President Luis Abinader will be present for the inauguration of the 25th Central American and Caribbean Games (Santo Domingo 2026) at the Felix Sanchez Olympic Stadium on 24 July 2026. General ...

The Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) parliamentary bloc in the Chamber of Deputies elected a new spokesperson to represent the opposition bench starting on 16 August 2026 through August 2028. Deputy ...

Dominican ranchers may be fighting a losing battle against cattle rustlers that cross the border from Haiti. In a report in Diario Libre, desperate Dominican ranchers took action into their own hands ...

In a key legislative move ahead of the 27 July close of the current legislative session and the statutory 3 August 2026 pre-enactment legislative deadline for the new legal framework to take effect, ...

Severe thunderstorms and summer weather caused significant flight delays and cancellations across key US airports, primarily in the Northeast over the weekend. Airlines issued waivers allowing ...

Minister of Agriculture Francisco Oliverio Espaillat Bencosme has appointed a new coordinator for the country’s fruit fly monitoring program in the wake of a decision by the United States Department ...

President Luis Abinader, accompanied by First Lady Raquel Arbaje, inaugurated the Plaza de la Bandera underpass on Sunday, 19 July 2026. The major infrastructure project is designed to alleviate ...

A combination of a high-pressure (anticyclonic) system and a dense cloud of Saharan dust kept temperatures scorching across most of the Dominican Republic over the weekend. The Dominican Institute of ...

An eighty-year-old Dominican artisan with 17 children has officially received his jackpot of RD$30 million pesos from the International Dominican Electronic Lottery (Leidsa). On Tuesday, 14 July 2026, ...

The legislation aimed at changing, modifying and modernizing the Dominican Penal Code was returned to the Congress by President Luis Abinader along with 18 amendments. However, these suggestions by ...

Former Senator Adriano Sánchez Roa, who serves as the agriculture minister for the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), challenged the recent claims made by Minister of Agriculture Francisco Oliverio ...