Haiti news: The Dominicans will lose monopoly

The reign of networks of racketeers, smugglers and traffickers seem to expire at the border point of Belladère. A modern administrative complex built in the area by Pan American and developement Foundation (PADF) will allow the Haitian government to settle.

Haitians and Dominicans who are still their butter at the border point of Belladère have to worry. In the near future, they will have to make way for the Haitian State. The Immigration Service, one of the Customs, the National Police of Haiti, the National Office of Migration and the BRH will occupy the various pavilions that make up the administrative complex built on the territory of Haiti at the border Belladère / Elias Pinas. "The administrative complex will allow the Haitian State to mark its presence at the border," says Cyriac Ducarmel, former mayor of Belladère.

The joy of Mr. Ducarmel is shared by much of the population. Traders and other users of the border point Belladère / Elias Pinas, one of the most important line of Haitian-Dominican border, see this project in the end the monopoly of the Dominicans on the business of the region. "Since the political turmoil of recent years, Dominicans do not come over to Belladère supplies, reported a native of the area. Haitians are thus forced to cross the border to sell and buy at Elias Pinas. "A godsend for Dominicans who have to pay even a peso fee as Haiti. Yet Haitians pay taxes for everything they buy or sell in the Dominican Republic. Read more