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Hilton recently announced the "de-branding" of the BHD's four Coral properties. The affiliation must have been a real feather in the cap, at least as far as prestige and PR/mktg. are concerned. Any reliable information regarding the cause(s) for this move?

Gringo Carlos alleges that Hugo Chavez engages in abusive trade practices with the DR, etc. drbill et al agree. Has anyone else noticed this? REALLY stay on topic!

...statistics, a subject many of us (86.4%) just don't like much. Once again, I've come across an interesting news item announcing that such-and-such plan will likely reduce the cost of a product by between 60 and 300 per cent. I understand things like funny long-division signs and "how much...

According to today's Hoy, Argentina's ambassador reveals that his country is discussing the sale of nuclear reactors to the DR, as a solution to the energy problem. I'm going to catch my breath and read this again.

The Puerto Plata paper, in its inimitable journalistic fashion, reports that local visitors complain about the entrance road, "hygiene" conditions, entrance fees, etc. Costambar residents, on the other hand, complain about hundreds of drunken-noisy-dirty-etcetera-young people being herded to...

A friend ("Fred") heads out for vacation, leaving his vehicle parked at a Boca Chica hotel and flying out of Sto.Dgo. He returns a month later, this Mon., to find that the tailgate lock had been forced, a camera and his cedula taken. In a bad mood, he heads over to HQ JCE, takes his place in...

CNN Senior Analyst Juan Pablo O'Brien acknowledged that the astounding number of serious traffic accidents reported yesterday in various Spanish urban centers (749,055) did not actually occur in physical space and time. The legislation recognizing Dominican driver's licenses did not legally...

Have any foreigners here (resident or non-) been involved in a lawsuit, either as a complainant or defendant? Property, business, labor, criminal, whatever? What would you do different the next time?

The illegal immigration of all those Mexicans into the U.S. tends to irritate me (theoretically, anyways)- I'm a taxpayer and resent the intrusion on rational and emotional grounds. Here, however, I find myself very sympathetic to the Haitian cause. I think that my exposure to the realities of...