PROVIDENCE — A Rhode Island man is accused of plotting to traffic untraceable ghost guns and then lying to investigators about the sales, mainly in the Dominican Republic. Federal agents arrested Robert Alcantara…
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India Opens Embassy In The Dominican Republic
SANTO DOMINGO — India opened its embassy in the Dominican Republic on January 1 2022, with the arrival of the Second Secretary Arup Saha in the capital. The newly-launched twitter handle of…
Coast Guard Takes 24 Dominican Nationals Back Home After Detecting Illegal Voyage
SAN JUAN — The Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Napier’s crew repatriated 24 Dominicans to the Dominican Republic, Wednesday, following the interdiction of an illegal voyage west of Aguadilla. The interdictions are the result…
Puerto Rican Music Producer Flow La Movie Dies In Dominican Plane Crash
SANTO DOMINGO A private jet crashed minutes after taking off outside Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic on Wednesday, killing all nine people on board, including Puerto Rican music producer Flow La…
Dominican Republic Reports First Case of COVID-19 Omicron Variant
SANTO DOMINGO — The Dominican Republic has identified its first case of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, the health ministry of the Caribbean country said on Saturday. In a statement on Twitter,…
Coast Guard Takes 58 Dominicans Back Home After Stopping 2 Illegal Voyages
SAN JUAN — The Coast Guard Cutter Heriberto Hernandez’s crew repatriated 58 Dominicans to the Dominican Republic Thursday, following the interdiction of two illegal voyages northwest of Aguadilla. The Puerto Rico interdictions…
Coast Guard Sends 62 Dominicans And 13 Haitians Back Home After Interdictions
SAN JUAN — The Coast Guard repatriated 62 Dominicans and 13 Haitians between Thursday and Tuesday to the Dominican Republic, following the interdiction of two illegal voyages near the Dominican Republic and…
Dominican Republic Expels, Mistreats Haitians, Activists Say
DAJABON, Dominican Republic — Bien-Aimé St. Clair frowned as the stream of older Haitian migrants pushed past him. Accused of living in the Dominican Republic illegally, they knew they had no choice…
Dominican Republic Man Faces Life In Prison After Shootout In Haulover Bay
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A Dominican Republic national who fired on federal agents with an assault rifle on a beach used for offloading large shipments of narcotics faces a possible life sentence after…
Venezuelan, Dominicano and Puerto Rican Arrested With 90 Pounds Of Cocaine
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Three men were arrested for smuggling 90 pounds of cocaine by boat into St. Thomas early Sunday morning, authorities said. On November 22, 2021 Erickson Bolivar, a Venezuelan national,…