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.
Everything moves slowly in Haiti. After seven years, Daniel Pye and his wife, Leann, both from Bradenton, had grown accustomed to that unwritten law of the land.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Colorful and sad, beautiful but cracked, the three remaining murals of the Episcopal Trinity Cathedral received the soft afternoon sun after last year’s earthquake only because the rest of the church had collapsed.
Haiti earthquake survivor Emily Sanson-Rejouis is pledging to double the efforts of next week’s inaugural Purple Cake Day on March 1st, and offer proceeds to help children in need in Christchurch, as well as children in Haiti, following yesterday’s …