The Asociación Dominicana de Profesores (ADP) reported on 2026-09-02 that at least 237 educational centers in the Dominican Republic could not start classes for the 2026-2027 school year due to building problems, with 121 of them not suitable because repair works were not completed in time. ^[1] According to the same ONE statistics, the Dominican Republic's formal labor market surpassed 2.56 million jobs in 2025, representing a 3.2% increase in national employment. ^[2] The Dominican Republic's National Statistics Office (ONE) reported in May 2026 that the country had 125,715 formal business units registered in 2025, a 5% increase compared with the previous year. ^[3] Karen Yapoort, a Dominican communicator, and Edwin Encarnación, a former baseball player, are divorcing; Encarnación said he had consulted his lawyers to begin the legal divorce process, and Yapoort said she had initiated a mutual-consent divorce process more than a week earlier, asking for consideration toward their children. ^[4] Eduardo Hidalgo detailed that of about 345 centers without full opening, 199 (57.7%) were due to unfinished works, unusable classrooms, lack of water or electricity; 88 because students did not arrive; 34 due to missing staff; and 5 due to union action. ^[5] The ADP announced protest actions: a bocinazo (horn-honking) on 2026-09-04 at 4:00 p.m. in front of educational districts, and a national vigil on 2026-09-07 at 7:00 p.m. to demand completion of pending infrastructure works. ^[6] Omar Cepeda, former president and member of ADERES's Advisory Council, said that restaurant location mobility should not be interpreted as a contraction of the industry, but as a process of purification, evolution, and reinvestment driven by strategic transformations. ^[7] ONE's Business Directory measurement cycle recorded 14,458 newly formalized companies in the Dominican Republic, setting a corporate birth rate of 11.6%. ^[8]