“Dominican Republic” on The Daily Caller

With Porfirio Lobo assuming the presidency of Honduras, its citizens formally turn the page on the political crisis triggered by Manuel Zelaya’s removal from office in June 2009. It is time for the international community to do the same. Honduras’ fragile economy and its citizens have paid a high price in recent months. They must be given a chance at a new beginning. (more)

As the pace of food and medical aid arriving into the impoverished country increased, doctors say that public health is now Haiti’s major concern. (more)

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Jose Offerman was banned for life by the Dominican winter league for throwing a punch at an umpire during an argument on the baseball field. (more)

“It is now six days since the earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince and there is still no sign of the global aid effort reaching the main camp of homeless Haitian people in the Champs de Mars public park next to the ruined presidential palace in the very centre of the capital city. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — The man returning from Haiti who walked through a restricted door and set off an alarm at John F. Kennedy Airport has told police he went through the door by mistake. (more)

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Former major league All-Star Jose Offerman has thrown a punch at an umpire during an argument in a Dominican winter league game, the second time in 2½ years that he’s attacked someone on a baseball field. (more)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — With food, water and other aid flowing into Haiti in earnest, relief groups and officials are focused on moving the supplies out of the clogged airport and to hungry, haggard earthquake survivors in the capital. (more)

GENEVA (AP) — The International Federation of the Red Cross says a convoy carrying a “huge amount” of aid is heading overland from the Dominican Republic to quake-struck Haiti. (more)

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — A court in the Dominican Republic ordered the New York Yankees to pay more than $750,000 to Carlos Rios, their former director of Latin American scouting, for what it ruled was his unlawful firing. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has thanked the president of the Dominican Republic for that nation’s assistance to Americans leaving Haiti. (more)

THE death toll from Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake will reach 10s of thousands of people, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said. (more)

When it comes to natural disasters, Haiti seems to have a bull’s-eye on it. That’s because of a killer combination of geography, poverty, social problems, slipshod building standards and bad luck, experts say. (more)

America’s response thus far to the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti on January 12 has been far too mute, creating an unexpected vacuum of leadership in a critical region. Haiti is the most impoverished nation of the Americas. The government under President Réne Préval is weak and literally now in shambles. Cuba and Venezuela, already intent on minimizing U.S. influence in the region, are likely to seize this opportunity to raise their profile and influence in a country that is already battling drugs and corruption. (more)

SEATTLE (AP) — From a TV soap opera advocating savings in the Dominican Republic to banking by motorbike in Ethiopia and India, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s most recent grants to promote global development have a decidedly more creative bent. (more)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti —  A powerful earthquake struck Haiti’s capital on Tuesday with withering force, toppling everything from simple shacks to the ornate National Palace and the headquarters of U.N. peacekeepers. The dead and injured lay in the streets even as strong aftershocks rippled through the impoverished Caribbean country. (more)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The largest earthquake ever recorded in the area shook Haiti on Tuesday, collapsing a hospital where people screamed for help. Other buildings also were damaged and scientists said they expected “substantial damage and casualties.” (more)