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.
With a mining light perched on my head and life jacket strapped around my torso, it probably wasn't my best look, but both are required pieces of safety equipment when preparing to traverse a series of tunnels dug into the side of a mountain on the north end of the tropical Island of Hawaii.
Sugar is Guatemala's most important agricultural export, making Guatemala the fifth largest sugar exporter in the world. The industry employs arou...
An early-August accident at a newly dug oil well in Assumption Parish, Louisiana, ended when sand buried the structure. Millions of dollars in damages are being tallied, and two class-action suits have been filed.
What you hear again and again here in South Louisiana is that no one has the TIME to work on campaigning. Most families are still recovering from thre...
It is highly unlikely that candidates will make appearances down here in the final two weeks of the election, even though many parts of the state are still reeling from... Hurricanes Gustav and Ike.
