Dominican Republic

No, he gets marooned on Hispaniola, which is the second largest Caribbean island after Cuba.

Today, it's split by the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

At this time period, it's technically a Spanish territory, but there are lots of French, English, and Dutch pirates there living as buccaneers.

And there are also French settlements on certain parts of the island.

Here, locally in Baton Rouge, Melvin Lopez is charged with the murder in this particular case.

Lopez is a Dominican Republic native serving a life sentence for second-degree murder.

That update here at noon.

And y'all, that may not even be the same case.

It's also like, So I'm Dominican.

My parents are from Dominican Republic.

And there is a very machista mindset of like what a woman's role is and what a man's role is.

Like very strong opinions about that.

This is the story of Bergen Air Flight 301.

On the night of February 6th, 1996, 176 passengers and 13 crew boarded Bergen Air Flight 301 at Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic.

They were bound for Frankfurt in Germany, with stopovers in Gander in Canada and Berlin.

Almost all of the passengers were German holidaymakers returning home from a package holiday in the Caribbean, though there were also nine Poles on board, including two members of the Polish parliament.

At 11.47pm that night, still travelling at over 400km per hour, flight 301 impacted the ocean.

All 189 people on board died instantly.

An investigation was launched immediately after the crash by the Dominican Republic government's General Directorate of Civil Aviation.

Three weeks after the crash, when the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder were dredged up from the bottom of the ocean, a terrifying picture of confusion began to emerge.

No, he gets marooned on Hispaniola, which is the second largest Caribbean island after Cuba.

Today, it's split by the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

At this time period, it's technically a Spanish territory, but there are lots of French, English, and Dutch pirates there living as buccaneers.

And there are also French settlements on certain parts of the island.

And then they counter that with bringing, and it's great that netball looks as though it's going to be brought in, waiting to announce that officially until 2027 as the IOC meet.

I think Julian Linden was reporting this week and the, Dominican Republic of all places to finalise the sports that are going to be seen in 2032.

They say one thing a lot, the IOC, and then turn away from the sort of place they were going.

Like having breaking in the last Olympics was just bizarre and it was only ever going to be in there for one games.

Since I started this, I have... co-founded my second business, which is called We Whistle Global, which has been taking me on some international travel.

We just came back from Dominican Republic.

I was in Jamaica earlier.

We've done some local big trips in New York.

I mean, it's so amazing having their support.

They are, you know, from, you know, like New Jersey via Dominican Republic as well.

So actually having them come on board the project was a real vote of confidence in terms of what we were doing with the film, but also it really spoke to them in terms of the type of themes and the way we were handling those themes.

For me, it was a really wonderful addition to have that kind of support coming in.

So in December, the Brisbane local committee, the organising committee, will put out an announcement saying these are the sports we're backing as local sports.

And in April next year is when they will be officially put on the table and voted on by those at the IOC committee in the Dominican Republic that's happening.

So we're a long way off this being concrete.

You know, we're five months off that.