2020News

President Danilo Medina campaigns on government’s booming economic record

President Danilo Medina spoke for more than two hours, reminding Dominicans the country is the regional leader in economic growth and that this has been accomplished without inflation and with the exchange rate in check. He did not mention the country’s rising public debt. Instead of rendering accounts of his government in the past year, …
2020News

President Medina backs finding delving into the e-voting glitch

President Danilo Medina introduced his Independence Day speech saying that he identifies with the new generations that want answers to what happened, causing the municipal election to be aborted. He called the occurrence “sad and shameful, one that embarrasses us and tarnishes Dominican democracy”. He said what happened could not remain unexplained, or be explained …
2020News

Juan Luis Guerra joins hundreds of thousands at the Plaza de la Bandera concert

Latin American contemporary musical star Juan Luis Guerra sung “Dominicana” and “Ojala Llueva Café” accompanied by Roger Zayas, Adalgisa Pantaleón and Quico Rizek during the Plaza de la Bandera protest concert on Thursday, 27 February, Independence Day. “May a song for our country always be in our mouths,” he said to introduce his first song, …