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Although her countrymen can no longer afford the imported rice that has come to dominate their diet, Josiane Desjardin sees little hope of reviving the domestic crop that once grew abundantly in the fertile estuary of the Artibonite River.
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An international banker whose nomination for Haiti’s No. 2 political post was rejected by the lower house of Parliament said Thursday he was hamstrung by corrupt legislators.
Haitian lawmakers say they have rejected President Rene Preval’s pick to fill the prime minister’s office.
A U.N. official says the bodies of two teenagers have been found near a capsized Haitian sailboat, raising the death toll to 13.
U.N. and Haitian authorities say an overloaded ferry has sunk off the Caribbean country’s southern coast, killing at least 11 people.
The Dominican Republic has expanded subsidies on basic food staples to maintain calm after deadly food riots recently struck neighboring Haiti.
An international banker nominated to be Haiti’s next prime minister said Friday that Haiti must concentrate on long-term strategies to help the millions pushed deeper into misery by higher food prices.
When soaring food prices sparked deadly riots across Haiti, many expected that people along the cactus-studded northern coast would do what they traditionally do in times of crisis: take to the seas and head for the United States.
President Rene Preval on Sunday chose an international banking official to be the troubled country’s next prime minister, a Haitian lawmaker said.
President Rene Preval on Sunday chose an international banking official to be the troubled country’s next prime minister, Haitian radio reported.
Haitian underage girls are now paying for taking help from the UN. They have been sexually exploited by Sri Lankan UN peace-keepers for less than $1. Haitian feminists have now woken up to the problem and are demanding inquires by the UN. Olga...
Haiti is the world’s poorest nation is the Carribean island of Hispaniola
The United Nations peacekeeping forces have had a history of overlooking the real purposes they are to serve. Deployed for maintaining peace in different locations in the...
Storm Noel seems to be on a direct collision course with the Bahamas, as a frantic island gears itself up for some possible serious damage. The tropical storm Noel, which has been wrecking havoc through the islands of the Caribbean & Cuba, is...
According to a new research the AIDS virus entered the United States via Haiti, probably arriving in just one person in about 1969, earlier than first believed. After the virus, HIV-1, entered the U.S., it flourished and spread worldwide.
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Thousands of people were displaced and hundreds of homes destroyed due to rain in Haiti, the oldest French and Creole speaking Latin American country. Interior Minister Paul Antoine Bien-Aime said that 23 bodies have been recovered form in Cabaret,...
With money, technology, the best brains and resources, developed countries can afford the best of energy sources. What is challenging is to design the best, with the developing countries in mind to be of genuine utility with the limited resources and...
We believe-‘Children are God’s gifts’, however, the irony is they are not treated the same everywhere. Slavery system which has been abolished (or so we think) centuries ago, we can still find hundreds of examples of bonded slavery till now. What we...
The condition of women and girls in Guatemala is worse. Hunger is spreading its tentacles and capturing thousands of children in its ambit day by day. The vast majority of them die in situations that never make the news. Their plight is serious, but too...
Future of Haiti seems to be miserable. Countless children at a very tender age are seen throbbing in the prison stadium. Yes, you read it write, when kids in the other part of the world are preparing themselves to read and write, children in this country...
Hunger is spreading its tentacles to capture thousands of children in its ambit day by day and this time it has victimized the children of Guatemala. The vast majority of them die in situations that never make the news. Their plight is serious, but too...
Haiti’s Alexandre Boucicaut and Guatemala’s Carlos Gallardo, front, fight for the ball during a friendly soccer match in Guatemala City, Wednesday, April 23, 2008.
