In the 17th century, English dictator Oliver Cromwell sent thousands of Irish into servitude in the Caribbean. For Irishman Denis O’Brien, that history links his…

Photo credit:MSNBC.com Knights of Columbus partners with Medishare to provide physical therapy and prosthetic limbs WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Knights of Columbus today…

MIAMI (WSVN) — Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski has returned to Miami after a week-long mission trip to Haiti. The archbishop led Haiti’s faith in Catholic…

Waters plans House trial to fight ethics charges Congresswoman denies misusing office to aid bank partly owned by husband SHE SHOULD ALSO EXPLAIN WHY SHE…

A thickening hopelessness hangs over the 1.5 million displaced people who await more durable shelters. ‘I hope the international community can keep our hope alive,…

Originally posted 7/31/2010 By Joseph Guyler Delva NNPA Haiti Correspondent PORT-AU-PRINCE (NNPA) –  U.N. officials in Haiti are saying that the response given by the…

The FINANCIAL — The new World Bank Group Managing Director Sri Mulyani Indrawati and Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean Pamela Cox will…

By THE NEW YORK TIMES An independent commission of inquiry into the Jan. 19 killings of a dozen or more inmates at a prison in…

When your father is a former U.S. President and your mother is the Secretary of State, having your wedding reception in the local pub isn’t…

by Wendell Hutson A coalition of four Black Baptist groups have come together to form a volunteer association whose primary goal is to raise $50…

By Stephen Smith, Globe Staff Dr. Paul Farmer, the charismatic founder of Boston-based Partners in Health, told Congress today the path to recovery in earthquake-shattered…

27 July 2010 – The United Nations and its partners are aiming to reach an additional 500,000 Haitian children during a second round of emergency…

When Weyerhaeuser Company announced it would donate building materials to help rebuild Haiti after January’s devastating earthquake, the company didn’t realize that the generosity of…

Prior to the earthquake of January 12th 2010, Haiti had experienced the highest TB notification rate in the Latin America and Caribbean region. In a…

By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE Yana Paskova for The New York Times Charles Rangel at Friday’s news conference. In his first news conference since learning his fellow…

Reporting from Port-au-Prince, Haiti — If it weren’t hard enough looking after 2,000 earthquake victims crammed into a sweltering schoolyard, Jean Robert Charles now has…

BY JACQUELINE CHARLES jcharles@MiamiHerald.com PORT-AU-PRINCE — Deep in the ravine amid the narrow corridors and chaotic construction, workers in T-shirts push wheelbarrows up and down…

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS JOHN F. KERRY, Massachusetts, Chairman CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, Connecticut RUSSELL D. FEINGOLD, Wisconsin BARBARA BOXER, California ROBERT MENENDEZ, New Jersey BENJAMIN…

JOHN HEILPRIN | 07/22/10 06:24 PM |  UNITED NATIONS — A portrait of Ban Ki- moon as a secrecy-obsessed U.N. chief seeking to wrest control…

  An international polling organization recently carried out a survey throughout Haiti, questioning  more that 5,000 Haitians from all areas, and all ways of life,…