2025 – Page 13

Dominican Yudelina Mejia won the subchampionship title at the 2025 World Weightlifting Championships (IWF World Championship) in Forde, Norway, a first for the Dominican Republic’s weightlifting team. Norwegian Olympic champion Solfrid Koanda won the championship. Mejía’s powerful performance in Førde, Norway, saw her clinch three medals, totaling 271 kg across her lifts. After nearly gaining a …

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Drive east along the 27 de Febrero Avenue to northern or western Santo Domingo to see the difference. Traffic is flowing. The first phase of the 27 de Febrero – Isabel Aguiar Overpass was inaugurated by President Luis Abinader and Public Works Minister Eduardo Estrella on 8 October 2025. The roadwork is designed to slash …

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The National Health Insurance Plan (Senasa) and the National Health Service (SNS) announced they are working together to reinforce the country’s public hospital network and ensure access to primary care services for beneficiaries under the Subsidized Health Insurance Regime. During a second coordination meeting between the two institutions—this time also involving directors from various healthcare …

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The president of the Dominican College of Engineers, Architects, and Surveyors (Codia) North Region, has voiced alarm over the proliferation of infrastructure projects that fail to meet established legal and technical approval requirements and are underway in the Cibao region, a seismic vulnerable area. Engineer Ramón Martínez stated on Tuesday, 7 October 2025 that more …

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Mayor Carolina Mejía of the National District (Santo Domingo) is facing a civil and criminal complaint after allegedly authorizing permits for large-scale residential construction in the city’s protected Green Belt (Cinturón Verde), a move opponents warn is a grave threat to the capital’s crucial ecological breathing space. The lawsuit, filed with the Attorney General’s Office, …

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Focusing on the threat mining can be to the water sources in the Dominican Republic, environmentalists announce new actions to raise awareness among the general public. At a time when the price of gold is at a record high, the Abinader administration has acted to favor authorizing new exploitations. This includes the construction of a …

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The China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) has officially announced the 2025 China Trade Expo in the Dominican Republic to be held 10-13 October 2025 at the Dominican Fiesta Hotel & Convention Center in Santo Domingo. The event is in its second year. The 2025 China Trade Expo will feature over 2,000 …

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Economists agree on one point. Public debt should be allocated to capital investments. The problem is that government in the Dominican Republic has been growing in leaps and bounds and most of the cash is going to current expenditures, say wages. The public debt has been in the headlines as the Abinader administration defends taking …

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The Dominican Republic bitterly remembers the 8 April 2025 JetSet Club tragedy, on 8 October, the sixth month anniversary of the tragic collapse of the nightclub roof during a full-house Rubby Perez merengue concert. The trial to determine the responsibilities of directors Antonio and Maribel Espaillat is moving at turtle-slow pace. The latest is that …

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Bottom line. The Blue Jays were the better team and the team investment in Vladimir Guerrero Jr paid off. The Blue Jays went from being in last place in the past season to defeating the New York Yankees in game four, 5-2, to move on to the ALCS. “I feel amazing,” Vladimir Guerrero Jr. said. …

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