DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

A report in Diario Libre today explains the numerous new programs the Abinader administration has unfolded over its first five years. Many of these programs are renamed and relaunched. Diario Libre checked the archives and found at least 62 launching of projects in spectacular launches of projects. The number is more than 100 if those launched by the Vice President, government ministers and agency directors is added.

It seems it is modus operandi to launch a program to meet a demand and then wait for people to forget about the demand as they wait for the new project to resolve something. This until another program is launched when the old one wasn’t good enough.

Moreso, a report in El Nacional says that the number of persons employed in the already bulging central public sector has increased by 7.7% from July 2023 to July 2025 (from 429,612 to 462,903), according to data from the Ministry of Public Administration (MAP).

From July 2024 to July 2025, the number of central...