The New York Times has focused on the Baninter banking embezzlement case in its 16 May edition. See
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/16/business/worldbusiness/
The New York Times has also covered the spreading of AIDS in the Dominican Republic, primarily because of Haitian migration. The article says that there are about half a million people with HIV in the Caribbean, which has the highest infection rate outside Africa.
See http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/18/international/americas/