The 10th Annual Haitian Compas Festival will promote not just the country's flag and konpa music, but also relief for starving Haitians. Organizers of the 10th annual Haitian Compas Festival are collecting canned goods to send to their Caribbean homeland, which was rocked by food riots last month.
The U.S. Agency for International Development will provide $20 million of emergency food aid to Haiti, where rising food prices last month led to riots that left at least six people dead, including a U.N. peacekeeper.
An international banker whose nomination for Haiti's No. 2 political post was rejected by the lower house of Parliament said Thursday he was hamstrung by corrupt legislators.
A Congressional Black Caucus delegation, led by the CBC Chairwoman Carolyn C. Kilpatrick (D-MI), will travel to Haiti Friday for a one-day visit as part of the group's ongoing effort to bring attention to the plight of starving Haitians.
LOS ANGELES TIMES
As the price of U.S. rice soars, Haiti experts urge a return to corn and other homegrown staples. But farmers say there are too many obstacles.
