cross-referenced news and research resources about
cities, towns and villages of Haiti
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Haitian Times
April 23, 2018
Ferrari, who was present during the planning stages, functioned as a “mediator” between the two groups — Haitian Enforcement Against Racism (HEAR) and Haitian Leadership Forum (HLF). HEAR, which includes organizers from the 1990 march, were the first to receive their permit from the city. AccordingÃâà...
Haitian Times
April 23, 2018
As diaspora tourists travel to less-frequented regions to connect with friends and family or participate in various cultural events, they will promote the creation of new attractions, including general services for tourists outside of the major cities. The same diaspora tourists might later choose to invest in localÃâà...
Caribbean & Co. (blog)
April 22, 2018
These large cities in the Caribbean region offer up the ability for visitors to take city break along with spending time lounging on a beautiful beach. ... hub of economic activity in Haiti, Port-au-Prince offers visitors a front row seat to the local culture with restaurants, cafes and plenty of entertainment choices.
The Philadelphia Tribune
April 20, 2018
People of Haitian descent make up 20 percent of the Caribbean population in Flatbush and the local Haitian parade used to pass directly in front of the ... The designation, said members of the nonprofit group Little Haiti BK, is a recognition of the cultural role that Haitians have played in the city and theÃâà...
SPIEGEL ONLINE
April 16, 2018
Nesi, a city official in his mid-30s from Saint-Louis-du-Sud, a small coastal town in southwest Haiti, lived through Hurricane Matthew in October 2016. Video: Marc ... Almost one-and-a-half years after Hurricane Matthew, people have at least partially rebuilt their homes and their villages, often with the help ofÃâà...
Haitian Times
April 15, 2018
Haitian President Jovenel Moise pulled out all the stops Thursday, April 12 to inaugurate a new passenger Spirit Airlines flight route between Fort ... Stateside members of Haiti's Diaspora expressed excitement at the increased number of options to travel to another Haitian city outside of its cosmopolitanÃâà...
Miami Herald
April 12, 2018
The U.S. Coast Guard repatriated 50 Haitian migrants Tuesday to the Haitian Coast Guard. The Haitians were among 127 ... It's unclear whether they will be allowed to remain in Cuba or sent back to Haiti, where the flow of migrants taking to the high seas is on the rise. The 50 who did come aboard theÃâà...
ReliefWeb
April 12, 2018
(MissionNewswire) Lakay Don Bosco was established in 1988 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti by an Italian Salesian priest. Father Attilio Stra launched the project to answer the needs of children and older youth who have been rejected and marginalized and lived in situations of neglect, negligence or seriousÃâà...
LSE Latin America and Caribbean (blog)
April 12, 2018
City Bank's history in Haiti shows how racial ideology and economic policy have long coalesced to justify colonisation in Latin America and the Caribbean, writes Peter ... In his dispatches from Haiti, Allen oscillated between describing Haitian people as unbridled savages and innocent but ignorant children.
Haitian Times
April 12, 2018
That sad jingle is an apt metaphor for the Haitian community here in NYC. We appear to be stuck in the time when we marched across the Brooklyn Bridge, snarling traffic in Lower Manhattan, and putting city leaders on notice that we are—and will be—a force to be reckoned with. The galvanizing issue atÃâà...
Reliefweb
April 11, 2018
Thirty-six years later, Ogwangi, now a U.S. citizen, stood at the edge of what was once a barren field in northern Haiti, 7,500 miles from Kenya and 1,200 miles from her office in Raleigh. Ogwangi is a key player in an effort to feed Haitian children and help the Haitian people provide for themselves.
Leader-Telegram
April 9, 2018
It occurred to me that if we are going to have this famous Haitian musician in town, it would work out to tie in a couple other things around him. ... They had a terrible earthquake, and a lot of well-meaning organizations threw a lot of money in the direction of Haiti that never actually made it to Haiti. One of theÃâà...
Haitilibre.com
April 4, 2018
Considering the local context, this Village will put a particular emphasis on the rural world by highlighting not only the difficulties it encounters, but also and especially the pool of wealth and alternatives it represents, with the idea of participating TO THE rehabilitation of rurality in Haiti too often representedÃâà...
WPLG Local 10
April 1, 2018
... inside his home early Saturday killed himself despite hours of negotiations with Miami police officers, authorities said. Michael Vega, a spokesman or the Miami Police Department, said officers were called a home around 7 a.m. in the 6600 block of Northwest Second Place in the city's Little Haiti section.
