By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service WASHINGTON – Advocates for Haitian peasants said a U.S.-based company’s donation of up to 475 tons of hybrid vegetable seeds to aid Haitian farmers will harm the island-nation’s agriculture. The advocates contend the donation is being made in an effort to shift farmer dependence from local seed to...
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Here are some videos of world class methods of overcoming obstacles. Lessons that the citizens of developed countries should take a lesson from. Teamwork, and determination will take a community a very long way. Bricks are sometimes carried by Wheelbarrow, but here, this man is shown stacking them on his head- 22 of them...
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By Ana Rodriguez-Soto Catholic News Service MIAMI – The deluge let up just as the festivities began. Two hours later, Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski emerged from St. Mary Cathedral into bright sunlight, having officially been installed as Miami’s fourth archbishop. On a rain-soaked June 1 – the first day of the hurricane season, as...
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WASHINGTON — A former official of Haiti’s state-owned national telecommunications company was sentenced to four years in US prison on charges related to a money laundering and bribery scheme, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Robert Antoine, 62, pleaded guilty earlier this year to charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering in the scheme which...
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