2025 – Page 64

Despite a larger deployment of volunteers for the “Conciencia por la Vida” (Awareness for Life) operation during the Easter Week break, the number of fatalities did not decrease. Instead, the death toll rose from 27 in 2024 to 32 in 2025, leaving a trail of lost lives and shattered dreams. Motorcyclists topped the list of …

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A Dominican mission made up by Minister of Industry and Commerce Victor (Ito) Bisono, Minister of Hacienda Jose Manuel (Jochi) Vicente and Minister of Foreign Relations Roberto Alvarez is in Washington, D.C. for high-level meetings on Dominican and United States relations, especially with officials of the US Trade Representatives Office. The negotiators seek to remove …

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President Luis Abinader issued Decree 216-25, instating three days of mourning (22, 23 and 24 April 2025) for Pope Francisco. The Pope died on Monday, 21 April 2025 in the Vatican City. His last act as head of the Catholic Church was to appear on Easter Sunday on the balcony of St Peter’s Square, waving …

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President Luis Abinader dedicated his 21 April press conference to share details on the advances of the 15 points the government is focusing on to curtail the flow of Haitian migration to the Dominican Republic. Foreign Minister Roberto Alvarez has said that while the government spends billions in protecting the border and deporting Haitians, the …

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Foreign Minister Roberto Alvarez speaking for his 15th time in four years at the United Nations National Security Council spoke this time of the gruesome 378 registered cases of sexual rape in Port-au-Prince, with lives destroyed and people terrorized. “The international community needs to respond to this humanitarian emergency,” he pleaded once more. “Are we …

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The president of the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD), Vice Admiral Jose Manuel Cabrera Ulloa clarified that in the case of National District alderman Edickson Herrera Silvestre there is yet only a capture or arrest order issued by a Florida court. This is only effective in the United States. Herrera Silvestre does not face judicial …

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Dominicans and people around the world awoke on Monday, 21 April 2025, to the sad news that Pope Francisco, 88, has left this world. Those watching the evening news on Sunday, 20 April had celebrated he was able to greet his followers at the Vatican Easter Sunday celebration after a long bout of illness. Moreover, …

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As every year, a massive effort was undertaken to reduce accidents by COE. Yet, the Center of Emergency Operations announced 23 deaths and 75 traffic accidents in its third of four bulletins recapping the Easter Week vacation sojourn — from Thursday to Sunday. The Center of Emergency Operations (COE) had prepared as usual for the …

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Presidency Minister Jose Ignacio Paliza brought traffic control back into the spotlight on Good Friday, 18 April 2025, when he advanced that the government will be announcing 143 new measures that are aimed at improving the flow of traffic in Greater Santo Domingo. In recent years, the government has been lax allowing the violation of …

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The Dominican peso has retaken somewhat the pace of depreciation estimated by the Central Bank for 2025. The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic (BCRD) recorded the exchange rate at 61.32 pesos to the US dollar at the close of December 2024. But in the first months of the year, the peso began a steep …

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