Haiti News

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...

Shares of Carrefour SA rose Tuesday as the idea the French retailer could turn around its underperforming business gathered speed among investors following an upgrade from J.P. Morgan analysts. "We believe that there is 80% probability of a successful turnaround,"...

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...

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...

Haiti — Jovind Fritzner is well-know in this border town, where the ditches lining the dirt roads collect stagnant water perfect for malaria-carrying mosquitoes. Fritzner oversees the town's malaria prevention program, and residents frequently ask him when he'll return to...