(PRNewswire) – During a historic and frank dialogue at the border town of Ouanaminthe, Dominican authorities pledged to enact measures to safeguard the basic rights of...
Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe will lead a 5-member commission for high-level talks with the Dominican Republic that begin Tuesday. According to the government, the commission...
Haitian President Michel Martelly. PHOTO/File Haiti’s President Michel Martelly urged his fellow citizens to come together to rebuild the poverty-stricken country devastated by an earthquake nearly...
Two tech companies have launched rival ventures to build Android tablets in Haiti, a country with little recent experience in electronics manufacturing. Startups Surtab SA and...
Haitian President Michel Martelly. PHOTO/File (PRNewsire) – The government of Haiti has generally received negative ratings in national and international media yet the majority of Haitians...
Haiti and the Dominican Republic will meet next month in an effort to resolve questions over a widely debated court decision that could render thousands of...
The Caribbean Development Bank has admitted Suriname as a full member of the financial body. As a result, Suriname will now have easier access to subsidized...
Haitian President Michel Martelly. PHOTO/File The Martelly administration in Haiti took an important step on Tuesday to organize legislative and local elections that are 2 years...
Protestors in Haiti march against a court citizenship ruling in neighbouring Dominican Republic. PHOTO/Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Hundreds of protesters gathered Friday to criticize a recent court...
Latest preliminary data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have revealed that Haiti has registered gross domestic product (GDP growth) of 4 percent in the 2013...
Haiti’s President Michel Martelly said Haiti will not sever trading ties with the Dominican Republic in light of the chaos created by the September 23 constitutional...
The first touch-screen tablet manufactured in Haiti and its affordable price have captured the interest of Haitians, particularly within low income households and the youth, who...
(CaribJournal) – Haiti and the Dominican Republic have begun talks on the controversial citizenship ruling by the Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Court regarding Dominicans of Haitian descent....
A special meeting of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Bureau will be held in Port of Spain, Trinidad, early next week to address the recent court ruling...
Thousands of critics of Haiti’s President Michel Martelly staged protest marches on Monday, some ripping down billboards of the president and vowing to drive him from...
(HaitiLibre) – To connect potential investors directly with Haiti’s private sector, the Haiti Renewal Alliance’s 5th Business Investment Expo and Conference will expand to Port au...
The Caribbean nation of Haiti, is the country most affected by climate-related catastrophes in the decade ending 2012, according to a report released late last week....
Sunrise Airways has set a November 1, 2013 start date for its new flights between its home base in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and Holguín, a resort city in...
Haiti Prime Minister., Laurent Lamothe (PRNewswire) – The owner of the Haiti Observateur Group and Leo Joseph, its owner, agreed to the dismissal of a lawsuit...
(PRNewswire) – The government of Haiti questioned the findings of a recent report by the Walk Free Foundation on the alleged prevalence of “modern slavery” in...
(AFP) – The UN Security Council on Thursday voted to reduce the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti which is battling a mounting controversy over a cholera...
Former Jamaica prime minister Percival James (PJ) Patterson has indicated that the 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping needs to strongly condemn recent developments in the Dominican...
(Reuters) – Human rights lawyers representing Haitian victims of a cholera epidemic announced on Wednesday they were filing a lawsuit against the United Nations, with a...
Haiti said Saturday that it “strongly disagrees” with a court ruling in the Dominican Republic that strips citizenship from the children of Haitian migrants. The Martelly...
Haitian President Michel Martelly. PHOTO/File Critics of Haitian President Michel Martelly are demonstrating in the streets in the Caribbean nation’s capital. Several thousand protesters are marching...
Haitian President Michel Martelly and former President Jean Bertrand Aristide at their previous meeting in 2011. PHOTO/File Haitian President Michel Martelly has held a private meeting...
Haiti moved closer on Monday to reconstituting a military that was abolished in 1995. In a small ceremony in the farming village of Petite Rivere de...
While we neither have an issue with the Santo Domingo-based government of the Dominican Republic, nor disagree with international trade, much less the regional kind, we...
Haiti is raising taxes on a number of imported products as the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country moves to protect local industries from unfair competition. The...
