Dolores Vicioso – Page 46

People have to admit it that this year the weather has been good. The sweltering heat of summer has been delayed. But now with still three weeks away from summer, it is getting as hot as it gets. The entire Dominican Republic is sweltering under a combination of Saharan dust, high humidity and plenty of …

Read more…

The Dominican Republic’s Paris Olympics gold medal winner Marileidy Paulino once again showed her class and won first in the women’s 400m Grand Slam Track event held in Philadelphia, USA. She clocked in a season best with 49.12, defeating Nickisha Pryce of Jamaica (50.04) and Isabella Whittaker of USA (50.16). Salwa Eid Naser of Bahrain …

Read more…

The Indiana Pacers finally outpaced the New York Knicks 125 to 108 in game six of the NBA Eastern Conference playoffs and won the slot to match the Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA Finals. It will be a first Final since 2000 for the Indiana Pacers. Pascal Siakam of the Pacers was named MVP …

Read more…

The Presidency has convened meetings of the Economic and Social Council (CES), now set to tackle critical national issues as of Tuesday, 3 June 2025, at 11am at the library meeting facility of the Pedro Henríquez Ureña University in Santo Domingo. The CES meeting will focus on six key areas – migration, bilateral trade, border …

Read more…

President Luis Abinader has appointed Mildred Gabriela Martínez Mejía as the new director of the National Bureau of Statistics (ONE). She replaces Miosotis Rivas, who was named to direct the ECLAC Caribbean region office, a UN agency. The Presidency reports that Martínez Mejía brings to the position over two decades of extensive experience in applied …

Read more…

The recent panel of experts that met on Tuesday, 27 May 2025 for the Esta Noche con Mariasela top issue discussion focused on the Dominican economy. The conclusion was that all sectors need to align to strengthen the position of the country as an exporter of goods and services if the country is to successfully …

Read more…

The Chamber of Accounts, the government auditing agency, now under its new president Emma Polanco Melo, has made public several audits carried out by the past teams. The audits look into the findings of the 2016-2019 term of the authorities at the Instituto Nacional de Atención Integral a la Primera Infancia (Inaipi) and others related …

Read more…

On the occasion of the anniversary of the assassination of the 1961 Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo on 30 May, local media are reminding the Dominican people of who Trujillo was and the sacrifices made by those who gave their lives to remove the ruthless dictator. Among the media presentations, journalist Camila Garcia for her “Para …

Read more…

The Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) announced the passing away of its rector, Julio Sanchez Mariñez on the morning of Wednesday, 28 May 2025 at the UCE medical center. He was 72 years old. He was the ninth rector of the city university. He was first appointed in 2021-2024 and had been confirmed for …

Read more…

Listin Diario reports that the remains of the collapsed roof of JetSet Club that had been taken to a lot in Santiago, off the Santiago Bypass, were relocated to an unknown site. The remains are key to the forensic investigations into the causes of the collapse of the roof that caused the death of still …

Read more…