PORT-AU-PRINCE – Haitian opposition politicians on Tuesday condemned the country’s slide into rule by decree under President Jovenel Moise after the failure to renew parliament, creating a political vacuum. In the early hours of Monday, the president said the mandates of lower house deputies and most senators formally expired because no successors were elected in […]
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti — President Jovenel Moïse said he has named Environment Minister Jouthe Joseph as the new prime minister, replacing Jean Michel Lapin. “Following consultations I had with different sectors of the country, I chose Citizen Jouthe Joseph as new Prime Minister,” Moise said in a brief statement on Monday, adding that Joseph […]
WASHINGTON, United States – The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Art Crime Team has returned more than 450 cultural and historical artifacts to Haiti in the largest repatriation of art from the United State to the French-speaking Caribbean nation. Representatives from the US Embassy in Port-au-Prince, the US Department of State Bureau of Educational and […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – A fire has swept through an orphanage located on the southern outskirts of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince last Thursday, killing at least 13, and as many as fifteen children. A local judge said that two children had died in the blaze, while another 13 had died at the hospital as a result […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Friday January 24, 2020 – The cholera outbreak in Haiti that began in October 2010, affecting over 820,000 people and killing 9,792, has been stopped in its tracks, with the country reaching one-year free of confirmed cases this week. The achievement follows concerted efforts from Haiti, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haitians last Sunday remembered the victims of the massive earthquake that killed more than 100,000 people a decade ago, although the ceremony was marked by a protest against political mismanagement now and then. President Jovenel Moise laid flowers at a memorial to the victims at a cemetery outside Port-au-Prince, joined by clergy, […]
If occasional crises – hurricanes, revolutions and most recently, Haiti’s devastating earthquake – have crumpled this picture postcard view, the Caribbean remains a region largely devoted to the good life. First, some geography. The islands are divided into three broad groups. To the west are the Greater Antilles: mainly independent countries including Cuba, Jamaica and […]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The World Food Program warns Haiti is approaching famine like conditions, with more than 1 in 3 people in the country of 11 million in need of urgent assistance. A food assessment in October finds 1 million of the nearly 3.7 million people suffering severe food shortages in Haiti are facing an […]
OTTAWA — The Government of Canada has warned nationals to avoid travelling to Haiti as violent protests and widespread civil unrest have been taking place across the nation for several weeks. According to security officials, the situation in the French-speaking Caribbean country could deteriorate quickly and large demonstrations are scheduled to take place from November […]
By Lincoln DePradine Canada has been accused of being complicit in propping up the Haitian government that is facing ongoing massive street demonstrations, with protestors calling for the resignation of the country’s President Jovenel Moïse. “Our country (Canada) is not as progressive as it pretends to be,’’ activist Jean Saint-Vil Jafrikayiti said Tuesday evening at […]
