Agenda for the day: Friday, January 16, 2026

The acting president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, estimated this Monday that the investment that will arrive this year to the hydrocarbons sector will be 1.4 billion dollars, whose reform is being debated in Parliament and was already approved in first discussion last week. "Last year the investment was almost 900 million dollars and for this […]

Santo Domingo Oeste. – The urban artist Esteicy Peña Santana, known as “La Demente”, is already in a recovery room at the Marcelino Vélez Santana Hospital, after undergoing surgery for a gunshot wound suffered during an assault early this Monday in the La Venta sector, Santo Domingo Oeste. The information was provided by her lawyer, […]

Santo Domingo Oeste. – The urban artist Esteicy Peña Santana, known as “La Demente”, is stable and recovering after being shot during an assault that occurred early this Monday in the La Venta sector, in Santo Domingo Oeste. This was reported by her lawyer, Andrés Toribio, upon leaving the Marcelino Vélez Santana Hospital on the […]

The French National Assembly approved this Monday the bill to prohibit access to social networks for minors under 15 years of age and ban mobile phones in high schools, with the aim that the measure can be applied from the beginning of the next school year. After a long debate that lasted until after midnight, […]

Santo Domingo. — The former rector of the Instituto Tecnológico de Las Américas (ITLA), Rafael Jesús Félix García, stated this Monday that during his tenure at that institution, economic contributions were neither demanded nor conditioned from collaborators, and reiterated his willingness for the competent bodies to investigate both his performance and his financial situation, following […]

Santiago. - The hospital coordinator of transplants in region II of the Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Juana Sarita, rejected that in the Dominican Republic the recent disappearances of minors are associated with alleged organ trafficking networks, assuring that a transplant is a highly complex procedure that can only be performed within duly authorized health […]