Historic collaboration: Dominican Republic North Coast towns build home libraries for student
Poverty November 23, 2015 | 12:14 pm
Cabarete, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.- The Dominican Republic Education and Mentoring (DREAM)Project is hosting the second annual My Very Own Library DREAM Book Fair todayin collaboration wit[...]
North Coast towns build home libraries for students in the Dominican Republic
Poverty November 22, 2015 | 11:48 am
Cabarete, Puerto Plata,Dominican Republic- November 18, 2015, The Dominican Republic Education andMentoring (DREAM) Project is hosting the second annual My Very Own LibraryDREAM Book Fair today in [...]
Panama leader to copy Dominican par´s surprise visits
Poverty November 20, 2015 | 7:54 am
Tamayo.- Panama presidentJuan Carlos Valera aims to take the program of surprise visits to his country to help improve the livingconditions of the poorest, given their success in the Dominican Rep[...]
October repatriations of Haitians jump 33%: Haitilibre
Poverty November 13, 2015 | 12:34 pm
Santo Doming- Outlet Haitilibre.comon Friday reports a jump in the number of undocumented Haitians repatriated in Octoberby the Dominican Republic, for a total of 8,602, with 4,344 returnees and 4,[...]
314,000 children work in DR; 56% in hazardous conditions: UNICEF
Poverty November 7, 2015 | 12:33 am
Santo Domingo.– Experts and officials from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) raised in Santiago the need to reduce the number of children in hazardous conditions in the Dominican Repu[...]
CEMEX, TECHO provide cement floors for 100 poor homes
Poverty November 2, 2015 | 11:07 am
Santo Domingo.- Cementmaker CEMEX and NGO TECHO have built the first two pilot models of a projected 100homes to pour cement floors to benefit families living in poverty and invulnerable areas, pos[...]
Medina surprise visit boosts poor fishermen in southern town
Poverty October 26, 2015 | 8:35 am
Azua, DominicanRepublic.- President Danilo Medina on Sunday made one of his usual surprisevisits, this time to La Barrera township in southern Azua province, where hemet with 66 fishermen of the La[...]
Dominican barrios await government´s holiday food boxes
Poverty October 23, 2015 | 8:28 am
Santo Domingo.- The cool breeze of the holidays starts towaft through Dominican Republic´s barrios and heralds the government´s yearly distributionof boxes with cooking oil, sardines, sa[...]
Official says 788,000 Dominicans surmount poverty in 3 years
Poverty October 22, 2015 | 12:01 pm
Santo Domingo.- Presidencyadministrative minister Jose Ramon Peralta on Wednesday said 788,000 peoplehave left poverty behind in the Dominican Republic in the last three years,thanks to inclusive p[...]
UN says Dominican Rep. fights poverty effectively: Presidency
Poverty October 20, 2015 | 11:31 am
Santo Domingo.- The headof the UN´s Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD), of the Economicand Social Affairs Dept. on Tuesday said the Dominican Republic is showing theworld effect[...]
Batey Relief Alliance marks 18 years of humanitarian work.
Poverty October 13, 2015 | 4:08 pm
New York. – Foundedon October 23, 1997 in the state of New York as a non-profit, non-governmental,humanitarian aid organization, the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) is committed toaddressing the soci[...]
Cops call colleague who revealed meager wage a hero
Poverty October 13, 2015 | 8:06 am
Santo Domingo.- Whilethe government on Monday said it doesn’t have the money to raise police wages, thecops asked about officer Daurin Muñoz´s audacity of revealing his miserly salaryto[...]
Cop´s video on US$122.00 miserly wage goes viral, gets arrested
Poverty October 12, 2015 | 10:41 am
Santo Domingo.- The lawyer for policeman Daurin Muñoz, whosevideo on the calamities cops go through with their RD$5,500 (US$122.00) monthlysalary went viral over the weekend, on Monday said h[...]
Dominican Free Zone workers get US$22 wage hike
Poverty September 30, 2015 | 5:17 pm
Santo Domingo.- Laborand management representatives in the Free Zones on Wednesday announced anagreement to raise the that sector´s minimum wage by15%, as established by the LaborMinistry´[...]
World leaders at UN pledge to end poverty
Poverty September 26, 2015 | 11:52 am
New York.– World leaders on Friday pledged to end extreme poverty within 15 years, adopting an ambitious set of UN goals to be backed up by trillions of dollars in development spending.
Mak[...]
Medina to talk poverty at UN; Pope to tackle climate change
Poverty September 15, 2015 | 8:25 am
Santo Domingo.- PresidentDanilo Medina will participate in the UN´s 70th General Assembly on September25, which Pope Francis will attend for the first time.
Presidency Administrativemini[...]
Stay in school, it will pay off: US envoy tells special students
Poverty September 8, 2015 | 4:18 pm
SD. US ambassadorJames W. Brewster on Monday visited the Fundación Centro Nueva Esperanza accompaniedby Sur Futuro president Melba Grullón and US Agency for InternationalDevelopment (USAI[...]
Dominican Republic Central banker links low wages to crime
Poverty September 3, 2015 | 7:39 am
Santo Domingo.- Centralbanker Hector Valdez Albizu on Wednesday linked low wages with the country´s currentlevel of violence, noting that can evenif the entire country was militarized "o[...]
No ´witch hunt´ as Dominican Republic continues deportations
Poverty September 1, 2015 | 2:39 pm
Santo Domingo.- Over 78,000 immigrants who applied for the government program to regularize foreigners didn’t qualify to stay in Dominican Republic, said Interior and Police minister Jose R. Fadu[...]
US envoy visits Continuing Promise medical operation
Poverty August 21, 2015 | 11:09 am
Santo Domingo.- US ambassadorJames W. Brewster on Thursday visited Mirador del Este park where he met with USNavy officers and Dominican Defense Ministry officials to observe the progressof the Con[...]
