Barahona Province

Macadamia has future

Some 30 years ago, farmers in the Central Mountains chose not to plant macadamia trees, mostly because they did not understand or appreciate the crop's potential. Manuel Arsenio Urena, a prominent businessman from the hills...

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Dominican Republic: Energy Crisis Continues

With less than three months on the job as the Vice-President for the Dominican Corporation of State Electric Companies [es] (CDEEE for its initials in Spanish), businessman Celso Marranzini has seen the need to look for help...

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Health Advisor

Community Partners, Inc. COPA is an Advance Special of the United Methodist Church Board of Global Ministries. COPA is also an Advance Special of the Sarasota District in Florida where it is based. There is a sister...

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Designing for The People of Barahona: architecture as identification of place to resolve social...

As human beings we have all been placed here upon this earth for a reason and with a purpose. Beginning my education in Savannah, Georgia at Savannah College of Art and Design, I knew that I loved art, but I had no idea as to...

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OAS mission arrives in Tegucigalpa

A mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) arrived this Monday in Tegucigalpa, Honduras" capital city, aimed at restoring the institutional order in the country through the dialogue, which it is a hard task after...

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President announces "war" on drug sales

SANTO DOMINGO.- Standing in front of hundreds of young people from all over the country, President Leonel Fernandez announced that he would begin a "war front" against the micro-trafficking of drugs. The goal will be the...

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A Lebanese Tarzan in the Dominican Republic

On a recent trip to the Dominican Republic, I met a Lebanese Dominican man, who happened to be a friend of my friend’s family. Nabil Khoury, 75, known as Don Nabil, has built in 1970 a house in the province of Barahona near the...

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Caribbean Biologic Corridor’s "biodiversity doesn’t have frontiers"

Santo Domingo.- The Environment ministers of Haiti, Cuba and Dominican Republic on Friday signed in Barahona the Plan of Action for the Biological Corridor of the Caribbean, during the project’s fou...

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Haiti, Cuba, Dominican officials meet to map the Caribbean Biologic Corridor

Santo Domingo.- The Environment ministers of Haiti, Cuba and Dominican Republic will sign tomorrow in Barahona (southwest), the Caribbean Biologic Corridor’s Plan of Action Biological, aimed at spur...

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Assistant Project Director

Community Partners, Inc. - COPA - is an Advance Special of the United Methodist Church Board of Global Ministries. COPA is also an Advance Special of the Sarasota District in Florida where it is based. There is a sister...

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