Santo Domingo.- Members of the Prosecution of Narcotic Drugs Prosecution of Santiago and officers of the National Directorate for Drug Control (DNCD), supported by the Customs Directorate (DGA), arrested four men who were part of an alleged international drug trafficking structure, during operational intelligence work, carried out at the Santiago International Airport. The detainees Harrison […]
Santo Domingo.- A man identified as the alleged author of a video circulating on social media, in which he makes direct threats against President Luis Abinader and his family, was arrested this Friday afternoon by members of the National Police at a point on the road that connects La Romana with El Seibo. The individual […]
Santo Domingo.– The Senate of the Republic approved this Friday, in an extraordinary session, the modifications to the draft Organic Law of the Criminal Procedure Code (CPP) sent by the Chamber of Deputies. The piece was unanimously sanctioned by the 28 legislators present. The initiative, submitted by senators Cristóbal Venerado Castillo, Félix Bautista, Antonio Taveras […]
SANTO DOMINGO, R.D. – The Dominican Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology (SDOT), launched the XLVI International Congress of Orthopedics and Traumatology, one of the most important scientific meetings in the health sector in the country, which will bring together national and international experts for the exchange of knowledge, academic updating and medical innovation. During the […]
Jarabacoa. – A French tourist lost his life on the afternoon of this Wednesday during an excursion to Pico Duarte via the Manabao route, in circumstances that are still under investigation by the authorities. The deceased was identified as Davili Daniel, 72 years old, who was part of a group of 11 foreigners guided by […]
LIMA, Peru. The Dominican Republic completed one of its most productive days this Friday at the XX Bolivarian Games Ayacucho-Lima 2025, guided by a great harvest in wushu, a historic achievement in golf, and outstanding performances in table tennis, athletics, and karate. In total, the country added 13 medals, consolidating itself in the seventh position […]
Santo Domingo.- The Dominican ex-baseball player David Ortiz received this Friday the 2025 Humanitarian Award (original title in English) awarded by The Trust For The Americas (institution affiliated with the Organization of American States (OAS)) for his work leading a foundation dedicated to helping children with heart problems. Ortiz founded the organization "David Ortiz Children's […]
New Delhi (EFE).- Indian child Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha, only three years old, has become the youngest chess player in the world to enter the ranking of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), after achieving this Friday his first official rating in approved tournaments. You may be interested in:Aguilas maintain dominance and Jerar Encarnación guides 4-2 victory […]
LIMA, Peru.– Athletics regained the spotlight for the Dominican delegation by winning one gold medal, one silver medal, and two bronze medals, while boxing contributed two silver medals and karate added a bronze in kata during the day on Thursday at the XX Bolivarian Games 2025, which are being held in this city. You may […]
LIMA, Peru. The Dominican Republic delegation had a productive day this Wednesday on Day XI of the XX Bolivarian Games, with six new medals won in rowing, athletics, judo and boxing, consolidating its seventh position in the general medal table with a total of 43 medals (8 gold, 11 silver and 24 bronze). You may […]
New York .- The technology OpenAI has denied being responsible for the suicide of a 16-year-old who took his own life after interacting with ChatGPT for months, and has attributed his case to an "improper use" of the tool. "The injuries and damages alleged by the plaintiffs were caused or contributed (…) by the misuse, […]
Miami (USA).- NASA launched three missions into space this Wednesday that seek to map the heliosphere, the layer that surrounds and protects the solar system, to critically monitor space weather and to study how the Earth's upper atmosphere responds to the solar wind. The three missions took off from Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 […]
Nvidia is no longer just a graphics card manufacturer. The company founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem, which was born with the vision of bringing 3D graphics to video games, has become the most valuable company on the planet, surpassing Apple and Microsoft with a capitalization of around $4.3 trillion. […]
New York.- Apple equips its AirPods with live translation in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German thanks to its new operating system, iOS 26, which launches this Monday on compatible devices. Starting today, the AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4 with noise cancellation, paired with iPhones compatible with Apple Intelligence - Apple's artificial intelligence - […]
Madrid.- Teenagers have integrated AI into their daily lives, whether for studies or as a confidant in personal matters, although the majority also express reservations, including the use of images to create fake sexual content, according to 84% of them and 76% of them. These are some of the data revealed by the 'Así somos' […]
Lima.- The National Police of Peru (PNP) arrested this Friday in Lima Cristian Hernán Yong Granadino, alias 'Chuki´, who was wanted by the Spanish Justice and was included in the list of the most wanted worldwide by Europol for the murder of the teenager Silvia Rodríguez Fernández, which occurred in 2010 in the Madrid municipality […]
The Public Prosecutor's Office of the Austrian city of Innsbruck filed this Thursday charges against a man for having left his girlfriend abandoned with hypothermia and disoriented on Grossglockner, the highest mountain in Austria, where she died frozen. The tragedy occurred between January 18th and 19th of this year, when the couple, from Salzburg, planned […]
Tech entrepreneur and billionaire Elon Musk stated this Friday that it would be "appropriate" to respond to the European Union's (EU) decision to impose a multimillion-dollar fine on his social network X. "The 'EU' imposed this absurd fine not only on X, but also on me personally, which is even more crazy!" Musk stated on […]
"Venezuela is a guarantee of security for the entire American continent," reiterated this Friday the president of that South American country, Nicolás Maduro, when explaining to police force students the defensive strategies that the nation has adopted to face the largest US military deployment in the Caribbean Sea in the last three decades, under the […]
