During the meeting, ongoing development efforts in San Cristóbal province were discussed. The Minister of the Presidency, José Ignacio Paliza, shared that the government has made strategic investments ...

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

The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic (BCRD) reported that the country’s annual inflation rate decreased to 3.16% in October 2024, down from 3.29% in September. This latest figure marks 11 ...

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 ...

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

Eighteen Haitian migrants were apprehended along with a vehicle after a high-speed chase with Dominican Army troops in the northwestern province of Valverde. The driver, identified as Pedro Julio ...

The new director of the Migration Agency Vice Admiral Luis Rafael Lee Ballester is applying the Migration Law. Minister of Agriculture Limber Crux wants the government to issue temporary work permits.

Cassandre Jacques removed her candidacy from the contest that chooses the Dominican representative in the upcoming February 2025 Miss World. Jacques was the San Juan de la Maguana candidate to the ...

During a session on Wednesday, 6 November 2024, 25 senators voted overwhelmingly to approve the reappointment of Román Jáquez Liranzo as president of the JCE. In addition to Jáquez, Dolores Altagracia ...

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.

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 ...