AP | A judge in Haiti has issued arrest warrants for more than 30 high-ranking officials accused of government corruption, including numerous former presidents and prime...
Electoral authorities in Haiti have postponed presidential and legislative runoffs set for this weekend. In a brief statement issued Monday evening, Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council said...
Jovenel Moïse – who is the leading candidate in the disputed first round of Haiti’s presidential vote – insists that critics are not providing evidence to...
Ruling party candidate Jovenel Moïse and former government executive Jude Célestin led voting in Haiti’s October 25 presidential elections and will face each other in a...
Haitian President Michel Martelly and his Dominican counterpart Danilo Medina met Tuesday in the city of Barahona on the Dominican side of the border. They agreed...
Election authorities in Haiti on Wednesday disqualified 2 more candidates for disruptions during legislative elections earlier this month, bringing the total of barred candidates to 16...
Haitian President Michel Martelly is calling on the Dominican Republic government to come to the negotiating table to hammer out a memorandum of understanding on the...
Haitian President Michel Martelly, business leaders and civic boosters inaugurated an US$80 million container port Thursday aimed at giving the recovering country a much bigger role...
A three-year political crisis that delayed local and parliamentary elections has done nothing to dampen Haiti’s enthusiasm for democracy, judging by the avalanche of hopefuls now...
Haiti’s former Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe has submitted papers to run for the presidency shortly before the election office’s deadline, after repeatedly saying he had no...
After 3 years of delayed polls and simmering political unrest, Haiti’s electoral machinery is finally grinding into gear. By the end of the year, Haiti ought...
For all the anti-government protests and demands that he resign from office, Haitian President Michel Martelly remains quite popular, according to a new public opinion survey....
Haiti’s President Michel Martelly has called on the population to participate in the upcoming elections, through an executive order dated March 13, endorsing the electoral timetable...
Anti-government protesters shut down Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince on Monday as the country plunged deeper into political and economic crises even as many prepared for the annual...
Haiti has installed a Provisional Electoral Council in a key step toward averting a constitutional crisis after weeks of protests and political uncertainty. The swearing in...
Haiti President Michel Martelly said he will use his authority to call elections in coming months after legislators failed to enact an election law, according to...
Haiti’s parliament was dissolved, Tuesday, after the failure of last-ditch negotiations for a deal to extend the terms of its members to avert a political crisis...
Haiti’s President Michel Martelly and national lawmakers struck a last-minute deal late Sunday to hold new elections by late this year, defusing a political crisis that...
Haiti’s leader and opposition lawmakers are locked in negotiations, trying to forge a last-minute deal to resolve a standoff stalling elections in the country. President Michel...
A lack of a quorum has forced the Haitian parliament to call off a debate on key points of the political agreement to resolve the political...
Haiti’s president Michel Martelly reached a deal with lawmakers to extend parliament’s mandate and hold legislative elections by April 2015 to avoid a political vacuum next...
Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe announced early Sunday that he was resigning along with several ministers in the wake of anti-government protests and a commission’s call for...
A commission recently appointed by Haitian President Michel Martelly is calling for his prime minister to resign so a new consensus government can be formed, according...
Haitian president Michel Martelly announced last week that he was in the process of setting up an 11-member commission to make recommendations within the next few...
Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe said Tuesday that his country will hold long-overdue legislative and local elections no later than early next year if several opposition...
Haitian President Michel Martelly. PHOTO/File Thousands of Haitians took to the streets of the capital Port-au-Prince Thursday to demand that President Michel Martelly step down and...
Haiti President Michel Martelly. PHOTO/File Clashes between protesters and police marked Haitian President Michel Martelly’s 3 years in power Wednesday. While Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe appealed...
Haiti Prime Minister., Laurent Lamothe Haiti’s prime minister used Twitter on Wednesday to announce he was replacing about half of the 22-member Cabinet, marking the third...
(PRNewswire) – Port-AU-Prince, Haiti – Haitian protagonists from different political sides have clinched a historical agreement to end a political impasse which had posed a threat...
Haiti President Martelly (c) signing the protocol, while mediator Cardinal, Chibly Langlois (r) looks on. March 15, 2014. Haiti’s politicians have put aside their differences and...
Haiti’s Prime Minister Laurent Lamonthe has pledged that his government will provide the necessary means to the electoral council to facilitate the holding of legislative and...
