Bilateral trade between the Dominican Republic and Haiti estimated at over US$27m
by Ramon Cedano
Caribbean Net News Dominican Republic Correspondent
E-mail: ramonce@tricom.net
Monday, July 4, 2005
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic: The
Dominican Republic ambassador to Haiti, José Serulle Ramia, has said that
annual trade between the two countries sharing the Caribbean island of
Hispaniola totaled over US 27 million, and went on to state that “this year,
that figure is over 20 percent more than in 2004.
“The renewed vitality of trade along the
Dominican-Haitian border is indicative of this increase,” added the
Ambassador. The diplomat explained that
Dominican Republic’s exports to Haiti include, amongst other products,
significant amounts of plantains, eggs, semi-processed products, potatoes, and
milk. Serulle highlighted that 30 percent of chicken raisers in the north
depended heavily on exports to the neighboring country.
"I visit towns and markets in Haiti, and I
can assure you that an important share of the products that are sold there
comes from our Dominican Republic,” declared Ambassador Serulle as he prepared
to board an aircraft at Las Américas International Airport en route to Madrid
on an official visit.
The Ambassador described relations between
the two neighbors as “excellent” and termed the violent incidents involving
Dominicans and Haitians, especially in the northwestern provinces of the
Dominican Republic, as “isolated events.” In
a related news story, Admiral Sigfredo Pared Perez, Secretary of State of the
Armed Forces of the Dominican Republic, informed the press that the Dominican
authorities had delivered several fugitives to their counterparts in Haiti,
who had presumably managed to escape from Haitian jails.
A former Haitian consul to the country, Edwin Paraison, denounced that a group
of his fellow countrymen, who had escaped from jail last year and beginning of
this year, may be responsible for several crimes committed in the Dominican
Republic, which have tainted the image of the Haitian community here. Over
four thousand prisoners may have apparently escaped from various jails in
Haiti.
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