PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti –  Hurricane Sandy destroyed 70 percent of the crops in southern Haiti and caused widespread deaths of livestock, while in neighboring Jamaica it…

Presentement certaines zones dans le sud sont submergees tel que: Baraderes, Dame Marie, Port Salut, Coteaux, Abricot, Les Irois Les Anglais, Leogane, Petit Goave, Petite…

Haiti reeling from impact of Hurricane Sandy, as latest disaster leaves 54 people dead and more than 200,000 homeless Jonathan Watts, Latin America correspondent The…

By Susana Ferreira PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti | Mon Oct 29, 2012 1:53pm EDT (Reuters) – As Hurricane Sandy barreled toward the U.S. East Coast on Monday,…

After the power outage this week, of the supplier Sogener S.A. in Varreux, for lack of fuel due to the non-payment by the Electricity of…

Following the passage of Sandy, the Government will spend $5 million (± 221 million gourdes) for : the immediate response on the next 48 hours…

SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT… A HURRICANE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR… * JAMAICA A HURRICANE WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR… * CUBAN…

Targeted News Service WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 — The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs issued the following fact sheet: The Challenge Even…

This satellite image shows Tropical Storm Sandy between Panama and Jamaica in the Caribbean Sea Monday afternoon. Credits: National Hurricane Center/NOAA The National Hurricane Center…

In Haiti, one-third of girls older than 6 never attend school. Now, young women are starting businesses as street vendors to afford an education for…

Minister of Trade and Commerce Wilson Laleau PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) – The Ministry of Trade and Industry (DTI) announced the availability of its “Electronic Commerce…

The mystery of an annual disappearance of a UK butterfly has been solved, scientists say after tracking the painted lady’s migration on radar. They found…

Following the publication of an article in a Haitian media, saying that rice delivered by Japan, would have been grown near the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant,…

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Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) will donate 110 containers of rice, the equivalent of 2,200 tons, to the people of Haiti in November 2012,…

Cubasi.cu: Haitian and Cuban officials addressed in the Capital Port au Prince current bilateral cooperation links and their prospects in different sectors. Current cooperation programs…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The Inter-American Development Bank is awarding Haiti a $53 million grant to upgrade a stretch of one of the Caribbean nation’s…

Richard Perry/The New York Times The charity Yéle allotted $230,000 for the revitalization of this Port-au-Prince plaza in the Cité Soleil slum, with no lasting…

A woman watches as pastries cool after baking, ahead of the Eid al-Fitr festival, in Sanaa, Yemen, Aug. 18, 2012. REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi By Katie Nguyen…