NNPA NEWSWIRE — “I quickly figured it out. This whole agreement was about how they could get more products from China tariff free. It soon became apparent that this “blue print” was happening all over Africa.” […read more]
Each year, on Aug. 23, the United Nations hosts an International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition to remind the world of the tragedy of the transatlantic slave trade. […read more]
[WEATHER.COM] Hurricane Matthew is set to deliver a devastating blow to eastern Florida starting Thursday night, and then will hammer areas farther north up the coast in Georgia and the Carolinas Friday into the weekend. An important point to make is that landfall does NOT Read More
(Miami Herald) – As Haiti’s presidential campaigning slowly gains momentum amid continuing uncertainty about the fate of the country’s scheduled Oct. 25 elections, a new World Bank report calls for a social contract to improve the lives of all Haitians. The report notes that natural disasters and Read More
(Reuters) – FIFA presidential candidate Chung Mong-joon said on Wednesday that payments he made to Haiti and Pakistan in 2010 were “charitable donations” and any attempt to use them as part of a reported ethics investigation was “cynical and unethical”. Responding to media reports that world soccer’s Read More
DAVID SHARP, Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An orphan who grew up on the streets of Haiti, Daniel Madrigal said he was grateful to find food, clean clothes and shelter at St. Joseph’s Home for Boys in Port-au-Prince. But he says the orphanage founder who Read More
By Tony Best Special to the NNPA from the New York Carib News As the international community raise the alarm about the “awful” impact of the Dominican Republic’s “inhumane” scheme to deport hundreds of thousands Haitians, calls for economic sanctions against the DR are gathering Read More
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist Racism is flaring its ugly head again on the island of Hispaniola, a Caribbean island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic. For decades, thousands of Haitians have crossed over into the more affluent Dominican Republic to seek better Read More
By Bert Wilkinson Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Three key issues will attract the attention of Caribbean trade bloc leaders when they meet for three days at one of their two most important annual summits in Barbados starting Thursday. Officials Read More
By Safiya Mann Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News On Jan. 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook Haiti, taking more than 230,000 lives and displacing over 1 million people, causing a massive housing crisis. Compounding the emergency situation were confusion Read More
(New York Times) – In early 2006, my first long-term overseas posting as a journalist took me to the Dominican Republic. From my new home in Santo Domingo, I planned to write about tourism, baseball, corruption and drug trafficking, while working on my Spanish. If Read More
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A Dominican Republic court order threatens to force more than 200,000 Dominican-born Haitians from their homes in an effort that many human rights watchers have called modern-day ethnic cleansing. Just days after the Rachel Dolezal Read More
(The Washington Post) — Several mornings a week for the past five years, Smith Laflur has left his one-room cinder-block shack, walked past the stray goats and the sour cherry tree, down the quiet dirt lanes and out into the shouts and motorcycle roar of this clamoring Read More
Roque Planas, Julia Craven, THE HUFFINGTON POST SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (The Huffington Post) — At 74, Yampié Calleins’ yellowing, muscular hands now tremble when raising something as light as a piece of paper — the result of a life spent swinging a Read More
MEXICO CITY (New York Times) — Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers are facing deportation from the Dominican Republic, the latest in a series of actions by the government that have cast a light on the country’s long-troubled relationship with its Haitian neighbors. Undocumented workers in Read More
EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ, Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Haitians and other non-citizens stood in long lines across the Dominican Republic on Monday in last-minute bids to secure legal residency, hurrying to beat a looming paperwork deadline along with the threat of possible Read More
Greg Grandin, THE NATION (The Nation) — Last week, I wrote that the Dominican Republic has summarily stripped over a hundred thousand Dominicans born in the DR of Haitian parents of their citizenship and is threatening to deport them to Haiti. And though Read More
(ProPublica) – The neighborhood of Campeche sprawls up a steep hillside in Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince. Goats rustle in trash that goes forever uncollected. Children kick a deflated volleyball in a dusty lot below a wall with a hand-painted logo of the American Red Cross. In Read More
DAVID McFADDEN, Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Joseph-Marc Carel knows the danger of ferrying passengers on his small motorbike, sometimes two at a time, as tides of the buzzing vehicles cut through the chaotic Haitian capital. He has a prosthetic leg to prove it. Read More
(Politico) – Sunday, January 30, 2011. Two hundred thousand people occupied Egypt’s Tahrir Square, defying a military curfew to demand the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. Tunisia’s authoritarian leader had just been overthrown, unleashing a wave of anti-government protests from Yemen to Syria to Read More
EVENS SANON, Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — At least 21 people have died and 17 others are missing in a suspected boat capsizing off Haiti’s northern coast, authorities said Thursday. The group was among 50 believed to be aboard a boat that was headed Read More
