Santo Domingo.- A 23-year-old woman is in critical condition after being the victim of a violent knife attack, allegedly perpetrated by her partner, in an incident that occurred early this Tuesday in the batey Santa Rita, of the municipal district of Santa Lucía, municipality of Santa Cruz de El Seibo. The victim was identified as […]
Santo Domingo.- The Minister of the Ministry of Housing, Habitat and Buildings, Ito Bisonó, launched this Tuesday the Social Housing Construction and Habitat Rehabilitation Project in the Doña Julia sector, an integral intervention that will directly impact the quality of life of the families of this municipality. During a tour of the community, the minister […]
Santo Domingo.- The President of the Republic, Luis Abinader, reported this Tuesday that the complaints that have circulated in a national media about alleged irregular charges for political purposes to employees of the Special Fund for Agricultural Development (FEDA), an entity headed by Hecmilio Galván, are under investigation. When referring to the case, the president […]
San Cristóbal, R.D.– The Chamber of Commerce and Production of San Cristóbal, the Diagnostic Center of San Cristóbal (CEDISANC) and the National Council of Disability (CONADIS) held a medical operation this Tuesday in the Central Park of San Cristóbal, for the benefit of the entire population that attended. The health day took place as part […]
Monte Plata. – Two men were injured during a violent confrontation that occurred in the El Callejón sector, of the municipal district Los Botados of the municipality of Yamasá, after a discussion originated in a game of dominoes. The most seriously injured person was identified as Yunior, a resident of the La Javilla sector, who […]
Paris.- The Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, questioned for her gender and gold in the 66-kilo category at the Paris Olympic Games, stated that she has undergone hormonal treatments to lower her "natural" testosterone level and that she will take the necessary tests for the 2028 Los Angeles Games. "We all have different genetics, different hormone […]
CONSTANZA. – La Patrulla del Monte celebrated with resounding success, last weekend, the sixth edition of the rally “El Triángulo”, an event that brought together more than 500 competitors and left a significant impact on tourism and the economy of the northern region of the country. You may be interested in:r:INEFI inaugurates the first Community […]
The commissioner of the National Football League (NFL), Roger Goodell, has assured that the Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny is aware that the Super Bowl is a platform that promotes unity. «He understands that the Super Bowl platform serves to unite people with their creativity and talent and that he must take advantage of this […]
Santo Domingo.- The Dominican president, Luis Abinader, received this Thursday players from the Leones del Escogido, champions of the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League, whom he urged to compete with "patriotism" as representatives of the country in the Caribbean Series to be held from February 1 to 7 in Jalisco, Mexico. The ruler handed the […]
Bayaguana, Monte Plata.– The president of the Bayaguana Sports Union, Isaac Ogando, acknowledged the contributions made by Charlie Mariotti, candidate for the presidential candidacy of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), to the strengthening of the municipality of Bayaguana and the province of Monte Plata, underlining his constant support for sports and community initiatives for several […]
Brussels.- The Chinese platform TikTok said this Friday that the investigation carried out by the European Commission, which concludes that this social network has an "addictive" design for its users, is based on "a categorically false and totally unfounded description". "We will take all necessary measures to challenge these findings by all means at our […]
Roblox has taken a key step in the evolution of video game creation platforms with the launch of its 4D Creation feature. This tool, powered by artificial intelligence, allows users to generate interactive and functional objects simply by describing what they want in natural language. The new feature, currently available in beta, represents a significant […]
Granada (Spain).- An international team of scientists found that artificial intelligence (AI) continues to make mistakes when answering questions that require conceptual reasoning and not mere internet searches, which reveals that it still does not equal human thought in complex academic tasks. As detailed this Thursday in a statement by the University of Granada (UGR), […]
ChatGPT surprised thousands of users this Tuesday, February 3, by presenting failures in its operation, without prior notice. High error rates are occurring in adjustment jobs. "And we have identified that users are experiencing high levels of error in the affected services," OpenAI wrote on its website. "We have identified the problem and applied the […]
