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I'm looking for an American, Canadian or British tour guide in the Colonial Zone (Santo Domingo), to do walking tours of the zone. Two conditions are that a) they must be a member of the tour guides association / union - evidently you need to do a long course to qualify or be friends with...

I know that quite a lot of people on DR1 followed the story of Nicole Reyes, the Welsh woman who was accused of murdering her husband in Puerto Plata, imprisoned for a year and then released on bail earlier this summer. She is now back in the UK and has just done a radio interview with the...

The president's office tweeted at 1.31pm on 20th November "Con el objetivo de mejorar la calidad de vida de las familias dominicanas, el @911GobDo protegera de ruidos molestosos". Which basically means that people can now use the 911 service to report noise. My inside contact in the government...

All of my staff keep telling me that there are people going around the poorer neighborhoods who are snatching young children. The children are then evidently taken somewhere where they are killed and then various organs are extracted. At first I thought this was the usual old wives tale, but...

I have a friend who I'm helping to find a nice apartment on the Malecon in Santo Domingo. We've rejected the Malecon Center as is really sad and badly maintained now, and I think he's going to settle on Torre Veiramar II, the one just past Malecon Center on the right if you're heading from the...

Hi, I am having a fight with one of my ex-staff about their share of service charge, I run a hotel. She is theatening to go to the Secretaria, which I'm happy to do as I'm convinced my calculations are correct. Does anyone know a good, not too expensive, labor attorney? We're only talking...

I'm looking for a gardener for the Colonial Zone, I need someone half a day every week. Any recommendations?

Hi, I just wanted to find out what people's thoughts are regarding Cathedral School or Brillliant Minds school in Santo Domingo Este. I'm sponsoring a child to attend school - she is 3 years old. We went to both today and I think we prefer Cathedral, it seemed more professional. But I'd...

This afternoon there was a large military ship moored at Don Diego terminal (the one near Plaza Espa?a in the Colonial Zone) in Santo Domingo. They seemed to be having an open day, there were lots of tourists on the ship, but it was a large grey military ship so belonged to someone's navy. The...

I'm setting up a gym in Santo Domingo. New gym equipment is very expensive, so I'm looking to buy good quality but used / secondhand equipment. I want various gym machines with weights, as well as treadmills, bikes, step machines. Really hoping to find out where the machines go when the...

I've just found out that the Jumbo in the Conde is going to be closing. Cuesta opposite is going to be taking over the Jumbo site, evidently a little smaller than their existing store on the other side of the road, but they are also going to take over a large area at the back which is currently...