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[...]
USAID, REDDOM allocate US$73.1M for water sanitation projects
Poverty March 25, 2015 | 11:26 am
SD.- In two years the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has allocated RD$73.1 million through the REDDOM Foundation and local partners to rebuild seven aqueducts, donated filters for [...]
World Bank: 1.0M more Dominican poor since 2000
Poverty March 17, 2015 | 8:20 am
Santo Domingo.- World Bank representative McDonald Benjamin on Monday said poverty in the Dominican Republic rose by 1.0 million people since 2000.
Speaking in Santiago, the World Bank offici[...]
WB taps US$75M to help 1.3M+ poor Dominicans
Poverty March 13, 2015 | 6:55 am
Washington DC.– The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved a new project for the Dominican Republic worth US$75 million, which seeks to ensure that thousands of citizens gain acce[...]
Just 30% of people in southern villages enroll for regularization
Poverty March 12, 2015 | 9:52 am
Santo Domingo.- Only 30% of the population identified as group B in the South region’s sugar cane villages (batey) managed to enroll in the Book of Aliens to apply for the benefit of Law 169-14, [...]