U.N Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recommended a 15 percent reduction in the number of U.N. troops in Haiti last week and an examination of whether the beleaguered...
Haiti plans to hold overdue parliamentary elections before the end of the year. The elections are needed to fill one-third of Haiti’s 30-member Senate and dozens...
The trade dispute between Caribbean neighbors, Haiti and the Dominican Republic has escalated with the Dominican Republic implementing tighter restrictions along the border with Haiti, in...
A Yale University report released Tuesday argues that the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti should be held accountable for introducing cholera into the Caribbean nation....
As the trade dispute between Haiti and the Dominican Republic drags on, the North Region Industries Association (AIREN) of the Dominican Rebulic, has requested for the...
The on-going trade row between Haiti and the Dominican Republic has prompted the National Association of Young Entrepreneurs of the Dominican Republic known as ANJE, to...
The United Nations (UN) has refused, again, to countenance the claims of 5,000 cholera-affected Haitians against it. The Haitians contend that grossly inadequate sanitation at a...
Jean Maurice scored twice to lead Haiti to a 2-0 victory over Trinidad and Tobago in a group-stage match of the CONCACAF Gold Cup Friday night....
As Haiti rises from the ashes and shakes off its difficult past, the Martelly administration is working to position the country as the next hot destination...
Progression of Tropical Storm Chantal. IMAGE/Reuters Tropical Storm Chantal skirted the southern coasts of the Dominican Republic and Haiti on Wednesday, losing force but still posing...
The strain of cholera that has sickened thousands in Haiti came from a single source and was not repeatedly introduced to the island-nation over the past...
Haiti has reported its first suspected death from the H1N1 virus. The victim was from the small community of Nan Bannann in the southern city of...
Haiti’s Peterson Joseph (l) and Italy’s Claudio Marchisio tussle for the ball during the friendly game between Haiti and Italy, June 11, 2013. PHOTO/Felipe Dana (Reuters)...
Bernice Fidelia Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe’s office says that a cabinet member has resigned amid charges she’s American. The departure of Bernice Fidelia (pictured), the outgoing...
A drill worker listens for the bit, hundreds of feet underground, during exploratory drilling for minerals and metals Haiti. PHOTO/Dieu Nalio Chery/AP (AP) – Haiti is...
The United Nations Organization’s efforts to tackle cholera in Haiti are “almost non-existent”, a medical charity, Medecins Sans Frontieres has revealed, as the world body faces...
Police in Haiti say a Brazilian military plane veered onto the grass next to a runway of the capital’s airport after one engine caught fire as...
Haitian President Michel Martelly Haiti’s President Michel Martelly is defending his record since taking office two years ago./p Among some of the accomplishments Martelly has achieved...
Haiti’s government Monday called on the public to act against cholera infections especially in the capital Port-au-Prince where one fourth of all cholera cases have occurred,...
Volunter participates in shelter construction in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. PHOTO/File (PRWire) – Port-au-Prince – At the opening ceremony of the first meeting of the Committee on Coordination...
A human rights group said Wednesday it will sue the United Nations in 60 days if the world body does not agree to compensate Haitian cholera...
Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide appeared in public for the first time since returning from exile more than...
Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. PHOTO/File Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is trying to rebuild his political party as the country prepares for legislative and local...
Haiti, one of the world’s most deforested countries, launches its first national tree-planting program in May this year. The Martelly administration government calls the effort “a...
Haiti Prime Minister., Laurent Lamothe (PRNewswire) – In response to Amnesty International’s reports of human rights violations regarding alleged forced evictions of individuals living in make-shift...
Human rights groups in Haiti are demanding the United Nations be held more accountable after a Canadian police officer who was suspected of sexually assaulting a...
Haiti, which earlier this year hosted the “historic” summit of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders, is getting ready to host another major summit this month, informed sources...
Regine Godefroy Haiti’s communications minister has resigned from her post, becoming the second Cabinet member to step down in as many days, media outlets reported Thursday....
Marie Carmelle Jean-Marie (Reuters) – Haiti’s Minister of Economy and Finances Marie Carmelle Jean-Marie resigned abruptly on Wednesday, citing a lack of cooperation from her cabinet...
