 Thousands stripped of citizenship in the Dominican Republic |
| A case challenging the Dominican Republic's treatment of its citizens of Haitian ancestry was filed before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on Tuesday by the Open Society Justice Initiative and the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)....... |
| Read more | 02 Jun 2010 |
| Amnesty International Report 2010 - Dominican Republic |
| At least 226 unlawful killings by the security forces were reported between January and August. Haitians and Dominico-Haitians faced widespread discrimination. Constitutional reform increased the likelihood of a total ban on abortion....... |
| Read more | 02 Jun 2010 |
| Puerto Rican lawyers accuse Dominican authorities of “falsehoods” |
| In a press conference together with the lawyers Felix Portes, Rubén Cerezo and Ramon Rodriguez, Negron handed out certified copies of the charges against Figueroa in Puerto Rico, as alleged evidence that he has nothing to do with narcotics. |
| Read more | 02 Jun 2010 |
| Ask the Dominican Republic to Stop the captivity of Dolphins in Taiji |
| In Taiji, 12 dolphins were roughly removed from the water and separated from their podmates, who were then butchered. The animals are awaiting export to Ocean World Adventure Park, a tourist resort in the Dominican Republic, where visitors pay big bucks to swim with captive dolphins....... |
| Read more | 02 Jun 2010 |
| Dominican Republic has a very slow and expensive internet |
| Dominican Republic ranks among the worst countries in the world in regards to Internet speed, a study by the company NET INDEX and proprietors of the measurer www.speedtest.com shows the DR is no 136 of 152..... |
| Read more | 29 May 2010 |
| Police make arrest in factory made bogus motor oil |
| Police investigators on Wednesday dismantled a clandestine motor oil factory whose operators swindled hundreds of motorists who bought the lubricants with forged labels of different brands, placing their vehicle engines at risk...... |
| Read more | 29 May 2010 |
| Dominican Former Bronx Senator Gets 7 Years for Corruption |
| Efrain González Jr., a once-powerful Bronx politician convicted of corruption, was sentenced to seven years in prison on Tuesday by a federal judge who called his story “an American tragedy.”......... |
| Read more | 26 May 2010 |
| Mobile services in decline in the Dominican Republic |
| The Dominican Telecommunications Institute (Indotel) warns that the quality of cell phone services in the Dominican Republic is declining....... |
| Read more | 25 May 2010 |
| Dominican army warns of public unrest after elections |
| Armed Forces Minister Lieutenant General Pedro Rafael Peña Antonio confirmed yesterday that there was a plan to disrupt public order, and informed that troops had been deployed to strategic points across the country........ |
| Read more | 25 May 2010 |
| Dominican Republic media clampdown as opposition cries vote fraud |
| The Central Electoral Board (JCE) banned the political parties’ delegates from issuing statements to the press and to receive reporters in the Political Parties Salon. It became a custom for reporters to interview the parties’ representatives in that Salon during the electoral process, but today’s measure surprised the media, when plainclothes security personnel blocked the journalists’ access......
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| Read more | 25 May 2010 |
| Senior antinarcotics officials arrested on missing drugs, getting cozy with trafficker |
| Two senior Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) officials and three agents, all of whom hold key positions in the entity, are investigated for the disappearance of 10 kilos of cocaine seized during a search in the Capital....... |
| Read more | 22 May 2010 |
| Haiti earthquake risk ‘not over’ |
| According to msnbc news scientists say fault system still experiencing significant stress. That stress can build up to the point where it overwhelms the grip of the plates against each other and the fault snaps, shifting the surrounding earth with potentially deadly consequences....... |
| Read more | 22 May 2010 |
| Warning of diphtheria along frontier to Haiti |
| The president of the Dominican Pediatric Society called on the health authorities yesterday to be vigilant along the frontier in the face of the alarming increase in diphtheria cases in Haiti reported by the United States Center for Disease Control (CDC)....... |
| Read more | 22 May 2010 |
| Girl and her two kidnappers die in auto accident |
| A little girl affected by Down Syndrome and two men who had just kidnapped her in the central town Bonao died today Friday when the SUV in which they fled flipped on the highway to the nearby city La Vega........ |
| Read more | 22 May 2010 |
| Mayor of Dominican Republic’s 2nd City to Face Corruption Charges(Update 2) |
| The Dominican Alliance against Corruption, or Adocco, said it will ask government prosecutors to charge Sued with misuse of public money. Jose Enrique Sued, a political ally of the ruling PLD party, has been mayor of Santiago for 12 of the past 16 years...... |
| Read more | 09 Jun 2010 |
| More criminals join Dominican Republic’s Congress |
| Juan Hubieres, the head of a nationwide association of bus owners whose constant strikes have claimed the lives of innocent people, and whose mere threats of stoppages strike fear in Government officials, will be the Deputy of the town Bayaguana. He was convicted of smuggling 14 Chinese citizens into the country in 2002, when he was consul in Cape Haitian...... |
| Read more | 22 May 2010 |
| Angus Reid Global Monitor - a summery of the Dominican election |
| On May 5, PRD representatives officially accused the PLD of planning "a massive purchase of votes" in the municipality of Samaná before the Central Electoral Board (JCE).On May 9, Fernández was criticized for actively campaigning for his party’s candidates. The president is not supposed to take part in political rallies......... |
| Read more | 22 May 2010 |
| Top Dominican journalist slams “bums” in government payroll |
| Newspaper El Nacional editor in chief of Radhamés Gomez Pepín affirmed Tuesday that if he were President his first decree would be to order a firing squad against “two or three bandits whom still subsist” and to clean the Government payroll “of so many bums” who get paid without working...... |
| Read more | 19 May 2010 |
| Last minute elections violence a “stain for democracy” |
| The Electoral Board’s (JCE) Administrative Chamber president Roberto Rosario reported 12 incidents with several people injured and more than 10 arrests in different parts of the country. At least five was killed during the election violence...... |
| Read more | 18 May 2010 |
| Drug ring made up of doctors and pharmacists dismantled in the DR |
| National Drug Control Department (DNCD) officers have dismantled an international ring made up of doctors and pharmacists who engaged in selling controlled substances to clients in the United States through a Call Center. The group gave its clients the impression that it was US-based....... |
| Read more | 17 May 2010 |
