 Vargas says 50% of land in DomRep has no title |
| The president of the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano (PRD), Miguel Vargas, stated yesterday that 50 percent of the country’s land is without title and that most of those who so have are not legally regulated...... |
| Read more | 06 Nov 2010 |
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| La Soga - A dominican movie dangerously close to the real crimes! |
| The movie trailer is stark: A drug dealer is hauled out into a public square and shot to death by a plainclothes sicario (read: government-hired killer). It's a hyperbolic scene in a movie whose tagline is "Revenge has a new name". But for star and screenwriter Manny Perez, it's rooted in a brutal reality of crime, corruption and violence in his native Dominican Republic....... |
| Read more | 05 Nov 2010 |
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| Dominican-American singer smuggling drugs in his stomach |
Jimmy Bauer, whose real name is Jaime Vargas, was trying to board a flight to the United States when customs and drug authorities stopped him for "strange behavior," 88 pellets were extracted from his stomach. Authorities initially suspected the pellets contained cocaine, but laboratory tests showed it was 1.04 kilograms (2.2 pounds) of pure heroin......
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| Read more | 03 Nov 2010 |
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| Deputies call Dominican Republic's border cops a corrupt agency |
| The Chamber of Deputies Border Affairs Commission affirmed Tuesday that the Border Security Corp (CESFRONT) is a corrupt agency and that all types of trafficking to and from Haiti and Dominican Republic has risen after its creation....... |
| Read more | 03 Nov 2010 |
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| Dominican Republic: Authorities are on the watch for cholera |
| However the illegal transportation of Haitians crossing the border and the big traffic accident this morning involving 87 illegal Haitians, shows that Cholera could spread very fast to every corner of the Dominican Republic...... |
| Read more | 02 Nov 2010 |
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| Two Swiss citizens have been robbed and murdered in the Dominican Republic |
| The woman Johanna Bearand aged 47 and Oliver Maximilien Leon Guntert man aged 66, originally from Switzerland, were found dead at their hotel in the tourist area of Boca Chica. They planned to stay all winter in the DR, but was brutally killed with a crowbar and robbed...... |
| Read more | 02 Nov 2010 |
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| Do not use Verizon roaming in Dominican Republic(Update 2) |
| If Carlos Mota from the US had $17,505 lying around, he would be able to pay off his house. As it is, that's the amount Verizon expected him to cough up in one bill this summer after visiting Dominican Republic. Update - After the bad press Verizon has reduced the bill to USD 1000 which is still a lot of money for a few days internet.......
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| Read more | 03 Nov 2010 |
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| Dominican Republic Repatriates Hundreds of Haitians |
| Haitians are doing everything possible to get into the Dominican Republic in the wake of a cholera outbreak in Haiti that has killed more than 300 people. Dominican officials estimate that around 1 million Haitians live in the country, most of them illegal immigrants. Haitians cross the border to do work that many Dominicans will not do, such as
harvesting sugar cane
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| Read more | 29 Oct 2010 |
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| Illegal Dominican worker sentenced in plot to defraud IRS of $1.2M |
| An undocumented worker from the Dominican Republic who schemed with his girlfriend, a former postal carrier and another man to defraud the IRS of more than $1.2 million was sentenced yesterday to 4 1/2 years in federal prison and ordered to make restitution of $97,748...... |
| Read more | 28 Oct 2010 |
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| Amnesty International probes strange disappearance in Dominican Republic |
| One year on, Juan Almonte Herrera's fate continues to be unknown, for which Amnesty International (AI) has been in contact with local authorities urging a probe into what it calls a “possible enforced disappearance in the Dominican Republic.”. Cecilio Batista was last seen alive in the back of a Police car near the town Villa Vazquez...... |
| Read more | 28 Oct 2010 |
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| Dominican Republic repeats high corruption rank |
| The entity said the Dominican Republic scored a 3 in the ranking where a 10 is the least corrupt, the same score for 2009. A building in the Sunland government corruption scandal helped place the DR in the red of TI's map...... |
| Read more | 28 Oct 2010 |
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| Santo Domingo Assistant DA gunned down and killed near her house |
