Las Terrenas, Samaná. – The Ministry of Housing and Buildings (MIVED) ordered the closure of Plaza Zehao, located on Boulevard Las Terrenas avenue, after verifying that the project was operating without a construction license or the technical inspections required by law. The measure was executed through the Private Works Inspection Directorate (DIOP), which reported that […]
Santo Domingo.- The Juan Pablo Duarte Magisterial Current declared today that it is inappropriate to allocate resources from public schools to finance universities with 4% of the GDP and warned that the proposed merger of the Ministries of Education and Higher Education will deepen the deterioration of the national education system. He pointed out that […]
Santo Domingo.- The Chamber of Deputies approved this Wednesday, in two consecutive readings, a bill that authorizes the Executive Branch to issue and place public debt securities for a maximum amount of RD$401,767,814,730, or its equivalent in foreign currency. The initiative, submitted by President Luis Abinader, establishes that the issuance will be carried out through […]
Santo Domingo.- The University Employees Association (ASODEMU) called on government authorities to act with prudence regarding the proposal to merge the Ministry of Education (MINERD) with the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (MESCyT), considering that it is an initiative that must be widely studied and agreed upon. José Rosario, president of ASODEMU, maintained […]
Santo Domingo.- The president judge of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) Henry Molina assured that judicial independence, far from being a privilege of judges, is a guarantee of citizenship, understanding that a strong Judiciary is not legitimized by the popularity of its decisions, but by fidelity to the Constitution and the laws. "When a […]
Sports Writing (EFE).— The month of May 2025 was marked as one of the most intense and memorable on the sports calendar in America, with historic comebacks, absolute consecrations and world-class protagonists such as Carlo Ancelotti, Álex Palou, Shohei Ohtani, Saúl ‘Canelo’ Álvarez, as well as the teams Oklahoma City Thunder and Indiana Pacers. You […]
PHILADELPHIA.- The Philadelphia Phillies reached an agreement for one season and $10 million with free agent outfielder Adolis García, as confirmed by a source to MLB.com. The club has not yet made the official announcement of the deal, which was initially reported by journalist Francys Romero. You may be interested inr: Soto returns to wear […]
Santo Domingo.- The Giants of Cibao outfielder, Johan Rojas, spoke after last night's game and reacted to the boos he received from the Tigres del Licey fans, assuring that he is not affected and that, on the contrary, he takes it as an additional motivation on the field. “Well, I never… I haven't been the […]
Madrid (EFE).- Manchester City took the victory from the Bernabéu, in the sixth matchday of the Champions League group stage, after coming back from the initial goal by Brazilian Rodrygo Goes in the 28th minute thanks to goals by English Nico O’Rilley in the 35th and Norwegian Erling Haaland in the 43rd, from a penalty. […]
Santo Domingo.– The outfielder for the Gigantes del Cibao, Johan Rojas, was received this Wednesday with strong boos from the blue fans at the Quisqueya Juan Marichal Stadium, in the first match of the francomacorisano team against the Tigres del Licey after his controversial statements of last December 3. Licey fans reacted with loud whistles […]
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' […]
Guatemala City.- The lifeless body of Guatemalan journalist Jorge Zapeta, who had been missing since last Sunday, was found in an abandoned lot in the southwest of the Central American country, according to official sources confirmed this Wednesday. Authorities are investigating the case to determine the circumstances of the communicator's death, according to local media. […]
Washington.— FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino announced this Wednesday that he will leave his post in January, after President Donald Trump announced his resignation to the press shortly before and indicated that he wants to re-present his radio program. "I will be leaving my position at the FBI in January. I want to thank President […]
Washington - U.S. President Donald Trump stated this Wednesday that Venezuela took away the oil rights from American companies and said he wants them back. "Remember that they took away all our energy rights. They took away all our oil not so long ago. We want it back. They took it from us illegally," declared […]
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, ordered a total blockade of sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela. “Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Navy ever assembled in the history of South America. This will only grow, and the shock for them will be like they have never seen before, until they […]
Washington.- The White House Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, stated in a report published this Tuesday that the President of the United States, Donald Trump, has an "alcoholic personality" because he works with the idea that "there is nothing he cannot do". In a series of conversations held over the past year with Vanity Fair […]
SANTO DOMINGO. – The long-awaited film “Avatar: Fire and Ashes”, directed by James Cameron, arrives in Dominican theaters with a story that once again transports the audience to the amazing world of Pandora, where emotion, conflict and once again amazing visual effects are mixed. Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldaña return as Jake and Neytiri. The […]
