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                                                                                                               Thursday 15 October 2015

Dominican, Haiti leaders vow to work toward easing disputes

SANTO DOMINGO, Do-           After a roughly five-hour      who do not have legal res-    their migrant parents were          the Dominican Republic,
minican Republic (AP) —      meeting at the airport in      idency.                       “in transit.” The vast major-       was creating a humanitar-
The leaders of Haiti and     the south coast city of        Relations between the         ity of those affected have          ian crisis.
the Dominican Republic       Barahona this week, Do-        neighbors have grown in-      been Haitians.                      In a joint statement, the
pledged Tuesday to work      minican President Danilo       creasingly strained since     Haiti has said the actions          governments of Medina
toward “better harmoni-      Medina’s administration        a Dominican court ruled in    by Dominican officials, in-         and Haitian President Mi-
zation” regarding a thorny   agreed to talk to Haiti’s      2013 that children born in    cluding patrols to detain           chel Martelly also vowed
citizenship dispute and      government about po-           the country to non-citizens   and deport migrants with-           Tuesday to create a com-
ease a trade squabble be-    tentially coordinating the     did not qualify for auto-     out documents to prove              mittee to seek solutions to
tween the two neighbors.     return of Haitian migrants     matic citizenship because     they are legally living in          a trade dispute.q

Mystery shrouds missionary slaying, child abduction in Haiti 

DAVID McFADDEN               told them to run for their     A photo of 4-year-old Jonathan Paul, nicknamed JoJo, is           can’t leave the kids,’” Pir-
Associated Press             lives.                                                                                           tle said.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti        Edwards was shot multiple      tacked to a wall at the Sonlight Children’s Home in the Port-au-  Waymire said the abduct-
(AP) — No ransom de-         times at the wheel of her                                                                        ed boy came to the chil-
mand has been received       car, and the gunmen then       Prince district Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, Wednesday, Oct. 14,    dren’s home when he was
since gunmen snatched        grabbed terrified young-                                                                         9 months old. He was just
a 4-year-old boy over the    ster Jonathan “JoJo” Paul      2015. Paul was kidnapped from American missionary Roberta         “skin and bones” at the
weekend and killed the       and sped off in a vehicle                                                                        time, and being raised in
American missionary who      with tinted windows, fellow    Edwards’ car after she was fatally shot by gunmen Saturday        northeastern Haiti by his
had raised him since he      missionaries said.                                                                               blind grandmother, who
was a severely malnour-      “Hearts are breaking for       night as she sat behind the wheel of her car on a residential     apparently asked a local
ished infant, church offi-   him. And we certainly                                                                            preacher to find decent
cials said Wednesday.        hope that whoever took         street. 				                  (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)         care for him. His mother
Longtime Haiti-based mis-    him, wherever he is, who-                                                                        was dead.
sionary Roberta Edwards      ever has him, will return him  in Haiti. She had lived in ing “tired” and “scared,”              Recently taken photo-
was fatally shot by two at-  as soon as possible,” said     the impoverished country Pirtle said. But she never               graphs show a healthy-
tackers who cut off her car  Larry Waymire, a longtime                                                                        looking child with bright
on a rutted, dirt road late  colleague and friend of        for two decades, initially mentioned receiving any                eyes and a ready smile.
Saturday near the foster     the 55-year-old Edwards.                                                                         Waymire said Jonathan,
care home and food-dis-      Police have given only         moving here with her Hai-     threats or provided any             the second youngest resi-
tribution site she has run   the broadest outline of        tian husband. The mar-        specific reasons she felt           dent at the foster home,
on the outskirts of Port-    the case and no details of     riage didn’t last.            frightened, he said.                rarely left Edwards’ side.
au-Prince since 2002. She    the investigation. The mo-     During a trip back to Ten-    “You can imagine being              One of the photos shows
was returning from a gas     tive behind the killing and                                                                      him resting in her lap.
station with three of her    apparent kidnapping re-        nessee a couple of months     here and doing this work            The killing stunned resi-
young charges.               mains unclear.                 ago, Edwards told church      — she’d been doing it for           dents along the area’s
The Estes Church of Christ   Harold Pirtle, a church el-    elders that she had con-      20 years. And so she had            narrow dirt roads. Hun-
in Henderson, Tennessee,     der who traveled from          sidered leaving Haiti, say-   considered leaving the              dreds of people, some
which sponsored Edwards’     Tennessee to comfort the                                                                         weeping, gathered out-
work at the Sonlight Chil-   children at the home run       ing she had been feel- work, but then she said: ‘I                side the gates of the chil-
dren’s Home, said her two    by Edwards in Croix-des-                                                                         dren’s home and abutting
teenage passengers man-      Bouquets, said she was                                                                           nutrition center the morn-
aged to escape after she     well aware of the dangers                                                                        ing after Edwards’ killing.q

Prosecutors allege bad driver bribes at Puerto Rico DMV 

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico        accused of accepting           money from government         ployees with the Depart-            more than a year ago at
(AP) — Puerto Rico’s         money to eliminate traf-       funds, but it also puts       ment of Motor Vehicles.             seven DMV centers across
Justice Department an-       fic tickets, alter categories  people’s safety at risk,” he  Miranda said some DMV               the island. Authorities
nounced Wednesday that       on driver’s licenses and       said.                         employees are accused               said some of the suspects
it charged 38 people in a    award licenses to people       Among those charged           of improperly awarding              would approach people
scheme that let people       who skipped required           are a state police officer,   licenses that allow driving         in line at DMV centers with
pay bribes to get licenses   tests, according to Justice    three employees with the      all types of commercial             promises of erasing their
or evade fines.              Secretary Cesar Miranda.       island’s Treasury Depart-     trucks.                             fines or awarding them li-
Most of the suspects are     “This type of reproachable     ment and nine civilians.      Officials said the charges          censes in exchange for a
government employees         behavior not only diverted     The other suspects are em-    cover acts that began               fee.q
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