Michelle Duvivier Pierre Louis was dismissed by the Haitian Senate last Friday night as the prime minister of Haiti. A request was sent to the Executive to name a new Prime Minister to form a new cabinet. President Rene Preval wasted no time to name, on Saturday, Jean Max Bellerive. read more...

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MEXICO CITY, Mexico -- Speaking in Mexico at the opening of the first hemispheric conference of its kind on coordination of international cooperation with Haiti, OAS Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdin applauded the decision to bring together government actors and the  international community. read more...

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PORT-AU-PRINCE,Haiti (Reuters) -- Economist Jean-Max Bellerive, who was appointed prime minister by Haiti's president last week, looks set to win speedy ratification in the nation's parliament, key lawmakers said on Wednesday. The Senate is expected to meet as early as Friday to consider Bellerive's appointment. read more...

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SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) -- United Nations peacekeeping forces will not leave Haiti any time soon as the country, one of the world's poorest, remains fragile, the Brazilian general in charge of the UN troops told Reuters. Haiti has been roiled by political violence for decades. read more...

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) -- President Rene Preval designated Haiti's planning minister as the next prime minister Friday, moving swiftly to fill the vacuum left by the overnight sacking of the previous government. Members in the Senate voted just after midnight to dismiss prime minister Michele Pierre-Louis. read more...

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Next November (2010) the people of Haiti will go to the poll to elect a brand new leader. Coming January 1, the whole country will position itself into a frenzy of maneuvering and posturing to pull up or pull down each one of the candidates. If the United States is all business, Haiti is all politics. read more...

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WASHINGTON, USA -- The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, referred recently to the decision of the Haitian Senate to deliver a non-confidence vote to ouster Prime Minister, Michele Pierre-Louis. The Secretary General stated that “an international organization... read more...

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WASHINGTON, USA -- Political stability, elections, and international cooperation in Haiti took center stage at the Organization of American States (OAS) Group of Friends of Haiti that met at OAS headquarters to review recent activities, as well as the country’s overall political and economic situation. read more...

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As a reflection on the letter to the editor submitted on Tuesday:"Haiti needs our intervention," I would like to suggest reading the information on the following website for consideration. I am in agreement that intervention is a good thing. However, where and how intervention takes place is my larger concern. read more...

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I am very much appalled by the deplorable condition that our brothers and sisters are living under in the Caribbean island of Haiti. As the first black island in the Western Hemisphere to attain its independence from the European colonisers Haiti should be dear to our hearts and as fellow Caribbean people... read more...

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The month of October represents for most Haitian families, the cruelest month of the year. They must choose between feeding their families and allocating their meager funds to eat for sending their children to school. The business of schooling is one of the grossest oriented sectors of the Haitian economy. read more...

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Internationally-renowned top model and actress Molly Sims on Wednesday launched a new youth centre for street children in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince. PSI (Population Services International) built the centre with money donated from H&M's 2008 Fashion Against AIDS campaign. read more...

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NEW YORK, USA -- It Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, Monday announced plans to publish the memoir of Grammy Award-winning multi-platinum musician Wyclef Jean. Jean will be writing the memoir with bestselling author and Rolling Stone writer Anthony Bozza. read more...

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WASHINGTON, USA -- More than two dozen items, ranging from travel and entertainment to jewelry and original artwork, are available for auction with the proceeds benefiting people with the greatest needs in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Pan American Development Foundation announced on Monday. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- With eight hundred thousand large and small farmers out of a population of nine million Haiti is said to have a vibrant agriculture sector. Among the longstanding challenges facing the sector is slow pace of information flow between policy makers, producers and the public. read more...

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) -- Eleven UN peacekeepers died on Friday when their surveillance plane crashed into a mountainside in Haiti during a routine patrol, UN officials said. A UN rescue team confirmed there were no survivors among the 11 crew and military personnel on the plane. read more...

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MIAMI, USA (Reuters) -- How stable can a nation like Haiti be, where UN soldiers still keep the peace, where a prime minister was toppled by food riots 18 months ago and where a president was overthrown by armed rebels five years ago? President Rene Preval's government and the 9,000-strong UN... read more...

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CITÉ SOLEIL, Haiti -- Shortly after a visit by former United States President Bill Clinton, the Haiti-based conglomerate WIN Group and the Soros Economic Development Fund on Tuesday announced plans to develop a $45 million industrial park to jumpstart industry. Clinton, was in the country for an investors’ conference. read more...

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LABADEE, Haiti (Reuters) -- An ultramodern ocean liner and a 19th-century mountaintop fortress built by a slave rebellion leader figure prominently in Haiti's plans to revive tourism in the poorest nation in the Americas. A key element of the hoped-for renaissance may be close to fruition. read more...

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CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti (AFP) -- Former US president Bill Clinton, visiting Haiti in his capacity as a United Nations special envoy, wrapped up a two-day trip with a call for tourists to visit the Caribbean country. "I love this place. It's wonderful. I see the potential," he said as he visited Cap-Haitien, on the country's north coast. read more...