Los Ángeles.- Los dos gigantes tecnológicos Meta y YouTube enfrentan esta semana un histórico juicio en el estado de California por acusaciones de que sus plataformas alimentan una crisis de adicción juvenil. The trial will take place in the Los Angeles County Superior Court and marks the first time the companies will present their case […]
Paris.- The French Court of Auditors will have a woman in its presidency for the first time since its creation in 1807: the current Minister of Finance, Amélie de Montchalin, informed this Wednesday the Government spokeswoman, Maud Bregeon, after the meeting of the Council of Ministers. The 40-year-old Macronist minister will assume her duties on […]
Bangkok.- An armed man stormed a school in southern Thailand on Wednesday and opened fire, taking students and teachers hostage, provincial authorities reported. The armed assailant entered the Patong Prathan Kiriwat school in Hat Yai city, in the southern province of Songkhla, around 4:45 p.m. local time (09:45 GMT) and fired two or three rounds […]
A young British woman was shot dead by her own father after an argument about the President of the United States, Donald Trump, on January 10, 2025, according to British media. reports. Lucy Harrison, 23, from Warrington, Cheshire, had traveled with her boyfriend, Sam Littler, to Texas to visit her father, Kris Harrison, also from […]
Lisbon.- About 3,600 people have been evacuated preventively this Wednesday in the Portuguese towns of Coimbra, Montemor-o-Velho and Soure, in the center of the country, due to the risk of the Mondego river overflowing, a source from the Portuguese Civil Protection reported. The officer of the Emergency and Civil Protection Authority (ANEPC) of Portugal, Telmo […]
Bangkok.- The women's party of Philippines (Gabriela) has asked Parliament to investigate the alleged hiring of a team in the Asian country to clean up the internet image of the deceased American pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, after his conviction in 2008 as a sex offender. The feminist formation, which published on Facebook part of the document […]
The current governor of Puerto Rico, Jenniffer González, announced this Wednesday the ratification of a legislative proposal that designates the PR-36 state road, located in San Juan, with the name of the iconic artist Daddy Yankee. This initiative seeks to exalt the international footprint of the singer and his close relationship with the popular sector […]
Santo Domingo, RD - Merengue singer Sergio Vargas broke the silence and responded to the controversy generated after his comments during the tribute dedicated to Luis "El Terror" Días, sending an extensive message to the radio program "El Vacilón de la Mañana". In his intervention, the artist attributed the public outrage to a manipulation of […]
Washington.- Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show became the fourth most-watched in history, with an average of 128.2 million viewers, according to Nielsen data, surpassing this year's overall average and consolidating the artist as one of the main references who have performed on this stage. Nielsen, the company that measures television viewership in the United […]
Bogotá.- Singer Carlos Vives announced this Tuesday that after eight years without touring Colombia, he is returning to the stages of his country with the 'Tour al Sol', which will stop in six cities starting next September. This is how the singer from Santa Marta (north) explained it at an event held at the Bogotá […]
Santo Domingo, RD - After being declared a Distinguished Municipality of the city of Santo Domingo by the National District City Council, the typical merengue singer Blas Dario Fragoso, better known as El Blachy, expressed the emotion and pride he feels upon receiving this distinction from the mayor Carolina Mejía, a recognition that comes as […]
A country can ignite from a chat: WhatsApp sets the agenda before the media. A single forward surpasses any headline. In the digital age, the real information crisis doesn't ignite in the newsrooms of a media outlet, nor on the front pages of newspapers: it begins in a simple WhatsApp chat. Before any media outlet […]
In the Dominican Republic, presidents don't fall because of the opposition. They fall because of something more intimate and devastating: their own family. When corruption shares the same last name as the presidential band, it ceases to be a case and becomes a sentence. It's not a contract that is judged: it's the entire credibility […]
In 2015, an internal crisis within the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) forced the leadership of that organization to promote a constitutional reform to enable President Danilo Medina, who had been elected in 2012 through a constitution that prohibited consecutive re-election. Medina was eligible to try to return in 2020, that is, after a period, a […]
