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[...]
France should let millions of Haitians into Guyana: Dominican writer
Poverty August 21, 2015 | 9:15 am
Santo Domingo-Prominent sociologist and writer Cherezada (Chiqui) Vicioso on Thursday proposedthat France let millions of Haitians settle in French Guyana to solve Hispaniola´soverpopulation.<[...]
Labor takes Dominican leader to task: Raise wages
Poverty August 6, 2015 | 3:44 pm
Santo Domingo.-Labor leader Rafael Pepe Abreu on Thursday challenged president Danilo Medinato ´practice what he preaches´ raising government wages, while employersjustify the private sec[...]
Dominican Republic´s oldest nursing home on the brink: Acento
Poverty August 6, 2015 | 11:23 am
SantoDomingo.- Dominican Republic´s biggestnursing and one of its oldest has over 500 applicants waiting to be acceptedbut the government´s meager RD$265,000 monthly allocation which is [...]
No progress with low wages, Dominican Republic leader warns
Poverty August 6, 2015 | 7:17 am
Santo Domingo.- PresidentDanilo Medina on Wednesday warned there can neither be competitiveness norproductivity in the country if most of the jobs are low- income and informal,noting that´s it[...]
Bishop says Haitians are coming ´more than ever´
Poverty August 4, 2015 | 8:18 am
Santo Domingo.- Mao-Montecristi(northwest) diocese bishop Diomedes Espinal on Monday said more Haitians areentering the country than before, including those who had returned voluntarilywhen the gov[...]
Puerto Rican company to test new tech to detect tuberculosis in Haiti: EFE
Poverty August 1, 2015 | 11:16 am
Port-au-Prince.– Puerto Rican company Caribbean Biotechnologies Inc. was granted approval by Haiti's Ministry of Health to conduct clinical studies to test its new technology for the instantaneou[...]
IDB warns social indicators lag behind a robust economy: EFE
Poverty July 29, 2015 | 8:42 am
Santo Domingo.- Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) representative Flora Montealegre on Tuesday warned of Dominican Republic´s imbalanced annual economic growth, as evidenced by limited prog[...]
Construction advances at questioned Dominican Republic coal-fired plants
Poverty July 28, 2015 | 10:31 am
Santo Domingo.- Construction on the questioned coal-fired power plants at Punta Catalina (south) advances with the installation of one of two 1,600-ton 70-meter high steel boilers, which arrived i[...]
UN urges Dominican Republic to avert arbitrary deportations: Efe
Poverty July 28, 2015 | 9:43 am
Geneva.- The UN Work Group on African Americans today on Tuesday urged Dominican Republic’s government to avert arbitrary deportations and adopt mechanisms to deal with alleged racism during dep[...]
Buyers at Dominican border market say Haiti agents demand bribes
Poverty July 20, 2015 | 1:35 pm
Dajabón, Dominican Republic.- The number of Haitian buyers and Dominican merchantsat the binational market held Mondays and Friday in Dajabón dropped drasticallytoday, a virtual repeat o[...]