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The Republic of Haiti has maybe the largest number of artists per square mile than most countries in the world. This artistic pregnancy is spread evenly amongst the rich as well as the poor. It is due seemingly to the extraordinary natural beauty of the country. Each one of its towns and cities are surrounded by... read more...

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) -- 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 meeting was the largest investment conference ever held in Haiti. read more...

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NEW YORK, USA -- Haitian-American travel executive Caroline Racine is climbing the corporate ladder at Choice Hotels International. Racine, who ran the company's Caribbean Franchise Development efforts for two and a half years, is now Director of Diversity Sales within the organization's global sales division. read more...

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Haiti has ten major cities besides Port au Prince, the capital. Four of them have a quality of life that makes them an oasis in a desert where good governance is as scarce as water in the Sahara. We can count amongst them St Marc with its deep port from where most of the succulent Haitian coffee departs. read more...

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MIAMI, USA (AFP) -- A Haitian man was charged on Wednesday with six counts of murder in the killings of his wife and their five small children -- a crime that police in Florida described as the "most horrific" they had ever seen. Damas, 33 and a US resident, was arrested near the airport in the capital of Haiti. read more...

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) -- The father of five children who were found murdered along with their mother in their Florida home has been arrested in Haiti, police said on Monday. Collier County Sheriff Kevin Rambosk described it as "the most horrific and violent event this community has ever experienced." read more...

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MIAMI, USA (AFP) -- A mother and her five young children have been found murdered at their home in Florida, police said on Sunday, as authorities searched for the woman's husband who they believe has fled to Haiti. The bodies of Guerline Damas, 32, and five children were found late Saturday. read more...

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I read your article on the most exciting recent OAS last trip to Haiti. Once again, it is laughing history at its best! Your article is in full support of that comedy on Haiti and Haitian realities. But it could and should be also the call for some pragmatic strategy to tackle and erase once for all that cancer of Haitian poverty. read more...

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Cape Haitian, akin to New Orleans, Louisiana; Charleston, South Carolina; Old Town San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a living museum site where the residents are privileged to be the custodian for future generations of a bygone era. New Orleans was destroyed in part by Katrina. It is slowly being rebuilt. read more...

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WASHINGTON, USA -- The OAS Permanent Council on Wednesday expressed satisfaction with the inter-American mission to Haiti which took place September 3-6, and praised the leadership of the Chairman of the Haiti Task Force and the Haiti group of Friends, Ambassador Albert Ramdin. read more...

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NEW HAVEN, USA -- Nora Dannehy, US Attorney for the District of Connecticut, on Thursday announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Bridgeport, Conn., has returned an indictment charging a former Connecticut resident with sexually abusing several boys in Haiti for approximately a decade. read more...

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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- Different sectors in the Dominican Republic have reacted with outrage about what they describe as "a persistent, unfair and slanderous" campaign the English-Spanish priest Christopher Hartley Sartorius has waged in relation to the treatment given to Haitian workers. read more...

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The American health care industry is bankrupting the American industrial complex. President Barack Obama is running against time to rein in the cost of health care and save the American economy. According to a recent article in Atlantic Magazine, America has built a health care system with incentives that... read more...

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WASHINGTON, USA -- A high-level inter-American mission comprised of eight OAS member States as well as the IDB, PAHO, IICA and PADF, successfully concluded a working visit to Haiti on Sunday, September 6. When asked about the objectives of the three-day mission, OAS Assistant Secretary General, Albert Ramdin... read more...

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WASHINGTON, USA -- Five extraordinary people from Cuba, Haiti, Colombia and El Salvador will be honored as the 2009 Heroes of the Hemisphere for their dedication to improving the lives of people in their communities, the Pan American Development Foundation announced on Wednesday. read more...

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -- Haiti has kept its promise to build a government but donor nations have failed to deliver the aid they pledged to the poorest country in the western hemisphere, Bill Clinton said on Wednesday. "They've only gotten a pittance of the aid that was pledged to them," Clinton said. read more...

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PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) -- Women can give birth for free at the Isaie Jeanty hospital in the Haitian capital thanks to foreign aid -- but hospital equipment theft is so rampant an operating room has been closed almost since the site opened. Isaie Jeanty is an example of how millions of dollars in humanitarian aid... read more...

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The Haitian-New York Diaspora as well as the Florida and the Canadian Diaspora are well accounted for in their contribution in helping Haiti to sustain itself while the country is still in coma. Yet the 1.2 million Haitians in the Dominican Republic are soon becoming one of the largest mass of middle class stock on the island. read more...

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NEW YORK, USA (AFP) -- UN peacekeepers in Haiti should be reorganized to better monitor the country's border areas and coastline, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said in a report released Thursday. Ban stressed the UN's crucial security role in helping stabilize the impoverished Caribbean nation. read more...

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) -- Tropical Storm Erika weakened to a tropical depression in the northeast Caribbean on Thursday but still threatened Puerto Rico and neighboring islands with heavy rainfall, the US National Hurricane Center said. Most government offices and schools closed early on Thursday. read more...

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