Friday, May 8, 2026

WE WILL UNITE 637 professionals and call for national unity to promote educational reform

Rector highlights the need for an alliance between government, academia, and society to ensure a sustainable educational transformation. Santo Domingo.– The Eugenio María de Hostos University (UNIREMHOS) celebrated its sixty-sixth ordinary graduation, in which 637 professionals received their degrees in undergraduate, higher technical, and master's programs. During the ceremony, the rector of UNIREMHOS, Wady Ramírez, stated that the educational reform demanded by the country will only be possible if the government, academia, and society assume a joint commitment, with clear goals, monitoring, and continuity, after President Luis Abinader announced in his accountability the promotion of a legislative and curricular reform to redesign the Dominican educational system, with the aim of forming the human capital necessary to double the size of the economy by the year 2036. Ramírez underlined that “education must be taken as a national project sustained over time, with permanent evaluation, strengthening of school management, sustainable educational infrastructure and a culture of continuous improvement aligned to the challenges of development”.

You can also read: UNIREMHOS graduates 540 professionals: 61% were women

From the total promotion, the nursing career concentrated 64.36% of the graduates, remaining as the program with the greatest representation in this investiture. While accounting and auditing represented 9.10%, followed by law with 7.85% and business administration with 5.65%. Marketing contributed 3.77% of the total graduates. In the technological field, computer systems registered 3.45%, while dentistry reached 1.73%. Social Communication represented 0.63%, medicine 0.31% and the higher technician program in nursing 0.16%. At the postgraduate level, the Master's in Public Health corresponded to 2.51% of the promotion and the Master's in Pediatric Nursing to 0.47%.

Academic excellence and a vocation for service mark the honorary speech

Johanna Corporán, a nursing graduate and student with the highest academic index of the class, offered a moving thank you speech in which she highlighted that the achievement is the result of years of effort, discipline, and perseverance. In his speech, he emphasized that university education not only involves acquiring technical knowledge, but also assuming an ethical and human responsibility, particularly in the exercise of professions related to the health area. Likewise, he urged his colleagues to practice with commitment and a vocation for service.

In the spotlight

  • aplicacion - banner 300px

  • banner altices 300x250 junio 2025

Explore more

Senate would approve labor reform without modifying severance pay issue

By: Linda Veras Santo Domingo.- The President of the Senate of the Republic, Ricardo de los Santos, assured the union organizations that the reform to the Labor Code will be approved as it arrives from the Chamber of Deputies, without altering what refers to severance. The information was offered after a meeting between union representatives […]

Government freezes fuels and LPG with a subsidy of RD$1,657 million

The Ministry of Industry, Commerce and SMEs (MICM) reported that the Dominican Government, through a subsidy of RD$1.657 billion, will keep the main fuels frozen for the week of May 9 to 15, as part of its plan to mitigate the impact of the current international crisis. For that week, regular and premium gasoline, optimal […]

Accounting Chamber records a 1,100% increase in citizen complaints in the first quarter of 2026

Santo Domingo. – The Chamber of Accounts of the Dominican Republic (CCRD) registered a significant and unprecedented growth in the reception of citizen complaints during the year 2026, consolidating itself as a channel increasingly used by the population to ensure the proper use of public resources. Between January and April 2026, the institution received a […]

Great-grandfather of boy found dead in Hato Damas says more than 1 young person involved in the incident

Hato Damas, San Cristóbal.- Ciprián Pineda, great-grandfather of the child Raudier Steben Martínez Corporán, 10 years old, demanded this Friday justice for the death of the minor and asked that the case be taken “to the ultimate consequences”, indicating that more than 1 young person is involved. Amidst the pain that engulfs the family while […]

Social sectors call for peaceful strike in Las Galeras due to construction of polyclinic and road asphalting

Las Galeras. Social sectors of the municipal district of Las Galeras called for this Sunday a peaceful strike starting at 6:00 in the morning, in claim to the National Health Service (SNS) so that the process of construction of the polyclinic of the community of Rincón continues. Likewise, the protest call is also directed at […]

The IBEX 35 falls 0.95% and loses the 18,000 mark amid attacks from the US and Iran in Hormuz

Madrid.– The Ibex 35 registered a downward close this Friday, pressured by the increase in geopolitical tensions between the United States and Iran and the rise in the price of Brent oil, which again stood above 100 dollars per barrel. The main index of the Spanish Stock Exchange fell by around 0.9%, on a day […]