2025 – Page 63

135 were deported on the first day of a switch from the practice of offering free medical services to all needy Haitian migrants. The government is now limiting free medical services at public hospitals to undocumented foreigners. Gangs control Port-au-Prince and there is a practical collapse of medical services in that country, putting the burden …

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President Luis Abinader and First Lady Raquel Arbaje will travel to Rome this Friday, 25 April 2025 to attend the funeral mass of His Holiness Pope Francisco. The mass is scheduled for Saturday, 26 April at 10:00am local time in St. Peter’s Square. The presidential couple is scheduled to return on Sunday. The Vatican has …

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The Dominican Republic and the United States held high-level talks in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, 22 April 2025 to address the recently announced global tariff policy by the US government. Minister of Foreign Relations Roberto Alvarez, Minister of Industry & Commerce Víctor (Ito) Bisonó, and Minister of Hacienda José Manuel Vicente met with US Trade …

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The PRM majority Senate chose Emma Polanco Melo to be the next president of the Chamber of Accounts, the government entity tasked with auditing government. Francisco Tamárez Florentino was chosen as the vice president. The appointments were approved by 23 out of 26 senators present at the regular session on 22 April 2025. Joining Polanco …

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Fernando P. Henríquez is the new general coordinator of the legal team representing the Dominican state in actions and agreements for compensation and restitution of misappropriated assets, funds, and securities. He was appointed to head the Public Patrimony Recovery Team (ERPP) by Decree 217-25. He had been serving since 2021 as co-coordinator of the ERPP. …

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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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