Haiti Politics News

Senate president to speak at conference in Florida Daily News Staff Tuesday, December 1st 2009 Senate president to speak at conference in Florida Senate President Louis Hill will represent the Virgin Islands as he speaks today at a conference in...

The political party of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide will be barred from legislative elections scheduled for February 28, Haitian elections officials said on Wednesday. The decision drew immediate criticism from Aristide, a onetime populist hero in Haiti who was ousted...

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...

Law Association hits back at AG Thursday, October 15th 2009 THE Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago yesterday defended itself in the wake of criticisms levelled against it by Attorney General John Jeremie, with regard to a comment it made...

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...

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...

Newly selected Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive has vowed to further Haiti's pro-business stance, as the country looks to capitalise on the domestic and international outpouring of business interests looking at investment opportunities in Haiti.   That's according to the...

Haiti — They came in pinstripes and clutched Blackberries that surprised them by going off the same way they did back home. Some said they were taken aback, on the way from the airport to their luxury hotel, by the...

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.