(PRNewswire-USNewswire) – Port-au-Prince – From cash transfers to the elderly and disabled, to hot meals and subsidies for students and farmers, the Government of Haiti has...
Latest report illustrates that the bulk of aid seldom reaches the beneficiaries for whom it is intended. A new report on American aid to Haiti in...
For all its challenges, Haiti was free of cholera for about a century before a United Nations peacekeeping force arrived from Nepal in October 2010. Although...
Jean-Claude Duvalier Alleged victims of the government of former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier have resumed their testimony in court. Dr. Nicole Magloire told Haiti’s court of...
(PRNewswire) – Port-au-Prince, March 13, 2013 – The government of Haiti announced today that it will use certain Western Union tools that will allow thousands of...
Former Haitian President Rene Preval Former Haitian President Rene Preval testified behind closed doors Thursday as authorities try to revive the investigation into the long-unsolved killing...
Jean-Claude Duvalier An attorney for Jean-Claude Duvalier said Monday that his client was hospitalized for an unspecified illness just after the former ruler testified last week...
Jean-Claude Duvalier Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier has for the first time appeared in court for a hearing on whether he should be charged with human...
A small earthquake shook the capital of Haiti – Port-au-Prince, on Monday, causing people in the capital to scramble out of buildings in fear. U.S. Geological...
The United Nations on Thursday formally rejected a multibillion-dollar damages claim for a cholera epidemic in Haiti that has been widely blamed on U.N. peacekeepers. About...
Haiti Prime Minister., Laurent Lamothe (PRNewswire) – A US Federal Judge ruled on February 6, 2013 against the Haiti Observateur, a New York based Website noting...
By Michaëlle Jean Haiti does not seek charity, it seeks to found itself anew and provide opportunities for all. Too often, charity is the term that...
(PRNewswire via COMTEX) – Every year the Carnival in Cap Haitien provides an outlet to Haitians from all walks of life to participate in a fun...
Jean-Claude Duvalier A Haitian judge on Thursday postponed a court hearing on possible human rights abuse charges against Jean-Claude Duvalier because the former dictator known as...
Jean-Claude Duvalier Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier is scheduled to appear court on Thursday where it will be determined if he should face trial...
Jean-Claude Duvalier Advocacy groups urged Haitian authorities on Wednesday not to drop a rights abuse case against former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier. Amnesty International and the Open...
Reviewed by Nahal Toosi After 2 1/2 years in Haiti, Jonathan Katz was preparing to leave the impoverished but intriguing nation in January 2010. His next...
Jean S. Desravines. PHOTO/Jami Saunders Jean S. Desravines is the Chief Executive of New Leaders Inc., – a non-profit organization that recruits and develops leaders to...
Haiti’s Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe (pictured), says his country is hoping to attract high-end tourists and multinational investors — instead of constant aid handouts — so...
Haiti, a member of the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping has been re-building since the earthquake struck on 12 January 2010.
Best Western Hotel Construction in Haiti. PHOTO/File St. Lucia Prime Minister, Dr. Kenny Anthony believes the recovery efforts in Haiti after the devastating earthquake in 2010...
Cholera could be contained in Haiti by vaccinating less than half the population, University of Florida researchers suggest in a paper to be published Thursday in...
Press Release: Primature Haiti (PRNewswire) — Haiti is one of the safest destinations; not just in the Caribbean, but throughout all the Americas. This is the...
Haiti today celebrated 209 years of independence. The proclamation by Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared the country independent from France on January 1, 1804, making Haiti the first...
A drill worker listens for the bit, hundreds of feet underground, during exploratory drilling for minerals and metals Haiti. PHOTO/Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Haiti announced Friday that...
Haiti is projected to lead the Caribbean in gross domestic growth (GDP) growth in 2013, according to a new report from the United Nations Economic Commission...
AP – Haiti is overhauling its adoption laws for the first time in nearly 40 years in an attempt to end practices that have allowed thousands...
Haiti and the Dominican Republic will require US$2.2 billion over the next 10 years for an ambitious plan to eliminate cholera, an official from the U.S....
The Haiti government issued a warning Friday telling a band of former soldiers who have been in hiding for six months that it will not tolerate...
