Dominican Republic

The global coronavirus pandemic originating in China is leading conservative Latin American leaders to question key tenets of the region’s foreign policy.

Health officials in the Dominican Republic on Sunday reported the first confirmed case of the new coronavirus in the tourist-rich Caribbean, while British cruise ship passengers who had been trapped at sea due to virus fears were finally set to come home.

Dominican armed forces hurled tear gas canisters at protesters congregated before Santo Domingo’s Central Electoral Board (JCE) on Tuesday, alarming a largely peaceful crowd united to demand free and fair elections after the JCE abruptly canceled the results of this weekend’s national polls.

Three illegal aliens are among six accused drug dealers who were freed from jail by New York City officials after their arrests for allegedly operating a heroin-fentanyl packaging ring out of a Bronx apartment. 

White Sox reliever Kelvin Herrera stands accused of striking a man at a cockfight in the Dominican Republic.

Six suspects were taken into custody over the weekend after an American teacher was found dead inside her home in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, last week.

An American teacher was found strangled to death inside her apartment in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, Tuesday. 

A man from the Dominican Republic has been arrested for allegedly bludgeoning to death four homeless men in New York City’s Chinatown neighborhood last week.

ROME (AP) – Italy’s president has paid homage to two officers killed in the line of duty in the northern city of Trieste.

Former Red Sox slugger David Ortiz has reportedly hired a ex-Boston police chief to investigate the shooting that hospitalized the player.

After the alleged assault of a Delaware woman, the Majestic Elegance Punta Cana resort is temporarily closing due to “low occupancy.”

A Delaware woman is suing a Dominican Republic resort for $3 million after she claims she was beaten at one of the resorts while she stayed there with her husband.

The U.S. State Department confirmed this week that a man from Forsyth, Georgia, died while vacationing in the Dominican Republic.

Rocker Rick Springfield has moved his music festival to Mexico as the number of deaths of American tourist continues to rise in the Dominican Republic.

Passengers with booked flights on Delta Air Lines are being allowed to rebook or cancel their travel plans to the Dominican Republic following reports of sickness and death in the country.

A father of two from Denver who was forced to disembark his flight leaving the Dominican Republic when he became ill on Sunday has died, according to family members.

A teenage girl from Argentina slipped into a coma on her trip to the Dominican Republic, with doctors saying she may have a life-threatening diabetic condition.

On Tuesday, a Louisiana honeymooner became the tenth American to die in the last year after visiting the Dominican Republic.

More than 80 Venezuelans have died or disappeared in the Caribbean Sea in the past two months trying to flee their homeland, according to a report this week by the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

Nearly half of the dedicated members of the Central Oklahoma Parrothead Association (COPA), a Jimmy Buffett fan group, ended up very sick during their trip to the Dominican Republic in April.

A New Jersey man is now the eighth American tourist to die from a mysterious illness at resorts in the Dominican Republic, according to multiple reports.

A Philadelphia couple who claimed they became violently ill at a Dominican Republic resort where three Americans died over the weekend said they noticed something was amiss during their stay last year.

At least four people died at resorts in the Dominican Republic from mysterious illnesses, according to multiple reports.

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Former Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz was ambushed by a man who got off a motorcycle and shot him in the back at nearly point-blank range Sunday night in his native Dominican Republic, authorities said.

Three American tourists died from a mysterious respiratory illness in a Dominican Republic hotel, according to several reports.

Tammy Lawrence-Daley of Delaware says she was violently attacked and left to die while vacationing at the Majestic Elegance Punta Cana resort in the Dominican Republic in January and is sharing her story to warn future vacationers. The mother said

The Dominican Republic opened in its new embassy in Beijing this weekend, as China attempts to woo the country as a reward for its decision to no longer recognize Taiwan as an independent country. 

Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping hosted the leader of El Salvador on Thursday, pledging aid to the Central American country as a reward for switching their allegiance from Taiwan to Beijing. 

The State Department has recalled the ambassadors to three countries who recently cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan under pressure from China. 

Nearly all of the criminal illegal and legal immigrants incarcerated in American prisons derive from six countries in Central and South America.