Amnesty criticizes Haiti over evictions from camps
Source: The Boston Globe
Port au Prince :: Haiti | updated 2013-04-23 07:29:26 -0700 | political-news
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....
Walk fights hunger and builds faith
Source: The Olympian
Port au Prince :: Haiti | updated 2013-04-20 00:58:07 -0700 | political-news
My parents gave time and money to assist neighbors in need and other community and worldwide causes, and I participated with them when possible. The resolution of local and world hunger issues depends on the individual efforts of many. Volunteering...
‘I left because of corruption in the palace, and infrastructure sabotage.' Why Richard Morse left ...
Source: Toronto Star
Pétionville :: Haiti | updated 2013-04-15 11:46:49 -0700 | political-news
Photo Save to mystar Throughout his campaign and into the second year of his term, Haiti's president Michel Martelly had a constant companion: his cousin and fellow musician Richard Morse...He is the lead singer in a hugely popular Haitian band,...
Africa: Chavez, Internationalism, And Socialism
Source: All Africa
Port au Prince :: Haiti | updated 2013-04-15 04:54:22 -0700 | political-news
He shares his views on Chavez's vision of a revolutionary Latin America that sought internationalist solidarity with Haiti, Africa and Asia among other issues. Since the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez on March 5, thousands of memorials have transpired...
Catching up with Haitian students helped by Star readers
Source: Toronto Star
Port au Prince :: Haiti | updated 2013-04-13 21:05:30 -0700 | political-news
Fabienne Fils became the first person in her family to graduate from college. To fund her education, her parents cut meals, walked instead of taking the bus, sold their good linen. In August, Fils proved it had been worth the...
Haiti signs decree to create body for elections
Source: Zee News
Port au Prince :: Haiti | updated 2013-04-13 10:55:16 -0700 | political-news
21 Port-Au-Prince: Haiti's government has taken an initial step to solve a problem that has frustrated Haitians and foreign donors alike: the failure to hold local and legislative elections on schedule. The government of President Michel Martelly announced late yesterday...
2nd Haiti minister resigns in as many days
Source: The Boston Globe
Port au Prince :: Haiti | updated 2013-04-11 13:36:49 -0700 | political-news
Haiti (AP) Two radio stations in Haiti are reporting that a second minister in as many days has resigned from her post. Privately owned Radio Tele-Kiskeya and Radio Tele-Metropole say that Minister of Communications Regine Godefroy has stepped down. The...
Budget proposes shift in providing food aid to needy nations
Source: Washington Post
Léogâne :: Haiti | updated 2013-04-10 18:32:04 -0700 | political-news
The Washington Post The Obama administration has proposed the first major change in three decades to the way the United States supplies food aid to impoverished nations, significantly scaling back the program that buys commodities from U.S. farmers and ships...
Haiti radio: Finance minister resigns after spat
Source: Taiwan News
Port au Prince :: Haiti | updated 2013-04-11 04:39:12 -0700 | political-news
Haiti's finance minister resigned from her post, Haitian radio reported Wednesday. Privately owned Radio Vision 2000 reported Wednesday morning that Marie Carmel Jean-Marie submitted her resignation following a "disagreement" with President Michel Martelly.
Haiti bishop who married 'Baby Doc' Duvalier dies
Source: The Boston Globe
Les Cayes :: Haiti | updated 2013-04-08 16:55:40 -0700 | political-news
Haiti (AP) A former Haitian bishop who presided over the lavish wedding of former dictator Jean-Claude Baby Doc'' Duvalier and was viewed as a supporter of the regime has died...The privately owned Radio Kiskeya is reporting that Francois-Wolff Ligonde died...
Haiti historian who chronicled capital dies at 88
Source: Boston.com
Port au Prince :: Haiti | updated 2013-04-03 18:23:35 -0700 | political-news
Haiti (AP) George Corvington, a prominent Haitian historian who was best known for his exhaustive study of the Caribbean nation's capital of Port-au-Prince, has died at age 88. Fellow historian and longtime friend Georges Michel says that Corvington died peacefully...
Nick Cave's Horse Parade
Source: The New York Observer
Port au Prince :: Haiti | updated 2013-04-02 15:55:40 -0700 | political-news
Nick Cave's equine Soundsuits amble along. (Photo: Matthew Kassel) It's kind of wonderful that Nick Cave's artlike the work of Dr. Seuss and Maurice Sendakis so accessible to children and adults alike. And it's the reason, one might imagine, why...
How two Haitian friends became Quebec mayors
Source: The Globe and Mail
Jacmel :: Haiti | updated 2013-03-31 17:48:00 -0700 | political-news
Agriculture Video Reuters Video The last time an outlying Quebec town made headlines on the subject of integrating minorities, it was Herouxville's story of controversy and discord. The two cities of Amos and Mont-Laurier, communities of roughly 13,000 souls...
President of Haiti, among the most popular on Facebook
Posted by: rsa76
Port au Prince :: Haiti | updated 2013-03-02 00:10:57 -0800 | political-news
The President of Haiti, Michel Martelly, ranks fourth among 25 personalities of their country with the highest popularity in the social network Facebook, just below two singers and a football player according to a list released today in Port au...
Clinton blamed the UN soldiers by the cholera epidemic in Haiti.
Posted by: Vicky247
Port au Prince :: Haiti | updated 2012-04-19 12:35:28 -0700 | political-news
Several studies attribute the origin of the outbreak to the "blue helmets" of Nepal, which threw their waste into a river heavily used. Former U.S. President, United Nations envoy to the country, expressed such. Bill Clinton, Special Envoy of the...
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