Some trees in the Dominican Republic produce 4 or 5 rings every year making the trees look a lot older than they really are.

The first settlement in the Americas was in La Navidad which is present day Haiti. I hear so many people saying that it was La Isabela. They are wrong I am afraid.

Santo Domingo is the capital and it claims the oldest university in the New World as well as the oldest House, Hospital, Street and Cathedral.

The Dominican Government says that it is going to get all the roads in the country resurfaced this year. Oh, is an election coming up?

Literacy rate is 90% (Haiti is 55% and the US and most European countries 99%)