2023

DR1 News will not be updated over the New Year’s holidays. Breaking news from Friday, 29 December 2023 through Tuesday, 2 January 2024 will be compiled for the Wednesday, 3 January 2024 wrap-up issue. The usual Monday through Thursday updates will then be resumed. Despite the challenges, the prospects for the Dominican Republic in 2024 …

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The presidential spokesperson, Homero Figueroa confirmed that President Luis Abinader is on vacation leave. Figueroa tweeted:” President Luis Abinader is enjoying a well-deserved Christmas break in his family’s company. Despite the pause, he remains attentive and connected. He will soon resume his usual duties.” The whereabouts of Abinader have not been announced, but Diario Libre …

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The era of Milton Ray Guevara as the highly respected president of the Constitutional Court comes to an end on Thursday, 28 December 2023. Ray Guevara presided the court in its first 12 years – 2011 to 2023. Five judges will take office beginning their nine-year terms at the highest court, including Napoleon Ricardo Estevez …

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President Luis Abinader appointed Lourdes Margarita Franco-Zimmermann ambassador in Sweden. The appointment is in Decree 486-23. In Africa, President Abinader named Ysset Caridad Román Maldonado ambassador to Egypt with Decree 454-23. Renso Antonio Herrera Franco is named concurrent ambassador to Seychelles (Decree 608-23), based in the United Arab Emirates. Herrera Franco this year was a …

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The Chamber of Deputies turned into law, by declaring urgency and approving in two consecutive readings, the bill that authorizes the Executive Branch, through the Ministry of Hacienda, to issue and place public debt securities for more than RD$363.2 billion pesos or its equivalent in foreign currency. The initiative goes to the Executive Branch for …

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The US Embassy sent out a tweet with the congratulations of the US government to the Abinader administration for the increase in the seizure of narcotics. “Dominican authorities, primarily the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD), have seized more than 23 metric tons of illicit narcotics in the last three consecutive years,” the diplomatic headquarters expressed …

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Capital City Mayor Carolina Mejia will celebrate the fourth year of “Plastics for Toys,” the annual Three Kings Day event that seeks to create awareness in children. The Mayor of the National District said the event will take place on Saturday, 6 January 2024 from 8am to 4pm at the city government headquarters in Centro …

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The Permanent Attention Court of the National District ordered one year of preventive detention against 30-year old Italian-Colombian Michael Saba. He was charged with murdering Venezuelan Yenny Carolina Perez Canelon on the 11th floor of the Suites by Refa apartment building on Andres Julio Aybar Street in the upscale Piantini sector of Santo Domingo. Judge …

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Tampa Bay Rays baseball star Wander Franco is under investigation by the National Agency for Boys, Girls, Adolescents and Family and Gender Violence Unit, Listin Diario reports. Tampa Bay Rays took action following the allegation that Franco had an inappropriate relationship with a minor. Sex with minors is banned by law in the Dominican Republic. …

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Contemporary music singer and composer Pavel Núñez is taking the big stage of the National Theater to present his “Pavel Sinfónico” concert. The many-time award-winning Dominican singer and songwriter and his band El Corredor de la 27 will be presenting his most emblematic and well-known songs. Arrangements are by the prominent and experienced Luichy Guzmán, …

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