Martelly’s plan for new Haitian army stirs heated debate
MEXICO CITY/PORT-AU-PRINCE, Oct. 2 — Haitian President Michel Martelly’s plan to create a new army has stirred a heated debate in the Caribbean country just days after it was published …
Haiti Bad Times for Baby Doc
Like a hurricane born in the Caribbean and gathering momentum as it pushes northward, word spread last week that Jean-Claude Duvalier, 34, Haiti’s President-for-Life, had fled his country. Sourced from: Haiti …
PAHO/WHO, the Government of Haiti, and Canada Launch Project Manman ak timoun an sante in …
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 15 September 2011 – The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization , together with the Haitian Ministry of Health and with the support of Canada, will launch a …
Haiti: Anti-MINUSTAH protests will continue
Via Prensa Latina: ContinuarA n protestas contra Minustah en HaitA . [Protests against MINUSTAH will continue in Haiti] Excerpt, with my translation: La organizaciA3n civil que preparA3 las protestas para …
Doctor sees roles changing in Haiti
A Baton Rouge physician who’s about to visit Haiti for the second time since the January 2010 earthquake, says the role of some volunteer physicians is becoming more mentor than …
Haiti gets $2m. grant to help create jobs, ease effects of 2010 quake
Haiti’s devastated economy will receive a boost of $2 million through a grant from the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund to help regenerate the country’s small business sector. Sourced from: Haiti News
One for the Books: Haiti, the ‘Pearl of the Caribbean’
It’s been just over a year now since a devastating earthquake hit Haiti, and the impoverished nation was in the news again recently with the return of one of its …
Lebanon: Protest in Support of Egypt
Written by Amira Al Hussaini This post is part of our special coverage of Egypt Protests 2011. A solidarity protest in support of the demonstrators in Egypt is taking place next …
Preval’s Resistance Buckles: As Duvalier Speaks Out, Celestin Bows Out
Following brazen diplomatic arm-twisting, Haitian President René Préval and his Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) have caved in to U.S.-instigated pressure to change the Nov. 28 presidential election results. They are …
A CLASS ANALYSIS OF BABY DOC:
The big question Haitians are asking is: who is behind Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier’s surprise arrival in Haiti with an expired Haitian passport on Jan. 16 aboard an Air France …
Orphans from Haiti mostly thriving with American families
Dania Brock is no longer afraid to go to the bathroom at night. The rats that haunted the outhouse in Haiti can’t get her in Georgia. Sourced from: Haiti News