August 21, 2017 We have one of our employees telling a bizarre and criminally destructive story. She works hard; very hard to provide funds required to give her kids an education. And she works hard; very hard to provide the resources needed to see them provided with a balanced and nutritious diet. For example,...
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By Kate McKenna, CBC News Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has a message for asylum seekers: crossing illegally into the country doesn’t offer an advantage when it comes to obtaining refugee status in Canada. “If I could directly speak to people seeking asylum, I’d like to remind them there’s no advantage,” Trudeau said at a news conference Sunday in Montreal. “Our...
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WATERLOO – The Waterloo Center for the Arts is hosting the annual Haitian Art Society, Sept. 23-28, featuring special presentations, exhibitions, gallery talks and tours of museums and private collections in Waterloo, Cedar Falls, Dubuque, Milwaukee, Chicago and Davenport. Waterloo is far from the island nation of Haiti, but it is the repository of...
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An asylum seeker is processed by RCMP officers after crossing the border into Canada from Champlain, N.Y., in Hemmingford, Que., August 4. (Ryan Remiorz/Canadian Press) In the U.S. immigration debate, it’s called “twilight status,” and for many who hold it, the light is flickering and fading. Unlike Canada or Mexico, which both routinely deport almost...
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HAITI LIBRE: At 15 days of the start of the school year, scheduled for September 4th, while the pressure is increasing on parents who can not find subsidized school books… Miloody Vincent, Director of Communication of the Ministry of Education, provides no details, saying “during the month of August, when the books will be...
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Haiti Libre: While in Haiti all are preparing for the solar eclipse that will take place on Monday 21 August, it is the Haitian diaspora that will have the privilege before Haiti, to attend this rare astronomical event. The Haitian community of Atlanta will be particularly privileged, as it will be able to witness...
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www.haitianhearts.org Dark forces cause people to be poor and keep them poor. Poor has different shades. Different degrees. Different outcomes. The first dark shade of poor is the mother who gives her children to her mother in the calm countryside so she can work for pennies in the merciless big city. A darker shade...
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The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) says a Haitian national residing in Miami-Dade County in Florida has been sentenced to 70 months in prison for his role in a stolen identity refund fraud scheme. According to documents and information provided to the court, from about 2008 through January 2015, in Broward and Miami-Dade...
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Asylum seekers sit in front of their tent in a temporary camp, Aug. 15, 2017, near Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec. (Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press via AP) By Joe Crowe | Friday, 18 Aug 2017 01:13 PM People are seeking asylum in Canada in “unprecedented” numbers, officials said in a CNN report Friday. “We’ve never seen these numbers....
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Vijay Prashad 19 Aug 2017 Image Courtesy: Zurijeta/Shutterstock Raoul Peck, the Haitian filmmaker, opens his new film – Der Junge Karl Marx (2017) – in the forests of Prussia. Peasants gather fallen wood. They look cold and hungry. We hear horses in the distance. The guards and the aristocrats are near. They have come...
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Haiti Libre: Lieutenant General Máximo William Muñoz Delgado, Director General of Migration (DGM), revealed that during migration control operations, Migration Inspectors had seized in the hands of Haitians in an irregular situation on Dominican territory, 153 authentic cards of the National Regularization Plan of Foreigners (PNRE) belonging to other people and 183 false cards...
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VICE NEWS By Brigitte Noël Aug 18, 2017 Immigration workers in Quebec are worried that videos spreading misinformation about what it takes to be granted refuge in Canada are partly to blame for the stream of asylum seekers heading north. And they’re afraid some could be part of profit-making scams. More than 3,000 people...
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By Elizabeth Koh ekoh@miamiherald.com August 18, 2017 9:09 AM Tropical Storm Harvey will avoid South Florida as it churns through the eastern Caribbean Sea this weekend, but forecasters are eyeing another tropical disturbance that may develop early next week. The National Hurricane Center said early Friday that a wave currently tracking toward the Bahamas...
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A dance troupe from Haiti held its debut show in Beijing on Wednesday, greeting people in the Chinese capital with exotic dancing steps from the Caribbean Sea and strong beats of Haitian music. Dancers from Ballet Bacouloud’ Haiti, a famed folk dance group in the Caribbean country, enthralled audience members with a show named...
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(CNN)Canada is facing an “unprecedented” number of asylum seekers, who have crossed the border from the United States, officials said. “We’ve never seen those numbers,” said Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) spokesman Claude Castonguay. “Even though our officers are patrolling 24 hours a day all year long, we’ve never seen such numbers coming in.”...
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Two of three budding tropical systems in the Atlantic will approach the Caribbean, Central America and the United States in the coming days. Three batches of thunderstorms are moving westward across the tropical Atlantic. From west to east, the systems have been dubbed Tropical Storm Harvey and 92L. The third system is likely to...
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BURNET — Francillon Chery lost an arm and a leg during the 2010 earthquake that devastated his country of Haiti. He tried to find refuge in a church when the 7.0-magnitude earthquake ripped through the Caribbean island nation on Jan. 12 of that year. Everything points to a man who should be depressed and...
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Haiti Cardiac Alliance is searching for people to take in three preschoolers as they recover from complex heart surgeries at SickKids hospital. From left, Kervens Jeannot, David Smith Millien and Roobens Thelusma of Haiti all need surgery to repair holes in their hearts. Sick Kids hospital will perform the surgeries, but each of the...
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The number of suspected cases of cholera continued to decline at the national level in June 2017. The effective coordination of the various actors has made it possible to control all the new outbreaks of the epidemic while continuing to reduce the level of transmission of the disease in the most persistent areas. Community...
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Depi mwen fini ekri teks sou analyz priyè esklav yo nan Seremoni Bwa Kayiman, sepa 2 mesaj mwen pa resevwa. - Gen moun ki panse mwen pa istoryen kidonk mwen pa dwe rantre nan koze sa yo. - Gen lòt moun ki di se Seremoni sa ki lakòz peyi d’Ayiti gen tout pwoblèm sa...
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