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  • Haiti reports first suspected H1N1 death in 2013

    Haiti reported on Monday its first suspected death this year from H1N1 virus, reports reaching here said.The victim was from the small community of Nan Bannann in the southern city of Belle-Ansecity, 110 km southwest of the capital Port-au-Prince, the reports said.As local government said, the victim died at a hospital in Thiotte, 65 km east of the capital.Reports said the victim appeared to ...

  • Blight sweeping Central American coffee

    Across Central America, even as rains arrive, many coffee plantations contain only spindly, nearly defoliated bushes, the result of a blight known as coffee leaf rust whose devastation, so far, has yet to affect the prices of premium highland coffee that baristas serve around the developed world.But while Americans have yet to feel its effects, the blight may soon prove to be as disastrous as ...

  • Dominican merchants close key border market in protest over Haiti ban of poultry egg imports

    SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- Merchants in the Dominican Republic have shuttered a large border market in protest over neighboring Haiti's ban on poultry and egg imports. The Dajabon market was closed Monday seeking to pressure Haiti to drop the ban. A Dominican board says the country sells about 25 million eggs and 8 million chickens to Haiti every month. Early in June, Haiti said ...

  • Haiti ban shows Hispaniola commission’s lack of clout on trade rows

    Santo Domingo.- The row unleashed by Haiti's ban on Dominican eggs and poultry has shed light on the Joint Dominican-Haitian Bilateral Commission's lack of clout in the current disputes among the two Hispaniola island nations, despite being "two wings of the same bird." The row also shows both countries' weakness toward dialogue and the bungled handling of their ...

  • Four-hour meeting fails to lift Haiti ban on Dominican products

    Santo Domingo -After meeting for more than four hours, the Haitian and Dominican authorities failed to reach an agreement to lift the ban on poultry and eggs imports. FILE. Haiti Foreign minister Pierre Richard Casimir and Dominican counterpart Carlos Morales are in a closed-door talks since 12: 20pm, looking to lift the ban of Dominican egg and chicken exports to the neighboring country. To ...


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  • Touch ‘Em All™ a Vermont Company That Is Bringing Baseball Manufacturing Back to Haiti Launches Crowd-Source Funding ...

    Touch 'Em All (TM), just announced that it has launched a crowd-source funding effort to bring baseball manufacturing back to Haiti. As part of this ...

  • Green iguana population bounces back in Florida

    Residents of some South Florida neighborhoods said the damaged green iguana population has rebounded -- and the creatures are destroying their plants. Locals in Sunrise and other locations said the green iguanas, which experienced a sharp population drop due to the harsh 2010 winter, have rebounded and are targeting their orchids and hibiscus blooms, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported ...

  • Obamas Policy Towards the Caribbean is Criticized

    Port of Spain, Jun 17 (Prensa Latina) The main feature of the policy towards the Caribbean of United State' President, Barack Obama, is the lack of commitment, said today the Caribbean Journal newspaper. According to the journal, the permanent promise of the president is the closure of the prison in Guantanamo's naval base, territory that is occupied by US against the will of Cuban ...

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    Breaking hearts, winning minds ; Five directors have been nominated for the Irish Council for Civil Liberties film award. Here they discuss their ...

  • Cross-border markets halted as officials mull Haiti ban

    Dajabn, Dominican Republic.- The Dajabon Merchants Association on Monday reiterated its call to shutter border markets to protest Haiti's ban on poultry and eggs from Dominican Republic, on alleged bird flu. The halt comes as officials from both countries plan talks on lifting the ban that Port-au-Prince ordered citing concerns over alleged bird flu cases. Association Freddy president ...

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