AP – The government of Haiti is calling on other countries and international organizations to provide emergency humanitarian aid after Hurricane Sandy caused major damage to...
Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, saw a small increase in the number of people infected by cholera after last week’s destructive rains from Hurricane Sandy, an...
Hurricane Sandy destroyed 70 percent of the crops in southern Haiti and caused widespread deaths of livestock, while in neighboring Jamaica it left at least US$16.5...
Justin Podur issues a powerful challenge and wake-up call to the international NGO and development community. (PR Newswire) – Haiti is again living under a dictatorship,...
As Americans brace for Hurricane Sandy, Haiti was still suffering. Officials raised the storm-related death toll across the Caribbean to 65, with 51 of those coming...
New evidence has emerged about the alleged role of United Nations troops in causing a cholera epidemic in Haiti. The new evidence could have serious implications...
Haiti will become the latest member of the African Union sometime in January 2013. Haiti and Africa share a sense of history, and African countries stepped...
Several hundred protesters angry over rising costs of living called on Sunday for Haitian President Michel Martelly to resign at a march in the country’s capital....
(Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council on Friday approved for another year the world body’s peacekeeping force in Haiti, but it will be cut in size...
With a surcharge on wire transfers and international phone calls into Haiti generating only between US$40 million and US$50 million for education, Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe...
The economy of Haiti is projected to grow 6 percent in 2012, followed by 7.5 percent gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2013, according to the...
Several thousand people have poured into the streets of Haiti’s capital to protest the government of President Michel Martelly. Demonstrators’ complaints included the high cost of...
A drill worker listens for the bit, hundreds of feet underground, during exploratory drilling for minerals and metals Haiti. PHOTO/Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Haiti’s prime minister says...
(Reuters) – A cholera epidemic in Haiti that has killed thousands and been blamed on U.N. peacekeepers was “regrettable” but has been brought under control, the...
The government of Haiti has announced a ban on importing, manufacturing and marketing them as of October 1. “This is a logical decision and makes sense,”...
Digicel, which acquired Haiti’s Voila network earlier this year, will complete the integration of the network by October 15, the company announced. Digicel also announced that...
Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe A Haitian-American journalist sued by Haiti’s prime minister in a defamation lawsuit is standing by his reporting. Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe...
Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe. PHOTO/File Haiti’s prime minister has sued a Haitian-American weekly newspaper for defamation over its reporting on the sale of a telecommunications...
Just when Haiti thought it had cholera under control, Tropical Storm Isaac came along. The storm left at least 24 dead in Haiti, and reignited fears...
Haiti’s death toll from Tropical Storm Isaac has jumped to 19, while five people have died in the neighboring Dominican Republic, government officials said. Marie Alta...
Haiti government officials have indicated that the death toll has risen from Tropical Storm Isaac. Officials from the Civil Protection Office of Haiti, said Sunday that...
The projected path of Tropical Storm Isaac. IMAGE/National Hurricane Center Tropical Storm Isaac strengthened over the Caribbean on Wednesday, threatening to slam into Haiti — still...
Haiti President Michel Martelly has appointed Haitian businessman Gregory Mevs as the co-chair of the Presidential Advisory Council on Economic Growth and Investment. Mevs replaces Laurent...
By Mark Weisbrot Time to Clean Up One of the UN’s Biggest Crimes The people of Haiti have had a long and arduous struggle just to...
Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe (pictured), has made changes to his cabinet. The cabinet re-shuffle was announced in an e-mail late Monday by the Prime Minister’s...
A new report advises against the swift departure of a United Nations mission in Haiti despite debate over the peacekeeping force’s eight-year presence. The International Crisis...
Haiti has agreed to work with Brazil and Ecuador to set up a new army that will eventually replace the U.N. peacekeeping force that has protected...
The government of Haiti is promising to hold legislative and local elections before the end of the year. Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe said at a Tuesday...
Haiti President Michel Martelly at ground breaking ceremony in Caracol. PHOTO/Haiti Libre The government of Haiti agreed Tuesday to allow a local painting manufacturing company become...
The death rate from the Haiti cholera epidemic that has killed more than 7,000 people over the past two years has finally ebbed, but the debate...
