Hundreds of international investors in a Dominican Republic (DR) real estate scheme recently won a major legal victory in their struggle to recover funds from father-son developers Frederick and Derek Elliott........

Dominican College has agreed to pay a $20,000 penalty for underreporting crime statistics in its student handbooks three years in a row.......

If the government won't regulate then it is up to the private sector (like Watchdog) to protect the consumer. I am especially concerned with the tourist who doesn't have the time to check everything out in one week and may make an emotional decision they live to regret.......

Santo Domingo - Four people shot and injured plus 110 squatters arrested. That was the result of a clash between soldiers and civilians who entered on land owned by the American construction company "Alta-Vista Manzanillo Freeport, in the urbanization Las Mercedes........

Investigators have uncovered a wedding scam involving more than 200 British and Canadian couples who paid hundreds of dollars for Dominican marriages that were never officially recorded.......

A new website holding a lot of information about the Elliott's case has come to to the knowledge of Dominican Watchdog and is hereby made public to our readers - ratupdate.com

The recent row over the construction of a cement plant close to the Haitises National Park once again shows why major newspapers shouldn’t be in the hands of business groups, or banks or other interests whose main activity isn’t news and information..........

A new blog about the amazing never ending corruption in the DR has surfaced on the internet Dominican Gringo

Ever since the reports that Canadian companies will develop the province of Pedernales’ tourism potential began to surface, the number of squatters on government lands has grown, according to information from the southwest region......

Glendale advertising agency BVK was selected to create a new marketing campaign for the Dominican Republic Ministry of Tourism according to bizjournals.com. The chosen area is at present most known for the Sun Village USD 170 Million Dominican real estate scam which has resulted in a Miami lawsuit from thousands of angry foreign investors.

To help uncover the truth in a Dominican Republic real estate investment scheme, U.S. District Court Judge Alan S. Gold appointed a special master to examine the accounting and business records of the Elliott real estate development team....

Here is an factual and interesting article from the owner of HolaDR.com about why Dominicans are so corrupt!

Forget warnings from the IMF, the OECD and George Soros. You know your currency is well and truly down the swanny when even drug dealers are refusing payment in it........

No wonder the Dominican Republic have some of the highest electricity prices in the under developed world. According to an article in DominicanToday more than 2,1 million or close to 50% of households in the Dominican Republic don't pay for the electricity they consume, leaving the other 50% to pay double the price and face blackouts!........

In the interest of not hurting the flow of tourists to the Dominican Republic the Government has according to international news medias been under-reporting the cases of AH1N1 virus also known as swine flu, Carol Morgan School is heavily effected by more than 6 reported cases.......

As Dominican Watchdog has recently proved then Freedom of speech is still a problem in the Dominican Republic, here are two more cases that have the attention of the international press.........

I was scammed in Dominican Republic in Juan Dolio to be exact. I appreciate people starting a website about this problem. COHERSAF owned by Jacinto Saldana Fortuna and his brother Luis Saldana Fortuna........