Port-au-Prince News

Federal prosecutors in Miami want the maximum prison sentences for five men convicted of plotting to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices. Prosecutors said in court papers filed Monday a federal judge should reject pleas for leniency.

A Florida man sought in the slayings of his wife and five children has been arrested in his native Haiti, authorities say. Mesac Damas, 33, was taken into custody Monday in Tabarre, a community near the Port-au-Prince airport, The Miami...

The Uruguayan surveillance plane was monitoring the Dominican Republic border as part of its tasks with the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti. Most of those on board were military officers, a police officer told AFP...The nation has long been ravaged...

A Haitian man confessed publicly he killed his wife and five children in North Naples, Fla., and said he wants to die and expects to go to heaven. Mesac Damas, 33, was extradited from Port-au-Prince to Miami late Tuesday, authorities...

Declaring Haiti "open for business," Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis welcomed hundreds of potential investors on Thursday to a conference meant to kick-start an economy stunted by decades of political turmoil. The organizer, the Inter-American Development Bank, hopes the star power...

Those we remember today were patrolling from the skies, but they could see something farther on the horizon: a brighter and more hopeful future for all the people of Haiti,” Mr. Ban said in a message to a memorial service...

Ministry, Manuel Checo and Yendi Vásquez, died yesterday when the helicopter in which they traveled crashed into a mountainside in this southern province. AT 3:52 the information was received that an aircraft had precipitated in the community El Limon in...

P.M. — A man accused of killing his wife and five young children in North Naples was just indicted by a Collier County Grand Jury on six counts of first degree murder. Mesac Damas, 33, faces either the death penalty...

Haiti — Bill Clinton grimaced Friday as he recalled the severe embargo he oversaw as president against Haiti's then-brutal regime, a move that destroyed the very economy he is now fighting to revive. Clinton said the action was necessary to...

Mr Clinton’s annual philanthropic conference drew 282 commitments worth “more than $8bn” this year, he said at the conclusion of the conference. Last year CGI drew 250 commitments valued at $8bn. “This was achieved at the tail-end of the worst...