Category Archives: Haitian News

Haiti's biggest employer has named a new chief executive to run Digicel, the mobile phone company announced Wednesday.

Plans for new army divide opinion in coup-prone Haiti

Haiti's government has kicked off a program that it hopes will provide meals to 2.2 million school children across the country.

Haiti's president said Monday he hopes to double the number of rural households that receive electricity within two years by offering people small loans to buy solar kits.

The United Nations investigates new charges of sexual abuse against its staff in Haiti, one in the capital, Port-au-Prince, the other in Gonaives.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti, whose members have been accused of rape, assault and sparking a cholera epidemic in the country, is investigating new allegations that peacekeepers sexually abused minors. "The U.N. Secretariat regrets to … Continue reading →

JACMEL, HAITI — A couple of rumpled aid workers were sucking down a Sunday morning beer at the Hotel Florita here when the minister of tourism rolled to the curb, followed by the interior minister with body guards toting AR-15s, … Continue reading →

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Though the earthquake that devastated Haiti happened more than two years ago, the havoc and chaos in the nation has hardly disappeared with time. According to a recent report filed …

The American missionaries arrived in a beige bus in the days after the earthquake, promising a better life for the children of this village in the mountains above Haiti's capital.

Two years after an earthquake devastated Haiti, citizens there are laying the foundation of one of the largest, most sophisticated projects in the country – a state-of-the-art teaching hospital. Dr. Jon LaPook reports on the change it will bring.