DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

The Center for Emergency Operations (COE) has placed over more than half of the Dominican Republic under some kind of alert. From Punta Cana to Montecristi, and all along the North Coast, there are both Yellow and Green alerts due to the rains that keep falling, Diario Libre reports.

Communities in the province of Puerto Plata, on the north coast, made headlines for flooding after weeks of rains saturated the soils.

Although not in the news, the nation’s second-largest city Santiago de los Caballeros is suffering from a serious water shortage due to the muddy water in the Yaque River.

The new weather front currently passing over the country is expected to cause rains into today, Monday, and possibly into this week.

Only the Southwest, known as the Deep South, traditionally dry areas and southcentral San Cristobal, Peravia and Azua, have escaped these latest heavy...