb 2010 |
| Dominican Republic: Life on the Margins |
| Many Haitian women – as well as men and children – are involved in sex work, one of the only ways to earn cash in these forgotten sugar communities....... |
| Read more | 08 Feb 2010 |
| Government corruption no longer astonishes Dominicans |
| The executive director of the civic movement Citizen Participation (PC) is concerned with what he calls the people’s blasé attitude with the constant acts of corruption involving officials in the various branches of Government...... |
| Read more | 06 Feb 2010 |
| Dominicans caught in Caracas linked to Bahia de las Aguilas scandal |
| The scandal over the US$28 million in bonds a former Dominican general was allegedly going to cash in at Venezuela’s Central Bank accompanied by two Dominican diplomats was advance payment for lands in Oviedo, southwest Pedernales Province, which Colombian investors bought from Puro Pichardo, one of the main players in the land-grabbing scandal at Bahia de las Aguilas..... |
| Read more | 06 Feb 2010 |
| Malaria is currently prevalent in parts of the Dominican Republic |
| Last-minute travel is a great way to vacation at a fraction of the regular cost. One downside is last-minute travellers have a limited choice of destinations. Another is travellers may not be aware of tropical diseases at sun destinations. Or they may assume they'll be immune because they'll be staying at five-star resorts or on cruise ships......... |
| Read more | 06 Feb 2010 |
| Army finds stolen USAID container with water for Haiti and arrests Dominican woman |
| The container, rented from `JJ Trailer Express' containing 1,800 crates of bottled water, was found in the community El Abanico, in Constanza (Central) Dominican Republic...... |
| Read more | 05 Feb 2010 |
| Venezuela reportedly arrests Dominican diplomats with forged bonds |
| Foreign Relations minister Carlos Morales yesterday confirmed that two Dominican diplomats were arrested in Caracas, Venezuela. The diplomats, who allegedly tried to cash US$28 million in forged bonds........ |
| Read more | 03 Feb 2010 |
| Cooking gas swindlers in the Dominican Republic don't get jailed. |
| Despite that the National Consumer Rights Protection Institute (Pro-Consumidor) announced that nearly half of all propane gas stations rip off users, the agency’s director Altagracia Paulino yesterday said “we aren’t looking to get anyone in jail.”....... |
| Read more | 03 Feb 2010 |
| FBI starts investigation of Sun Village alleged 'Ponzi-style' scheme |
| The Sun Village, Puerto Plata and Juan Dolio scheme was a "two-tier criminal enterprise. "Catledge and his group, along with the Elliotts, created, developed, marketed, and sold a Ponzi-style scheme, bilking millions upon millions of dollars from investors," ...... |
| Read more | 30 Jan 2010 |
| Sanctuary Cap Cana Golf & Spa Reviews From Tripadvisor |
| The Sanctuary is a beautiful hotel. Nice place to go as a couple for three days if you want some peace and quiet, but not a family destination. The place really is deserted. Do not waste your money or time in this resort! For the amount of money we paid to stay here, we received nothing!...... |
| Read more | 30 Jan 2010 |
