http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Haiti & Caribbean 60 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:07:03 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1139025.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1139025.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:09 EDT Donald Warner Henderson http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1137461.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1137461.html Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:05 EDT A ferry capsized off Haiti's southern coast Saturday morning, killing at least five people. Authorities said it wasn't clear how many people were on board, but as many as two dozen could be missing. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1135690.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1135690.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:11 EDT The Caribbean is still struggling to recover from last year's hurricanes, with crews scrambling to rebuild homes and replant crops as the region faces a new season of storms. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1134368.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1134368.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:03 EDT The newly elected chief of Dominica's Caribs, the last remaining pre-Columbian tribe in the eastern Caribbean, said Thursday he has high hopes for the island's dwindling indigenous population. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1134300.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1134300.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:56 EDT The Paris Club of creditor nations said Wednesday it has canceled $62.73 million of debt it is owed by Haiti and that further bilateral agreements have cleared the Caribbean nation's remaining debt to individual club members. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1133650.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1133650.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:08 EDT What started off as a science project at Gulliver Prep will soon provide clean water to people in Haiti. A team of 13 biomedical sciences and engineering students invented a solar-powered water purification system that they'll be sending to a hospital when the school year starts. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1131894.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1131894.html Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Bill Clinton on Tuesday took his Haiti relief effort to this battered seaside city that was nearly destroyed last year by tropical storms, finding a mud-caked maze of partially rebuilt homes and shops. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1131892.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1131892.html Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Amid the lush beauty and black, sandy beaches of the cash-strapped island of Dominica, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is providing free cooking gas to the poor, financing a coffee treatment plant and constructing an oil-storage facility. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1131627.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1131627.html Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:33 EDT A lack of coordination among aid groups and Haitian leaders is hurting efforts to ease poverty in the Caribbean nation, Bill Clinton said Wednesday as he wrapped up his first trip here as a special U.N. envoy. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1129913.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1129913.html Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:32 EDT Bill Clinton aims to refocus international attention on this Caribbean country's deep economic problems and environmental decay during his first visit as the United Nations' special envoy to Haiti. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1128211.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1128211.html Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:13 EDT When Micheline Leon was diagnosed with HIV, her parents told her they would fit her for a coffin. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1128727.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1128727.html Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Caribbean leaders ended a four-day summit here a day early, pledging to launch a lobbying effort among international financial institutions to acquire desperately needed cash to help keep their economies afloat amid the spreading global economic crisis. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1125492.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1125492.html Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Leaders of the Caribbean Community opened a four-day summit Thursday in Georgetown, Guyana, to the strains of steel drums and a call for unity as a host of weighty issues threaten to tear apart the 15-member regional bloc. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1124792.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1124792.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:57 EDT British officials looking into corruption allegations in the Turks and Caicos Islands have called for a criminal investigation of Premier Michael Misick, authorities said Thursday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1123866.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1123866.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Grenada Prime Minister Tillman Thomas stood before a roomful of world leaders at the United Nations in New York last week and painted a stark picture of how the financial meltdown was threatening his eastern Caribbean island. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1123872.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1123872.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:36 EDT The birthday girl twirled to the sounds of her favorite Haitian music. Friends and family formed a circle around her, chanting ``Marlie, Marlie.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1121931.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1121931.html Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Cash-strapped, storm-battered Haiti is finally getting relief. After years of struggling to meet the requirements for cancellation of most of its $1.7 billion in foreign debt, the country has finally achieved $1.2 billion in debt forgiveness from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1121921.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1121921.html Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:30 EDT Miami Dolphins defensive end Jason Taylor and two partners were cleared Tuesday in a civil suit of reneging on a deal to buy a private island with sandy shoals and wind-swept grasses. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1121781.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1121781.html Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:19 EDT Three international organizations canceled $1.2 billion of Haiti's debt Tuesday, freeing up millions of dollars each year for the deeply impoverished Caribbean nation that is beset by humanitarian crises. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1121692.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1121692.html Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:46 EDT It is one of the most controversial periods in Haitian history, and yet Jamaican anthropologist and University of the West Indies lecturer Matthew Smith argues that it was also perhaps modern Haiti's greatest moment of political promise.