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BCRD clarifies transition to the new global payments standard ISO20022

The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic (BCRD) reported that the local financial system is advancing in technological adaptation to adopt the international standard ISO20022which from November 22, 2025 will be mandatory

November 22, 2025

Dominican Republic

Looking for you, sertraline

Sertraline I wrote, sertraline I traced, believing that with repetition, with determination, I would make the little pill appear. HAVANA, Cuba. – Many, many times I repeated that name in recent days.

November 22, 2025

Cuba

Lina Luaces puts Cuba in the Top 12 of Miss Universe

Lina Luaces, the 22-year-old girl who last July became Miss Cuba 2025 in a theater in Hialeah, this Thursday managed to include the island in the Top 12 of Miss Universe 2025.

November 22, 2025

Cuba

Prisión preventiva para exoficial de Baní acusada de reconstruir actas falsas

Preventive detention for former Baní officer accused of reconstructing false reports

SANTO DOMINGO.- The judge of the Judicial Office of Permanent Care Services of the Judicial District of Peravia imposed a month of preventive detention on Yohana Elizabeth de la Cruz Matosformer civil

November 22, 2025

Dominican Republic

UN Rapporteur asks to lift sanctions on Cuba, where, apparently, human rights are not violated.

The Belarusian jurist visited Cuba from November 11 to 21 “to evaluate the impact of the sanctions” imposed on the regime. MIAMI, United States. – The UN special rapporteur on the negative

November 21, 2025

Cuba

DNCD captures a recognized micro-trafficker with drugs and weapons in Santiago

Santo Domingo.- Agents of the National Directorate of Drug Control (DNCD) and members of the Public Ministryarrested in the city of Santiago to a renowned microtrafficker, who was wanted for his links

November 21, 2025

Dominican Republic

Closure of the Belgian Embassy in Cuba causes “surprise and disappointment” to the island’s Government

The closure of the Embassy of Belgium in Cuba, announced this week by the authorities of the European country, has caused “surprise and disappointment” in the island’s Government. This was expressed by

November 21, 2025

Cuba

They arrest a minor who allegedly killed an 18-year-old boy over a debt

The police arrested a 17 year old teenager designated as the alleged perpetrator of the death of a young man of 18, in an event that occurred last Tuesday, November 18 in

November 21, 2025

Dominican Republic

Esculturas de Fidel Castro y el Che Guevara en una bodega de la Alcaldía Cuauhtémoc

What happened to the statues of Fidel and Che removed from a CDMX park?

Alessandra Rojo de la Vega, the mayor of Cuauhtémoc, once again proposes melting them down. CDMX, Mexico. – Four months after being removed from the Tabacalera Garden, the statues of Fidel Castro

November 21, 2025

Cuba

These sectors will be without electrical service for work

The Eastern Electricity Distribution Company (Edeeste) announced a temporary suspension of the electrical service the early hours of Sunday, November 23 and Monday, November 24 in peripheral sectors of the Las Américas

November 21, 2025

Dominican Republic

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