Day: November 8, 2013
3 Haitian Cabinet members narrowly survive no-confidence vote in Senate-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Three high-ranking officials in Haiti have narrowly survived no-confidence votes in Parliament. More than a dozen of the 18 voting senators backed…
Student protests greet US officials on Haiti visit
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—A loud and smoky protest has accompanied U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s meeting with the president of Haiti in the capital of the impoverished…
Plant to help Haiti’s peanut farmers opens
The Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The nonprofit group of public health pioneer Dr. Paul Farmer and a health care company have teamed up to…
US Education Secretary Duncan visits Haiti classrooms, calls for openness to improve schools
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A senior U.S. official visiting Haiti called Tuesday for greater transparency to improve the quality of education in the Caribbean country’s long-struggling…
Anti-government protest in Haiti turns violent
Demonstrators perform a voodoo ceremony before the start of anti-government protest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013. Sporadic demonstrations have taken place in Haiti’s…