Haiti triggers travel alert over medical and crime concerns
For travlers thinking about going to Haiti, the State Department warns about difficulties obtaining emergency medical care and a high rate of robberies. (Hector Retamal…
In Haiti, Rand Paul’s patients are happy. A potential donor, less so.
By David Weigel August 19 at 5:49 PM CAP HAITIEN, Haiti — Eighteen hours earlier, Maitre Rose’s world was black with useless, blurry flashes of…
A DEATH SENTENCE FOR KETANT? AS ARISTIDE AND OTHERS, BETRAYED BY HIM, SEEK VENGENCE??
browardpalmbeach.com It was supposed to be easy. Edouard Rene Joseph was a combat vet, Desert Storm, so he had trimmed the situation down to simple…
Telecom relaunches mobile money product in Haiti, where most people don’t have bank accounts
AP News: PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A mobile phone network provider has relaunched a money transfer system in Haiti designed to let people get easier access…
College French Class Creates Custom Children’s Books To Fill Shelves Of Haiti School
Cameron Keady Associate Editor, Good News, The Huffington Post Posted: 08/18/2015 08:16 AM EDT | Edited: 08/18/2015 08:17 AM EDT Never underestimate the power of…
OPONT MAKES COSMETIC EFFORT IN FACE OF MASSIVE DISASTER. FEWER THAN 1% VOTED IN ELECTION FIASCO – DISQUALIFIES CANDIDATES FROM MANY PARTIES TO APPEAR BALANCED- ONLY SOLUTION – OPONT RESIGNATION – NEW CEP – RETURN OF EXCLUDED CANDIDATES – HOLD ALL ELECTIONS IN DECEMBER.
August 18, 2015 Here we are, one day before the CEP is scheduled to release the election results, from August 9. Those, inside the CEP,…
Haitian Migrants Detained After Coming Ashore in Florida
Map shows locations of Palm Beach, Florida and Haiti. Reuters August 17, 2015 5:50 PM MIAMI—A group of 32 people, mostly Haitian migrants, were detained…
Putting the spotlight on children’s lives in Haiti
11-year-old Djolanda sits outside her home. (c) UNICEF Haiti/2015/Walther Home Jacmel, in Haiti’s South East and its surroundings are a picture of Caribbean beauty, with…
Haiti’s critical test — and ours
TROUBLE AT THE POLLS: People are escorted out of a voting center after it was closed because of violence during parliamentary elections in Port-au-Prince, Haiti…
Haitian teen gets new leg at Genesis
Deirdre Baker Joverly Charles, 15, of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, is in Davenport for two to four weeks to receive a new prosthesis and physical therapy. She…
Haiti truck road crash leaves 17 dead, 18 injured – Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
A road accident at a Haiti highway on April 2, 2012. The the most recent accident in Haiti involving a truck on August 15, 2015…
U.N. role in Haiti cholera epidemic
(CNN) – There is a humanitarian crisis happening in our own hemisphere, but it’s not likely you’ve heard of it. Thousands have died, threatening the…
HOW THE WORLD WAS WON IN 2006 BY PREVAL THREATS AFTER ATTACK ON MONTANA HOTEL
2006 had a massive voter turnout, as did the 2010 ballot, in which Michel Martelly won a true landslide victory, in spite of Preval’s effort…
A Difficult Return to Haiti
Tens of thousands of Haitians and Haitian-Dominicans have fled the Dominican Republic in response to its strict new immigration policy with many settling in squalid…
Haïti-Fraudes électorales : Les arroseurs arrosés.-
-Aug 17 08:22AM -0400 Le dimanche 9 août 2015, Haïti a vécu une dure journée dite “électorale”. La violence était répandue à travers le pays….
Dominicans of Haitian descent fear racism will fuel deportations
Dark-skinned native Dominicans and longtime residents report a rash of deportations following immigration law changes in the Dominican Republic. BATEY LIBERTAD, Dominican Republic — As Roberto Rafael remembers…
IOM monitors migrant flows on Haiti-Dominican Republic border-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Saint Soi and his family at the Fond Bayard school in Fond Parisien near the Malpasse border after returning from the Dominican Republic. IOM/Ilaria Lanzoni….
A young Haitian in semifinals of the TOYP 2015
Haiti Libre: The young Haitian entrepreneur, Garius Lonick, winner of the winners of the Ten Outstanding Young Haitians 2014 (TOYP) organized by Junior Chamber International…
Miami jury: Haitian police commander helped drug smugglers
By Jay Weaver jweaver@MiamiHerald.com Twelve jurors told a Miami federal judge on Friday afternoon that they were deadlocked in deciding the fate of a Haitian…
Dominican Republic resumes deportation of migrants deemed illegal
Reuters/Reuters – People wait to talk to an enumerator with The International Organization for Migration (IOM) at a camp for returned Haitians and Haitian-Dominicans, near…