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Prevailing winds are East to West, so when you cross the border you are in the rain shadow, a less extreme version of what happens when you cross the Sierras from California into Nevada. Yes, there has been deforestation, but it's not only that.

And when Rubio visited DR, he was very clear in saying he knew DR already had Haitian problems, and that no Haitians would be sent here. Of course, honesty is not this administration's best quality. Nevertheless, until Congress gives them the $100 billion *with a B* extra for deportations, the...

Drove past last night: it is called just “Long”.

It is open and now selling lots if Christmas crap. It us actually only about 100 yards from the Ole, in front of Pueblo Bavaro on the Downtown-Veron road. Parking is s problem, so you might actually want to park in front if Ole and walk. Don’t recall the name.

Also I think you will find that the charge for international shipping elsewhere will be higher. Also, service is very fast. A US friend sent me a gift recently, and thought the USPS was the way to go. Four weeks later, I was very surprised to get a phone call from INPOSDOM to come get my...

DR-CAFTA only applies to products made in the free trade area, so the vast amounts of Chinese stuff on Amazon wouldn't be counted. But anyway, the proposal is only to charge the 18% VAT and excises, and to leave the customs exceptions. They should probably drop the excises, too, and then you...

Yes, Substack collects subscriber emails. That's how you get notified of new content (about twice a week). It also facilitates switching to partially or fully paywalled, which I have no intention of doing, but for sure there will always be free content.

The UASD is cheap because of government funding. It pays faculty better than any of the others, and so has many of the best. The main problem with the UASD is that going on strike is something of a habit (students, staff, faculty, whoever), meaning it can take many years to complete a degree.

Hello all, I recently started a blog on substack to talk about the Dominican economy, and called it, not too imaginatively, Dominicanomics. Maybe two short articles per week. Check it out, and subscribe (free)! Go to: Dominicanomics.substack.com

It’s not that the UN doesn’t care. It has done what it knows how to do over many years, and it has been a ton of money down the drain. They don’t really have a clue. Also, the situation has never been worse. When MINUSTAH first started, they had to clean out the gangs from Cité Soleil. It was a...

The DR hospitals that accept international insurance normally do so undrr agreements with the insurer, so you naturally find insurers with large international operations. Belgium-based Van Breda, for example, fell into this category; now they have been taken over by Cigna, which may help more...

So my daughter has been trying for days to complete the "e-Ticket" form. At least for french cities, it will let you pick from a list when you enter your address, but then won't enter your selection (I tried, too, same result). Iberia has let her board. Hard to see how it can be mandatory if it...

This is true...but I can’t find food coloring either. Ideas?

Is there any place to pick up Easter paraphernalia ? My 4 year-old keeps asking when the Easter Bunny is coming, but I find nothing in the Jumbo, Nacional, or Pola near me (Punta Cana). While a chocolate bunny would be great, simple food coloring to dye eggs would save me. Any thoughts?

Junglemonkey has it about right. Most of the schools he mentions run around $15k per year (New Horizons, with larger classes, runs a bit less). You need to bear in mind that they are all for-profit companies, and tend not to be very selective. But the aim is to get students into foreign, or top...

It is not yet clear that someone who has an immune response can’t transmit to others, so vaccination is good for you but not necessarily for the community.

Hello all, I have been signed up for a while, but never active. It has been 7 years since I decided to make my future in the DR, almost 5 since I got lucky and married a wonderful Dominican woman, and 3 years since I got my permanent residence. My kids are in private school in Santo Domingo, we...