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    Motorcycle Adventure - Short loop round the Dominican Republic – Tom Junkans

    Quality photos of your adventure. Many thanks. Refreshing.:)
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    Chilli Peppers... we are blessed in the DR

    Really? And what do YOU know about corn...not even the subject BTW?
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    Chilli Peppers... we are blessed in the DR

    yes. Like another poster said...there are so many ways to use and store. Here in the DR once your bush gets going it's like magic.
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    Chilli Peppers... we are blessed in the DR

    Capsaicin . For those folks that have aches and pains you would should read up on this and why you should plant a tub full of hot peppers. No need to buy the cremes. Check it out. Save some $$$$
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    Chilli Peppers... we are blessed in the DR

    I didn't but I let a Haitian helper plant it. It took up more space than I cared for. He was let go for other reason and I pulled everything out. I just don't have the space for the tomatoes, pepper etc. and NOW the auyama is cicling the wagons big time with it's vines. I'm afraid that one day I...
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    Who is going to rent all these apartments in Las Terrenas?

    The world said the same thing about Orlando Fla. Still saying it after 20+ years. Hard to stop herd mentality.
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    The incredible escape of Franyelis until her hair in a tubi gave her away

    I think the news has said something like ...they will deal later with those that helped her.
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    Chilli Peppers... we are blessed in the DR

    We can grow hot chili peppers year round and always have available to use. I have an over abundance of small habaneros now and long Thai peppers that I prepared in a number of ways. Use fresh. Dry in the sun. Simple mesh screen and dry the old fashion way to conserve, make a chilli oils using...
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    Professional Plumber

    Every once and a while... This past year I used quite a number of tradesmen. As far as a plumber this is second one I used during this renovation. This week he showed up with a work bag of tools. He installed three toilets. Two of them he had to get to the second floor. And two sinks upstairs...
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    President Abinader says inflation in 2023 was 3.57%

    There are many ways that "inflation " data can be formulated. We had that discussion here some time back. As I recall essential items/parts of the data can be left in or out.You can play 3 card monte with the numbers and unless the reader plays VERY close attention to the details you can find...
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    Watch Your Money! D.R. Bank Fraud And/Or Incompetence

    You say "declined". WHO is that...you or bank?
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    Watch Your Money! D.R. Bank Fraud And/Or Incompetence

    I would love for OP to give a bit more insight to this question and the accusations of "fraud" needs to be expanded. OP, just suppose the bank would contact you after reading this, can you support what you have posted here? Further more, have you contacted any agency that has oversee guidance...
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    Covid -19 infections skyrocketed in DR. They ask not to lower our guard against covid in America, due to a new variant and an increase in cases

    So, go back to sleep.The universe is split on si O no on the virus/vaccine/Fauci. It is what it is and nobody, especially the newly minted doctors that graduated from Google Medical,know the answers. Deal with it.
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    Judge Justiniano Montero to hear charges for drug trafficking by legislators

    Nope.Then nobody would want to go into politics. What would we do then??
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    Price Smart. A winner.

    We eat a lot of fish in our household. Three times a week, at least, just at home and more when we go to a restaurant.Up until 8-9 months ago I bought our fish in Juan Dolio and Guyacanes from the local fish stores. I was never really happy with the storage, cleanliness, and age of the fish...
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    Indictment in Operacion Nido set for Tuesday, 9 January 2024

    A few questions come to mind: Over three hundred apartments are a LOT of transactions. How many of those had lawyer representing them? They were paying monthly. If they got bank loans (of any kind) what due diligence did the banks perform? How many different banks? How could they have gotten...
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    Happy Three Kings day!!

    Feast of the Epiphany. You wouldn't know that because you are an avowed atheist. In your rush to again get one of your favorite "agendas " added to your 40,000 plus posts of crap you search for anything that can be clipped and posted without any thought on your behalf. In addition it is...
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    Joel Rosario from San Francisco de Macoris Ever hear of him

    LOL...yep, while participating in the Memorial 500 race on the Autopista. Tough to concentrate on two hi-speed races at the same time. Will definitely look into this and go soon as it it very close to my house.
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    Happy Three Kings day!!

    The only Rey I knew in the DR (1) was NEVER happy. :sneaky:
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    Joel Rosario from San Francisco de Macoris Ever hear of him

    With all those wins I suppose he started in his career in the DR? So, are there any quality tracks in or around SD? I would love to go.