Santo Domingo.- The Presidential Transition Council of Haiti (CPT) requested this Friday that the authorities of the Dominican Republic deepen and conclude with speed the investigation into the death of the Haitian girl Stephora Anne-Mircie Joseph, which occurred on November 14 during a school excursion in Santiago. The request was disseminated by the Haitian media […]
The Puerto Rican global star Ozuna and the Colombian Beéle, one of the freshest voices in the current urban movement, present today STENDHAL, their anticipated collaborative project composed of 14 songs that marks a new creative stage for both artists. From this Friday, the album is available on all digital platforms and offers a diverse […]
New York.- The 'Lux' albums, by the Spanish artist Rosalía, and 'Debí tirar más fotos', by the Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny, are featured this Friday on the list of the 25 best albums of 2025 compiled by the critics of the newspaper The New York Times. The list is headed by the emerging Korean […]
International Writing.- Netflix will acquire Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), including the film and television studios, as well as HBO and HBO Max, for 82.7 billion dollars, the two companies announced this Friday in a joint statement Netflix's final offer has been $27.75 per share of WBD, compared to the $24 proposed by Paramount, which, along […]
Santo Domingo, RD - On Wednesday night, during the official return of the successful program Alofoke Radio Show, Santiago Matías, CEO of Alofoke Media Group, responded forcefully to actress and communicator Hony Estrella. It all arose from some statements that Hony recently offered in another space, where, although she did not literally speak badly of […]
Music producer Rafael “Raphy” Pina publicly reacted to the federal lawsuit filed by Daddy Yankee's legal representation, who accuses him of participating in an alleged scheme to divert millions in royalties from the artist's songs. The complaint, filed last Saturday, states that several people and entities were involved in the alleged plan, including Pina, who […]
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. […]
"I am a tolerant and democratic president, but everything has a limit... We will continue to govern for the people and, for that reason, I say to all pre-candidates and their coordinators: proselitizing acts to officials are not allowed. If they want to campaign, they must leave their positions." Thus spoke the head of state, […]
Santo Domingo.- The most consumed fuels, such as gasoline, diesel, and propane gas, will maintain their prices for the week of December 6 to 12, the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Mipymes (MICM) informed this Friday. The agency stated in a note that the Government provided a subsidy of 173.6 million pesos so that these […]
The Superintendency of Banks (SB) presented this Wednesday the report "Towards an inclusive and sustainable financial system 2025", in which it exposes significant advances, but also persistent gaps in the participation of vulnerable groups within the Dominican financial system. The study, based on surveys of financial intermediation entities and users, indicates that although progress has […]
Washington.- Costco sued this Monday the Administration of President Donald Trump, in an effort to obtain a full refund of the tariffs paid by the retail giant this year and to prevent those levies from continuing to be imposed while a Supreme Court case unfolds. In the lawsuit, the company indicated that the December 15 […]
Santo Domingo.- President Luis Abinader denied this Monday that his administration plans to submit a tax reform at the beginning of 2026, clarifying that the rumors that have arisen in recent days do not correspond to any official decision. During his weekly meeting with the press, the president explained that the issue originated from a […]
Santo Domingo. - The Dominican Republic received 10,284,251 visitors between January and November this year, which represents a growth of 3.1% compared to the same period of 2024 and 13% compared to that of 2023, the Ministry of Tourism of the Caribbean country reported this Monday. By air, from January to November 2025, the Dominican […]
Miami (USA).- The American digital artist Beeple unleashed a "pack" of robotic dogs at the Art Basel Miami Beach fair with hyperrealistic heads of tech magnates and art legends such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, and Mark Zuckerberg. The installation titled 'Regular Animals' captured attention at the fair that was inaugurated […]
San Francisco de Macorís, RD. – On December 2nd, the Health Mi Luz brand celebrated the official opening of its new branch in Plaza Caribbean, in an event that brought together authorities, strategic allies, influencers and figures from the social sphere, marking a significant step in its evolution as a platform for integral well-being. The […]
Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Republic has, since this month, one of the most innovative artistic exhibitions of the year: “Miguel Ángel Vivo”, an immersive exhibition that brings together the most emblematic works of the Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti, including recreations of the Sistine Chapel, the David and the Moses. The exhibition will be available until […]
Santo Domingo.- Benito Antonio, one of the most prominent Dominican designers nationally and internationally, who has turned fashion into a vehicle of identity, purpose, and patriotic pride. From the age of nine, when he watched his mother sew, Benito Antonio discovered a fascination that would shape the course of his life. By eleven, he already […]
Santo Domingo. - The Senate of the Republic sponsored the master conference “Understanding gender violence: concepts, contexts and cases”, given by the Spanish specialist Miguel Lorente, who warned about the persistence of cultural stereotypes that continue to justify violence against women in different social environments. When offering the welcoming words, Senator Rafael Barón Duluc expressed […]
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 […]
Santo Domingo.- The Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (MESCyT) continues to promote academic excellence in the country, with the awarding of 114 international scholarships to the fifth group of students who will pursue master's degrees at 22 universities in 5 countries such as the United States, Spain, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Sweden.
