2025 – Page 34

The Melissa rains continue to cause multiple game cancellations of the Dominican Winter Professional Baseball Championship (Lidom 2025-26) that began in mid-October 2025. So far only six games have been played. Meanwhile, Dominicans are fully engaged following the series of seven playoff between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers. After the win …

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President Luis Abinader announced on Sunday, 26 October 2025, a progressive return to normal working and schooling activities on Monday, 27 October following a week of light and heavy rains brought by the excruciatingly slow-moving Tropical Storm Melissa. After swerving to the west on to Jamaica, Melissa is now Hurricane Melissa, a Category 4 storm …

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The storm that came to stay has caused flooding and lots of economic losses from lock down. Tropical Storm Melissa was born well to the south of the island of Hispaniola (Haiti and the DR) but has overstayed its welcome in the Caribbean. The storm has kept the slowest pace of storms in the decades, …

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The passing of Tropical Storm and now Hurricane Melissa has exposed deep flaws in city urban planning and management. The widespread flooding and damage caused by Tropical Storm Melissa are not mere acts of nature, but a stark reflection of structural failures in how the nation’s cities are planned and managed, according to leading environmentalist …

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Just two and a half months after being officially inaugurated by President Luis Abinader, a section of the brand new Bani Bypass Highway is showing significant cracks and construction deficiencies, raising immediate concerns about the quality of the infrastructure. Listin Diario reporters observed the damage during a Saturday, 25 October 2025 tour of the roadway, …

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In the Epidemiological Report #41, the Ministry of Public Health has reported that there has not been a single case of cholera in the Dominican Republic so far this year. In 2024, the ministry reported 15 cases over the same time frame. Unfortunately, Haiti has reported a now outbreak of cholera, with 17 reported cases, …

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The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC – CEPAL) has adjusted its forecast for the region and now says that GDP for 2025 will be 2.4% and 2.3% for 2026. This is a sightly higher forecast than at the beginning of the year when ECLAC predicted a 2.2% growth in GDP for …

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Social subsidies are double the cost of the frozen income tax exemption, Diario Libre reports, questioning the increasing spending on welfare programs by the Abinader administration. The Dominican government’s expenditure on social subsidies significantly overshadows the cost of fulfilling a long-ignored legal mandate for annual salary indexation, according to a recent analysis. In 2024 alone, …

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Formal savings in the Dominican Republic, defined as money saved through regulated financial institutions, have seen significant and sustained growth over the past few decades, an article published on its website by the Association of Banks of the Dominican Republic reveals. This trend is crucial as it provides households and businesses with a safer, wider …

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For years, those in the know have been warning of a disaster in the making. It is here. Now. The Laguna de Cabral, a vital wetland in the province of Barahona, is facing rapid collapse, prompting a stark warning and an urgent plea for a state of emergency declaration from a leading environmental authority. Luis …

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