 Earthquake Magnitude 3.4 - ISLA SAONA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC |
- Tuesday, June 22, 2010 at 06:55:49 UTC - epicenter 50Km from La Romana in the Dominican Republic
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| Read more | 25 Jun 2010 |
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| Tropical wave pounds Dominican Republic’s south coast, one dead, hundreds evacuated |
| One dead, a teenage girl missing and 750 people evacuated as the downpours from a second tropical wave within three days, drenching most of the country....... |
| Read more | 24 Jun 2010 |
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| Prestigious entity blasts the Government’s lack of will to fight corruption |
| The CEO of the prestigious Institutionalism and Justice Foundation (Finjus) regrets that despite the constant denunciations of corruption by journalists and others in society, the country lacks the will to fight it, and reiterated his criticism that Government officials don’t render account...... |
| Read more | 24 Jun 2010 |
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| Travel-Associated Dengue Surveillance from US Center for Disease Control |
| Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). The highest proportion of laboratory-confirmed and probable cases with known travel histories were in persons who reported travel to the Dominican Republic (121; 20%)..... |
| Read more | 24 Jun 2010 |
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| UK families in new legal battle over holiday in Dominican Republic |
| Families in travel firm legal wrangle with claimants demanding £300,000 compensation from a travel firm after their trip to a luxury resort became a holiday from hell. Tourists across the country are suing travel company TUI UK Ltd over ruined holidays to the San Juan in the Dominican Republic............ |
| Read more | 22 Jun 2010 |
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| Alarming outbreak of dengue in Dominican Republic |
| An outbreak of classic and hemorrhagic dengue is affecting children and elderly persons in this city [Santiago], "in a manner so alarming that the doctors are extremely worried about the high morbidity rate in both public and private health centres."....... |
| Read more | 22 Jun 2010 |
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| Is The Dominican Republic An International Destination? Airlines Disagree |
| American Airlines told Bill that he couldn't acces their international lounge because his flight from the Dominican Republic to Houston, which required a passport and a customs form, didn't count as an international flight. Bill's wife had paid $300 to upgrade Bill's ticket to first class expressly so he could access the lounge, but he was denied access....... |
| Read more | 22 Jun 2010 |
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| UN warning: 4,000 escaped Haitian convicts may try to enter Dominican Republic |
| Crimes are already out of control in many areas of the Dominican Republic, so having another 4000 hard criminals from Haiti crossing the border into the Dominican Republic would create one of the most dangerous places in the entire Caribbean........ |
| Read more | 22 Jun 2010 |
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| Woman files lawsuit over carbon monoxide posioning at Barcelo hotel Puerto Plata |
| Boryana Saveva and Seyed Mosavi went on an all-inclusive vacation to Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic in November, 2009. After going to sleep, says Savena, her next recollection was awaking days later in hospital suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning. Her male friend died....... |
| Read more | 15 Jun 2010 |
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| Dominican Republic is back on US people-trafficking black list |
| Cuba and Dominican Republic are members of the group of 13 mostly Asian and African, countries that don’t fight people trafficking, according to the report. For Washington Dominican Republic is "a source country, for the transit and destination of men, women and children victims of people traffic, especially for prostitution and forced labor."....... |
| Read more | 15 Jun 2010 |
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| Caribbean Pleasure Industry: Tourism, Sexuality, and AIDS in the Dominican Republic |
| Drawing on his groundbreaking ethnographic research in the Dominican Republic, Mark Padilla discovers a complex world where the global political and economic impact of tourism has led to shifting sexual identities, growing economic pressures, and new challenges for HIV prevention....... |
| Read more | 15 Jun 2010 |
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| An American attorney and businessman was shot to death at his residence in Sosua(Update 3) |
| The body of Tarlow, was found gunned down in his bedroom with four bullet wounds. Police arrested two suspects in the Friday night murder of US lawyer and businessman Arthur Lee Tarlow, in his villa in the resort town Sosúa. Update 2 includes the background information on what could easily have been the reason for this murder.....
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| Read more | 29 Jun 2010 |
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| UN study - Dominican Republic is weak in health and education |
| The report has been two years under way. Findings support the complaints on the country’s unfair social structure, and whose notable economic growth doesn’t lead to the spread of wealth and the growth of a middle class........ |
| Read more | 23 Jun 2010 |
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| Attack on bus with hotel workers prompts warning by hoteliers |
| Hotel asked for police protection - “The use of violence is an unacceptable practice in a democratic society with an open economy based on free competition, in which the companies are forced to compete in a globalised world.”....... |
| Read more | 09 Jun 2010 |
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| Problems in every corner of the Domincian Republic according to UNDP, UNHRC, Amnesty International and The World Bank(Update 3) |
| The Dominican Republic received a downward trend arrow due to the revelation through several major scandals of the level of drug traffickers' penetration of Dominican police and legal institutions, as well as new constitutional bans on abortion and gay marriage. Amnesty International - Unlawfull killings of hundreds of people and. Dominican Republic should investigate abduction allegations against anti-kidnap police. World Bank - most corrupt government. UNDP - lack of health and education. KIlling of journalists - the list just goes on and on and on....... |
| Read more | 12 Feb 2012 |
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| Rights commission asks for probe in 1994 Dominican disappearance |
| An Organization of American States human rights commission has asked a court to look into the 1994 disappearance of a Dominican Republic opposition leader shortly after he was taken into custody, the agency said Monday....... |
| Read more | 08 Jun 2010 |
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| Where is the money invested? Corruption = Less development |
| The DR is listed by the World Bank as one of the most corrupt in the world. Roby Senderowitsch, representative for the World Bank in the DR, says that countries that show the most development are those with the least levels of corruption........ |
| Read more | 08 Jun 2010 |
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| Fernandez asked to order probe into journalist’s “grave” denouncement(Update 2) |
| ADOCCO General coordinator Julio Cesar Tiburcio de la Rosa said a fact of that nature would bring about “social upheaval of unpredictable consequences,” since Dominican society no longer allows that type of aggression against people who criticize the status quo...... |
| Read more | 16 Jun 2010 |
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| Earthquake Magnitude 4.0 - DOMINICAN REPUBLIC |
| The earthquake happened Saturday, June 05, 2010 at 02:26:33 PM with epicenter 30 miles offshore from Punta Cana ........ |
| Read more | 06 Jun 2010 |
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| Travelers to Dominican Republic need to take precautions |
| The Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report released Thursday said a group of U.S. missionaries became ill with dengue fever after traveling to the Dominican Republic for about one week....... |
| Read more | 04 Jun 2010 |
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| Medra Fetal Stem Cell in Dominican Republic is a Medical Scam |
| The BBC went undercover and filmed Dr William C Rader in his Dominican location. There are 4 parts on YouTube. A must watch for anyone considering wiring $30,000 to a offshore bank in the Bahamas........ |
| Read more | 04 Jun 2010 |
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| Assassination Attempt - Gunmen shoot famous Santiago attorney and TV host (Update 3) |
| Crimes getting out of control in the Domincan Republic - Santiago attorney and television host Yordy Veras was hit by two bullets fired by two as yet unidentified gunmen today, one to his cheek and the other to the neck both of which went through his face.
The shooting serves as a reminder that, despite its reassuring touristic image, the Dominican Republic continues to be a dangerous country........ |
| Read more | 08 Jun 2010 |
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