The DR1 Daily News takes a break as of today, 29 December. The Daily News report, which compiles headline news stories, is slated to appear again on Monday, 3 January 2000. That bulletin will present a compilation of news stories from 29 December through 2 January 2000. In its place, the DR1 will be running […]
Category Archives: 1999
DR Christmas Season & New Year Agenda
The Dominican Resistance Memorial Museum is exhibiting a selection of restored clothing sewn and worn by the Mirabal sisters who were slain in 1960 at the orders of Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. The exhibition of the “The Mirabal Sisters Textile Collection” seeks to give people a closer, more human look at the heroines, who […]
Y2K follow-up commission created
The newly created Governmental Commission for the Change of the Millennium is in charge of monitoring the effects of the Y2K phenomenon before, during and after the change of year through 4 January. Monitoring will be carried out at international and national levels. For more information on this commission, see www.comision2000.gov.do or call 809 540-2000, […]
DR is 7th largest illegal group in US
The Dominican Resistance Memorial Museum is exhibiting a selection of restored clothing sewn and worn by the Mirabal sisters who were slain in 1960 at the orders of Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. The exhibition of the “The Mirabal Sisters Textile Collection” seeks to give people a closer, more human look at the heroines, who […]
2000: Year to Develop the Frontier
The Executive Branch passed Law 117-99 that declares 2000 as Year for the Development of the Frontier. The law seeks to promote investments in the border area with Haiti, in order to counteract the illegal migration of Haitians and the exodus to cities of Dominicans living in frontier provinces. Frontier provinces are the least populated […]
Colombians plant drugs in Haiti near DR border
The Listín Diario reports today that hundreds of Colombians have installed themselves in impoverished frontier towns in Haiti where they are planting marihuana to be shipped to the DR. The newspaper says that the money for the drug transactions that is pouring into Haiti is apparent in the more comfortable dwellings that are going up […]
64% Dominican women use birth control
A recent UNICEF study shows that 64% of married women in the DR between ages 15-49 years use birth control methods. The highest percentage of use of birth control methods is found in Cuba (82%), followed by Costa Rica (75%). The lowest usage of birth control in the area is found in Haiti (18%), Guatemala […]
Lows at 18 and highs of 28 for most of DR
A record low of 14.4 Degrees Celsius was registered at the Las Americas International Airport yesterday at dawn. The previous low was 14.8 Degrees. Lows in Santo Domingo were 18.3 degrees. In Punta Cana and Puerto Plata lows of 18.5 and 18.6 respectively were registered. The National Weather Department reported noontime highs of 26-28 degrees. […]
Earthquake shakes DR
A 4.2 on the Richter Scale earthquake shook southern and eastern regions on Sunday, 26 December at 10 pm, according to the Instituto Sismológico Universitario. The earthquake had its epicenter at latitude 18.3 degrees north, longitude 68.3 west, near the Milwaukee Deep. It was felt in the eastern cities of La Romana, Higuey and El […]
Christmas tragedy
Edwin Gomez, columnist of a column in the Listeen supplement of the Listín Diario newspaper, celebrated Christmas in La Vega with his family. The Gómez family is from La Vega. On Sunday, he was making it back to Santo Domingo along the Duarte Highway with his sister Ingrid and two cousins, running into a very […]