| Dominican crimimals try to scare other DA's with their actions. Strange but true, the bodygard didn't manage to shot the killers. The victim, 31, was assigned to the National District Office of the Prosecutor around eight months ago and had held the same post in Monte Plata and twice in Santo Domingo provinces. She left behind four children........ |
| Read more | 28 Oct 2010 |
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| Young Haitian girls sexually exploited in the Dominican Republic |
| After several days of going hungry, Marie said she surrendered to sexual propositions made by several men in the park where she begged in this resort town in the south of the Dominican Republic. Since January's earthquake, at least 7,300 Haitian children have been smuggled into the Dominican Republic, traffickers and child advocates say. Watch the scary video from the investigation...... |
| Read more | 25 Oct 2010 |
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| Dominican Health chief: Cholera outbreak is “all the danger in the world” - Update 21: Now 2000+ cases with 363 dead in Dom Rep, goverment hiding the real numbers!6 |
| Update - Haiti more than 5000+ dead and 26000+ Cholera cases with almost 400 dead in Dom Rep...... Government hiding the real numbers to protect the travel industri........ European Union (EU) health officials today warned travelers about a risk of contracting cholera in the Dominican Republic, a magnet for tourists...... |
| Read more | 23 Sep 2012 |
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| Isolated corruption, says who? and what does the President know anyway! |
| Several commentators have spoken out against the statements by President Leonel Fernandez who downplayed the findings of the diagnostics commission made up of multilateral, international and civil society organizations. The report presents multiple international and national studies pointing to the high levels of rampant corruption in the Fernandez administration....... |
| Read more | 25 Oct 2010 |
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| Five arrested in US human smuggling ring operating out of the DomRep |
Department of Homeland Security agents have arrested five men in connection with a human smuggling ring that allegedly brought Chinese citizens into Houston from the Dominican Republic. The arrests capped a more than 19-month undercover investigation into the smuggling operation, which operated primarily out of the Dominican Republic...... |
| Read more | 23 Oct 2010 |
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| 126 Dominican students fall ill at schools despite gov't efforts to resolve food problems(Update 2) |
| The government has been struggling with similar problems since February, when dozens of students fell ill at a school in the country's north. Dozens more in other schools were later sickened....... |
| Read more | 31 Oct 2010 |
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| Battle Over Bus Routes Leaves 2 Dead in Dominican Republic |
| Two men were fatally shot in the southern Dominican city of San Cristobal amid a dispute between rival groups of bus operators for control of routes, police said...... |
| Read more | 22 Oct 2010 |
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| Dominican Republic’s Power Company has 2 mafias, Energy czar says |
| State-owned Power Companies (CDEEE) Celso Marranzini on Thursday denounced that a “mafia” of internal contractors works against the system, and another that tampers with meters, which contribute to losses as high as 40 percent...... |
| Read more | 22 Oct 2010 |
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| Dominican National Police: A Deadly Tradition |
| Despite national and international outcry, the Dominican National Police are continuing their tradition of violent repression of dissidents at a time when protests are becoming more common across the country...... |
| Read more | 21 Oct 2010 |
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| Traffic accidents are top killer of U.S. travelers abroad |
| About 1,820 Americans, almost a third of all Americans who died of non-natural causes while abroad, have been reported killed in road accidents in foreign countries from Jan. 1, 2003, through June 2010. On average, one American traveler dies on a foreign road every 36 hours. The Dominican Republic, a popular resort destination, ranked No. 3 in fatalities...... |
| Read more | 21 Oct 2010 |
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| 25,000 pounds of illegally-taken fish found on Dominican vessel in Bahamian waters |
| The 70ft steel-hulled motor vessel, authorities off-loaded an additional 590 pounds of undersized groupers; 11,322 lbs of whole lobsters; 361 lbs of lobster tails, including 17 lbs that were undersized; and 11,828 lbs of mixed fish, including snappers, parrot and hog fish. The boat captain was fined $50,000 after he and 28 crew members pleaded guilty, he was ordered by the court to pay his fine or spend a year in prison....... |
| Read more | 21 Oct 2010 |
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