Santo Domingo, Dubai – Dominican gamer Melina Díaz concluded her participation in the Red Bull Tetris International Final, an event that brought together the most outstanding competitors in the world and was held in the city of Dubai. With her classification, the national champion placed the country within the global panorama of competitive Tetris. Díaz […]
Santo Domingo.– Dominican singer and songwriter Cristina Casado continues to strengthen her presence in the country's music scene by retaining for the second consecutive week the first place on the Anglo chart monitored by the specialized company Monitor Latino. The positioning corresponds to the diffusion of his most recent single, “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”, a […]
In a surprising turn, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that, starting in 2029, the Oscars will no longer be broadcast on ABC, ending more than 60 years of traditional television broadcasting. Instead, the ceremony will be broadcast on YouTube, becoming the first major awards gala to completely abandon conventional television. […]
Santo Domingo.- Under the premise “Who is ready to give their love to God?”, pastor and lecturer Yesenia Then shared a powerful message directed to all attendees of the event “We Worship Together at Christmas”, held in the Herrera sector. During his intervention, Then cited the biblical passage from Isaiah 42:7: "You will open the […]
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 Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF) approved the granting of two loans to the Dominican Republic, totaling 566 million dollars, aimed at enhancing water security in the capital and the province of Santo Domingo, and modernizing the penitentiary system. The initiatives respond to strategic national priorities and will improve […]
Santo Domingo,.- The Central Bank stated this Monday that there are 5,149,829 people employed in the country, for a year-on-year increase of 2.4%, equivalent to 119,965 net employed compared to the July-September 2024 period. The employment rate, that is, the ratio between the total employed and the working-age population, stood at 63.1% for July-September 2025, […]
As a grim, somber, scandalous, extremely serious, cruel to the extreme case, a kind of collective frenzy and collective holocaust, the permanent attention judge Rigoberto Sena Ferreras, qualified the case of the multimillion-dollar fraud in the National Health Insurance (SENASA). "When one goes to the State to drain its institutions, it constitutes an act of […]
Santo Domingo,.- The Government decided today to maintain the prices of gasoline, diesel and propane gas for the week of December 13 to 19, for which, it assured, allocated a subsidy of 227.4 million pesos. In that order, premium gasoline will remain at 290.10 per gallon, while regular gasoline will be at RD$272.50 per gallon. […]
Former US President Bill Clinton traveled to Jamaica with Rolando González Bunster, President and CEO of InterEnergy Group, to see firsthand the damage caused by Hurricane Melissa, the most severe weather event to have impacted the country in its recent history, and the reconstruction progress led by the energy company in key areas of the […]
In the festive atmosphere that surrounds Villa Navidad, one of the most popular and anticipated spaces for Dominican families in the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center, a silent but deeply significant work is carried out: the promotion of values that strengthen coexistence, harmony in the home, and the protection of women. Amidst lights, music, and […]
Santo Domingo.- Each season brings a different vibe and colors are the easiest way to feel it. Knowing which tones will be trending is not just to "look fashionable", but to inspire you, refresh your closet and give your style a twist without complicating your life. The autumn-winter 2025/2026 palette arrives with a mix designed […]
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 […]
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 […]
Government affairs are considered a part of the recognized and most interesting fields for the entire population. As a government official, one is destined to serve and protect the citizens they represent, whether from a seat in Congress, from the municipality, or from the institution in which they are appointed.
Just as lists are made of the most beautiful men in the world, the prettiest politicians, the most handsome president, the most handsome actor according to science, and men with the most handsome faces, the Dominican State is not exempt from having capable, intelligent, and highly coveted gentlemen by the female population of the country.
This is the list that, according to the writing of De Último Minuto, brings together the top 10 most attractive officials of the Dominican State in this 2025.
This top is headed by Luis Miguel De Camps. Current Minister of Education.
At 45 years old, he is a lawyer, public servant, teacher, and politician. He also held the position of Minister of Labor.
Holds a Master's degree in Law from Georgetown University, in Washington D.C., United States (U.S.), and a Harvard University, Massachusetts. He is the president of the Social Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRSD) and vice president of the Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America (COPPPAL).
In second place, there is the financial analyst Alejandro Fernández W., current superintendent of the Bank.
