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  • Pay attention to Haitian immigrants, Pope tells Dominican bishops

    Poverty May 28, 2015 | 9:49 am

    Vatican City (AP).- Pope Francis on Thursday called on Dominican Republic’s bishops to pay particular attention to Haitian immigrants, during an audience with every Catholic bishop held every fiv[...]

  • UN says Dominican Republic reduces hunger: EFE

    Poverty May 27, 2015 | 12:20 pm

    Rome.- UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) general director Jose Graziano da Silva on Wednesday said Latin America shows that social protection developed by the region is an ally to reduce w[...]

  • Medina pledges funding for poor region’s farmers, shepherds

    Poverty May 25, 2015 | 10:17 am

    Pedernales, Dominican Republic.- President Danilo Medina on Sunday announced government funding for sheepherders in the Pedernales village of Mencia, as well as for mango and cacao growers in Neiba[...]

  • Unionist says govt., business leaders don’t keep their word

    Poverty May 22, 2015 | 9:15 am

    Santo Domingo.- Union leader Rafael -Pepe- Abreu on Friday slammed the government and business leaders in the National Salary Committee, which on Thursday announced a 14% increase on the minimum wa[...]

  • Top opposition party rallies behind a 25% wage increase

    Poverty May 20, 2015 | 11:11 am

    Santo Domingo.- Dominican Republic’s leading opposition party (PRM) on Wednesday said it supports labor demand for the National Salary Committee (CNS) to order a 25% increase on the minimum wage.[...]

  • US Embassy swears in 34 new Peace Corps volunteers

    Poverty May 18, 2015 | 11:42 am

    SD. United States Embassy commercial attaché Patrick Dunn administered the oath to 34 new Peace Corps volunteer technicians in the Training Center at Pantoja last week.

    During the ceremo[...]

  • Elected officials and advocates to call for an end to massive rent increases

    Poverty May 14, 2015 | 10:28 am

    Manhattan, NY.- With one month remaining until the expiration of rent laws elected officials and advocates will call for an end to deregulation of New Yorkers one million rent regulated units and [...]

  • Dominican employers offer US$22 wage hike to US$273/month

    Poverty May 13, 2015 | 11:55 am

    Santo Domingo.- Management representatives on Wednesday offered to raise Dominican Republic’s minimum wages by 8.9% while labor ratcheted back its demand from 30% to 25%, during the 6th Salarie[...]

  • Historic collaboration between My Very Own Library and DREAM will host its final Book Fair for 2015

    Poverty May 11, 2015 | 8:52 am

    Cabarete, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.- On May 11th, The Dominican Republic Education and Mentoring (DREAM) Project continues its partnership with My Very Own Library by promoting reading in D[...]

  • USAID project improves sanitation systems in northwest

    Poverty May 1, 2015 | 4:49 pm

    Montecristi, Dominican Republic.- The US Agency for International Development (USAID) on Thursday announced the Montecristi (northwest) sanitation systems Retrofitting Project, starting at two bate[...]

  • Cigar Aficionado fest benefits the DREAM Project

    Poverty May 1, 2015 | 10:10 am

    Santo Domingo.- The Cigar Aficionado Magazine releases it's first edition of the prize "Top Dominican Cigar" to benefit the DREAM Project Foundation and its innovative education programs.[...]

  • More than half of Dominican public school teachers earn less than US$177-month

    Poverty April 30, 2015 | 8:37 am

    Santo Domingo.- Despite significant wage increases for public school teachers in recent years, of the 73,656 educators more than 39,000 make less than RD$8,000 (US$177) monthly.

    The study ‘[...]

  • US Embassy helps girls at risk through the Mariposa Foundation

    Poverty April 29, 2015 | 11:04 am

    Cabarete, Puerto Plata.-On Friday April 24 the US Embassy announced support for the Mariposa Foundation in Cabarete during one year for its art and culture program for 120 girls at risk in Cabarete[...]

  • Minimum wage languishes 37 years with lost buying power

    Poverty April 20, 2015 | 11:10 am

    Santo Domingo.- The National Salary Committee (CNS) will meet Wed. to try to set the non-sectored minimum wage with a 30% increase and reference to all revisions made since the 2000s, as the minimu[...]

  • 10 percent of children in Dominican Republic suffer from malnutrition

    Poverty April 18, 2015 | 8:39 am

    Santo Domingo.– Foreign experts on nutrition warned Friday that ten percent of children in the Dominican Republic suffer from chronic malnutrition, with the malnutritional deficiency especially h[...]

  • The best strategy to reduce poverty is to build prosperity: President

    Poverty April 11, 2015 | 1:01 am

    Panama City.– The best strategy to reduce poverty and inequality is building prosperity and welfare for our people, Dominican President Danilo Medina said Friday.

    Medina, who is attending t[...]

  • Dominican Republic cannot harbor two poor nations: President

    Poverty April 10, 2015 | 4:47 pm

    Panama City.- President Danilo Medina on Friday said the international community must understand that as a poor country Dominican Republic cannot harbor two poor nations.

    During a bilateral m[...]

  • Medina acknowledges the country’s low wages

    Poverty April 10, 2015 | 8:11 am

    Panama City.- President Danilo Medina on Thursday made a surprising acknowledgment that Dominican Republic has low wages, despite keeping mum during months on labor’s threats to stage nationwide[...]

  • Traffic cops to chase windshield washers, street vendors away

    Poverty April 9, 2015 | 4:35 pm

    Santo Domingo.- The Metropolitan Transit Authority (AMET) on Thursday announced it will remove the windshield washers and street vendors in various National District intersections in the next few [...]

  • Everybody gets a pay raise, except private sector workers

    Poverty April 6, 2015 | 10:04 am

    Santo Domingo.- While the justices of the Electoral and Constitutional courts increase their own salaries to as high as RD$440,764 per month, the three-way talks to raise workers’ wages have grou[...]

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