The 46th regular summit of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders commenced in Guyana last Sunday night, placing significant emphasis on addressing the political, economic, and social challenges facing Haiti. CARICOM leaders also expressed their determination to implement measures aimed at sustaining the success of the regional integration movement. CARICOM Chairman and host President, Mohammed Irfaan Ali, […]
Haiti is on the verge of civil war, and if the international community does not intervene quickly, the Dominican Republic will seek to protect itself, its president warned at the United Nations last week Haiti has been in turmoil for years, with armed gangs taking over parts of the country and unleashing brutal violence, leaving […]
“Haiti is not hopeless”, the President of the UN General Assembly said on Monday during a meeting addressing the multiple crises besetting the Caribbean nation, alongside the presidents of the UN Security Council and Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Dennis Francis, a veteran diplomat from Trinidad and Tobago, said he had returned from a visit […]
Listen to this article now. By Pascal Robert Haiti has suffered under western occupations and interference in its affairs. The people of that nation are struggling to break free from that domination and can look to mass movements in Francophone Africa. There have been nine coups in the past three years in former French colonies […]
Guyana has called for a transitional government in Haiti as the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries grapples with a political and socio-economic situation that has led to increase gang warfare and the collapse of many of the democratic institutions in that country. Haiti has been thrown into turmoil since the July 7, 2021 assassination of […]
Naomi Osaka’s sights are set on the upcoming Australian Open as she eyes a remarkable comeback. The Japanese-Haitian-American tennis sensation, who took a break from the sport in September, has already begun her journey back to the tennis courts just weeks after giving birth to her daughter on July 12, 2023. Demonstrating a determination to […]
Kerly Theus is a 5ft 4in goalkeeper who plays for the Haiti women’s national team. For the last 40 minutes, we have talked about her career, her country, her childhood. We have even touched on the friends she lost in the 2010 earthquake. There something has been bubbling up inside Haiti’s Kerly Theus 5ft […]
By Wolf Thyma Born in Haiti, I immigrated to Canada at the age of seven. Proud of my modest origins, I always tell anyone who will listen that my parents led me to study law and medicine while they worked for minimum wage in factories in Montréal-Nord. But I didn’t meet a Black doctor until […]
On a visit to Haiti UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed solidarity with the Haitian people “facing a terrible and mutually reinforcing cycle of… crises”, and urged deployment of an international force to assist the National Police in combating gang violence. The UN chief expressed deep concern at the extreme vulnerability faced by the Haitian people […]
Fifteen nationals from Haiti who were being detained in St Kitts and Nevis since February have been released into the care of the island’s local Haitian community. A statement from the Ministry of National Security says on February 2, 2023, fifteen Haitians arrived in the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis after their boat […]
