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At midday April 1, 1933, Rafael Trujillo ordered a decree that established a national time zone for the Dominican Republic, which was set to five hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Prior to that, time in the Dominican Republic was governed by Santo Domingo Mean Time, which was 4 hours and 40 minutes behind GMT. [2]
The Dominican Republic [a] is a North American country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean.It shares a maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and a land border with Haiti to the west, occupying the eastern five-eighths of Hispaniola which, along with Saint Martin, is one of only two islands in the Caribbean shared ...
Time in office Pedro Antonio Pimentel (1830–1874) — 11 July 1865: 4 August 1865 24 days — Ousted from office by a coup d'état. José María Cabral (1816–1899) — 4 August 1865 15 November 1865 103 days Blue: Cabral was proclaimed "Protector of the Republic" until the election of a new president by the National Convention. Pedro ...
In the IANA time zone database, Dominica is given one zone in the file zone.tab—America/Dominica. "DM" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.Data for Dominica directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself: [2]
ICE deported Batista Matos, 36, to his home country of the Dominican Republic for the fifth time on Monday to face charges in connection with fatal human smuggling.
The current Prime Minister of Dominica is Roosevelt Skerrit, since 8 January 2004. ... Time in office 1 Patrick John (1938–2021) — 3 November 1978 25 June 1979
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Santo Domingo (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsanto ðoˈmiŋɡo] meaning "Saint Dominic" but verbatim "Holy Sunday"), once known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, known as Ciudad Trujillo between 1936 and 1961, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population. [7]