Category Archives: Haitian News

The relationship between the medical community in the Wenatchee Valley and the community of Milot, Haiti, was renewed again this spring. In April, a medical team led by Wenatchee Valley Medical Center urologists Jeff Monda and Wally Gibbons spent two … Continue reading →

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s new president is reaching out to the 2 million Haitians emigrants whose earnings abroad have long helped keep the struggling country afloat even while they have been shut out of local politics.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti’s new president is reaching out to the 2 million Haitians emigrants whose earnings abroad have long helped keep the struggling country afloat even while they have been shut out of local politics. Recently inaugurated Michel Martelly, … Continue reading →

Haiti’s new president is reaching out to the 2 million Haitians emigrants whose earnings abroad have long helped keep the struggling country afloat even while they have been shut out of local politics.

Bill Capo / Eyewitness News The poverty you see in Haiti can take your breath away. The State Department says Haiti was the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere before last year’s massive earthquake caused widespread destruction.   Members of … Continue reading →

A man who acted as an adviser to a group of missionaries charged with taking children out of Haiti after the 2010 earthquake is going to federal prison after being convicted of smuggling immigrants into the United States through unguarded … Continue reading →

A ‘buy local’ program for aid groups working in Haiti could be an engine of economic growth.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A prominent banker in Haiti was fatally shot in his home, police said Monday. Frantz Lerebours, a spokesman for the Haitian National Police, said Guiteau Toussaint was killed Sunday night by several armed men who broke into … Continue reading →

The death and destruction from the earthquake that shook Haiti last year was partially due to shoddy building techniques. A Bay Area construction firm and related nonprofit group are working to improve concrete…

The death and destruction from the earthquake that shook Haiti last year was partially due to shoddy building techniques. A Bay Area construction firm and related nonprofit group are working to improve concrete…