NEW YORK — Fifteen minutes after he heard about the earthquake in Haiti, Dominican barber Jose Taveras said he made a donation to the Red Cross. Taveras was born in the Dominican Republic, a country that shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti. “I consider Haiti a part of my country,” Taveras said through his [...]
As we wrote in our weekly news summary yesterday, Haiti suffered a devastating earthquake in the afternoon on Jan. 12, measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale and followed by more than 30 aftershocks. The precise magnitude of the damage to the hemisphere’s most impoverished nation remains unclear, but many believe that the death toll will reach [...]
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