2005News

800 Haitians deported

Approximately 800 Haitian immigrants were arrested and deported to Haiti by Immigration Department agents, because they didn’t have their documents in order or for wandering about the streets of Santiago. Listin Diario reports that this is the second week that the Immigration Office in Santiago performs this sort of operation to reduce the number of …
2005News

Another province?

The Senate has passed, by 16 votes to 6, the bill creating the new province of Santo Domingo Oriental, and making Mendoza a municipality. The new province will be composed of the Santo Domingo Este, Boca Chica, San Antonio de Guerra, and San Jose de Mendoza municipalities. The bill was presented by Tonty Rutinel Dominguez, …