The Columbian
April 1, 2018
How a Haiti-born cook got here — and enrolled in Walla Walla Community College — is a tale of far more than destiny, however. It's a story of one Tri-Cities family and their unexpected urge to change at least one life. Occenc, known as Fredno to family and friends, is currently enrolled in WWCC's culinaryÃâà...
The CT Mirror
April 1, 2018
The women each bear accents from their homelands: Nirva, who asked that her full name be withheld, fled here from Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. Dicenso ... In Boston, the city with the nation's third-highest Haitian population, the decision has prompted panic from TPS holders and pleas from health careÃâà...
Daily Item
March 31, 2018
But for many in Haiti, especially the young, clean water and going to school can be a small miracle. On Good Friday, Faith and Concern, a local ecumenical organization with a mission of improving the lives of the Haitian people, held its 43rd Annual Walk for Haiti in Peabody. Prior to the two-hour eventÃâà...
Staunton News Leader
March 31, 2018
An environmental scientist/economist, Heck spearheads a pilot effort to bring electricity to classrooms in remote towns and villages. ... Together, “H&H 4 Haiti Productions” will create a film about the empowerment initiative, which will screen at the Episcopal Church's general convention in July for anÃâà...
New York Times
March 30, 2018
Their draft law, which was presented to Parliament last July and is awaiting consideration, did not include input from Haitian environmental and human rights organizations. The lack of transparency surrounding the proposed new mining law raises significant concerns about whose interests would beÃâà...
ERAU News
March 29, 2018
The cheering occurred last year on Hunt's first trip to Haiti with a student organization called Project Haiti from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. The student club has been working with villages and schools in the Caribbean country constructing water purification systems in cholera-strickenÃâà...
Reliefweb
March 24, 2018
Ouanaminthe- a border town in the northeastern department of Haiti, a group of children are playing football in the courtyard of the foster home ... Social Welfare and Research - IBESR intercepted him on the border bridge that connects the Haitian city of Ouanaminthe to Dajabon in the Dominican Republic.
Wicked Local
March 20, 2018
Tri-Town student musicians will perform a benefit concert, “Strings Welcome Spring,” at 3 p.m. March 25 at the First Church Congregational, 4 Georgetown Road, Boxford. Now in its 25th year, this string concert will raise funds to sponsor three children in Haiti through Partners in Development of Ipswich.
Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun
March 16, 2018
“The recent political-economic history of Haiti, is such that international economics in the form of the international monetary fund, free trade, and the lower of tariffs, in effect destroyed rural life in Haiti,” he said. The “undermining of pillars of the rural economy” prompted many to migrate to cities which wereÃâà...
The Record
March 16, 2018
VERETTES, Haiti — Thermonia Joudain wasn't home in her Haitian village when two of her children, Simon and Lirone, started having diarrhea. ... The goal is to raise an additional $100,000 by May 1 — when the rainy season starts — so all 14 villages in the city will be covered against cholera and otherÃâà...
WBUR
March 13, 2018
One of the most dramatic examples came in Haiti, about six months after the devastating earthquake that leveled much of the country in 2010. True journeyed to the port town of Jacmel, on the country's southern coast, where she, alongside Haitian youth, constructed a mosaic memorial for those who lostÃâà...
New Philadelphia Times Reporter
March 10, 2018
In Haiti, zombies are real. Their stiff-limbed walk is the result of poisoning with a neurotoxin by voodoo priests. The victims may be buried alive with only a tube for air. If they survive, the priests will claim to have brought them back to life. The victims will likely suffer permanently diminished mental function.
The Advocate
March 10, 2018
Dutreil and Moise both grew up in the Haitian port city of Gonaives, the fourth-largest city in Haiti. Like many cities in Haiti, Gonaives was hit hard by the multiple hurricanes that ravaged the island nation in 2008. Over 800 people were killed in the storms, 22,700 homes were destroyed, another 84,625 wereÃâà...
York News-Times
March 10, 2018
YORK -- For the York College students who will visit Haiti over spring break, the service/learning trip will be an adventure and a chance to gain hands-on ... Eckhart's team will spend some time at the clinic in Cap-Haitien seeing patients, then spend several days visiting rural villages in the mountains to offerÃâà...
Tri-City Herald
March 10, 2018
A federal jury apparently didn't believe seven men when they testified under oath that they were sexually abused by the founder of an orphanage in Haiti. But things have changed since summer 2015. The number of men willing to testify about alleged abuse they endured as boys in Haiti has grown to atÃâà...
