A group of businesspeople, professionals and families of Puerto Rican and Dominican descent have come together to collaborate with the Ferries del Caribe Foundation to build 199 cement homes for underprivileged families living in subhuman conditions on the Haiti-Dominican Republic border, the company announced Monday.
New hotels, cruise-ship projects and tourist facilities are all on the drawing board for Haiti as it struggles to attract foreign investment and recover from the magnitude-7.0 earthquake that leveled Port-au-Prince and destroyed the island nation’s fragile economy nearly two years ago.