As the Dominican Republic prepares to mark Father’s Day this upcoming weekend, President Luis Abinader has scheduled a jam-packed roster of public engagements that blends holiday celebration with key infrastructure and community deliverables, spanning multiple regions of the Santo Domingo metropolitan area on Saturday. The day’s activities kick off at the Ministry of Defense (MIDE) headquarters at 11:00 a.m., where the president will host a special luncheon honoring fatherhood. The event is expected to draw 1,500 fathers from across the country, offering a space for the head of state to mark the national holiday alongside members of the public it celebrates.
Immediately following the Father’s Day luncheon, at 12:30 p.m., President Abinader will travel to the 11th kilometer of the Sánchez Highway in the National District to preside over the official inauguration of the new Sports Initiation Center (known locally by its Spanish acronym CIDE) operated by the Santo Domingo Sabio School Home. The new facility is designed to expand access to organized youth sports programming and recreational opportunities for local students.
Moving forward with the afternoon’s community-focused events, the president will head to the Los Frailes sector of Santo Domingo Este at 1:30 p.m., where he will formally deliver long-awaited property titles to local families. The handover represents a key step in the administration’s efforts to formalize land ownership and expand housing security for vulnerable households across the country.
The final scheduled event of the day will take place at 3:00 p.m. in Hacienda Estrella, a community located in Santo Domingo Norte, where President Abinader will lead the inauguration ceremony for the newly constructed Hacienda Estrella Hospital. The new public health facility is expected to expand access to primary and secondary care for thousands of local residents who previously faced long travel times to access public medical services.
The packed Saturday schedule underscores the Abinader administration’s priority of delivering visible, community-focused public infrastructure and social support while marking the national Father’s Day holiday, highlighting the government’s ongoing push to expand access to housing, sports, healthcare and public services across the greater Santo Domingo region.