Frances Robles, THE NEW YORK TIMES PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (The New York Times)— With a brisk clap of his hands, Michel Martelly summed up the first steps he would take if he ever left the music business and became the president of Haiti. “First thing, after Read More
(Miami Herald) – Two weeks after a Haitian man was lynched in the Dominican Republic, thousands marched through the streets of Port-au-Prince on Wednesday, demanding justice and denouncing rising anti-Haitian sentiment in the neighboring Spanish-speaking country. “Despite our diversity, despite our differences, we are Read More
ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Under a scorching sun, dozens of Haitians shuffled impatiently about the brick-walled courtyard of Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church. The sight of an approaching employer sparked a skirmish, with the men pushing against each other, Read More
Evens Sanon, ASSOCIATED PRESS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Thousands of people streamed into Haiti’s main public park on Saturday to honor the 17 victims who died in an accident involving a Carnival float. Many mourners wore white T-shirts with a phrase in Creole that Read More
EVENS SANON, Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — At least 16 people were killed early Tuesday in the Haitian capital after a man on top of a musical group’s Carnival float was shocked by high-voltage wires above the street, setting off a panic in which Read More
DAVID McFADDEN, Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti has a new prime minister as it enters a phase of political uncertainty, with its parliament dissolved, opposition activists promising intensified street protests and its president ruling by decree because of a bitter standoff with lawmakers. Read More
DAVID MCFADDEN, Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — On crowded streets where fragile concrete homes collapsed and anguished people searched through rubble for loved ones, Haitians paused to remember the devastating January 2010 earthquake that shattered much of the teeming capital and surrounding area. At Read More
David McFadden, ASSOCIATED PRESS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Somber Haitians gathered early Monday to remember the devastating January 2010 earthquake that left much of the capital and surrounding area in ruins in one of the worst natural disasters of modern times. Hundreds of people, Read More
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (USA Today) — After the earthquake swallowed his home and after three years living inside a tent with his wife and two children, Josué Lacrète finally found some peace. His family is one of 156 chosen to escape the horrific tent Read More
(The Washington Times) – The ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee took the Obama administration to task Friday for its “irresponsible” plan to allow as many as 100,000 Haitians to immigrate to the U.S. without a visa. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said the Read More
Jacqueline Charles, THE MIAMI HERALD PORT-AU-PRINCE (The Miami Herald)— Haitians said farewell Saturday to former President-for-life Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier in a simple Catholic Mass that had no official State presence except for a blue and red Haitian flag that draped his coffin. The flag Read More
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier will not get a formal state funeral, his attorney said Thursday. Duvalier, the self-designated “president-for-life” who died Saturday from an apparent heart attack, will have a “simple, private” funeral arranged by friends and Read More
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The brightly painted Haitian minibuses known as tap-taps are getting even more colorful in the lead-up to the World Cup. Although their national team did not qualify for this year’s World Cup in Brazil, Haitians are fervent soccer fans and Read More
TRENTON DANIEL, Associated Press BOMBARDOPOLIS, Haiti (AP) — Jean-Romain Beltinor plunged a hoe into the rocky dirt on his parched hillside to prepare for planting seeds he does not have. After months of drought in northwest Haiti, the subsistence farmer struggles to find food for Read More
Victims of the 2010 cholera epidemic should get their day in New York federal courts and ultimately be compensated for pain and suffering caused by UN troops by Tony Best Special to the NNPA from the New York Carib News A legal battle is looming Read More
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Haiti and the Dominican Republic are locked in negotiations aimed at resolving a dispute that potentially has hemispheric implications. This all revolves around a court decision last September in the Dominican Republic that retroactively stripped thousands of their Read More
BOIS-NEUF, Haiti (AP) — The Christian pilgrims crowded a barren mountainside in central Haiti by the thousands, seeking favors and spiritual renewal. Organized over the weekend by Our Lady of Fatima Bible Center, the three-day summit was among the largest of its kind in the Read More
by Khorri Atkinson Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Haiti Needs Us Four years ago, when a 7.0 magnitude earthquake damaged Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, many countries, including the United States, pledged large sums of money to assist with rescue, recovery and Read More
by Tony Best Special to the NNPA from the New York Carib News Even before the first legal briefs have been filed in a British or World Court seeking reparations for slavery in 14 Caribbean island nations, legal luminaries are squaring off publicly. And the Read More
By Gershom Williams NNPA Guest Columnist Perhaps because Antenor Firmin wrote in French and not English, or perhaps because he was Haitian and not French, his work was ignored, became obscure and was out of print even in Haiti until 1968. -Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban Professor Read More
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