For days, Leonardo Aguilera has been the target of a campaign as evidently coordinated as it is poorly executed. Defamation, slander, and half-truths circulate on networks and certain media with suspicious synchronicity. Who's sending them? Who's biting their nails? The formula is old: fabricate scandals where they don't exist, repeat lies until they seem like […]
In 2025, live news streaming via YouTube on smart TVs leaves traditional television behind and transforms news consumption in the Dominican Republic.By: Pavel De Camps Vargas Who's dominating your home screen today? It's not traditional television. In the Dominican Republic, YouTube has taken over the television in this 2025, redefining the map of news consumption. […]
The Dominican Republic is positioned among the countries with the best economic growth prospects globally, according to projections from the "Harvard Growth Lab," a research center at Harvard University. According to the Atlas of Economic Complexity, the country would register an average annual growth of 3.82% in its real GDP between 2024 and 2034, placing […]
Caracas.- In Venezuela 38,610 new vehicles were sold last year, an increase of 119.9% compared to 2024, when 17,558 were sold, the sector reported this Tuesday, which predicts a growth of over 29% for 2026, with more than 50,000 units. From the total sold last year, 41% -16,030 vehicles- were assembled in the country, the […]
San Salvador.- The Government of El Salvador anticipates approximately $55 million in tourism revenue from the Central American residency of Colombian singer Shakira, which consists of five concerts in San Salvador, two of which took place this past weekend, according to official projections shared this Monday. The head of the Ministry of Tourism, Morena Valdez, […]
AES Dominicana, headed by its president Edwin De los Santos, received the United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Leah Campos, at the facilities of the AES Andrés energy complex, as part of an institutional agenda aimed at presenting the company's main investment projects in energy infrastructure, as well as the expansion of the natural […]
The prominent urban music interpreter Bad Bunny used his fame and the Super Bowl halftime stage to once again highlight the electrical crisis that plagues Puerto Rico before the world, by performing one of his songs on top of a power pole with several transformers that simulated having had a failure. For several decades, Puerto […]
Santo Domingo.- The trends —whether in fashion, social media, music, or lifestyle— are cultural phenomena that many people adopt, share, and reinvent. But what motivates people to follow them? Trends have become a dominant form of social and cultural interaction in the digital age. Through them, people share ideas, styles, opinions, and behaviors that multiply […]
Providence, Rhode Island. – Representing the Dominican National Police, under the direction of Major General Ramón Antonio Guzmán Peralta, Colonel Sonni Cepeda, Liaison of the institution in the United States based in the cities of Providence and New York, made a solemn floral offering to the bust of Juan Pablo Duarte, located in Roger Williams […]
Samaná.- The Samaná Tourist Cluster (CTS), the Association of Hotels and Tourism Companies of Samaná (AHETSA) announced the welcome concert for humpback whales called "To the Rhythm of the Bay", on February 14th at the Marina of Puerto Bahía Samaná at 6:00 PM, with the stellar participation of Maridalia Hernández, Adalgisa Pantaleón, Roger Zayas and […]
Santo Domingo.- The Brisas de las Colinas housing project has sparked considerable interest in the real estate market, registering more than 300 interested clients and securing more than 100 reservations in a single day, which allowed the complete sale of its first stage and the immediate start of the commercialization of the second phase, with […]
Santiago.– The Ministry of Culture announced this Wednesday the main guidelines of the Cibao Regional Book and Culture Fair, conceived as a space to celebrate reading, thought, and the cultural richness of the north of the country, with the participation of the 14 provinces of the region. The first fair edition will be held on April […]
If anything has been highlighted by the prolonged Haitian crisis, it is the historical debt that the Dominican Republic has with its own border. The provinces that guard that line of more than 390 kilometers not only face the direct consequences of the collapse of the Haitian state, but have also been, for decades, forgotten […]
Without a doubt, the tourism sector represents one of the greatest successes of the governments of President Luis Abinader, an area that he already knew well before his arrival at the Presidency of the Republic, due to his experience as a local businessman. Since his swearing-in in August 2020, the Tourism Cabinet was implemented, coordinated […]
