Tropical Depression Anna and Hurricane Bill

The first hurricane of the season has formed over the Atlantic Ocean, as Tropical Depression Ana lost steam on approach to Puerto Rico, after becoming the first named storm to threaten the Dominican Republic this year.

Hurricane Bill is a category 1, whose maximum sustained winds increased to 75 miles (120 kilometers) an hour at 5 a.m. Miami time, the National Hurricane Center said on its Web site.

Ana, the first named storm of the June 1-Nov. 30 Atlantic hurricane season formed on Aug. 15, the latest into a season that it’s taken for a storm of that intensity to appear since 1984. Bill strengthened from a depression later that day over the eastern Atlantic.

Ana, now a depression with 35 mph winds, was over the Caribbean Sea, about 95 miles southeast of St. Croix. The depression is forecast to break up into a low-pressure system over the Dominican Republic and Haiti tomorrow.

Yesterday the authorities took the first measures to face emergencies and issued a tropical storm alert from Cabo Engaño in the east to Cabo Beata in the southwest.

TropicaL storm Ana

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Dominican Republic receives flights bound for Mexico

The vice president of the hoteliers and restaurateurs grouped in Asonahores Friday said more than 50 flights with tourists who were headed to Mexico will arrive in the country this week, after the H1N1 virus that affects that nation prompted a change of destination. Arturo Villanueva said those flights are being received via an agreement with Mexican hoteliers, as a show of solidarity. He said all the necessary preventive measures have been taken across the country’s ports and airports and all necessary equipment have been acquired to gauge body temperatures. The hotelier also lauded president Leonel Fernandez’s decision to allocate 50 million pesos to purchase antiviral medicine. Villanueva said in addition to the measures the authorities have taken in hospitals and hotel zones, any person with an abnormal body temperature is subjected to an examination.

Dominican hoteliers join forces to boost tourism in Puerto Plata

Puerto Plata.– Puerto Plata, the most important city in Dominican Republic’s north coast owns countless tourist attractions and sites of great historic and cultural value that should be taken better advantage of and put to better use. For this purpose, the Associations of Hotels, Restaurants and Tourism Business of Puerto Plata (Ashonorte), the Playa Dorada Hotel, Condominium and Commercial Establishment Owners Association (AHPD) and the Association of Hotels and Restaurants of Sosua and Cabarete (Ashoresoca) have joined forces and signed a strategic alliance. According to the document, the alliance will set in motion a plan to promote Puerto Plata as a tourist destination and will stimulate the creation of new businesses and complementary offers and will cooperate with the city´s Historic Center Office in its tasks of remodeling, beautifying and revitalizing this cultural and commercial area.

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Tropical Storm Omar

The National Hurricane Center of Miami said the center of Tropical Storm Omar is located near latitude 14.0 North, 69.0 longitude West, 570 kilometers southwest of Puerto Rico and 200 kilometers North of Curazao, as satellite imagery reveals its wide cloud mass.

It said the depression had reached tropical storm category southeast of Santo Domingo, with maximum sustained winds of 65 kilometers per hour. “A tropical storm watch is in effect for Puerto Rico and the U.S., nd British Virgin Islands, and the extreme eastern portion of the Dominican Republic from Saona island to Cabo Engaño.”

In Santo Domingo the Meteorology Office said the phenomenon will gradually strengthen during the next 24 to 48 hours. It confirmed that the eastern portion of the Dominican Republic remains under a tropical storm watch from Saona Island to Cabo Engaño, area that has the most hotels in the country.