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 ...

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 ...

Temporary work permits (TT-1) saw a surge in demand, with over 18,000 issued during the first nine months of the year. These permits, valid for one year, are granted to foreigners employed by legally ...

New York is the second-largest Dominican city. An estimated 2.5 million Dominicans live distributed all throughout the United States. For instance, news reports say that around 200,000 Dominicans live ...

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 ...

Drug authorities have made another major haul of contraband cocaine as they seized what is probably half a ton of the drug at the multimodal (container) port at Caucedo in Boca Chica. Agents of the ...

Likewise, the DNCD reported confirming that the four French nationals who had trafficked with cocaine in their stomachs and would have flown out of Las Americas International expelled 340 small bags ...

26-year old Juan Soto had a great year in 2024, and is now a free agent.