2018News

Embassy of Japan donates fire engine for Jarabacoa forest fires

The Jarabacoa Municipal Fire Station now has a good fire engine, donated by the government of Japan. The donation was formalized during a contract-signing at the Embassy of Japan. The contract was signed by Jarabacoa Fire Intendent Julio Antonio Ramírez Tejada and Japan Ambassador in the Dominican Republic, Hiroyuki Makiuchi. Attending was Ronaldo Torres, international …
2018News

Grupo Jaragua highlights irregular deforestation of torchwood forests

Technicians from Grupo Jaragua, the leading southwestern environmental conservation group, accompanied Diario Libre reporter Marvin del Cid into the Jaragua-Bahoruco-Enriquillo Biosphere Reserve so he could see for himself the depredation ongoing in the important diversity reserve to the indifference of the Ministry of Environment and other local authorities responsible for the conservation of the protected …
2018News

Will the DR sign the Global Compact for Migration? The US pulled out

The Dominican Republic authorities have not been available for comment on whether the country will sign the 2018 the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in during the Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration scheduled to take place in Marrakesh, Morocco on the 10th and 11th …