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Interior and Police Minister Faride Raful defended the work carried out by authorities during the Christmas and New Year celebrations to reduce tragedies and injuries. Raful expressed gratitude for the exemplary behavior displayed by the vast majority of Dominicans during the festive period. She concluded her remarks by asserting that the country is much more …

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The Christmas and New Year’s holiday period were overall deadly this year, despite the efforts by government agencies to supervise, control, and regulate traffic and accidents. Unfortunately, the 43,000 volunteers and government employees who worked throughout the holidays on the highways and express roads could not curtail the number of accidents (262) nor the ever-rising …

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Digesett director, General Osoria de la Cruz says the institution cannot place limits on circulation of motorcyclists in the Dominican Republic. He responded to an editorial in Listin Diario, “The Deadly Epidemic of Two Wheels”, that highlighted that reckless motorcyclist driving is behind the present-day epidemic with motorcycles involved in nine out of 10 traffic …

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The National Hotel & Tourism Association (Asonahores) and the National Association of Rum Producers (Adopron) back the government instating new controls on hours for sales of rum to limit sales. The opinions support new measures instituted by the Ministry of Interior and Police, now under Minister Faride Raful, to reduce drinking and partying that disturb …

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President Luis Abinader traveled to Puerto Rico to be present for the inauguration of Jenniffer Gonzalez Colon as governor of Puerto Rico for the next four years. It is a tradition for the Dominican President to attend the inaugural. President Abinader traveled with Foreign Minister Roberto Alvarez early in the morning and returned later in …

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Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who has the voting rolls that prove he won the July 2024 presidential election in Venezuela, has included a stop in the Dominican Republic on his Americas tour. The tour began with consecutive stopovers in Buenos Aires, Argentina for a meeting with President Javier Millei and in Montevideo, Uruguay for a meeting …

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The Dominican government reports spending RD$83.9 billion on subsidies to the different entities of the national electricity system in 2024, Diario Libre reports. This is over 10% more than the previous year and the government says it is due to poor transmission lines, theft of electricity, and a lack of investment in basic infrastructure. In …

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Mayor Carolina Mejía presided over the fifth annual “Plastics for Toys” initiative, where over 3.7 million plastic bottles were collected at the Municipal Palace of the National District. Thousands of families lined up on the eve of Three Kings’ Day on 5 January 2025 to exchange 500 plastic bottles for a bicycle or 300 for …

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Pastor Ezequiel Molina sparked significant controversy in the Dominican Republic with statements suggesting that women who work outside the home are neglecting their domestic responsibilities. During the 2025 La Batalla de la Fe sermon at the National Evangelical Concentration event at the Felix Sanchez Olympic Stadium on 1 January 2025, he claimed, “behind every successful …

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Despite most United States’ governmental agencies being closed on Thursday 9 January due to the funeral services for 100-year old former US President Jimmy Carter, the US Consulate announced that visa appointments will not be rescheduled and instead will be kept in the Sambil Mall, Diario Libre reported. An Executive Act calls for the close …

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