Meritorious students received their scholarships to pursue master's degrees at Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), Broward International University, Caribbean International University, Concious Management Institute (CMI Business School), ENAE Business School - Escuela de Negocios y Administración de Empresas.
Likewise, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Nebrija University, CTO Group, L'Istituto Europeo di Design (IED), Universidad a Distancia de Madrid (UDIMA), Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio, Universidad Santander, Polytechnic University of Cartagena and Universidad internacional Iberoamericana.
García Fermín highlighted that educational policies have been implemented that have allowed thousands of Dominican youths to access training opportunities at prestigious universities globally, thus consolidating the academic and professional development of the country.
The official explained that the scholarship recipients come from different provinces of the country such as San Juan, Dajabón, Azua, Peravia, Barahona, San José de Ocoa, Duarte, La Romana, San Cristóbal, Santiago, Hermanas Mirabal, Espaillat, Puerto Plata and Gran Santo Domingo.
“Un aspecto notable de esta entrega de becas es el destacado liderazgo femenino: El 67.36 % de los beneficiarios son mujeres, manteniendo el promedio histórico. Este aumento no solo refleja el talento y la dedicación de las mujeres dominicanas, sino que también evidencia el impacto nuestras políticas inclusivas, que fomentan una mayor participación femenina en la educación superior”,
destacó García Fermín.
On his part, the head of the Department of International Scholarships, Staling Cordero, stated that international scholarships promote cultural and academic exchange between countries, which enriches the educational experience and promotes understanding and respect between different nations. Cordero clarified that the Ministry is not only responsible for awarding scholarships, but rather for changing the lives of the scholarship recipients, their families, and the country.
“This access to quality education strengthens human capital, fostering innovation and competitiveness in key sectors of the economy. Upon their return, the scholarship recipients apply their experience to lead transformative projects, generate employment, and promote solutions to national challenges, directly contributing to the sustainable growth and social progress of the country,” said Cordero.
The Cuban regime of Miguel Díaz-Canel anticipated that the current energy crisis on the island, marked by blackouts of more than 20 hours a day in vast regions and one of the most serious situations recorded in recent years, will only improve "slightly" in 2026, according to the Minister of Energy and Mines, Vicente de […]
Santiago, R.D. – The Banreservas Santiago Cultural Center inaugurated its first exhibitions: “Paths of Light, Paths of Earth,” by master photographer Domingo Batista; and “Cibaeños in the Banreservas Visual Arts Collection,” which brings together works by renowned artists from the region. Alieska Díaz, Senior Executive Vice President of Administration, expressed that the Banreservas Cultural Center […]
New York.- The New York Times newspaper sued artificial intelligence (AI) company Perplexity this Friday for copyright infringement for "copying journalistic material from the Times to deliver it to its clients without permission or compensation." "As our lawsuit indicates, Perplexity uses our content to power its product through a process called retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). RAG […]
Tegucigalpa.- Almost a week after the general elections last Sunday in Honduras, its inhabitants still do not know who will be their new president due to a close race, led by a few votes difference by the conservative candidate Nasry Asfura, supported by the US president, Donald Trump, against the also conservative Salvador Nasralla, who […]
NEW YORK. Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine was sentenced on Friday to three more months in prison for violating the terms of his supervised release in a New York gang case, for assaulting a man and possessing drugs. The 29-year-old Brooklyn artist, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, admitted the violations during a hearing in a Manhattan […]
The American playwright and actor Jeremy O. Harris has been detained in Japan since mid-November after being accused of attempting to bring a substance containing MDMA into the country in his luggage. The case was reported by the REUTERS agency this Thursday, following the formal disclosure by local authorities. Harris, 36, was part of the […]
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