2025 – Page 152

The National District Prosecutor’s Office has requested preventive custody for two Colombian men and two Colombian women accused of committing robberies in the Naco and Los Praditos neighborhoods of Santo Domingo, Diario Libre reports. The accused, identified as María Fernanda Jurado Martínez, Laura Valentina Mosquea Hernández, Nicolás Giraldo Murillo, and Joseph Stiven Rodríguez Pérez, allegedly …

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Get an overview of what the country is doing to grow with sustainability. The Expo Sostenible, a collection of local institutions that promote sustainable development, opens today at the Hotel Embajador on 2 and 3 April 2025. The event features all day of talks in addition to a large exhibition hall. Admission is free. Read …

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Shakira has again canceled a concert of the “Women Don’t Cry Anymore” tour, this time the concert scheduled for Santo Domingo’s Olympic Stadium on Wednesday, 2 April 2025. The reason cited is operational problems beyond the artist’s control. The concert is postponed for a yet to be announced date in September 2025. Shakira has been …

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President Luis Abinader presented his administration’s new efforts for persons with special needs. He used the first half hour of his weekly Monday press conference on 31 March 2025 to explain what his government is doing to reach out to disabled persons and comply with the Law 43-23 on sign language, Law 34-23 on autism …

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The minimum wage increases approved in February 2025 go into effect this Tuesday, 1 April 2025. The National Wage Committee (CNS) had approved a 20% increase to minimum wages for the non-sectorized private employees. The increment is being applied in two stages: 12% in April and 8% in February 2026. Approximately two million workers are …

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The Trump administration’s US Trade Representative office has released its 2025 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers of the President of the United States on the Trade Agreements Program. The document provides a country-by-country analysis of the complaints by business and government officials on actions in each country the United States has trade …

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President Luis Abinader said that the Dominican government would not open the Dominican air space to flights from any airport in Haiti. At present, regular international flights are happening from Haiti’s two international airports outside its capital city, Port-au-Prince. Recently, Fritz Alphone Jean, the president of Haiti’s transitional Presidential Council (CPT), has called for opening …

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Luis Abinader was firm during his weekly press conference on Monday, 1 April 2025, when he stated that while the government allows peaceful protest marches, it will not allow chaos or violence. The government recently had cleared a peaceful march for the Hoyo de Friusa area in Punta Cana, but towards the end, persons described …

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The Dominican Weather Institute (Indomet) forecasts rains for Tuesday, 1 April 2025 and most of the following Wednesday. Indomet explains that a passing trough will bring scattered showers to the coastal areas, including San Pedro de Macorís, San Cristóbal, Barahona, and parts of Greater Santo Domingo. After midday, a trough over the region, combined with …

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President Luis Abinader, accompanied by Vice President Raquel Peña and First Lady Raquel Arbaje, presented acclaimed actress Zoe Saldaña with the Heraldic Order of Christopher Columbus in the Grade of Commander on Wednesday, 26 March 2025, a day after she had won the Gran Soberano during the Soberano Awards. The Soberano Awards are the annual …

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