2025 – Page 8

The Centro Cultural Taíno at the Casa del Cordón in the Colonial City is inviting to a talk on Wednesday, 20 August 2025 at 7pm on one of the most important cultural heritage artifacts left by the Taino indians that inhabited the island when the Spanish conquistadors arrived in 1492. The talk, titled “The Cotton …

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Amarilys German of the Dominican Republic, the long-time right hand of Juan Luis Guerra, is one of four Leading Ladies honorees who will be celebrated during the Latin Grammy Week 2025. German is officially the Entertainment Executive and Manager to Latin Grammy- and Grammy-winning artist Juan Luis Guerra. The three other 2025 honorees are Maricarmen …

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President Luis Abinader used the platform of his weekly press conference, La Semanal on Monday, 18 August 2025, to present the achievements of the modernization of public television, RTVD under Ivan Ruiz, with Ellis Perez on the board. RTVD, Channel 4 in Santo Domingo, has been rebranded as a public TV station. RTVD is in …

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Punta Catalina, the largest power generator in the country, was partially shut down on Monday, 18 August 2025 after a sudden influx of sargassum seaweed clogged its water intake. Punta Catalina is located in Azua, about an hour and a half drive west from the capital city. The Empresa de Generación Eléctrica Punta Catalina (EGEPC) …

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President Luis Abinader presented the new version of the National Anthem. The new recording replaces that recorded more than 20 years ago. The new recording is by the national choir and the National Symphony Orchestra with the participation of Juan Luis Guerra and Jose Antonio Molina. It had a cost of around RD$3.3 million. The …

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More than 6,000 new businesses have been created in the Dominican Republic so far this year through the country’s One-Stop Window for Business Formalization, according to the Dominican Federation of Chambers of Commerce (Fedocámaras). The organization reported that 6,050 companies were registered between January and August 2025. During the same period, 19 of the country’s …

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The next elections will be in 2028. It is expected, the JCE will soon begin purchasing new technology. A report in Diario Libre looks into the historic practice of mass purchasing of new, expensive equipment for each election. The sad part of the story is much of this equipment has been known not have worked …

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The president of the Dominican Medical Association (CMD), Dr. Waldo Ariel Suero, has called attention to the high unemployment rate among young doctors in the Dominican Republic, stating that between 15,000 and 20,000 recent medical graduates are currently out of work. Speaking during a press event held in honor of Dominican Doctor’s Day, Dr. Suero …

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The Superintendence of Health and Occupational Risks (SISARIL) has fined the Centro de Medicina Avanzada Dr. Abel González, S.A.S. RD$2,189,154.80 — equivalent to 101 national minimum wages—for failing to provide emergency care to two affiliates of the Dominican Social Security System during the Jet Set nightclub tragedy on 8 April 2025. The administrative sanction, issued …

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In a surprising legal twist, the company Editorama, allegedly used as a front in a multimillion-dollar corruption scheme involving Alexis Medina Sánchez, was acquitted last Thursday, 14 August 2025 by the Second Collegiate Court of the National District, despite earlier court rulings implicating it in money laundering, Diario Libre reports. Diario Libre explains that María …

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