DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: SANTO DOMINGO, Oct 23 (IPS) - The Dominican Republic passed the 38th version of its constitution Thursday evening, amending more than 40 articles that drew public protests and opposition from civil society groups and ...
HAITI: By Silvestre Fils Dorcilus and Elizabeth Eames Roebling PORT-AU-PRINCE, Aug 19 (IPS) - Following the recommendation of President Rene Preval, the lower house of the Haitian Parliament voted Tuesday to raise the minimum wage in the ...
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: NAJAYO, Jul 9 (IPS) - If you are a woman in prison anywhere in the world, you would be fortunate to be in one of the new model prisons in the Dominican Republic. Sitting at the table in the air-conditioned library at ...
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: By Elizabeth Eames Roebling and Tove Silveira SANTO DOMINGO, Jun 30 (IPS) - Among the colourful houses in the neighbourhood called Vietnam in East Santo Domingo, many families have at least one family member among the 1. ...
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC/HAITI: ELIAS PINA/BELLEDARE, Apr 29 (IPS) - Elias Pina sits in a fertile high mountain valley on the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Twice weekly, the side streets fill with Haitians and Dominicans ...
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: SANTO DOMINGO, Apr 23 (IPS) - A truck full of female police officers, dressed in black riot protection gear, pulled up in front of the General Assembly building here to confront and control the crowd of women who had ...
Solace in Solidarity By Elizabeth Eames Roebling and Auguste Cantave SANTO DOMINGO, Mar 16 (IPS) - On a rainy Saturday evening, beneath the leaking tin roof of an empty carport in a working class section of Santo Domingo, a group of Haitian ...
Carving up Paradise LAS TERRENAS, Dec 15 (IPS) - Located along white sand beaches on the north coast of the lush Samana peninsula, this is the latest Dominican boom town. Entering the town from across the high mountains, developers' signs ...
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: SANTO DOMINGO, Nov 25 (IPS) - Raising their voices in agreement with the declaration over the loudspeaker that "machismo kills", hundreds of Dominican women, carrying banners and roses, ended a march through the streets ...
HAITI-DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: PEDERNALES, Dominican Republic, Nov 18 (IPS) - The contrast between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, which share the island of Hispaniola, is nowhere so stark as on its common border. Pedernales, in the remote ...
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