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Here is a picture of the localityTête-à-l'Eau, Banane in Bota, Haiti. It is an area targeted to provide housing for the Haitians arriving from the Dominican Republic.

This image was provided thanks to Mr. Maxo JOSEPH who went to Tête-à-l'Eau, Banane, localité Bota to see the progress as the Haitian Government promised to welcome more than tree thousand people.

Hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants in the D.R of whom most were Haitians or people of Haitian descent failed to register themselves within the Dominican deadline on June 17, 2015. Some human rights activists have called for an extension of this deadline. Many undocumented immigrants stood in the long lines outside the government offices for days, but were turned away repeatedly as they were told they lack necessary documents. Many of them could not come back as they could not convince their employers to give them time off of work to go register. As per the report of the Interior and Police minister Jose Ramon Fadul, so far 275,000 undocumented foreigners (about 50% of the total undocumented immigrants in the D.R) have been registered. The D.R authority is going to work with the remaining because they don't want to mistreat anyone, but want everyone to be regularized.

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The Dominican Republic and Haiti must work together in order to survive in the island. Although the have been ongoing conflicts between the two they must find a way to work it out. In this context, INFOTEP and National Institute of Professional Training of Haiti (INFP) have decided to take the lead

The Director of the National Training Institute technical and professional Dominican (INFOTEP) have announced a collaboration between INFOTEP and the National Institute of Professional Training of Haiti (INFP) for the implementation of mobile classrooms for technical courses

As per a joint declaration by the Marina Gourgue, Secretary of State for Vocational Training of Haiti and Rafael Ovalles, the Director of the National Institute of Technical and Vocational Training (INFOTEP) of the Dominican Republic will help Haiti to extend the reach of mobile repairing technical training in Haiti. A collaboration agreement between the INFOTEP and the National Institute of Professional Training of Haiti (INFP) will be signed before the classrooms for technical course begins. Presently, there are 189 centers on mobile technical education-- 150 private, 17 public and 22 subsidized. Since they started functioning from 1999 about 25,000 people from impoverished background have received successful technical training.

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As per news report dated March 9th, Blas Peralta, the President of Fenatrado (National Federation of Dominican Transportation) has said that MINUSTAH and National Police of Haiti have jointly established a safe corridor through which the Dominican trucks carrying merchandise from the Dominican Republic to Haiti can carry goods so henceforth under the protection of these two forces. Presently, the insufficient number of MINUSTAH member has forced to limit the stretch of the protective cover. Any driver deviating from the safe corridor will run on own risk. The corridor spans from Jimaní to the Haitian town of Kwadèbouke and from there to the area near the international airport in Port-au-Prince. However, Peralta has insisted for a full safety cover for the Dominican trucks until it completes its journey in Haiti.

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Due to the history of two nations that share one island and are called to leave together, there have been little in that area. Whether we like it or not, Haiti and the Dominican Republic are two countries that share the same island. Unfortunately, the history between them has been one with a lot of up and down.

Lately it has come to the point where both countries are likely to pay a big price economically due to lack of cooperation and vision.

Following the recent action from the Dominican Court to remove the citizenship from many Dominicans with Haitian links, many international organizations have expressed their objections.

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Spending her entire life fighting to secure citizenship and human rights for Dominicans born of Haitian parents, Sonial Pierre passed a way last sunday. Raised in the Dominican Republic in dirt-floor barrack for migrant workers in a Batey, Ms. Pierre has been constantly denouncing what she sees as massive abuses in the Dominican Republic against people of Haitian descent and their children

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