This July 4th, the United States commemorates the 249th anniversary of its independence, a date that marks the beginning of a nation forged in the fight for freedom, civil rights, and self-determination. Since then, this feat has been celebrated in multiple cultural expressions that exalt patriotic pride and the sense of national belonging. However, on […]
Today we proudly and gratefully celebrate the fourth anniversary of De Último Minuto, a project that was born with the firm conviction of transforming the way information is reported in the Dominican Republic. In these four years, we have witnessed —and been protagonists— of a revolution in digital journalism, marked by immediacy, technological innovation, and […]
On the eve of celebrating the fourth anniversary of De Último Minuto, we reaffirm our commitment to innovation, technology and, above all, to you: our readers. We are driven by the constant desire to evolve, to do things differently and to keep up with the times. Therefore, today we present two new products that will […]
At least 13 people died and 98 were injured, 36 of them hospitalized, due to the derailment of the Transístmico train, part of the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (CIIT), (southern Mexico), a megaproject that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through trains, ports and industrial poles, reported this Sunday the Secretariat of the Navy (Semar).
Through a press release regarding the train accident on the Z line on the Salina Cruz to Coatzacoalcos route of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec railway in which 250 people were traveling, it was indicated that 139 are out of danger.
The institution expressed its condolences to the families of the people who lost their lives in this accident and reaffirmed its commitment to address the situation with the utmost responsibility, transparency, and adherence to the law, providing immediate support to those affected by this event.
He added that during the search and location actions for the injured people, the institution deployed a total of 360 naval elements, 20 vehicles, four land ambulances, three air ambulances and a tactical drone.
He indicated that the injured are in IMSS hospitals in Matías Romero and Salina Cruz, as well as IMSS-Bienestar hospitals in Juchitán and Ixtepec.
"I have instructed the Secretary of the Navy and the Undersecretary for Human Rights of the Secretariat of the Interior to go to the site and personally assist the families; also the delegates of IMSS and IMSS-Bienestar."
She also highlighted that the Secretary of the Interior will coordinate the work and thanked the support of the governor of Oaxaca, Salomón Jara, and his team.
A new shipwreck, which occurred in the Caribbean waters of Panama, once again claimed the lives of migrants who were trying to return to their countries of origin by sea, amid adverse weather conditions and increasingly risky routes. The events were recorded this Tuesday, February 10, in the Guna Yala Region, one of the main […]
Arizona.- The Pima County Sheriff's Department, with the support of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), detained an individual for questioning in connection with the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie, authorities told ABC News. According to a police source, the man was detained in an area south of the […]
Washington.- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington on Tuesday for a new official visit to U.S. President Donald Trump, and began the agenda with a meeting with special envoys for Middle East issues. During the meeting, the prime minister and envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner addressed various regional issues of common interest, […]
Santo Domingo. – Police sources confirmed this Tuesday that agents of the Central Investigation Directorate (DICRIM) are actively pursuing, by arrest warrant, three men accused of allegedly being the perpetrators of the shooting death of a young man in the Perla Antillana sector, in this demarcation. The Police reported that the fugitives have been identified […]
Santo Domingo.- These are the most relevant activities scheduled for Wednesday, February 11, 2026 in the main cities of the Dominican Republic. Agenda: 9:00 a.m. XXXIV World Day of the Sick. Location: Primate Cathedral of America. 10:00 a.m. Presentation of the results of the tourism sector during the month of January 2026, led by the […]
The Spanish actress Úrsula Corberó, known for her role as Tokyo in the series Money Heist, became a mother for the first time with her partner, the Argentinian actor Chino Darín. Corberó and Darín have been in a relationship since 2016, when they met during the filming of the series La embajada. Since then, they […]
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