It is important to understand the batey, a village of Haitian sugar cane cutters living in deep and unrelenting poverty in the Dominican Republic. It is a contrast as stark and vast as any on earth.
AP | BEN FOX | Posted 05.21.2012
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Dominican President-elect Danilo Medina thanked his supporters Monday for a first-round win in an election t...
Reverend William E. Flippin, Jr. | Posted 05.21.2012
Just like Jesus, you and I know what it's like to be tempted. We know what it's like to have a hunger for something we want, something that others might say we need, but that we know will serve only to distract or derail us.
AP | BEN FOX and EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ | Posted 05.21.2012
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — A long-time governing party official took the lead late Sunday in vote counting from the Dominican Republic'...
Melanie Nayer | Posted 05.07.2012
Both all-inclusive Paradisus resorts in the Dominican Republic offer a combined 18 restaurants, but none as fashionable and trendy as Chef Martín Berasategui's.
AP | JIM FITZGERALD | Posted 04.30.2012
NEW YORK — The section of highway where an accident sent seven members of a Bronx family flying over a guardrail and plummeting to their deaths ...
Tony Sachs | Posted 04.30.2012
For far too many imbibers, rum is something that comes in a bottle with a pirate on it, and should be followed by the words "and Coke." It breaks my heart, it really does.
AP | EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ | Posted 04.24.2012
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- The U.S. government is looking into allegations that Dominican sugar growers use child labor and keep workers in ...
AP | By DIONISIO SOLDEVILA | Posted 04.10.2012
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- Former major leaguer Vladimir Guerrero said he has surrendered to police after authorities contend he attacked a ...
The Huffington Post | Laura Steiner | Posted 03.30.2012
While we've seen that Spring Break in Mexico does not necessarily mean you need to be trapped in the all-inclusive drunken world of Cancun, perhaps a ...
AP | Posted 05.08.2012
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Police say a man in the Dominican Republic killed his ex-girlfriend and committed suicide after seeing a pi...
Eduardo Diaz | Posted 04.30.2012
Tesoros del Arte Taíno is a stunningly beautiful volume that reveals the prolific artistic production of the Taíno peoples, and validates current Smithsonian efforts to tell a new American story.
Anthony Amore | Posted 04.15.2012
Last Friday, Osbrany Montes De Oca, a lance corporal in the United States Marines, set out to begin his patrol in the Helmand province of Afghanistan....
Bob Schulman | Posted 04.15.2012
You hear a certain kind of hip-swinging music everywhere in the Dominican Republic: In the airport terminals, in the lobby of your hotel, around the pool, on the powdery beaches, in the discos, even at weddings.
Jade Doskow | Posted 04.14.2012
Reuters | Posted 04.07.2012
By Manuel Jimenez SANTO DOMINGO, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Dominican officials are investigating the capsizing of an overloaded immigrant smu...
Posted 01.10.2012
If you haven't yet heard of Romeo Santos, you may definitely want to keep your eyes and ears open. Already referred to as the "Bachata King," the...
AP | Posted 01.05.2012
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- Authorities in the Dominican Republic on Thursday auctioned off 27 luxury watches that once belonged to an allege...
AP | Posted 03.06.2012
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — A moderate 5.3-magnitude earthquake rattled the southern coast of the Dominican Republic just before dawn Th...
AP | Posted 03.06.2012
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — A moderate 5.3-magnitude earthquake rattled the southern coast of the Dominican Republic just before dawn Th...
Bob Schulman | Posted 03.05.2012
It's usually pretty quiet in the old colonial town of Higüey in the Dominican Republic. Not so when January 21 rolls around each year.
AP | By EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ and DANICA COTO | Posted 12.27.2011
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- Sonia Perez was the undisputed champion of people of Haitian descent living in the Dominican Republic, fighting d...
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 02.18.2012
The United Nations is faced with two substantial legal petitions on behalf of cholera victims in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The actions could not be more different in their demands, tone, jurisdictions and venues.
Posted 12.07.2011
Badly baten, naked and hungry, a Haitian child now called Miguel had been left in a deep hole for days. Haiti officials believe he was put there by...
AP | ZINIE CHEN SAMPSON | Posted 02.01.2012
RICHMOND, Va. — Two formerly conjoined toddlers from the Dominican Republic have left a Richmond hospital after recovering from separation surge...
John J. Powers | Posted 05.25.2012