 Vegetable exporters again warned on excessive pesticides |
If the excessive use of pesticides on crops in the country’s Oriental vegetable exports isn’t solved, Dominican Republic risks losing the European market, warned the European Union’s ACP Policies Adviser for the fruit and vegetable sector. Highly toxic pesticides used in the Dominican Republic..!!.....
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| Read more | 09 Apr 2011 |
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| Two Dominican smugglers arrested with 155.36 pounds of cocaine in Puerto Rico |
| Department of Homeland Security (DHS) law enforcement authorities arrested two suspected Dominican smugglers Thursday seizing a 20-foot yola (boat) and 155.36 pounds of cocaine, with a street value of approximately $1.6 million dollars in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico....... |
| Read more | 09 Apr 2011 |
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| Canadian police drug raid targeted Dominican gang |
| Canadian Police suspect that the gang has been active for the past 15 years and acted as a broker in the importation of cocaine and ecstasy into Canada, which was then re-distributed on the streets by the Italian mafia, street gangs, and Hells Angels...... |
| Read more | 09 Apr 2011 |
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| Dominican Police still execute, torture people, the U.S. says |
| The U.S. denounced today deaths and tortures at the hands of the police forces, and the terrible conditions persist in Dominican Republic’s prisons in 2010...... |
| Read more | 09 Apr 2011 |
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| Federal report shows Dominican gangs centralizing drug operations in U.S. |
| A drug and gang crime report released by a branch of the U.S. Department of Justice shows Dominican gangs are strengthening and centralizing their drug operations in Hazleton....... |
| Read more | 25 Jun 2011 |
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| Senior official’s refusal to pay light bill surprise the media(Update 2) |
| The power company says the official refuses to pay more than RD$2.0 million for electricity consumed in Gutiérrez residence and when Edesur technicians go the house to cut the service, are confronted by Superintendence security guards......Update 2 - Other PLD government officials caught stealing electricity.......
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| Read more | 09 Aug 2011 |
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| Dominican who shot 2 NY Police gets 55 years behind bars |
| Justice Barry Kron, when he read the sentence to the Dominican, who had been deported for drug trafficking and reentered the United States illegally, told him that he acted with the deliberate intention to end the police agents’ lives..... |
| Read more | 09 Apr 2011 |
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| 70% of Dominicans Don’t Have Internet Access |
| DR leads with the most expensive broadband Internet rates in the region. The recent statement that the DR leads in Internet accounts in the Caribbean is misleading, because these are small islands...... |
| Read more | 08 Apr 2011 |
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| Stateless people struggle to gain rights that full citizenship assures |
| Until her son was born, Maria Rosa Remier never questioned her nationality. By all measures, she considered herself Dominican. The children of Haitians who have been stripped of their citizenship in the Dominican Republic have neither the rights of a normal citizen nor the claim to citizenship elsewhere. Jesuit Refugee Service is challenging the Dominican policy. It has filed five lawsuits in Dominican courts. In four of those cases, the plaintiffs have been granted their citizenship. The fifth is pending....... |
| Read more | 08 Apr 2011 |
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| Dominican government returns 7-year-old German boy abducted by father last year |
| A statement from the attorney general says the suspect was detained Monday and transferred to German authorities, the father allegedly brought his son to the Dominican Republic a year ago without the consent of the mother...... |
| Read more | 07 Apr 2011 |
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| Moneychanger gunned down in alleged drug trafficking case |
| The Office of the National District Prosecutor confiscated RD$50 million from that exchange agency, through which Carlos Julio Solano is allegedly part of the ring headed by Manuel Emilio Mesa Beltré (El Gringo), accused of drug trafficking....... |
| Read more | 07 Apr 2011 |
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| A record 12 Dominican agents indicted on 33 K cocaine bust |
| A Puerto Plata court set bond and sent a group of 12 military and 2 civilians to one year in prison to await trial in the case of the 33 kilos of cocaine seized in Luperón International Airport, headed to Toronto, Canada, the highest number ever in one case......., but there are tons of cocaine coming in and out of the DR, who protect the importers....???......
