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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The Caribbean nation of Dominica is awarding its highest honor to former Cuban President Fidel Castro.
Government spokesman Sean Douglas says Castro is being recognized for university scholarships, hurricane relief and other aid Cuba has provided over the years to one of the region’s poorest islands.
The Dominica Award of Honour will be formally announced Monday at a ceremony marking 30 years of independence from Britain.
Source: MiamiHerald.Com
Santo Domingo.- The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an alert Thursday on fraud and extortions in the purchase of medicine via telephone from localities in Dominican Republic.
The reports of telephone calls originating from the country reveal the existence of an illegal system designed to swindle American medicine buyers using IDs stolen from FDA officials.
“Several instances have been reported to the FDA of calls enticing consumers to purchase discounted prescription drugs by wiring funds to one of several locations in the Dominican Republic. No medications are ever delivered. A subsequent call is received from a fraudulent “FDA special agent” informing the consumer that a fine of several thousand dollars is required to be sent to an address in the Dominican Republic to prevent incarceration or other legal action,” the FDA says on its Web site.
The FDA affirms that the swindlers, as yet identified, contact consumers to sell them medicines at discount prices, whereas posing as FDA agents they also ask their potential victims for personal information and to conduct monetary transactions to Dominican Republic bank accounts.
The FDA says that after the supposed medicines never reach the buyers, the impostor “agents” make a second call to continue with their extortion by demanding the transfer of thousands of dollars to an address in Dominican Republic, in order to avoid imprisonment or other legal action.
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Authorities in the Dominican Republic say they have arrested a soldier for allegedly killing an 18-year-old Haitian migrant.
The shooting comes days after the Dominican Republic deported nearly 500 Haitians following a dispute in which two migrants died and 25 of their homes were set on fire.
Col. Pedro Abreu said Wednesday that soldier Pérez Rosso told authorities he shot the migrant because the youth lunged at him while trying to cross the border.
Haiti consul Jean-Baptiste Bien-Aime says he has received reports that Judelin Jean was killed because he allegedly did not pay a smuggler. The shooting occurred Wednesday.
An estimated 1 million Haitians live in the wealthier Dominican Republic.
Source: MiamiHerald.Com
By Rubia Rodriguez
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic: Whilst the Organization of American States’ (OAS) has urged parliamentarians from the Dominican Republic and Haiti to foster friendly relations, and demonstrate the fundamentals of peaceful coexistence, especially along their border towns, violence has erupted once again.
In the border town of Guayubin in the northwest of the Dominican Republic on Thursday a shantytown of Haitians near to the town was burned by a large group of Dominicans in retaliation for the death of a local farmer, allegedly at the hands of an immigrant from Haiti.
Dominican Army Chief of staff Joaquin Virgilio Perez stated that Thursday’s incident resulted in 30 houses being set on fire, which were totally destroyed, whilst others were damaged, forcing the occupants to flee from fear of being lynched by the Dominicans involved.
On Monday, there were similar incidents of violence in the southwest town of Neyba that erupted after another Haitian allegedly stabbed a Dominican moto-taxi driver, one Julio César Díaz Pérez, as the Haitian tried to steal his motorcycle. The subsequent violence in the area resulted in the death of two Haitians and an undetermined number injured in reprisals for the stabbing.
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — The Dominican Republic says it will issue ID cards to Haitian agricultural workers to better control illegal immigration.
Immigration director José Anibal Sanz says IDs will be issued every six months.
He said Saturday that those who cannot present an ID upon request will be repatriated.
The announcement comes days after authorities repatriated 476 Haitians following clashes in which two Dominicans and two Haitians died and 25 homes of migrants were burned.
Sanz said measures are being taken to avoid a similar situation.
About 1 million Haitians live in the wealthier Dominican Republic.
Source: MiamiHerald.Com
SANTIAGO.- A shantytown of Haitians near the city Guayubín (northwest) was burned yesterday by a throng of Dominicans in retaliation for the death of a farmer allegedly at the hands of an immigrant from the neighboring country.
