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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - Security officials in the Dominican Republic, say they have beefed up security along the border with Haiti in order to stem the flow of illegal immigrants According to Defence Minister Ruben Paulino, additional troops from the three military branches, as well as intelligence units have been deployed. He says the plan includes 50 drones, 50 vehicles, 200 motorcycles, and air force aircraft and navy boats to patrol the coastline.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said Tuesday he's convinced the Cubans had some knowledge of the mysterious attacks on American diplomats stationed there that led to myriad health problems. The Department of State recalled much of its Cuban embassy staff last fall because of the incidents, which officials said could have been sonic attacks.
We were told three years ago that showering Cuba with U.S. tourists and business investments would eventually work in the interest of Cubans. The plot revolves around a person enclosed in a very small space, showing signs of madness, who wants to leave.
Republican Sen. Jeff Flake says the U.S. has found no evidence that American diplomats in Havana were the victims of attacks with an unknown weapon. Flake, a Senate Foreign Relations Committee member and a longtime leading advocate of detente with Cuba, met Friday with high-ranking Cuban officials including Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez and officials from the Interior Ministry, which oversees domestic security and works with foreign law-enforcement agencies.
Ricardo Rudin Mathieu ran a racket. He put labels bearing the U.S. Department of Agriculture's organic seal on boxes of pineapples grown conventionally with chemicals.
Jamaica Observer readers have voiced agreement with international recording artiste Shaggy's view that the election of Donald Trump to the US presidency has resulted in a re-emergence of racism in that country. The readers posted their comments under last Friday's story which reported Shaggy's thoughts on politics in the United States, and in which he posited that Trump's presidency has caused black people in America to wake up to the reality of how they are really seen in that country.
Cuba on Monday expressed "deep concern" over the negative impact the decisions adopted by Washington earlier this year could have on immigration relations between the two countries, calling them "unilateral, unfounded and politically motivated." A press release issued by the Cuban Foreign Ministry after a new round of migration talks held by the two countries in Washington on Monday expressed concern over the diplomatic spat that led to the reduction of personnel at the U.S. embassy in Havana The Cuban delegation warned about the negative effect of the suspension of visas by the U.S. mission in Havana.
One year ago the dictatorship in Cuba announced that Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro had died. Today one can say with full confidence that Fidel Castro is still dead.
President Donald Trump faced a backlash Tuesday over his tough immigration policies after announcing that 59,000 Haitians who took refuge in the United States following the 2010 earthquake must return home. Lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle blasted the decision to repatriate the Haitians within 18 months, removing the Temporary Protected Status they received after the disaster, which killed more than 200,000 people and destroyed much of Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince.
The Venezuelan opposition met with members of Donald Trump's administration last week to urge the White House to sanction Nicaragua and a company whose joint venture they say is helping to prop up the government in Caracas, according to multiple sources familiar with the conversations. Five Venezuelan opposition party officials and activists met Thursday on Capitol Hill with U.S. State Department officials and staffers for the Senate Foreign Relations and House Foreign Affairs Committees.
Americans seeking to visit Cuba must navigate a complicated maze of travel, commerce and financial restrictions unveiled Wednesday by the Trump administration, part of a new policy to further isolate the island's communist government. Now off-limits to U.S. citizens are dozens of Cuban hotels, shops, tour companies and other businesses included on a lengthy American blacklist of entities that have links to Cuba's military, intelligence or security services.
In 2006, the endowments of Indiana University and Texas Christian University invested millions of dollars in a partnership, hoping to mint riches from oil, gas and coal. The partnership was formed by the Houston-based Quintana Capital Group, whose principals include Donald Evans, an influential Texan and longtime supporter of former President George W. Bush.
ST. CROIX, Virgin Islands - To ensure all U.S. Virgin Islanders have equal access to disaster assistance programs, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is coordinating with federal, territorial and local agencies as well as volunteer organizations to identify survivors' needs and connect them with resources. Disasters negatively affect everyone in the community, but senior citizens and individuals with disabilities or access and functional needs often face additional challenges, " said FEMA's Federal Coordinating Officer William Vogel.
President Donald Trump signs his new Cuba policy at the Manuel Artime Theateron June 16, 2017 in Miami, where he unveiled the changes he's making to the Obama-era policies toward Cuba. The Trump administration Wednesday announced tight new restrictions on American travel and commercial exchanges with Cuba, implementing a policy announced by President Donald Trump five months ago to reverse Obama administration normalization with the Communist-ruled island.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla said today that the United States has provided no evidence for its claims that US diplomats in Havana have come under deliberate sonic attack, and raised the question of whether the Trump administration is using the diplomats' injuries to unwind recent progress in creating closer ties. "There is no evidence, there is no evidence whatsoever, of the occurrence of the alleged incidents or the cause or origin of these ailments reported by US diplomats," Rodriguez Parrilla said today in Washington.
The jury in the bribery trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez is set to hear closing arguments on Thursday after more than two months of testimony. The New Jersey Democrat is charged with accepting gifts from Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen in exchange for using his political influence.
While the Circus was in full swing, two Cuban natives - one of whom is a U.S. citizen - were arrested in Castrogonia and charged with spying for the U.S. What was the nature of their spying? Unfortunately, there is no information and whatever secrets were being pried into will probably remain secret for a long time, maybe forever. Alina Lopez Miyares and her spouse, Felix Martin Milanes Fajardo, were sentenced to 13 and 17 years in prison, respectively, in a summary proceeding that took place on October 2, behind closed doors in a military court in the Marianao neighborhood of Havana.
This past May, the entire world saw the photos and videos of Cuban dissident Daniel Llorente as he ran onto the May Day parade route in Havana waving a U.S. flag. The brave protestor was quickly caught and in front of the crowds and cameras, beaten and arrested.
On any given night at this bar, named after the vodou goddess, there might be events like Afrofuturist lecturers, lobster festivals, or live jazz. Erzulie, the Haitian spirit of love and beauty, holds Thursdays sacred.