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    Girl Missing from RIU Hotel in Punta Cana

    So she went to a beach with a guy at 3 AM in DR. I think she expected that it will be like in an Indian movie, they will dance and sing there, holding hands, in the moonlight... what could possibly go wrong?
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    Chinese automobiles in DR - Run away or good alternative?

    https://www.facebook.com/reel/1221013619444740
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    Chinese automobiles in DR - Run away or good alternative?

    Cars from that era were built like tanks with very thick sheet metal, and most of them had solid and rigid frame. Chinese cars are made of foil with parts barely welded or bolted to each other, and in case of a frontal collision or a strong side impact all occupants will be at least heavily...
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    Chinese automobiles in DR - Run away or good alternative?

    Guess why? Because these cars don't meet any European standards, including crash tests.
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    PayPal Issue

    In my smartphone I can put 2 sim cards, but as I mentioned before, I use another simple button phone for these T-Mobile sim cards to receive verification SMS. But if I need this on my phone, yes, I can put another sim card there together with my Claro sim card..
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    PayPal Issue

    I have a simple unlocked phone (not a smartphone) that I bought on Ebay 15 years ago, it supports 2 sim cards, I have both of those T mobile cards in there, so this phone just sits on my desk and every time I receive an SMS confirmation from any service to any of those two sim cards, it pops up...
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    PayPal Issue

    Dominican phone numbers never work for verification codes with PayPal, even for Dominican based PayPal accounts. Even if you can add the number, the text message with the code never arrives. I have a Dominican based PayPal account, and I have a US based T-Mobile number linked to it, so I can...
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    BPD Token issues

    They usually start to send you emails that it's expiring soon 2 months before the expiration date. Check your email notification settings with them.
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    BPD Token issues

    You can set up a token on your app right now if you are a citizen, the app just asks you to take a picture of your right hand and it recognizes your fingerprints to confirm it's you, their app pulls the fingerprints from JCE database. Not sure if it will work for residents, and for sure it won't...
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    BPD Token issues

    They have a limited quantity of physical tokens only for corporate accounts. But I came to my branch when my old one expired and I said that I want to have a physical token for my personal accounts. They said no, and then I asked to show me where in the contract it says that it's mandatory to...
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    BPD Token issues

    Me and my wife have physical tokens, web (desktop) version started to require to enter it after login and password about six months ago for my account, and about two months ago for my wife's account. Then no token number is required for transactions between own accounts or earlier added...
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    Tops on the country’s agenda for 2025: New ID card

    3 million irregular IDs have been flagged? So 35% of all voters have irregularly issued cedulas? Then DR has irregularly elected president and irregularly elected whoever else was elected.
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    Avoid Km 9 when possible

    Traffic in Santo Domingo is crazy now, more crazy than usual. Maybe before Christmas?? I am really thinking of moving to a place like Constanza in the next couple of years, Claro already has fiber optic internet there, not in all areas but at least it's already there... What I actually need is a...
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    Haitians at SDQ yesterday

    Probably they were Haitians with Haitian passports. I've seen many of them in SDQ usually boarding flights to Panama and US. That kind of Haitians who have money and travel legally.
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    The Malecón’s revival: Santo Domingo seeks to revitalize its iconic waterfront

    what, the smell? I believe the worst is in front of Malecon Center. But I haven't been near Zona Colonial for a long time, maybe it's worse there now, who knows.
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    The Malecón’s revival: Santo Domingo seeks to revitalize its iconic waterfront

    There's too much sewage goes there. (well maybe it goes to the river and then spread into the sea, but anyway)... You start to feel urine smell 2 blocks from Malecon. If you stand right on Malecon, it smells like it's not sea water there but 50/50 mix with urine and feces. So yeah, it's true...
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    Does a Prepaid Ebay Return Label from FEDEX can be used from abroad (DR) ?

    BM Cargo do free returns if the item was delivered with them. Any prepaid FedEx, UPS or USPS label is good. I think EPS have free returns too now for items delivered with them, but they say some conditions apply and I have not read that fine print. If your item was not delivered with BM Cargo...
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    New way to get robbed.

    What exactly was derogatory in my statement?
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    New way to get robbed.

    As you can see, that was not my advice to others but my response to the lady who says she manages hotels, loves to hang out in the poorest barrios, drives a lot at night and strongly believes that she's under protection of David Collado because she's a foreigner.
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    New way to get robbed.

    The problem is that Dominican Government cares only about bad publicity in international media. But if rocks, burnt oil or whatever else are flying onto windshields of Dominicans and it's not reported anywhere, only in local news sometimes, no problem with that, why deal with the problem, right...