We just found out that Hurricane Danny escalated really quickly into a Category 3 hurricane and is expected to reach the Dominican Republic by Tuesday. And although predictions have Danny decreasing its intensity and maybe even disappearing on its approach to the country, it’s certainly something to be aware of… and prepare for! Dominican government […]
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This Week in the Dominican Republic: “Open skies” and water rations
The country keeps aiming to increase its economy, now by increasing air transport agreements with other nations, and as the drought continue, authorities guarantee an increase in the country’s water supplies.
This Week in the Dominican Republic: Commerce growth & new wind farm
It seems the Dominican Republic is adopting the measures given by the Worldwatch Institute a couple weeks ago when talking about the future of renewable energy in the country, because construction of the Larimar project, which is the 2nd major wind farm in the country, started early last week. And on another note, the Dominican Republic has become the “champion” in the […]
This Week in the Dominican Republic: Dominican exports grow & olympic gold
It’s the last day of July, and the last day of the working week… time to welcome the weekend, people! Finish off your week with our weekly summary of the country’s most relevant news, This Week in the Dominican Republic.
This Week in the Dominican Republic: Luxury Real Estate & Gold Medals
It’s been a great week for Dominican Republic! At the Toronto Pan Am games 2015, while our female volleyball team lost its match last night, the Dominican Republic took 2 gold medals with Lugelín Santos (400m sprint) and Ana Villanueva (karate). Meanwhile a Real Estate Luxury project from the Sansoucí Group is ready to start in Santo […]
This Week in the Dominican Republic: Millions in cigar exportations & major drug lord captured
The week is over! I wish you all have a great weekend like the one I’m about to have. But it’s only Friday, so, aiming to inform you about some of the most popular news circling around this week and for you to have another subject to talk about when hanging friends, if you will, here’s our […]
This week in the Dominican Republic: Brazilian co-operation and more people using “plastic money”
Unless you’re Jake Gyllenhaal’s mother from the “Bubble Boy” movie, you know it’s not good to be restrained inside of such thing (for those needing help with the movie reference, basically it’s not good to be enclosed in a bubble and not knowing much from the outside world). That’s why we bring you our weekly digest of […]
This Week in the Dominican Republic: drones and fingerprint scanners have arrived!
There is so much going on Beyond Casa every week that we have decided to resume the “This Week in the Dominican Republic” column to keep you well informed with a weekly digest of the most relevant national headlines. This week Haiti denied rumors that Dominican products were being banned entry to the neighboring country, we got word […]