Tag: Dominican Republic

SANTO DOMINGO: The Dominican Republic's borders with Haiti will remain closed until Haitian authorities halt a controversial canal project on a river shared by the two countries, Dominican president Luis Abinader said Sunday.Since the beginning of the month, the Dominican Republic's government has complained about Haitian plans to build a canal on the shared Massacre River, saying it violates several border treaties between the two nations, which share the island of Hispaniola.It announced the initial border closure on Thursday in response to the canal project, an initiative by...