Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh is expected on 19 November 2024. He will be the first Vietnam prime minister to visit the Dominican Republic. Chinh chose to make a stopover in the Dominican ...

Elected Vice Mayor Amparo Custodia is now the new mayor of La Vega. The city had been without a mayor after President Luis Abinader pulled its recently elected Mayor Kelvin Cruz to be his Minister of ...

The Dominican Medical Association (CMD) has been calling for a major increase in wages for doctors and other medical personnel. Late last week, they announced a big strike to take place this week in ...

A substantial €5.85 million grant from the European Union will be used to implement a tailored program of technical assistance, investment subsidies, and studies in the Dominican Republic. This ...

While the government’s 2024 budget allocates RD$4.822 billion for “rentals and leases of buildings and premises,” critics argue that these funds could be better used to purchase or construct ...

The Customs Agency (DGA) announced it carried out inspections of a chain of Chinese-owned stores specializing in household goods and decorations. The inspectors sought information on the compliance of ...

In the eleventh consecutive week of the “Guarantee of Peace” Operation, led by the Ministry of Interior and Police (MIP), 16 nightclubs were inspected, with one temporarily closed and the rest ...

The National Institute of Transit and Land Transport (Intrant) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) held a workshop on Smart Mobility Innovation to explore how technology can be used ...

A high-ranking police colonel and several of his subordinates have been arrested in connection with the theft of over 900,000 rounds of ammunition from a police armory. Operation Pandora, a joint ...

Tunel de Conectividad, a section of the Show del Mediodia variety show on Channel 9, reported last week on what goes on at the Los Minas Maternity Hospital in eastern Santo Domingo, as reported in El ...

A recent report by TransUnion, an analytical data firm, has indicated that slightly over 10% of all digital transactions in the Dominican Republic in the first half of 2024 were classified as ...

Ministry of Public Works deploys experts to find reasons for crack in Las Galeras road in Samaná The Ministry of Public Works has dispatched a team of experts to evaluate a significant crack in the ...