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Apparently, the DR (and Jamaica) had one of the best (lowest) mortality rate during the Covid pandemic. Puerto Rico and the French Guyana had the absolute best for the hemisphere. Haiti, Nicaragua, Peru, Bolivia, parts of Mexico and one state in Brazil had the worst in the hemisphere...

I find it interesting how this guy is in the FBI Most Wanted list and he hasn’t been captured yet, however this reporter found him and met with him with realitive ease. To add salt to injury, his “hiding” place is a stone throw away from the US Embassy in Port-au-Prince! How is it that the FBI...

https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/medar-de-la-cruz-contributor-new-yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-diary-of-a-rikers-island-library-worker

It has been in the news for several days that an attempted kidnapping of Rafael Guerrero recently took place. He was leaving from his house in Anacaona Ave and noticed he was being followed. Eventually he went to the Las Américas Highway where help was able to intervene. Part of the followers...

With the current instability affecting Port-au-Prince, how are Dominican businesses (DR based companies doing business in Haiti and Dominican/Dominican-Haitian companies founded and based in Haiti) doing there? I was looking at this real estate project that was developed in Port-au-Prince by...

Basically, the DR has a higher Human Development Index (HDI) than most Latin American countries except: Puerto Rico Chile Argentina Uruguay Panama Costa Rica Mexico The DR’s HDI also grew more than everywhere’s except: Mexico Cuba Ecuador Uruguay In the Greater Antilles the DR is ahead of...

A group of Dominicans from a neighborhood in Las Terrenas are feeling forced to leave the neighborhood because recently the numbers of Haitians there have grown so much thqt according to them they outnumber Dominicans. One of the guys says that many Haitians are fine, but lately many of the...

A “phenomenon” was put in display recently when “Chiquito” was one of the 3 guys recently condemned for committing murder (he got 30 years, the maximum allowed in the Dominican legal system.) Well, it turns out on last Sunday some women, some accompanied by their mothers, went to see him in...

The first International Contemporary Art Fair is taking place in the DR. The event is at the Fine Arts Palace (Máximo Gómez Ave) from May 1 to May 12, 2024. It will also be in these other places and dates. April 19 - May 19: Centro Cultural Banreservas (C/ Isabel La Católica, Colonial Zone)...

I find this quite stupid, but some are promoting creating one more DR province. Essentially, this one covers the rest of the planet. lol Francisco Fernández also says things like don’t focus on how much representatives and legislators are making, rather what should be the focus is what is being...

This was published on April 24, 2024 in the Listín Diario. Supposedly, it shows the changes of the DR presumably with the PRM in charge. The few I will mention are (left 2005 - 2012, right 2021 - 2023): - Foreign Direct Investments: 24.6% of GDP to 32% of GDP. - Economic Growth: 5.5% to 6.5%...

1 = workers rights are sporadically violated. 5 = workers rights aren’t giaranteed. - Once again, Hispaniola is split in two. Plus, it isn’t like a small change, more like falling off a cliff. The anti-Dominicans are not going to like this. Borneo is more split than Hispaniola, but it’s all...

An aerial or airplane show will take place at San Isidro Air Base in Santo Domingo Este on April 27 & 28. The San Isidro Air Base will be open to the public on those days from 11am to 8pm, but the air show starts at 2pm. If attending, you do need to buy tickets, They are on sale at UEPA Tickets...

It’s in Spanish, but this is the best interview done to Iván Gatón, the most foremost Dominican in the global geopolitics. He is also (or was) a university professor and now an author. This interview should be translated to English!

The Corripio Foundation Awards 2024 are open to participate. The requirements are the following: I. Open to Dominican citizens and foreigners that have been living in the DR for at least 10 consecutive years. Ii. The entry documents should be headed to the Corripio Foundation (Fundación...

An interesting video was recently uploaded with very nice close video clips of the expansion work taking place at Cibao International Airport in Santiago province. For those not in the know, they started their expansion in 2023. In this magazine they have very nice big images of the renders...

The hijacking was caught on video (see it in the link.) This happened in broad daylight in a safe area. The burned SUV with remains inside (presumed to be hers) were found 2 hours later in a rural area south of Orlando, FL. She had been in the USA for 5 years. Was just 31 years old...

From April 19 to 21 the Club Hípico Las Colinas will be hosting the Gran Premio Las Colinas tournament, the first of its kind. The tournament will include horses from the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, and Puerto Rico. The tournament will include...

On the way to/from Samaná on the SD-Samaná highway there are parts that pass by African palms plantations. They are used for the oil extracted from their nuts which is used for many industrial process and I think even for cooking oil. If you think that was a speculation business, think again...