Haiti’s infamous Cite Soleil, one of the world’s most violent and run-down slums, could boast a 15,000-seater stadium and sports complex if one philanthropist’s dreams are...
Haiti mobile operators Digicel Haiti and Voila have topped 5 million transactions under their mobile money services, thus reaching the target set by the Haiti Mobile...
Haiti might be “poorest country in the Americas,” but the tiny nation is also sitting on a gold mine. The new Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe says...
A 5.1-magnitude earthquake shook the area of El Cachon in the Dominican Republic near the border with Haiti Saturday, according to the United States Geological Survey....
(Reuters) – Efforts are underway to move the last homeless quake survivors from camps in the city of Jacmel, Haiti, into rented accommodation over the next...
Haiti is reportedly on the cusp of a gold rush, with exploration proceeding apace for an estimated US$20 billion worth of precious minerals buried beneath the...
(PRNewswire) – Solar streetlights are being installed throughout Haiti as part of an innovative program that aims to catalyze the decentralization of government services. The Minister...
Haiti is targeting up to US$600 million in foreign investment in the 2012/2013 financial year, and according to its trade ambassador, The Bahamas has a tremendous...
A new constitution that takes effect Tuesday gives 2 million citizens of Haiti living abroad more rights in their homeland, including the ability to run for...
Cholera has two faces in Haiti. Alongside the strain causing an epidemic is another that does not lead to epidemics but can cause severe symptoms. Better...
The Prime Minister of Haiti, Laurent Lamothe says his country is making headway two-and-a-half years after an earthquake claimed the lives of 300,000 people and left...
Haiti’s economy is moving in a positive direction, though at a level below that projected by the International Monetary Fund’s Extended Credit Facility arrangement, the IMF...
Haitians protesting the presence of the United Nations peace keepers. PHOTO/File The accomplishments of the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti have been overshadowed by scandals, from...
Getting money in Haiti can be a harrowing experience: Bank branches are few, most of them are in the capital and a simple transaction can take...
The Haiti government has launched a program that uses mobile phones to transfer cash credits to mothers who keep their children in school. The program is...
Barbados and its Caribbean Community (CARICOM) neighbors will work with Mexico in the area of higher education and in assisting Haiti, still reeling from the ravages...
Haiti Prime Minister.,Laurent Lamothe The government of Haiti is drafting legislation for the newly emerging mining industry to help this impoverished Caribbean nation reap benefits, the...
Haiti President Michel Martelly. PHOTO/File In a country where the news is typically bad, if not catastrophic, many people in Haiti look at the past year...
Its capital is blighted with earthquake rubble. Its countryside is shorn of trees, chopped down for fuel. And yet, Haiti’s land may hold the key to...
Haiti police and U.N. peacekeepers have begun cracking down on bands of armed men lobbying for the country to restore its armed forces, a U.N. spokesman...
Haiti Prime Minister.,Laurent Lamothe. PHOTO/File Haiti lawmakers have approved President Michel Martelly’s choice for a new prime minister, ending a two-month impasse that had hampered the...
(Business Wire) – Haiti’s President, Michel Martelly, has appointed Paul Altidor as the new Haitian Ambassador to the United States. Mr. Altidor formally assumed office today...
Anti-UN protests in Haiti Two years after Haiti’s deadly 2010 earthquake, a second humanitarian crisis continues to claim Haitian lives. Whereas the first crisis was a...
Best Western Hotel Construction in Haiti. PHOTO/File Glimmers of hope are coming to this devastated capital and its surrounding cities, as the concrete Royal Oasis hotel...
Haiti President.,Michel Martelly. PHOTO/File Haiti’s President Michel Martelly said Wednesday that he’s feeling better as he recovers in Miami from a blood clot in his lung....
A Haitian government effort Wednesday to register hundreds of veterans so they can receive pensions and back pay failed to demobilize a band of rogue soldiers...
A leading businessman from Haiti has downplayed the recent closure of the Haitian embassy in Jamaica and any adverse impact that may have on trade relations...
A two-day Haiti investment conference opens in Miami Beach on Monday where the focus is on getting Haitians living in South Florida and elsewhere to invest...