At 52 years old, he is an analyst, educator, and public opinion shaper in the financial field known as the "Econo-divo". He has over 25 years of professional experience in the financial sector, in the private and public spheres.
In third place, the senator for San José de Ocoa, Aneudy Ortiz Sajiun. At 47 years old, he is a Business Administrator, studied Political Administration in Washington, and was a former scholarship recipient from the United States. He owns Grupo Ortiz Sajiun CxA, dedicated to the buying and selling of currencies, as well as the real estate sector. He also owns the Sajiun Auto dealer and Constructora Daniel Alejandro.
At 34 years old, Senator Omar Leonel Fernández, representing the National District, is in fourth place.
Fernández is Director of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Global Democracy and Development Foundation (FUNGLODE), he is a politician, a graduate with a degree in Law from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, with a Master's in International Business Law from Boston University.
The fifth place on this list is held by the youngest government official, 29 years old, Hostos Rizik, director of the RD Vial Trust.
Rizik holds a degree in Business Administration from UNIBE and has master's degrees in Finance and Banking Management (PUCMM) and Strategic Governance and Political Communication (GW University). In addition, he has complemented his education with studies in Strategic Innovation, Development Economics, and International Development at Oxford University.
In sixth place we have the director of the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications, Guido Orlando Gómez Mazara.
Gómez, 58, is a Dominican lawyer, writer, and politician. He has held positions in public administration, including the position of Legal Advisor to the Executive Branch (2000-2004), has a Master's degree in Political Science and Public Administration from the New School for Social Research, in New York.
The seventh place on this list is held by the actor and extraordinary ambassador of the Dominican Republic in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Carlos de la Mota.
De la Mota is 50 years old and has vast experience in the international entertainment industry. He graduated as an architect from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, and was Vice Minister for Dominican Communities Abroad, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The eighth place in this Top 10 was obtained by the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Paíno Henríquez.
Henríquez holds a law degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra. He speaks French as a second language.
He is a founding partner of Seibel & Henríquez, where he specializes in corporate law, business conflict resolution, and crisis communication strategy since 2005.
In ninth place is Víctor "Ito" Bisonó, 62 years old, current Minister of Industry, Commerce and SMEs.
He is a prominent political leader, was elected four times as a Deputy for the National District. He is a Business Administrator and was a member of the Dominican-Haitian Chamber of Commerce.
In last place on this list is the Minister of Energy and Mines, Joel Santos Echavarría.
Santos is an economist who graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) and holds an MBA in International Business from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird).
At 56 years old, he is a businessman, politician, and has held various positions in the government.
Santo Domingo.- In an emotional act loaded with historical and sporting symbolism, the Juan Ulises García Saleta Foundation formally inaugurated the Juan Ulises García Saleta (Wiche) Olympic Plaza, a renovated space in the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center conceived to pay permanent tribute to the man who laid the foundations of the Olympic movement in […]
São Paulo.- The defense of former President Jair Bolsonaro requested authorization from the Supreme Court for the ex-president to receive the attention of a physiotherapist in the cell of the Federal Police Superintendence where he is serving his sentence. In a request addressed to Judge Alexandre de Moraes, rapporteur of the process, the defense argued […]
Santiago. – A 57-year-old man, identified as Franklin Hidalgo, was found dead in an advanced state of decomposition inside the apartment where he resided, located on the second level of a building on Juana Saltitopa street, in the Ensanche Bolívar sector of this city. According to versions offered by neighbors, Hidalgo had not been seen […]
Santo Domingo.- The Universidad Federico Henríquez y Carvajal (UFHEC) announced the opening of the Center for High Technology and Artificial Intelligence (CATIA), an initiative that seeks to develop solutions that respond to social challenges in education, health, environment, public management, agriculture, urban mobility and industry. The national rector of UFHEC, Alberto Ramírez, pointed out that […]
Samaná.- Businessman Jhonny Cabrera stated that an effective intervention of the Land Use Plan of the municipality of Las Terrenas is urgent, given the accelerated growth experienced by the area and the lack of adequate control in land use. Cabrera maintained that the urban, tourist, and commercial development of the municipality requires clear, updated, and […]
The Municipality of Sánchez, in its commitment to transparency and citizen participation, held an Extraordinary Open Council Session to address issues related to the Participatory Budget for the year 2026. The meeting was chaired by the Council of Aldermen, under the direction of its president, councilman Antony Amparo, who highlighted the importance of collaboration between […]