2024 in the Dominican Republic

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Decades:

Incumbents

Events

February 18 – 2024 Dominican Republic municipal elections
May 19 – 2024 Dominican Republic general election: Luis Abinader is reelected President while his Modern Revolutionary Party wins a supermajority in the Congress of the Dominican Republic.
August 6 – The skeletal remains of 14 individuals believed to be from Senegal and Mauritania are found on an abandoned boat off the coast of Río San Juan.
August 16 – Luis Abinader is sworn in for a second term as President of the Dominican Republic.
September 1 – A truck crashes into a bar in Azua, killing 11 people and injuring 40 others.
October 2 – The government announces plans to deport 10,000 Haitian immigrants on a weekly basis.
December 6 – Authorities announce the largest seizure of illegal drugs in the country's history after 9.5 tons of cocaine are found inside a banana shipment travelling from Guatemala to Belgium that stopped at the Multimodal Caucedo Port.

Deaths

January 31 – Víctor Pinales, 59, actor.

References

"Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader heads to reelection as competitors concede early". Associated Press. May 20, 2024. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
"Dominican Republic trying to identify the remains of 14 decomposed bodies found on abandoned vessel". Associated Press. August 8, 2024. Retrieved August 8, 2024.
"Dominican Republic's Abinader vows economic growth, social reforms in second term". Reuters. August 16, 2024.
"A truck plowed into a bar in the Dominican Republic killing 11 and injuring 40". Associated Press. 2 September 2024. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
"Dominican Republic will deport up to 10,000 Haitians a week, citing an 'excess' of immigrants". Associated Press. 3 October 2024. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
"Dominican Republic seizes 9.5 tons of cocaine, marking a new record". Associated Press. 7 December 2024. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
"Actor Víctor Pinales muere por un paro respiratorio". El Nuevo Diario (in Spanish). 2024-01-31. Retrieved 2024-02-01.

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Sovereign states	Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Belize Canada Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago United States
Dependencies and other territories	Anguilla Aruba Bermuda Bonaire British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Curaçao Greenland Guadeloupe Martinique Montserrat Puerto Rico Saint Barthélemy Saint Martin Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saba Sint Eustatius Sint Maarten Turks and Caicos Islands United States Virgin Islands

2024 in the Caribbean

West
Indies

Antilles

Greater
Antilles

Hispaniola	Dominican Republic Haiti

Lesser
Antilles

Leeward
Islands

Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Guadeloupe
- La Désirade
- Les Saintes
- Marie-Galante
Montserrat
Saba
Saint Barthélemy
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Sint Eustatius

Saint Martin	Collectivity of Saint Martin Sint Maarten
Virgin Islands	British Virgin Islands U.S. Virgin Islands

Southern
Caribbean

Leeward
Antilles

Insular Venezuela
- Federal Dependencies
- Nueva Esparta

ABC islands	Aruba Bonaire Curaçao

Windward
Islands

Lucayan
Archipelago

Bahamas

Turks and Caicos Islands

Caribbean
Sea

Aves Island
San Andrés and Providencia
- Bajo Nuevo Bank
- Serranilla Bank

Caribbean
continental
zone

Quintana Roo
- Cozumel

Central America	Belize Honduras Bay Islands Izabal Limón Corn Islands North Caribbean Coast South Caribbean Coast Panama
South America	Colombian Caribbean Venezuelan Caribbean

Wider
groupings
may include:

Yucatán Peninsula	Campeche Petén Yucatán
The Guianas	Amapá French Guiana Venezuelan Guayana Guyana Guayana Esequiba Tigri Area Suriname

N.B.: Territories in italics are parts of transregional sovereign states or non-sovereign dependencies.

These three form the SSS islands that with the ABC islands comprise the Dutch Caribbean, of which the BES islands are not direct Kingdom constituents but subsumed with the country of the Netherlands.

Physiographically, these continental islands are not part of the volcanic Windward Islands arc, although sometimes grouped with them culturally and politically.

Disputed territories administered by Guyana. Disputed territories administered by Colombia.

Bermuda is an isolated North Atlantic oceanic island, physiographically not part of the Lucayan Archipelago, Antilles, Caribbean Sea nor North American continental nor South American continental islands. It is grouped with the Northern American region, but occasionally also with the Caribbean region culturally.

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