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| Read more | 26 Apr 2010 |
| Judge refutes claim by Prisons Agency on release of hired killer(update 3) |
| The National Police yesterday said the deportee, together with Joel Bautista Vásquez (Pilito) have murdered 36 people. He was in a a group of convicts who were promised a Presidential Pardon by then Prisons official Oneida Acevedo, after attending a mass in the church La Paz on the Malecon on August 15, 2004, just one day before Hipolito Mejia left office, and during the scandalous tenure of the former Justice Minister Victor Cespedes. Update 2 - Three days after being excorted back to the DR he was released on bail..!!..... Update 3 - the judge who approved his bail is now fired.......
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| Read more | 29 Apr 2010 |
| 12-year-old adopted in Russia and abandoned in Dominican Republic caught in long legal limbo |
| The boy wants to return to Russia but he has almost completely forgotten his native language. He has had no formal education since the suspected drug traffickers left him with a taxi driver in 2005. The case was not widely known until Russia's children's rights ombudsman, Pavel Astakhov, mentioned the boy last week...... |
| Read more | 26 Apr 2010 |
| Pitbulls Kill Man in Dominican Republic |
| A 53-year-old farmworker was killed by two pitbulls that escaped from their enclosure in Villa Mella, a community in Santo Domingo Norte, Dominican police said, adding that the dogs’ owner and handler were arrested...... |
| Read more | 26 Apr 2010 |
| Antinarcotics Agency fires 7 colonels in purge with polygraph tests |
| The head of the DNCD said the cleanup will continue until all rotten apples have been removed. “More than DNCD 50 members have been expelled in the last in seven months, for taking part in to activities contrary to the regulations.”........ |
| Read more | 19 Apr 2010 |
| Magnitude 5.2 termor shakes Dominican Republic´s east coast |
| Earthquake shake the Punta Cana region, three dies other resqued by Navy craft........ |
| Read more | 19 Apr 2010 |
| Breaking News - Nuria Piera removes broadcast about Punta Perla from her website |
| Woman of the year and investigative journalist Nuria Piera from Diario Libre have uncovered hundreds of corrupt stories in the Dominican Republic. On April 10, 2010 she released a cover story on national TV about the problems behind the Punta Perla land deal and the fact that nobody believes it will ever get build. After 9 days on her website the broadcast was removed today ........
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| Read more | 20 Apr 2010 |
| 2 pilots jailed in DomRep on trafficking charges |
| They were arrested last week and accused of trying to fly five people out of the DR with false documentation. The migrants were carrying fake visas and passports and each paid roughly $20,000...... |
| Read more | 17 Apr 2010 |
| Two get 10 years in prison for 3 murders in Loft disco |
| The victims, Yasser Alberto Nader, Ignacio Mañón and Fidel Ernesto Estévez were killed in a shootout at 11:30 p.m. on May 23, 2007, in the parking lot of the Loft discotheque..... |
| Read more | 17 Apr 2010 |
| Oxfam slams Dominican Government’s "lack of resolve" against disasters |
| The organization said given the Caribbean nation’s geographic location it’s "highly exposed to natural threats, mainly tropical storms, tornados, floods, landslides, wild fires and earthquakes." The Dominican population is "badly misinformed” on the threats natural phenomena pose...... |
| Read more | 17 Apr 2010 |
| Indotel closes telco following alleged illegal activity in Dominican Republic |
| The Dominican Republic's telecoms watchdog Indotel has suspended the activities of a company called Majestic Marketing and seized equipment...... |
| Read more | 17 Apr 2010 |
| Airport mafia and disappearing airplanes in the Dominican Republic |
| The investigations regarding the disappearance of an airplane that left the Joaquin Balaguer International Airport at El Higuero destined for Port-au-Prince, but which turned towards Colombia, have let to the discovery of a mafia that handled clandestine flights and which used local airports. According to the investigators, these flights handled people and money....... |
| Read more | 15 Apr 2010 |
| Macabre killings by minors rock Dominican society |
| The Santo Domingo Province Juvenile Court sent five minors, three boys and two girls, to jail on charges of killing seven taxi drivers in different parts of the municipality Santo Domingo East, where the Police revealed that the group, which included two adults, had sex while they murdered their victims........ |
| Read more | 13 Apr 2010 |
| Dominican Police Chief’s house guards arrest TV crew |
| The freedom of the press under constant attack in the Dominican Republic. TV stations are closed down and journalists arrested..... |
| Read more | 09 Jun 2010 |
| Vacationer says she was drugged and raped in Dominican Republic |
| Karen from Canada was kidnapped from a bar in Puerto Plata, drugged, robbed and raped on her last night in the country...... |
| Read more | 09 Apr 2010 |
| 14 people die of dengue fever in Dominican Republic |
| Given the situation, the Health Ministry has expanded the prevention plan and raised the epidemic alert........ |
| Read more | 09 Apr 2010 |
| Punta Perla developer Ricardo Miranda lost Class A lawsuit in Spain |
| Maybe there is finally hope for the all unlucky investors in the Punta Perla scandalized project. Ricardo Miranda has lost a Class A lawsuit from angry investors in one of his other fantasy projects and the lawyers are now thinking of initiating criminal charges against him........ |
| Read more | 05 Apr 2010 |
| PeTA Urge Dominican Republic Officials to Stop Poisoning Dogs |
| National Anti-Rabies Center has authorized public officials to set out poison to kill homeless animals....... |
| Read more | 03 Apr 2010 |
| Too many tourists killed in the Dominican Republic(Update 5) |
| Killings of foreingers in the Dominican Republic is growing becsause of the bad economical situation and the fact that police are able to combat the raising crime level......
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| Read more | 29 Jul 2010 |
| Canadian Skyservice announced that it has gone into receivership |
| In fact, a flight leaving Canada for the Dominican Republic was already cancelled and passengers are adviced to contact their travel agent....... |
| Read more | 01 Apr 2010 |
