PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — At least 20 people on a music group’s packed Carnival float in the Haitian capital were killed Tuesday when they were electrocuted by a power line, officials said. The accident occurred as thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Port-au-Prince for the raucous annual celebration. People at the scene said […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — It’s been five years since the ground shook violently in and around the overcrowded capital of Haiti, the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country, raising a cloud of dust over the smashed city and outlying towns. The devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck at 4:53 p.m. Jan. 12, 2010, killing some 316,000 people, according […]
CROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, Haiti (AP) — The sudden gunfire rattled the morning routine outside the Croix-des-Bouquets Civil Prison and soon inmates, many barefoot and shirtless, dashed frantically from the maximum-security facility, startling street vendors as they looted their wares and fled through the unpaved streets. One month after the prison break, only about 75 of the 329 […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he’s encouraged by progress Haiti is making to clear away what he calls “political roadblocks” and hold overdue elections. He adds that U.S. and international aid that flowed to Haiti after a devastating 2010 earthquake has helped the country turn a corner. Obama says Haiti’s economy is growing, […]
Imagine if the United States passed a new bill that denied citizenship to everyone whose ancestors migrated to the United States anytime after 1929. If…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Haitians have been fleeing their troubled country for years, trying to reach the U.S. or other Caribbean islands by sea or by trekking across the island of Hispaniola to scratch out a living in the Dominican Republic. But a newly popular route has caught officials in the Caribbean by […]
Wyclef Jean’s Yéle Haiti foundation has some bookkeeping issues. From the start, the organization has been under scrutiny for questionable actions. The charity is at the center of a recently filed lawsuit filed by a consulting firm that never got paid. HVC Global Hospitality Services provided job training for 120 students in May 2011 and […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti has violated international human rights obligations by failing to protect people who have been forced to leave the impromptu settlements that sprang up in the Caribbean nation after the 2010 earthquake, a global advocacy group said Tuesday. A report by Amnesty International said it found that thousands of displaced people […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Georges Exantus thought he’d never dance again. He was lucky just to be alive. The earthquake three years ago in Haiti’s capital flattened the apartment where he was living and he spent three days trapped under jagged rubble. After friends dug him out, doctors amputated his right leg just below the […]
Roland Martin Talks with the Miami Herald’s Jacqueline Charles about the state of Haiti three years after the deadly earthquake that left 1.5 million people displaced and over 300k dead.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — President Michel Martelly urged Haitians to recall the tens of thousands of people who lost their lives in a devastating earthquake three years ago, marking the disaster’s anniversary Saturday with a simple ceremony. Former U.S. president Bill Clinton joined Martelly later in the day for a similarly quiet wreath-laying commemoration. “Haitian […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The Haitian government says at least 24 people have died in accidents related to Tropical Storm Isaac. Haiti's Civil Protection Office said in a report Tuesday that the bulk of the deaths happened in the southeastern and western departments of the country. Some of the victims were electrocuted and others died […]
