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Baseball season gets off to a slow start, Dominicans follow MLB playoffs

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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DR returns to normalcy after a week of rains, four provinces remain under Red Alert

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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Institutional weakness, not weather, fuels storm vulnerabilities, expert warns

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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Cracks appear on Bani Bypass just weeks after inauguration

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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Is DR becoming a welfare state?

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, …