Information About Haiti

JACMEL, Haiti (AFP) – Playing the bongo drums to adoring fans is unusual as presidential campaigns go but this is the Caribbean and Michel Martelly is no ordinary candidate: he is Haiti’s former carnival king.

A year after witnessing unspeakable horror in their homeland, children who escaped their broken country and came to Massachusetts were asked to write a few words about their dreams.

A year after witnessing unspeakable horror in their homeland, children who escaped their broken country and came to Massachusetts were asked to write a few words about their dreams.

The country has been abuzz with expectation of the former leader’s return since he announced he planned to come back and work on education issues. But no one knows when, or even if, he’ll show up. At the empty home of former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, they’ve added a new coat of white paint and put fresh sheets on the bed.

The country has been abuzz with expectation of the former leader’s return since he announced he planned to come back and work on education issues. But no one knows when, or even if, he’ll show up. At the empty home of former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, they’ve added a new coat of white paint and put fresh sheets on the bed.

On Feb. 3, Haiti’s Electoral Council announced in a decision signed by only four of eight council members, and without releasing any vote count, that Mirlande Manigat and Michel Martelly would participate in a “run-off” on March 20, although Haitian…

To the casual observer, Haiti is a Caribbean country ravaged by a 2010 earthquake and dogged by abject poverty reflected in inadequate roads, low levels of education and scarce food.

PORT AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Three weeks after the Haitian government gave a diplomatic passport to Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the country’s exiled former president, his planned return appears to have stalled amid unresolved security and logistical concerns.

American officials want the former Haitian president to stay away at least until after a March 20 runoff election.

CHELMSFORD — Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, where 80 percent of the residents live below the poverty line.