Dominican Today
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 - 00:00
Dominican Police chief Jose A. Polanco and UN Haiti Stabilization Mission (MINUSTAH) Police commissioner Gerald Chaumont on Monday discussed the topic of organized crime, which they affirm both countries must face jointly.
Monday, October 4, 2010 - 00:00
After 13 days abroad president Leonel Fernandez finds the country and his ruling PLD Party submerged in problems including a serious crime wave.
Monday, October 4, 2010 - 00:00
Santiago Police Antinarcotics Unit commander colonel Franklin A. Peralta was arrested on Saturday for links to drug shakedown together with 13 others, including a police sergeant and a corporal.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - 00:00
The United States Congress approved five million dollars in funds for the Dominican Republic for the next fiscal year, to October 2011, within the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI).
Thursday, July 1, 2010 - 00:00
The USAID analysis also notes that the low education levels of many farmers, Haitians among them, hinders their being trained in the correct use of pesticides which makes it difficult to read labels, apply the product and use suitable protective equipmen
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 00:00
Around 30 Dominican military officers, some of them with the authority to use Navy craft to escort and protect planes and boats which brought drugs to the country, were part of a drug-trafficking support structure which has been dismantled partially, acco
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - 00:00
Dominican narcotics (DNCD) agents said yesterday they dismantled a network which dealt with large amounts of cocaine, and which allegedly has "deep" links with the FARC rebels of Colombia