One of the oddities of the region is that it is often easier to read in the media about what is happening in North America or Europe than it is to discover what is happening in neighbouring nations that speak another language.
This means that the outcome of the May 20 presidential election in the Dominican Republic has largely gone unremarked by much of the Caricom media. Despite the country being one of the region’s most populous nations (10.2 million people), a member of Cariforum and sharing the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, you would be hard pressed to discover more than the absolute minimum about the election’s outcome, what it might mean for the English-speaking part of the region or how it may modify the thinking of others towards the region on issues from security to investment.
The winner of course was Danilo Medina, the candidate of the ruling Partido de Liberacion Dominicana (PLD). In August he will