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August 16 – Luis Abinader is sworn in for a second term as President of the Dominican Republic. [3] September 1 – A truck crashes into a bar in Azua, killing 11 people and injuring 40 others. [4] October 2 – The government announces plans to deport 10,000 Haitian immigrants on a weekly basis. [5]
(Reuters) -The Dominican Republic on Wednesday announced an "immediate" plan to deport up to 10,000 migrants per week, as it ramps up enforcement along its border with Haiti despite U.N. pleas for ...
The Dominican Republic deported more than 276,000 Haitians in 2024, the country’s Immigration Directorate said Wednesday. ... For more CNN news and newsletters create an account at CNN.com.
The Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, said that as late as Tuesday the U.S. had been seeking to have Henry make an "indefinite stopover" on its territory, a ...
Ongoing: COVID-19 pandemic in the Dominican Republic. August 14 – Eleven people are killed, ten missing and 30 others are injured in an explosion at a market in San Cristóbal. [1] August 16 – The death toll from the August 14 explosion in San Cristobal rises to 13 after two more bodies are found. [2]
The Dominican Republic [a] is a North American country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean.It shares a maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and a land border with Haiti to the west, occupying the eastern five-eighths of Hispaniola which, along with Saint Martin, is one of only two islands in the Caribbean shared ...
The Dominican Republic has the largest economy in the Caribbean and the seventh-largest in Latin America. Over the last 25 years, the Dominican Republic has had the fastest-growing economy in the Western Hemisphere – with an average real GDP growth rate of 5.3% between 1992 and 2018. GDP growth in 2014 and 2015 reached 7.3 and 7.0% ...
The president of the Dominican Republic on Sunday defended his decision to close air, sea and land traffic with neighboring Haiti in their dispute over construction of a canal targeting a river ...