Haitilibre.com
March 9, 2018
Recall that beyond the words, the Municipal Council of Croix-des-Bouquets has already carried out numerous programs and activities in favor of the women and girls of the Municipality that it intends to pursue in order to accompany them on the social level, economic, sporting, educational, professional andÃâà...
Miami Herald
March 9, 2018
As a result, many undocumented immigrants or those who could lose their legal protection, have started to move to other neighborhoods or cities, close bank .... granted to immigrants from countries that are in armed conflicts or have faced devastating natural disasters, such as the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
March 9, 2018
Afoutayi Dance, Music and Arts presents “Konesans”: Show takes audiences through a day in a Haitian village. Boston-based The Fourth Wall Ensemble presents “Fruit Flies Like a Banana”: Music, theater and dance in a variety show. The audience chooses the order. Fourth Wall presented this title at theÃâà...
High Country Press
March 9, 2018
Local family nurse practitioner, Karen Criminger, who serves on the ministry's board of directors, shared how the Widows Mite Ministry was started two years ago in response to the obvious extreme poverty and suffering of the Haiti widows and widowers. She witnessed their deplorable living conditionsÃâà...
Law.com
March 8, 2018
The developers of Miami's Magic City Innovation District have added three more properties to their Little Haiti assemblage, where they want to build a walkable technology, arts and entertainment project. An affiliate of the developers, Magic City Incubator LLC, in late February paid $4.4 million for two vacantÃâà...
Louisville Eccentric Observer
March 7, 2018
VERRETTES, Haiti — In dusty schoolhouses and under tropical timber, Haitian mothers told stories of desperation and sacrificial love that I suspect most ... For the past 10 years, she's led an organization called Water With Blessings that has brought clean water to villages like these around the world.
International Policy Digest
March 4, 2018
Imagine instructing your mother in Haiti over the phone on how to deliver your cousin's baby. In 2012, Winfred Tovar's ... As a result of Mimsi's objectives and widespread presence in over 60 rural villages in Southern Haiti, the maternal mortality rate has decreased to 1 in 1,300. The mission continues toÃâà...
Voice of America
March 3, 2018
Last week, eight TPS holders from El Salvador and Haiti, joined by the nonprofit organization Centro Presente, filed a federal lawsuit in Boston ... Gabeau and Pastor Dieufort Fleurissaint — who leads weekly Christian services in Haitian Creole, French and English — have found in their meetings withÃâà...
The Atlanta Voice
March 3, 2018
Atlanta4Haiti: Uniting Atlanta and Haiti, one initiative at a time ... Since the completion of its first mission trip, in which the team assessed the immediate needs of local Haitian villages, orphanages, and schools, Atl4Haiti has garnered the support, as well as sponsorships, from several Atlanta businesses andÃâà...
Miami Herald
March 2, 2018
The track written and sung by Ernst Yngignack, a Chile-based Haitian artist known as Black Peat, is aimed at the youth of Haiti. ... Yngignack said he drew inspiration for his lyrics from everyday Chilean scenes of struggling Haitians selling food on city streets and dragging suitcases to the nearest busÃâà...
WBUR
February 22, 2018
"The Administration's decision to terminate TPS for El Salvador and Haiti manifests these discriminatory views," Espinoza-Madrigal said in a statement. ... Martinez spoke at City Hall the day after the Trump administration announced the end of the temporary immigration program for El Salvador. (ShannonÃâà...
Haitilibre.com
February 19, 2018
According to the World Bank report "Haitian cities : actions for today with a eye for tomorrow" while in 1950 only 10% of the Haitian population lived in urban areas, the rate of urbanization reached today in Haiti 64% (Projected from the last census) of the total population or nearly 6 million city dwellers,Ãâà...
Miami New Times
February 13, 2018
Many Little Haiti residents already have indigestion over the 45,000-square-foot Magic City Innovation District proposed for their neighborhood. ... nonprofits in the area, including Fanm Ayisyen nan Miyami (FANM), the Community Justice Project, the Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance, and the Haitian ChamberÃâà...
Eagle-Tribune
February 12, 2018
METHUEN — Residents at Methuen Village Assisted Living took a trip to Haiti in spirit recently, learning about the country's culture through the Grab Your ... by spending a day each month virtually traveling to an exotic country or city by exploring the destination's art, history, music, cuisine and sightseeing.
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