The Dominican Republic’s economy has continued its robust growth trajectory posting a 5.1% average year-on-year expansion over the first nine months of 2024, the Central Bank reported on 1 November ...

As of Monday, 4 November 2024, the local authorities had 17 provinces and the National District on yellow alert and another 11 in green alert given the passing rain systems, an indirect consequence of ...

President Luis Abinader announced on Monday, 4 November 2024, that the government will launch the AlertaDO app to provide early and timely warnings and responses to the population in the event of ...

The Abinader administration seeks to increase taxes on the population to afford to continue its programs in government. But the government rarely has considered streamlining government. Economist ...

Another consideration was the fact that, as Central Bank governor Hector Valdez Albizu stated during a recent visit to Washington, D.C., the inflation rate in the country is staying within the ...

The local economic bonanza plus the low bank rates for the purchase of cars has led the Dominican Republic to rank third in Latin America in the number of vehicles per inhabitant, as reported in ...

As agents for the spread of knowledge, innovation and critical thinking, the universities are also a very good source for finding solution to current issues facing the nation. The promoters of the ...

Former deputy and Minister of Energy and Mines, lawyer Pelegrin Castillo has protested that the Constitutional Court would have cleared the Caribbean waters limits treaty signed by the Ministry of ...

The Ministry of Interior & Police continues to shut down night spots that do not comply with the law. After decades of negligence and non-compliance, the Ministry of Interior & Police under new ...

It should not be news, but it is. The new authorities at the Army and the Migration Agency continue to uncover people smuggling operations of undocumented from Haiti. Since October 2024, some 86 ...

For many years now, DR1 News has covered the dozens of fatal boat trips to Puerto Rico. Over a hundred persons, men, women, and children have died in these attempts to get to the neighboring island.

The Dominican Republic has a new Japanese Ambassador, Hayakawa Osamu, since October 2024. He is accredited to the Ministry of Foreign Relations yet has yet to present his credentials to President Luis ...