U.N. Birthday Rocks for Its Peacemakers
Flashbulbs popping non-stop, H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations in New York, entered the U.N. General Assembly Hall in New ...
Flashbulbs popping non-stop, H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations in New York, entered the U.N. General Assembly Hall in New ...
Room Eight | Room Eight | Posted 10.29.2009 | Home
Come next Tuesday 3rd November 2009, Mr. Carrie Solages will be on the ballot for County Clerk of Nassau. This Long Island native is a thirty year old...
CBS4Denver | CBS 4 Denver | Posted 10.28.2009 | Home
Federal prosecutors say a Colorado man charged with sexually abusing nine boys at a school he founded in Haiti was using his computer while in ...
CBS4Denver | CBS 4 Denver | Posted 10.19.2009 | Home
A bail hearing has been rescheduled in Connecticut for a Colorado man charged with molesting nine boys at a school he founded in Haiti for poor childr...
CBS4Denver | CBS 4 Denver | Posted 10.19.2009 | Home
A bail hearing is set to continue in federal court in Connecticut for a Colorado man charged with sexually abusing nine boys at a school he fou...
AP | JENNIFER KAY | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business
MIAMI — Three men are accused of running a Ponzi scheme that scammed more than $14 million from hundreds of Haitian-American investors in South ...
AP | JONATHAN M. KATZ | Posted 10.10.2009 | World
FONDS-PARISIEN, Haiti — A surveillance plane assigned to the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti crashed into a mountain Friday, killing all 11 m...
Carine Fabius | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living
In the end, life is not made up of days and weeks and months and years but by each moment. And if only one moment can be made sweeter by just one of our acts, then we will have fulfilled our purpose.
Susan Davis | Posted 10.06.2009 | World
After two years of support -- asset transfers, skill training and social linkages -- over 90% of our program women "graduate" into becoming successful microfinance members.
AP | RAMON ALMANZAR | Posted 09.30.2009 | Home
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Authorities plan to relocate soldiers and their families to border communities that are home to thousands of illegal Haitian immigrants and increasingly fewer Dominicans.
Dozens of families will move next year as part of a pilot program to reforest the area, repair run-down homes and teach locals how to read and write, Military Secretary Pedro Rafael Pena said Wednesday.
The first families will move to the southwestern province of Pedernales, where the government says Haitians have damaged the Bahoruco mountain range by chopping down trees to plant crops and build makeshift homes. Soldiers also will reclaim property that Haitians seized after local residents left, Pena said.
He did not know how much the relocation would cost, but said it would receive private-sector financing.
The Rev. Regino Martinez, a Dominican priest, disputed the government's claim that the thousands of Haitian immigrants living along the 240-mile (390-kilometer) border are driving locals away.
AP | HOLLY RAMER | Posted 09.30.2009 | Green
CONCORD, N.H. — Wyclef Jean and The Timberland Co. are teaming up to sell eco-friendly footwear and support reforestation of the singer's native Haiti.
Jean, who achieved fame with The Fugees before going solo, collaborated with the New Hampshire-based footwear and apparel company on a 16-boot collection going on sale in November. Timberland also will sell T-shirts designed by Haitian children, and a new line of organic shirts and hats will be sold at Jean's concerts, with a cut of the profits going to Jean's Yele Haiti foundation.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Jean says he hopes the partnership will inspire children and put a new face on his homeland. The partnership is part of Timberland's Earthkeepers program, which promotes environmental and social activism.
Martha St Jean | Posted 09.24.2009 | World
"When [my first novel] was just published, people walked up to me and told me that someone who worked at their house is Haitian," Danticat said. "Now there are a number of people telling me that their doctor is Haitian."
Reporters Uncensored | Posted 09.23.2009 | World
It won't surprise Ahmadinejad that the largest gathering of Iranians in exile in thirty years will be waiting for him here in New York City with green bandanas -- but the sight of rabbis next to them might.
Katherine Gustafson | Posted 09.23.2009 | World
As good as his movies are and as dazzling as his hundred-watt smile is, the best thing about Matt Damon is that he just announced that his non-profit, Water.org, will provide clean water to 50,000 people in Haiti.
The Morningside Post | Posted 09.24.2009 | World
More than 300,000 children are currently enslaved as restaveks in Haiti. They make up 3 percent of Haiti's population. More often than not they are emotionally and physically abused.
Essence | Essence | Posted 09.21.2009 | Home
North Naples, Florida detectives are currently searching for Mesac Damas, 33, who they suspect killed his wife and their five young children after the...
Jeff Antebi | Posted 09.23.2009 | World
I discovered something unexpected about Haiti. It's nowhere near as apocalyptic as one might think. For experienced travelers, it's a place worth visiting (with heavy doses of caveats and cautions).
AP | JONATHAN M. KATZ | Posted 09.17.2009 | World
MABRIYOLE, Haiti — Venecia Louis nearly starved last year after four tropical storms pummeled Haiti. Now the 4-year-old's cheeks are pudgier, bu...
Salena Tramel | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
Instead of spending their money revitalizing the agricultural sector, NGO programs round up small-scale farmers to build roads and clean out sewage systems in return for food vouchers.
Robert Naiman | Posted 09.07.2009 | World
By its failure to help restore Honduran President Zelaya, the Obama Administration is helping to drive down the minimum wage in Honduras, Haiti, and throughout the world.
Cameron Sinclair | Posted 09.03.2009 | World
Last week I traveled to Haiti to see if my organization could provide design and building services for a couple of projects. What I found was a country very different from what was reported in the media.
Salena Tramel | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
Here in Haiti, a country all too often characterized by internal instability, the biggest scandals of all have external origins. Just ask the Haitians.
AP | JONATHAN M. KATZ and JENNIFER KAY | Posted 08.29.2009 | World
CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti — There was no warning when the overloaded sailboat plowed into a coral reef and began to break apart. In the darkness, some ...
AP | JONATHAN M. KATZ | Posted 08.06.2009 | World
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Bill Clinton aims to refocus international attention on this Caribbean country's deep economic problems and environmenta...
Jim Luce | Posted 11.06.2009 | New York