Greens start ‘Commitment to end impunity’ drive
Local October 29, 2018 | 9:40 am
Santo Domingo Este.- The Green March on Sun. began in Santo Domingo East the mass registration for the "Commitment to end impunity," summarizing the movement's seven key proposals for institutional [...]Local officials make more than colleagues in rich countries
Local October 29, 2018 | 8:36 am
Santo Domingo.- "Most Latin American countries suffer from a combination of excessively high wages in the public sector, a public-private wage gap of more than 20%, and, in some cases, excess employ[...]1 dead as Dominican Republic braces for strike
Local October 29, 2018 | 7:36 am
San Francisco de Macoris, Dominican Republic.- One person was killed as a result of the protests occurring since Sun. night in several barrios of Santiago, prior to the regional strike of the Cibao re[...]Next Monday’s strike organizers want Medina out
Local October 26, 2018 | 3:58 pm
Santo Domingo.- For the second time in as many weeks the citizens movement that is staging the sit-ins and human chains are demanding that president Danilo Medina step down. On Fri. the organizatio[...]October protests rattle Dominican Republic’s Government
Local October 26, 2018 | 7:28 am
Santo Domingo.- The announced strike in the entire northern region for next Monday called by organizations and social groups in San Francisco de Macoris, brings to over 20 mobilizations and protests [...]Authorities seized bogus medicines worth RD$686.4M
Local October 25, 2018 | 4:11 pm
Santo Domingo.- The Prosecutor's Health Crimes Office (PEDECSA) on Thurs. said that in coordination with the Pharmaceutical Producers and Agents Association (ARAPF) it seized counterfeit medicines wor[...]Dominicans mark 30 years free of polio
Local October 25, 2018 | 11:33 am
Santo Domingo.- The body of many an adult reveals the sad memory of the traces of polio, a virus that wreaked havoc in the country in the early 1960's when the epidemic ravaged hundreds of children. [...]Govt. is ordered to pay pension of civil servants’ widows
Local October 25, 2018 | 9:24 am
Santo Domingo.- The refusal to grant the pension that legally owed to the widows of deceased govt. workers is also frequent among govt. agencies, prompting injunctions to guaranteed their right to soc[...]Police turn away protest from the National Palace
Local October 25, 2018 | 8:13 am
Santo Domingo.- Numerous police and soldiers on Wed. kept several organizations from reaching the National Palace to demand transparency in the price of fuels. The police cordoned off all the str[...]
