2025 – Page 11

A crucial bill aimed at tackling the Dominican Republic’s solid waste crisis has been stalled in the Senate for two months after it was approved by both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, preventing it from being sent to the President for final approval and enactment. The Senate has chosen not to submit it …

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Former Vice President Milagros Ortiz Bosch, director of the General Directorate of Government Ethics and Integrity (DIGEIG), is being urged to reevaluate the indicators used to measure transparency in public institutions—particularly the performance of their official transparency portals, El Caribe writes in an editorial. The El Caribe call for scrutiny comes amid troubling revelations about …

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Telecommunications companies Claro Dominicana and Altice are reminding all their prepaid customers to validate their identity before the 29 September 2025 deadline or risk losing the telephone number. This is in compliance with Resolution 064-2025 from the Dominican Telecommunications Institute (Indotel). This new rule is designed to ensure that every prepaid line is registered to …

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A court in the Dominican Republic has sentenced Jairo Joel González Durán to eight years in prison for orchestrating a sprawling cryptocurrency and foreign exchange scam that defrauded hundreds of victims out of millions of dollars, El Nacional reports. The Third Collegiate Court of the National District also ordered González to pay a fine of …

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The head of the Organizing Committee for the Central American and Caribbean Games 2026, Jose Monegro, Sports Minister Kelvin Cruz and the president of Centro Caribe Sports Luis Mejia Oviedo were in New York for the official naming of Mets slugger Juan Soto as Sports Ambassador for the summer games slated to take place in …

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The Dominican Republic’s women’s volleyball team, the B team with a new generation of players, fought their way to a bronze medal at the Norceca Final Six tournament in Guadalajara, Mexico. The team, affectionately known as the “Queens of the Caribbean,” relied on the breakout performances of Madeline Guillén, Alondra Tapia, and Massiel Matos and …

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News analysts spent the weekend giving more explanations on the diverse rackets that impacted the state government insurance plan, Senasa. The details of the complicity of Senasa officials with private companies and the diverse schemes and enormous volume of irregular transactions have been coming to the open for the first time. The Abinader administration first …

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The Metropolitan Office of Bus Services (Omsa) has temporarily suspended borrowing for the purchase of its vehicles on its routes, citing a comprehensive legal and administrative audit. The agency announced the measure, which it says is a move toward improving the quality of its services, as reported in Diario Libre. The measure is one of …

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The executive director of the Social and Economic Council (CES) has delivered a 32-page document outlining 25 plans for action and 151 proposals regarding just about every aspect of Dominican relations with Haiti and its citizens. Haitian migration into the Dominican Republic was perhaps a leading area of discussion. The CES executives, President Luis Abinader …

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The Abinader administration has just announced a tender for the construction of 10 new penitentiary units in provinces around the country. The estimated budget calls for spending just over RD$7.5 billion. The most obvious objective of this major construction program is to drastically reduce the overcrowding in the nation’s current penitentiary facilities. Pedernales, Bahoruco (Neiba), …

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