Dominican Army Chief of staff Joaquin Virgilio Perez said Thursday Bolivar Nova (Bobotón), of the town manager of the El Cerro village of the community Guayubín, Montecristi province, for the aggressions against Haitian nationals and the torching of the shanties where they resided. (Source listin.com.do)
According to military sources, the crowd decided to torch the barrio El Cerro, in the sector Juan Gomez, because the Haitian said to be the farmer’s murderer hid in that place since Tuesday.
In the fire 30 houses were reduced to ashes and others were damaged, and their occupants were forced to flee from fear of being lynched by the Dominicans.
During the immigrants’ rush to return to the neighboring country, a Haitian woman fractured her right leg and was taken to the hospital at Guayubín.
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — A Haiti congressman says his country will ask the Dominican Republic for a joint investigation into the recent violence against Haitian migrants.
Eric Jean Jacques made the announcement Friday while attending a conference in the neighboring Caribbean country. Dominican Senate President Reinaldo Pared Pérez said those responsible should be investigated.
Two Haitian migrants were recently killed when residents protested the death of a Dominican man during a motorcycle robbery. In an unrelated incident elsewhere in the Dominican Republic, a mob set fire to dozens of migrants’ carton homes in reprisal for the alleged killing of a farmer.
Nearly 500 Haitian migrants were deported after the violence.
Source: MiamiHerald.Com
The intention of the links and extracts to follow is to show the spread of the U.S. military’s intention to build on the Human Terrain System in penetrating local cultures and intervening in local societies across the planet. Of course anthropology is singled out for “special mention,” now that in the minds of the state and military “we” have reverted to being a tool of imperialism (not serving imperialism is routinely called “retreating from the world” by some).
Perhaps given the silence of so many, perhaps most anthropologists, conducting their business as usual, buried in their niche projects, we never stopped being such a tool, whether willingly or unwittingly. When debates finally do occur, in limited quarters, almost inevitably the centre of attention moves toward the question of whether Human Terrain Teams “save lives” or are used for “targeting”. If the objective is to save lives, then mine is by very far the best plan: withdraw. The fact that the rationale, ideology and worldview behind these various foreign occupations and counterinsurgency campaigns are not called into question, betrays the extent to which even the semi-critical anthropologists have bought into the dominant imperialist logic of their own society, and take such domination as natural, unquestionable fact. The critical skills they use to “peel the onion” of foreign cultures are never applied to their own; there is little doubt who “the bad guys” are, but there is extra special effort in sweetly seeking nuances in the decisions of Americans to enlist voluntarily, and of course there is the occasional HTS member who is noted to be “a hell of a nice guy.”
ROSEAU, Dominica: Attorneys General and Ministers for Legal Affairs, President of the Caribbean Court of Justice and other legal officials from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) gathered in Dominica recently for the First Meeting of Senior Officials of the Legal Affairs Committee (SOLAC), Chief Parliamentary Counsel (CPC) and the Fourteenth Special Meeting of the Legal Affairs Committee (LAC).
Dominca Attorney General Francine Baron-Royer and CCJ president at meeting.
In an address at the opening ceremony in Roseau, Dominica’s Attorney General, Francine Baron-Royer explained the mandate of the Legal Affairs Committee.
The Legal Affairs Committee was established by Article 18 of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas which established the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the CARICOM Single Market and Economy. It is made up of the Ministers responsible for Legal Affairs or Attorneys General of member states or both.
The Attorney General stated that CARICOM is a made up of many bodies and organs and the Legal Affairs Committee is tasked with the responsibility of advising them on treaty matters and other legal issues, most notably the harmonisation of laws of the Community.
Santo Domingo.– The cases of pregnancy among Haitian women are dramatically increasing in the Dominican Republic, since a considerable number of the patients come directly from the neighboring country to give birth.
According to Gregorio Rivas, director of Maternidad San Lorenzo de Los Mina, the largest maternity center in the eastern part of Santo Domingo, 60% of the hospital´s budget is spent on Haitians that come to the hospital to give birth.
The public hospital provides free assistance to patients, without taking into account their nationality or legal status. “It seems they have connections in the country so they later may leave; however, they receive the same treatment as Dominicans,” Rivas stated.
In addition, Haitian pregnant women are those with the most complications, especially preeclampsia.
Source: Dominican Today