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| Read more | 04 Apr 2011 |
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| Deed forgery ring scammed Dominicans and foreigners for years |
| The arrests come after years of complaints by locals and foreigner of scams in the millions in the Higuey(Punta Cana - Bavaro) jurisdiction, a notorious region known for constant swindles. Lawyers, notaries, ex Higuey(Punta Cana - Bavaro) real estate jurisdiction employees among others formed part of the network, which forged titles and other certificates....... |
| Read more | 11 Jul 2011 |
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| Doing business in the Dominican Republic, or NOT... ? - Don't invest in the DR, See Why! |
Rule of law is not enforced and poses serious risks to foreign companies and investors. The main hindrances emerge from the widespread corruption in the public sector, and the politicisation of justice. Foreign companies face significant uncertainty when dealing in the DR...... and President has not been able to attract investors and if they finally get one they rip him off!!!
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| Read more | 23 Sep 2012 |
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| Was the Miss Dominican 2011, TRUMP Miss Universe Crown paid with drug money? |
Stunning Scandal Involving Dominican Republic’s Miss Universe Contestant. Complaint has been sent to Donald TRUMP, who is the owner of the organisation behind Miss Universe..... |
| Read more | 09 Apr 2011 |
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| Gunmen kill bodyguard of Dominican Republic’s Antinarcotics czar |
Police Investigations director Hector Garcia Cuevas told reporters that he doesn’t discard that
the murder of the bodyguard “is a signal to doctor Marino Vinicio Castillo (Vincho).”...... |
| Read more | 01 Apr 2011 |
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| FDA Warns of Vitamin Product With Toxic A and D Levels from Indo Pharma in DR |
| The FDA has issued a warning against use of the vitamin solution Soladek because of dangerously high levels of vitamins A and D. The product -- marketed by the Dominican company Indo Pharma -- contains vitamin A and D levels many times greater than the recommended dosage and may cause decreased renal function, elevated levels of calcium in the blood, fatigue, heart arrhythmia, vomiting, and diarrhea...... |
| Read more | 30 Mar 2011 |
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| Vice Minister goes to jail for halting narcotics search |
| Miguel Campos Terrero, The Vice minister of Sports based in Puerto Plata, accused of halting a bench warrant to search and seize drugs and arrest suspects on drug trafficking and illegal weapons charges, was sent to the prison at Najayo....... |
| Read more | 26 Mar 2011 |
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| Leaked cable: Washington slams Dominican Foreign Minister |
| "Exaggerated" was the U.S. Embassy’s term for Foreign Relations Minister Carlos Morales’ reaction to criticism in Washington’s Human Rights Report, released when the country hosted the Rio Group Summit in March 2008, reveals a WikiLeaks cable, reports news source diariolibre.com....... |
| Read more | 24 Mar 2011 |
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| NY Dominican posing as “ambassador” faces 7 years in jail |
| Francisco Calcano, 42, faces grand robbery and rapist impersonation charges for allegedly pocketing $11,500 in a three-month scam. Manhatten Prosecutors pronounced their review unclosed a second fraud for that Calcano stole scarcely $5,000 from an institution in La Vega, in a Dominican Republic...... |
| Read more | 23 Mar 2011 |
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| Moderate earthquake hits Dominican Republic(Update 2) |
| This quake comes with a scare due to the fact the experts at Columbia University are warning this area to be hit with a 7.0-magnitude earthquake in the near future......Update 2 - Government agencies stage tsunami drill.....
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| Read more | 23 Mar 2011 |
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| Ex Dominican Justice chief vows to jail corrupt officials, even his own party’s |
| “If I am President of the Republic, and I regret to say it and do so with pain, there’ll be people in the PLD who will have to go to prison. Be them of the PLD or anyone, the one who makes a mistake, the one who violates the law, must assume their responsibility,"...... Is this the joke of the week? That man can't be serious! When he was justice minister nobody was jailed for extensive corruption, so why should that change if he became President? |
| Read more | 19 Mar 2011 |
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