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From DR1 News According to Listin Diario, the Police Chief says that the crime rate in the DR is still the lowest in Latin America. He said that there is an average of five homicides per day, in a country with a population of around 9 million people. A rate of 1,825 a year is 20.27 per...

Yes, yes, ho , ho , yuk, yuk. It's about the word horny. My friend says the word is "enbromado" (spelling might be off) - is she right? What would be a literal translation of enbromado? Any other words that would be identical to what we in English would think means "Horny"?

Back in June there was hoopla about a non-stop Air Canada flight 3X a week from Toronto to Santo Domingo starting Nov 3rd. Try finding it on Air Canada's schedule for November 2005. Nope. Maybe they changed their mind or plan to start selling the tickets on the 2nd.

At the very least have updated Hepatitis A and B shots ( the latter is a 6 month program) and pray HIV doesn't live long on tattoo needles sine a lot of street girls and hookers have tats.

In mid-conversation with you today I find now I can't reply as your mailbox is full, thanks.

From the DR Embassy page for the one here in Canada: Concise and helpful since we've had so many posts about what they want. Concerning children 13 years old and under traveling alone or with a person other than a parent (friend, uncle, aunt, sister, brother, niece etc.) should have a...

These are good examples of relexive verbs (new topic) - where the action of the verb is on the subject, ba?arse being the infinitive and in this case it's ba?ar+me not just quiero ba?ar, since you have to refer back to yourself. You could say quiero ba?ar mi hija - I want to wash by daughter not...

A tip: P.L.A.C.E. for Estar: Position: expresses the physical position of posture of a person or thing: estar sentado estar levantado estar acostado Location: expresses where places, people, or things are located: estoy en Nueva York El libro est? en la mesa...

From DR1 news: "As reported in Hoy newspaper, he said that the exchange rate has been fluctuating between RD$28-RD$29 to the US$1, or about 100% less than it was eight months ago." Something 100% less than a 8 months ago is zero. It is about half (down 50%). When it doubled it went go up 100%...

The PM function is blind and can only be seen here in the forum right? (And mercifully limited to 1000 characters as well), while the e-mail button sends me an e-mail to my registered e-mail address. And if I reply either directly or via the link to form, my e-mail address goes back to the...

Covers the strike, peso, inflation, election prblems, the gamut. Has a photo of one PN shooting at the crowd while the other guy drives them away on the police motoconcho. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=589&e=2&u=/ap/20040128/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/dominican_strike

I happened to be visiting the local massage parlor, not as a patron (of course) but visiting the owner, in Boca Chica last Wednesday night. When there was a hell of a disturbance out front and one of the "medical specialists" asked me if I had a phone and to call 911. Turns out two...

So now that this harebrained scheme of commanding a new peso rate to exist has been announced, what's happening today in the real world cambios and banks? I assume they will not sell US$ to anyone at any price, and are buying at a few points lower, but still above 40:1?

A friend recommended to try the Hotel El Conde in the capital located appropriately enough, on El Conde, but I cannot find a web reference to it. I am advised it would be near the Calle Catolica end of El Conde, is reasonably priced and has balconies facing the street or streets, I guess if it...

My friend and I are looking for a taxi for a flat rate for the day from Boca Chica to several spots in the capital , preferably a taxi van owned by the driver and for much less than the pirate-like rate of $50 US round trip incl. 3 hours waiting then $10 US an hour after that since there won't...