A team in Colombia is to test a ventilator made with a Raspberry Pi computer and easy-to-source parts. The design and computer code were posted…

Boston — The coronavirus death toll now tops 3,000 worldwide, with nearly 90,000 cases. But even those numbers are nothing compared to what could happen in…

  David M. Morens, M.D., Peter Daszak, Ph.D., and Jeffery K. Taubenberger, M.D., Ph.D. The 1918 influenza pandemic was the deadliest event in human history…

January 12, 2020 I received this video from Sophia Martelly and have just completed watching it. I have tears in my eyes, and memories in…

As this Sunday’s anniversary of the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti drew closer, I was annoyed to see reporting that focused exclusively on how bad…

As world leaders descend on New York for this year’s U.N. General Assembly, the immunity enjoyed by the organization is being challenged at the U.S….

MARSH HARBOUR, THE BAHAMAS Hurricane Dorian, the most catastrophic storm to hit the Bahamas, has upended everyday routines. On Sunday, the St. Francis Catholic Church,…

  Although Haiti’s imports from the People’s Republic of China reached $700 million [USD] in 2018, there is still no diplomatic relationship between the two…

In Sept. 2017, Daniel Gault drove past the Nantucket house where his friend Isidro Lemus had lived for more than a decade. Lemus was no…

When her daughter was 4 years old, Jennifer Jean started a small catering business in Bourdon, a lower middle-class district of the Haitian capital.  …

A Queensland woman, who hopes to help 20 million of the world’s poorest children learn to read, has won a prestigious award recognising the work…

When an earthquake devastated Haiti in 2010, the safety director at an Iowa farm equipment maker emailed his boss with an 11-word pitch for a…

The Canadian Press Published Friday, August 30, 2019 7:34AM EDT QUEBEC – The federal government is giving Quebec $250 million in compensation for costs the…

As Tropical Storm Dorian churns on a northwest path through the Caribbean and potentially toward Florida, it looks like the conditions that help storms strengthen…

A group of experts and hydraulic engineers from Cuba came into Haiti last Monday to begin analysis on a 3-phase project to repair and extend…

The annual inflation rate in the United States hovers at around 2%. For the uninitiated, inflation is the annual percentage change in consumer prices compared…

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – The European Union has released €9 million ($10m) in humanitarian aid in response to the deteriorating food and nutrition…

A familiar stretch of steel from the South Shore has a new life in rural Haiti. An 80-foot section of the temporary Fore River Bridge,…

By Jacob Uitti Above all else, nurse Berthilde Dufrene asks one thing of people: to look past each other’s differences and focus on what makes…

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced on Friday it would be ending two parole programs: the Haitian Family Reunification Parole Program and the Filipino…