A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child. PHOTO/Faisal Mahmood/Reuters Haiti launched a countrywide vaccination campaign to immunize millions of children against childhood killers....
Haiti’s President Michel Martelly Haiti’s President Michel Martelly was being treated for a blood clot in his lung caused by an earlier surgery, a presidential adviser...
Haiti President., Michel Martelly. PHOTO/File Haiti’s president Michel Martelly has returned to Miami for medical treatment on doctor’s orders because of complications related to a recent...
(Reuters) – The Haitian government along with international partners including the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a vaccination campaign against cholera on Saturday targeting 100,000 people...
Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon, (l), and Haiti’s President Michel Martelly. PHOTO/AP Looking to boost ties between Haiti and Mexico, Presidents Michel Martelly and Felipe Calderon held...
After myriad delays and setback, health workers in Haiti are beginning to vaccinate against cholera. Today, 50,000 people living in the slums of Port-au-Prince will start...
Haiti Prime Minister-designate.,Laurent Lamothe. PHOTO/File Haiti’s Senate late Tuesday approved the nomination of Laurent Lamothe to become the new prime minister of the earthquake-ravaged nation, a...
Haiti’s Prime Minister-designate Laurent Lamothe. PHOTO/File Haiti’s Prime Minister-designate Laurent Lamothe, on Thursday met leaders of the Inite Political Party in order to speak about his...
Haiti President., Michel Martelly The office of Haiti’s President Michel Martelly says the leader has completed surgery on his right shoulder in Miami. The presidential office’s...
Haiti is seeing a jump in the number of cholera cases as the Caribbean nation heads into the annual rainy season, a United Nations humanitarian agency...
(PRNewswire) – Digicel Group, the best value mobile operator in the Caribbean, Central America and Pacific, has acquired Haitian mobile operator, Voila, from its parent company,...
Haiti President Michel Martelly A few hundred people have gathered in Haiti’s capital to accuse President Michel Martelly of abusing the country’s Constitution. The supporters of...
Telecommunications provider Digicel said it will entirely fund a US$16 million project to run a 200 kilometre-long undersea, fiber-optic cable linking Haiti to the rest of...
(PRNewswire) – Haiti’s Minister of the Interior, Thierry Mayard-Paul and United Nation’s Development Program (UNDP) administrator, Helen Clark hosted a landmark validation ceremony in Cap-Haitien today,...
Haiti’s economy has as a favourble outlook, and continues to recover, though economic and political risks remain, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF’s...
Haitian authorities are ordering some army veterans and would-be soldiers to clear out of several old barracks they have taken over in recent weeks in hopes...
The first tranche of United Way’s 2012 support of restoration efforts in Haiti will be presented to the Salvation Army on March 22. The US$ 16,150...
A new coffee company heading to the United States is looking to do its part to help Haitian famers. Par Haiti/Pour Haiti (“From Haiti for Haiti”),...
(Reuters) – Two UN peacekeepers from Pakistan have been sentenced to a year in prison for raping a 14-year-old Haitian boy after being convicted in a...
Barbados is now the 10th Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member state to sign a visa waiver agreement with Haiti, allowing business people from that country and diplomats...
Haiti President.,Michel Martelly. PHOTO/File Seeking to end rumors that he is a US citizen, President Michel Martelly showed his Haitian passport on national television. Haiti’s constitution...
A moderate earthquake has rattled southern Haiti, causing some people to run out of buildings in fear. There were no immediate reports of damage. The United...
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said Wednesday that a U.N. peacekeeper was responsible for bringing the cholera strain to Haiti but may not have known that...
Haiti links its history to Africa Haiti’s bid to join the African Union (AU) last month may evoke a little head scratching and confused double takes....
Laurent Lamothe. PHOTO/File A senior lawmaker says that Haiti’s government has named a new pick for prime minister. Senate President Simon Dieuseul Desras said Thursday that...
Thousands of supporters of two-time President Jean-Bertrand Aristide rallied in Haiti’s capital Wednesday on the eighth anniversary of the former leader’s ouster. The demonstrators accused current...
Former Haiti Prime Minister, Garry Conille. PHOTO/File Garry Conille, whose abrupt resignation as Haiti prime minister on Friday, threw the country into political turmoil once again,...
