Nathan John Scott was scuba diving near Segara Beach in Tulamben when the incident occurred on Dec. 30 Gabrielle Rockson is a staff writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in 2023 and covers ...

In late October, Hurricane Melissa became the third-most intense Atlantic hurricane on record. The Category 5 storm wreaked havoc on several parts of the Caribbean, including parts of Haiti, Jamaica, ...

Nov. 4 (UPI) --The government of the Dominican Republic announced postponement of the 10th Summit of the Americas, originally scheduled for Dec. 1 to 5 in Punta Cana. Officials said the continent is ...

The excitement for new developments in the Dominican Republic was palpable at the recent Dominican Republic Ministry of Tourism gala hosted in Miami in April. The event, which preceded the Dominican ...

A moderate earthquake struck 8 miles from Estebanía in the Dominican Republic Monday afternoon. The 5.0 magnitude quake, shown on the United States Geological Survey (USGS) map, hit just after 3 p.m.

ER nurse Katie Bullard broke multiple vertebrae during a 28th birthday trip to the Dominican Republic. She underwent surgery at Grady Memorial Hospital and will continue rehabilitation at the Shepherd ...

Officials in the Dominican Republic said they confiscated approximately 1,000 kilograms of suspected cocaine from a speedboat targeted recently in a U.S. airstrike in the southern Caribbean. At a ...

Authorities in the Dominican Republic said Sunday they have confiscated some of the cocaine transported by a speedboat that was destroyed recently by the U.S. Navy, in what the Caribbean nation called ...

Popular Indian musician Zubeen Garg has died at 52 after a scuba diving accident in Singapore. Garg, known for his Bollywood hits — including the 2006 song “Ya Ali” — had recently arrived in the ...

Tanner Saunders is a Webby Award-winning senior hotels reporter for TPG based in Brooklyn. He covers everything from breaking hotel news to in-depth features on the world’s best hotels. The cards we ...

Fintechs are a rapidly growing presence in the Dominican Republic, where they promise to improve inclusiveness in a still-underbanked nation. Along with Jamaica and Puerto Rico, the Association of ...