The renaming of a street there to Nelson Mandela Boulevard is symbolic of the long-standing relationship between the two countries
Most of the deaths recorded are in struggling Haiti and many were killed by falling trees and flying debris.
The hurricane caused severe flooding and killed four people in the Dominican Republic as well as at least 13 in Haiti.
The presidents of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela ended a border dispute on Friday with a summit handshake after a week of regional diplomacy in the face of hostile rhetoric and…
The death toll from Tropical Storm Olga neared two dozen on Thursday after flash floods killed at least 19 people in the Dominican Republic, where 35 000 people were forced to…
Hurricane Noel on Friday churned over the Atlantic Ocean on a northerly track to Canada after battering the Caribbean where it killed at least 122 people in the Dominican…
Floods and landslides triggered by Tropical Storm Noel have killed at least 80 people in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, as the weather system on Thursday slowly headed towards…
Tropical Storm Noel — the 14th named storm of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season — headed toward the Bahamas on Tuesday after causing flooding and mudslides that killed at least…
Resort tycoon Howard ”Butch” Kerzner was killed along with three others when the helicopter in which they were traveling crashed into a building on the Dominican Republic’s north…
Tropical Storm Jeanne tore through the Dominican Republic on Friday with fierce winds that triggered mudslides, collapsed concrete walls and forced thousands to evacuate. The…
Tropical Storm Jeanne crept toward the Bahamas, drenching the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico with rains that killed three people and carved out a path of destruction marked…
Dominican soldiers searched for more flood victims on Wednesday, burying corpses quickly and explaining to families that not all bodies could wait to be identified. At least 363…
Frantic relatives dug through the mud for loved ones as a makeshift morgue filled up with 100 corpses in rains that devoured a Dominican Republic village on the Haitian border.…