Immediate Haiti Prime Minister., Garry Conille. PHOTO/File Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille abruptly resigned Friday after less than five months on the job in a political...
Mathias Pierre. PHOTO/File For a millionaire, Mathias Pierre’s, origins were humble. The son of an illiterate mother and carpenter father, Pierre grew up in poverty in...
(PRNewswire) – A cruise ship may soon call at Port-Au-Prince, the first such visit in Haiti after a quarter of a century, a milestone that Minister...
Haiti President Michel Martelly. PHOTO/File Haitian President Michel Martelly and his accompanying motorcade were attacked as the leader strolled in downtown Port-au-Prince, the National Palace said...
Haiti’s national police force is the best body for providing security in this poor nation and the government should concentrate on building up the force, a...
Haiti President Michel Martelly (l) and UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. PHOTO/File Haiti’s earthquake reconstruction efforts and its mandate are under review by the United...
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders are in Haiti to forge stronger ties and closer cooperation between the 14 member states while exploring ways to strengthen Haiti’s participation...
The U.N. Security Council began a four-day mission in Haiti on Monday to review the terms of its mandate and evaluate earthquake reconstruction efforts in the...
Jean-Claude Duvalier Before President Michel Martelly took office in May 2011, Haiti’s top prosecutor had recommended that former strongman Jean-Claude Duvalier face trial for the abuses...
A meeting was held at the Hotel Montana, Petionville, on Wednesday to focus on setting environmental guidelines for the Northern Industrial Park nearing completion and set...
The World Bank‘s newly-appointed vice president for Latin America and the Caribbean, Hasan Tuluy, is to begin a two-day visit to Haiti on Wednesday, his first...
Human rights groups have condemned a decision not to try Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haiti’s former ruler, on crimes against humanity. A Haitian judge decided this week that...
Haiti President Martelly (l) and actor Sean Penn. Actor Sean Penn has been named ambassador at large for Haiti in recognition of his humanitarian work since...
Former Haitian leader., Jean-Claude Duvalier. PHOTO/File A Haitian judge said Monday that former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier should face trial for corruption, but not the more serious...
Former Haitian Leader, Jean-Claude Duvalier. PHOTO/Emily Troutman/AOL News Haitian President Michel Martelly on Friday backed off a suggestion from an interview a day earlier that he...
In Haiti, cash is escaping from wallets and savings accounts are breaking free from brick-and-mortar banks. Two years after 2010’s devastating earthquake, mobile money has taken...
Haiti’s president suggested Thursday that he might pardon former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, saying reconciliation for his nation is more important than making the man known as...
Haiti’s government has kicked off a program that it hopes will provide meals to 2.2 million school children across the country. The effort is called “Aba...
Former Haiti dictator., Jean Claude Duvalier. PHOTO/File A judge in Haiti has admonished former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier for violating the terms of his conditional release by...
The new Haitian government is placing strong emphasis on aligning its strengths with the needs of international investors. Haitian Minister of the Interior, Thierry Mayard-Paul recently...
Once notorious Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier (pictured), is living comfortably while awaiting trial for crimes against humanity, officials say. Duvalier, now 60, still has...
Haitians gathered in makeshift churches and even a United Nations supply base Thursday to mark the second anniversary of the devastating 2010 earthquake, holding ceremonies that...
The billions of dollars in aid that flowed into Haiti after its shattering earthquake were meant to build a new nation with thriving farms, apparel factories,...
Haiti President., Michel Martelly. PHOTO/File Haitians still have much to do to recover from the 2010 earthquake, President Michel Martelly said Monday, and he conceded to...
Johny Dorvilus is heading back to school in Haiti after winter break. Johny doesn’t have a text-book, or anything to write with. Sometimes he wonders whether...
Prime Minister Garry Conille announced a series of projects towards education, employment and the environment for the year 2012. His government still faces the challenge of...
Haiti President., Michel Martelly A member of a senate commission set up to investigate the nationalities of members of the government found that President Michel Martelly...
Haiti President., Michel Martelly. PHOTO/File Haitian President Michel Martelly said his government will continue to work on free education for all children and decent housing for...