Haitian President Michel Martelly (l) and first lady Sophia Martelly (r) lay a wreath at a monument in memory of the victims of the January 12,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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....
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...
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...
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 President Michel Martelly. PHOTO/File Haitian President Michel Martelly has gone to Miami for an operation on his right shoulder. The presidential office’s announcement Wednesday night...
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...
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...
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...
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/Emily Troutman/AOL News Haitian President Michel Martelly on Friday backed off a suggestion from an interview a day earlier that he...
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...
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...
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...
A press liaison for Haitian President Michel Martelly says a presidential commission is urging the leader to restore the nation’s disbanded army. Vladimir Laguerre of the...
Haiti pop star-turned-president Michel Martelly will not be singing tonight at a concert that aimed to raise money for schools. Presidential adviser Damian Merlo says the...
Press Release: Ministry of the Interior of Haiti (PRNewswire) – Haiti continues to send clear messages that the country is open, wide open, for business. Speaking...
Oprah Winfrey speaks to the press in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday Dec. 13, 2011. PHOTO/AP / Dieu Nalio Chery Oprah Winfrey’s trip to Haiti included dinner with...
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan started a five-day trip to Haiti on Sunday, arriving just ahead of fellow Chicagoan Oprah Winfrey as they make separate...
Haitian President Michel Martelly said Friday he will host Oprah Winfrey when she visits the Caribbean nation. In an interview with The Associated Press, the Haiti...
As business opportunities in post-earthquake Haiti yield enthusiasm and opportunity, the government commits to passing law to make country more business friendly. The Haitian government plans...
Haiti President., Michel Martelly Nobel laureate Oscar Arias has advised Haitian President Michel Martelly that it would be an “error” to restore the disbanded army, according...
The World Bank will spend US$255 million to help house Haitians, clean up neighborhoods and send thousands of children to school over the next year under...
Haiti’s president said Friday that his government is putting off a controversial plan to restore the country’s disbanded military until a commission can be formed to...
Haiti’s president says a plane carrying 19 officials of his government has made an emergency landing in Cuba. President Michel Martelly says the plane landed safely...
Former journalist and newly appointed Haitian Culture Minister Choiseul Henriquez has died while in Canada. He was 51. The office of President Michel Martelly said in...
An adviser in Haiti’s government says a helicopter carrying Prime Minister Garry Conille and two other Cabinet members has made an emergency landing in the hills...
Haiti’s struggle to rebuild homes for hundreds of thousands of quake victims may be giving the impoverished nation something it has never had: loans to help...
(Reuters) – Haiti is wooing Asian manufacturers, and its own diaspora, to inject investments and funds into the economy and create jobs to drive a recovery...
The Haitian military was disbanded over human rights abuses in 1995 by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide after years of political turmoil, making Haiti one of a handful...
The mandate is ending for a Haiti reconstruction panel that was set up to coordinate donor aid after last year’s earthquake. The Interim Haiti Recovery Commission’s...
Garry Conille (pictured), has been sworn in as Haiti’s new Prime Minister along with 16 cabinet ministers. The new government takes office five months after Michel...
Dr. Garry Conille (pictured), the new Haitian Prime Minister, has been working behind the scenes to rebuild a broken, quake-ravaged nation. Now, as the man in...
Haiti’s President Michel Martelly (pictured), says the government is boosting student enrollment this year by putting more than 700,000 youths into classrooms. The leader says that...
Haiti’s president (pictured), is moving forward with a controversial campaign pledge to restore the country’s disbanded military with an initial force of 3,500 soldiers, according to...
Haiti’s parliament on Friday unanimously approved the nomination of senior UN diplomat Garry Conille as the Caribbean nation’s new prime minister. Haitian President Michel Martelly described...
Uruguayan peacekeepers A military judge ordered five Uruguayan sailors accused of sexually abusing a young Haitian man jailed until a tribunal decides whether to dishonorably discharge...
Sept. 14, marks four months in office for Haitian President Michel Martelly (pictured). It is now more than 120 days since he was elected, and yet...
President Michel Martelly (pictured),has picked physician Garry Conille to be his prime minister, a leading Haitian legislator said, as Martelly seeks to end an impasse with...
The Senate gives the thumb down to yet another nominee that President Michel Martelly put forward for prime minister.
President Michel Martelly's housing and education plans get backing from the regional grouping.
President Martelly calls on the region's businessmen to invest in Haiti.
