Month: December 2015
Sean Penn Announces Haiti Reforestation Project
By Alexa Gray, Contributing Editor How much power and influence do celebrities have in today’s world? One would argue, a significant amount, and with great…
Haiti/Insécurité- Drive By Shooting
L’animateur de compas, Cheristin Ferdinand connu sous le nom de Mass Design (anglais) a été assassiné en fin d’après midi par des individus armés non…
Venezuelan opposition wins Congress, aims for supermajority
Lilian Tintori, wife of jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, left, holds hands up with reelected opposition lawmaker Enrique Marquez, who represents Zulia state, during a…
Advocates: Haiti needs debate about risks of gold mining
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) David Mc Fadden” Haiti risks human rights violations and increased environmental degradation if gold mining proceeds in the impoverished country without an…
Protests continue in Haiti – Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
By G. Dunkel Workers world.com The U.S. government has made it clear that it has no intention of disputing the results that Haiti’s Provisional Electoral…
Venezuelans may swing to opposition in Sunday’s vote-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
A worker passes propaganda graffiti in Caracas ahead of the vote. (CNN)Venezuelans headed to the polls Sunday to vote for a new National Assembly. A…
Haiti opposition says transitional gov’t may be needed
Photo: Dieu Nalio Chery, AP FILE – In this Nov. 12, 2015 file photo, supporters of presidential candidate Maryse Narcisse, of the Lavalas party, removes…
Bye, bye, bananas
(Amy Sancetta/AP Photos) In the mid 1900s, the most popular banana in the world—a sweet, creamy variety called Gros Michel grown in Latin America—all but disappeared…
L’UE recommande la poursuite du processus électoral et déplore un ” amalgame” entre les concepts irrégularités et fraudes massives.-
L’UE recommande la poursuite du processus électoral et déplore un ” amalgame” entre les concepts irrégularités et fraudes massives.- L’ambassadeur de l’Union Européenne en Haïti,…
Sean Penn: IsraAid Inspired and Supported My Humanitarian Work in Haiti
by ISRAEL21c | 12.02.15 5:45 pm On his first visit to Israel, American actor and humanitarian activist Sean Penn declared that the work of his…
Students making change for Respire Haiti
Advocate staff photo by STACY GILL — Several fundraisers were held at Zachary High School recently, including the Kiss the Pig contest to help raise…
Program launched to reduce deadly cervical cancer in Haiti
.View gallery . . ST. MARC, Haiti (AP) — A pilot program was launched Wednesday to battle deadly cervical cancer in impoverished Haiti, which has…
Rebuilding Haiti, One Stitch at a Time
TAKE ACTION Visiting Haiti is an experience measured as much in magic as it is sadness. On a recent trip back I had the opportunity to retrace…
5 Hidden Gems to Visit During Art Basel in Miami’s Little Haiti Neighborhood
Photo: Dagmar Schwelle / Laif / Redux This week last year, a clever meme appeared on social media: “Want to know who’s at Art Basel?…
Honduras, Myanmar & Haiti top of climate change risk list
Photo: dpa-tmn (AFP) Honduras, Myanmar and Haiti top a new list of nations hardest hit by two decades of storms, floods, landslides and droughts that…
Ensure integrity of Haiti’s election
Edwige Danticat Haiti finds itself embroiled — again — in an electoral crisis in the midst of a presidential election. This shouldn’t come as a…
Haiti Elections- Position du G-8 : Communiqué du RDNP
Nous avons lu, avec satisfaction mais sans surprise, la position du G-8 dans son communiqué du 29 novembre. Aussi, saluons-nous le courage de nos compatriotes…
Artist paints colorful new life into vintage Little Haiti building
Haitian artist Turgo Bastien paints the old St. Claire Laundry and Dry Cleaners building in Little Haiti on Nov. 10. Alfonso Duran By Christian Portilla…
A search for family in Haiti raises questions about adoption
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — As Mariette Williams waited for her flight from South Florida to Haiti, she paced the departure lounge, folding and re-folding her…