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President Luis Abinader will facilitate discussions on 26 February 2025 with members of the National Wage Committee (Comité Nacional de Salarios) to break the stalemate over the proposed minimum wage ...

President Luis Abinader is backing Mayor Carolina Mejia and her Integrated Santo Domingo Plan for Coordinated Urban Development.

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As per the JCE chronology, the first IDs are expected to be issued this 2025 with the procedures completed in 2026. The new IDs will add new technologies to enhance personal identity and voting ...

President Luis Abinader is scheduled to swear in lawyer Luis Miguel de Camps as new minister of Education and engineer Eduardo Estrella as new minister of Public Works on 26 February 2025. There is ...

Yeni Berenice Reynoso Gomez was sworn in as the new Attorney General of the Dominican Republic by President Abinader at the Presidential Palace on 24 February 2025. She is a career prosecutor, having ...

Despite legal obligations, 58 mayors in the Dominican Republic have failed to submit their mandatory asset declarations a year after being elected, according to a report by N Digital. This lack of ...

Business representatives have proposed a 10% increase in the National Wage Committee meetings at the Ministry of Labor. Labor sector representatives are asking for a 30% wage increase. President Luis ...