The vast difference between Haiti and the Dominican Republic ...

The Supreme Court recently observed that once a slum area is declared as 'censused slum' i.e., the slums located on land belonging to government or municipal undertaking, than such slums are ...

Over the past four decades this country has sent 45,000 to 50,000 such students to high schools each year, expecting them to be able to do well at Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC ...

Hundreds of roofs in Gujarat's informal settlements have been coated with reflective white paint to combat extreme summer temperatures. The project, involving 400 households in Ahmedabad, aims to ...

Cruise line Royal Caribbean International is moving one of its ships from the Port of Baltimore to a port in Florida, company officials said. The company said its Vision of the Seas ship will be ...

Nearly 20 shops were destroyed in a fire that broke out at Santoshpur Railway Station’s platform number 2 on Sunday, an official said. Three fire engines soon reached the spot, and after a 90-minute ...

New Delhi: Delhi High Court has said a survey may be needed of residents of a slum in the Okhla area facing demolition action by DDA. Refusing to stay the demolition process, HC on Friday ...

In the Vanzara Vas slum in the Narol area of the city, which has more than 2,000 dwellings, most of them airless, one-room homes, residents that are part of the project, such as Nehal Vijaybhai ...

With this and a variety of more mercantile motives in mind, the U.S. made a series of military interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean. However, the past few decades have seen a dramatic ...

She was married off at the tender age of 12 and sent to stay with her husband's family in a Mumbai slum. What was supposed to be a new beginning soon became a living hell of physical and emotional ...

Dharavi, one of Asia’s largest slums, is a densely populated settlement in Mumbai, and its redevelopment project holds immense significance as it aims to transform the area into a modern urban ...