Irrigation Canal at Masacre River

JD Jones

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Looks like the pumps are making a difference - hardly any water getting through:

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JD Jones

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The 3 pumps are now moving 9000 gallons a minute. That's a lot of water.
 

NALs

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Here is the October 4, 2023 complete response of Dominican Chacellor Roberto Álvarez at the Senate of the Dominican Republic mostly regarding the issue of Haiti building the canal that could affect the Dajabón River.

 

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Cholera:
Five countries in the WORLD with cases of turds in the water.Countries that no sane person would even think of even breathing in their air. Number 4 on the list...Haiti. They want to play with the water that flows in and out of our country. LOL.
What could possibly go wrong?
 

NALs

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Cholera:
Five countries in the WORLD with cases of turds in the water.Countries that no sane person would even think of even breathing in their air. Number 4 on the list...Haiti. They want to play with the water that flows in and out of our country. LOL.
What could possibly go wrong?
How did the cholera reached Haiti in the first place?

Makes ne wonder what "new" disease will be introduced this time around?

Btw, the DR also has cholera (due to the large number of Haitians that crossed the border, technically everyone entering the DR are suppose to have a medical check up prior to doing that and people with certain diseases such as AIDS are banned from entering the country; but fir obvious reasons this doesn't apply to illegal crossings.) What the DR has that Haiti doesn't is an active Public Health Ministry to quickly reacts to contain the infection rate within the DR and develops a campaign to create awareness of how to avoid getting the disease. Of couse, it would had been better if the border was more tightly guarded by reducing to the minimum the illegal crossings and even better if at least Cholera was never introduced in Haiti by people of an organization that are not even Haitians.
 

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The Dominican government open again the border for trade, but the Haitian government kept the border closed and prohibited any Haitian to cross through the gate. There is a new twist, apparently Haiti wants to get away from depending on Dominican products. If they are planning to create Haitian versions and new manufacturing centers in Port-au-Prince I actually see that move as something positive. If they are going to simply substitute Dominican imports with imports from another country just to not have Dominican products in Haiti, well that's not a smart move. Dominican products, particularly of the eatable types, are about as cheap as Haiti will find concerning imports. Haitians can expect the prices of many basics to increase.

Now Luis Abinader responded with something new. He says that Dominican business people need to devise a plan of not depending on foreign workers, as using foreign workers for Dominican jobs (agriculture, construction, etc) the days are numbered. Does this mean that the Dominican government will start to fine Dominican companies that use mostly foreign labor (breaking the 80/20 law that states no less than 80% of workers must be Dominicans and no more than 20% may be from other countries)?

 
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NALs

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According to an estimate by Ito Bisonó, the number of Haitians that have migrated back to Haiti since the border issue started amounts to about 100,000.

He also said that the implimentation of the biometric registry is to know who are the Haitians crossing the border. Every Haitian needs to have their biometrics registered in order to be allowed into the DR. This includes Haitian merchants for the binational markets.

 

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According to an estimate by Ito Bisonó, the number of Haitians that have migrated back to Haiti since the border issue started amounts to about 100,000.

He also said that the implimentation of the biometric registry is to know who are the Haitians crossing the border. Every Haitian needs to have their biometrics registered in order to be allowed into the DR. This includes Haitian merchants for the binational markets.

A good start.
 

NALs

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The canal issue has basically become a non-issue for the DR. The border has been open for days, that is on the Dominican side. It's Haiti that intentionally keeps it side closed.

The flow of Haitians returning to Haiti to live permanently continue to increase.

 

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The canal issue has basically become a non-issue for the DR. The border has been open for days, that is on the Dominican side. It's Haiti that intentionally keeps it side closed.

The flow of Haitians returning to Haiti to live permanently continue to increase.

Unless it's a pregnant woman or someone with a work permit, I just can't see the reason any Haitian would want to be here. I do have friends here that continually dodge the police/migracion, but that's a sucky way to live.