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Tourism is still at record lows, with no indication that it will return this year, but some countries are encouraging long-term remote-work arrangements on their Caribbean beaches, and others are serving as convenient 14...

COVID-19 continues to reshape how organized criminal networks operate in the Caribbean. The evolving economic and health crisis in the region underlies a shift in where and how these criminal networks may challenge priva...

COVID-19 has not only crippled economies around the world, but has also impacted criminal groups and their illicit revenue streams. Criminal organizations across the region are adapting by turning to different crimes suc...

Cholera infects between 3-5 million people each year, killing approximately 100,000. Epidemics are often linked to poor sanitation, improper drainage, unhygienic street foods, and/or environmental factors including flood...

The responses of many governments in the Americas to the West Africa Ebola outbreak have trumped local efforts to weaken an epidemic that is far more likely to impact public health: the Chikungunya virus. The resurgence...

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued this report on December 1, 2010

A scheduled anti-US demonstration was held in Barahona on April 29.

On Tuesday, February 14, at approximately 1000 hours, a group calling itself "Unidad del Pueblo" and consisting of members of eight different leftist groups, demonstrated in front of U.S. Embassy Santo Domingo.

A U.S. citizen had his driver's license taken and was threatened with overnight detainment by local police during a routine traffic stop in June.