Hardly
Trina, If I may call you that, I am hardly "wrong," but making a comment from a different perspective
DR1 freely admits they are a tourist promotion board when asked (And concur they allow Jim to do the same for his business), and are not a News source.
We have spent the last 12 years cruising the Caribbean researching ecological problems, social issues and changes as a result of tourism
We placed a post on the board last night regarding fecal matter in the Ocean at Boca Chica, but this "information" service seems to have deleted in (I don't understand this board all that well and it may be that I can't locate it), but after 2 weeks of random sampling, we found from 1500-2000 coli farms per 100 ml of water in Boca Chica Bay. The allowable limit in US and Canada is 100, not 1000 per 100ml, people swimming in Bica Chica are swimming in water that should not even come in contact with human skin, let alone swim in it. To put in politely, you are swimming in fecal matter.
If this is the type of information board you depend upon, I feel badly for you, especially if they knowingly keep this information from you
Best of luck
The people at DR1 and Jim are typical of the exploitation of the countries and their people Should you choose to believe them, so be it.
Who "Rob" is, I don't know