SANTO DOMINGO.- Security has been heightened in all restricted areas in the Las Americas International Airport, to await U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s arrival and reception by a delegation headed by the Dominican Foreign Relations minister Carlos Morales and U.S. Embassy commercial attaché Roland W. Bullen, in the terminal’s Ambassadors Salon.
Security positions were increased in the area of Clinton’s scheduled 6 p.m. arrival aboard a U.S. Navy aircraft, as the deployment of more Police and military agents is expected in the next few hours.
The U.S. diplomat’s security detail arrived in the country yesterday and work with Dominican security agencies to control access to the terminal’s areas, including the special accreditation for the journalists who’ll cover the visit.

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WASHINGTON, April 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than $1.1 million will be used to improve agricultural training, marketing and planting more profitable crops along the impoverished Haiti-Dominican Republic border, the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF) announced today.
"This project will improve the lives of thousands of small-plot and substance farmers," says John Sanbrailo, Executive Director of PADF. "This new funding builds on PADF's successful record of being a catalyst for sustainable economic development along the border."