A most horrific ranking: the country leads in femicides
Uncategorized November 22, 2019 | 10:57 am
Santo Domingo (EFE).- In a difficult month for women in the Dominican Republic, with at least eight femicides confirmed to date, human rights groups question the veracity of official statistics, which[...]To survive, the DR must have near perfect disaster mitigation: NASA expert
Uncategorized November 7, 2019 | 5:19 pm
Santo Domingo.- For its geographical location, the Dominican Republic has to develop an internal task in natural disaster prevention, with the objective of knowing the vulnerability and exposure rates[...]The US, the Caribbean, and climate change
Uncategorized October 25, 2019 | 8:52 am
Speaking last week in Pittsburg, President Trump all but confirmed that the US was withdrawing from the 2015 Paris climate change agreement. After primary setback, ex-president’s supporters stage protest October 7, 2019 | 2:38 pmSanto Domingo.- Supporters of former President Leonel Fernández will demonstrate tomorrow at 10:00 am in front of the Central Electoral Board, according to Rafael Núñez, press officer of the former[...]Dominican Republic calls on the world: don’t forget Haiti
Uncategorized October 4, 2019 | 7:51 am
Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Republic called on the international community to assume its responsibility and not forget about Haiti during the meeting of the UN Security Council held Thursday at the [...]Dominican Republic works to keep French tourists coming
Uncategorized October 3, 2019 | 3:13 pm
Paris.- The Dominican Republic continues intensifying its effort at the new version of Top Resa that takes place in Paris to ensure that French tourists continue to choose that long-distance destinati[...]Biden taps Dominican as Latino campaign chief
Local September 11, 2019 | 4:20 pm
Santo Domingo.- Former vice president of the United States and candidate for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, Joseph Biden, appointed Dominican, Laura Jiménez, as director of the Lat[...]Clutch your strategic assets, US envoy warns the Dominican Republic
Local September 5, 2019 | 4:00 pm
Santo Domingo.- US ambassador Robin Bernstein on Thurs. said it’s important for the Dominican Republic to retain control of “its strategic assets” 16 months after it established diplomatic relat[...]Samaná inhabitants protest power outages
Uncategorized August 29, 2019 | 12:49 pm
Samaná, Dominican Republic.- Residents of the Honduras district of this city staged a protest on a highway in the area, to demand electric power service. The residents hurled trash and torched tir[...]Dominican Republic eyes financial mechanism to restore coral reefs
Uncategorized August 27, 2019 | 12:39 pm
Press Release Santo Domingo.- The establishment of a financial mechanism to invest in the conservation of coral reefs in the Dominican Republic, with the support of the private sector, is the objec[...]Two ex-Major League Baseball players arrested in major bust
Local August 21, 2019 | 8:53 am
Santo Domingo.- Former Major League Baseball players Octavio Dotel and Luis Castillo are linked to alleged kingpin César Emilio Peralta, aka “the abuser,” according to the Justice Ministry. Do[...]Dominican Republic highly prone to cyberattack
Uncategorized August 9, 2019 | 8:30 am
Santo Domingo.- The region’s cyberattack rate is 28% higher than the global average, and the Dominican Republic ranks fourth among the countries with the highest threat risk. Microsoft technology[...]Undervaluation costs Dominican Republic US$588.2M yearly
Uncategorized July 19, 2019 | 8:13 am
Santo Domingo.- Customs director, Enrique Ramírez on Thurs. said undervaluation of goods is the most recurrent crime in customs, accounting for 70% of detected cases. He said the situation costs t[...]Hundreds sign book against constitutional reform in New Jersey
Uncategorized July 16, 2019 | 9:02 am
The general coordinators of the state of New Jersey and the city of Paterson, respectively, led on Sunday the collection of hundreds of signatures of Dominicans living here, who are adamantly op[...]American tourists’ deaths put in perspective
Uncategorized June 22, 2019 | 7:58 am
Mexico and Costa Rica are the destinations where, in the last four years, the highest number of deaths of American tourists have been recorded, according to the US State Department.Washington opposes Medina’s reelection? A rumor: US Embassy
Uncategorized June 5, 2019 | 5:46 pm
Santo Domingo.- The US Embassy on Wed. labeled as a rumor Peruvian journalist Jaime Bayly’s assertion that Washington has told president Danilo Medina that it opposes a new reform of the Constitutio[...]Amid fierce infighting, a deal emerges in Dominican Republic’s ruling party
Uncategorized May 30, 2019 | 8:00 am
Santo Domingo.- A proposal that includes 142 elected seats to be reserved on the ballots of Dominican Republic’s ruling party (PLD) is under the lens of the organization’s two factions, and would [...]Business leader praises Barrick Gold’s announced US$1.0B investment
Uncategorized May 28, 2019 | 3:55 pm
Press Release Santo Domingo.- The president of the Roundtable of the Commonwealth Countries in the Dominican Republic, Fernando González Nicolás on Tues. labeled as timely and very positive the n[...]Greater Santo Domingo holds a 7.4 quake drill at 10am today
Local May 10, 2019 | 8:02 am
Santo Domingo.- Today Friday at 10am in the Greater Santo Domingo and the National District, there will be a drill of a 7.4 magnitude earthquake, similar to the one that devastated in Haiti and its ca[...]Colonial City Book Fair a ‘resounding success’ with 1M+ vsitors
People May 6, 2019 | 9:04 am
Santo Domingo.- Santo Domingo’s International Book Fair 2019 ended Sun. night, when Culture minister, Eduardo Selman, called it a "resounding success". In its 22nd year, the event was [...]