2025 – Page 141

In a coordinated effort to enforce immigration laws and retake private property, the Migration Agency (DGM), backed by state institutions, conducted a large-scale operation in the Mata Mosquito community near Friusa, Bávaro. The intervention resulted in the arrest of over 500 undocumented individuals and the demolition of precarious dwellings, the Migration Agency reports. The operation, …

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N Digital journalist Franklin Guerrero asked President Luis Abinader on Monday, 21 April 2025 the question thousands of Dominicans must have when watching all the videos the Migration Agency uploads showing how they red-handed catch many Haitian smugglers. Guerrero said that it is evident lots of the same people are being caught again and again …

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The president of the Dominican Emergency Medicine Society, Dr. Eliezer Jimenez Puello urges the government to regularly inspect closed public spaces where large numbers of people congregate for safety issues. He also said the lack of government supervision needs to be a matter of the past. Interviewed by Hector Herrera Cabral of D’Agenda, Dr. Jimenez …

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From 4 to 6 May 2025 more than 200 high-level legal experts from around the world are expected for the World Law Congress Dominican Republic 2025 organized by the World Law Foundation. The event will open at the Aula Magna of the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo. The main day for panels will be 5 …

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The first round of the World Baseball Classic, the leading global baseball tournament, is scheduled to be held from 5 to 17 March 2026. The winners of the top two positions in each of the four groups of four teams move on to phase two. Dominican Republic is in Group D, playing against Venezuela, Netherlands, …

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Despite a larger deployment of volunteers for the “Conciencia por la Vida” (Awareness for Life) operation during the Easter Week break, the number of fatalities did not decrease. Instead, the death toll rose from 27 in 2024 to 32 in 2025, leaving a trail of lost lives and shattered dreams. Motorcyclists topped the list of …

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A Dominican mission made up by Minister of Industry and Commerce Victor (Ito) Bisono, Minister of Hacienda Jose Manuel (Jochi) Vicente and Minister of Foreign Relations Roberto Alvarez is in Washington, D.C. for high-level meetings on Dominican and United States relations, especially with officials of the US Trade Representatives Office. The negotiators seek to remove …

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President Luis Abinader issued Decree 216-25, instating three days of mourning (22, 23 and 24 April 2025) for Pope Francisco. The Pope died on Monday, 21 April 2025 in the Vatican City. His last act as head of the Catholic Church was to appear on Easter Sunday on the balcony of St Peter’s Square, waving …

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President Luis Abinader dedicated his 21 April press conference to share details on the advances of the 15 points the government is focusing on to curtail the flow of Haitian migration to the Dominican Republic. Foreign Minister Roberto Alvarez has said that while the government spends billions in protecting the border and deporting Haitians, the …

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Foreign Minister Roberto Alvarez speaking for his 15th time in four years at the United Nations National Security Council spoke this time of the gruesome 378 registered cases of sexual rape in Port-au-Prince, with lives destroyed and people terrorized. “The international community needs to respond to this humanitarian emergency,” he pleaded once more. “Are we …

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