During his first trip to the New World in 1492, Christopher Columbus made several landfalls throughout the Caribbean, including on the island now known as Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

The Associated Press noted that the mass deportation is the largest of its kind in recent history for Hispaniola, the island ...

Haiti gets much of its imports from the Dominican Republic, which would also suffer from the measure. A study by the Dominican Republic's Central Bank said US$ 430 million in informal border trade ...

is the one who received the containers in the Dominican Republic in order to send them to Haiti. Both men reportedly live in the south of the Dominican Republic near Belladère in Haiti ...

Authorities in the Dominican Republic said Tuesday that they seized 36,000 cartridges, 23 firearms and more than two dozen rifle and pistol chargers from a Miami shipment destined for Haiti.