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00:00To keep you informed, Listín Diario, the newspaper of Dominicans, presents the most important news of the day.

00:08Front page news for Friday, August 29, 2025.

00:12President Luis Abinader announced yesterday that a bidding process will be launched in the coming days

00:17to begin construction of the Santo Domingo monorail,

00:20one of the major mass transportation projects planned by his administration.

00:25Attorney General Yeni Berenice Reynoso emphasized the need for the country,

00:30like the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean,

00:33to strengthen its justice system to protect victims of crimes.

00:37The full Supreme Court of Justice will decide today whether to uphold or annul the sentence

00:42condemning former Congresswoman Rosa Amalia Pilarte to five years in prison for money laundering.

00:48This first week of school has been marked by low student attendance

00:51and complaints about the delivery of school supplies by the National Institute of Student Welfare,

00:57INABIE, as well as complaints about schools still undergoing renovations.

01:03The Metropolitan Hospital of Santiago, HOMS,

01:06and the Centers for Diagnostics, Advanced Medicine, and Telemedicine, CEDEMAT,

01:12announced yesterday the introduction of the innovative MagDI technique,

01:16or magnetic bariatric surgery, into their metabolic surgery programs

01:21for the treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes.

01:25In separate analyses, economists Nelson Suarez and Germania Montas

01:30observed that the government will obtain 2.9% of its gross domestic product, GDP,

01:35in revenue equivalent to 36 billion Dominican Pesos from the complementary project approved for 2025,

01:43which will increase the general budget to 1,662,095,330 Dominican Pesos.

01:51For Listin Diario, voiceover and translation by Danny Leon.

01:56To keep you informed, Listin Diario, the newspaper of Dominicans,

02:00presented the most important news of the day.