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  Haiti

  Martelly wants Haitian parliament to work with him

  On the eve of the second anniversary of the Haiti earthquake, President Michel Martelly calls on parliament to help him build a better Haiti.

• The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL

  No time to despair

  OUR OPINION: Haiti’s progress has been slow, but improvements are underway
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  To Our Readers

  Herald journalists dig for progress in Haiti, find it

  Fourteen months since his last trip to Haiti, Jose Iglesias landed in Port-au-Prince last month with his video camera in hand, looking for the images that captured this chapter in the country’s post-quake recovery.

• Haiti earthquake anniversary events

  Activities in Haiti and the United States to commemorate the second anniversary of the earthquake

• Haiti analysis

  Slow recovery in Haiti two years after earthquake

  Almost two years after the devastating 7.0 earthquake destroyed much of Port-au-Prince, full recovery appears to be years away. Thousands of people continue to live in makeshift shelters and tents, rubble from dilapidated buildings still line some streets and a cholera epidemic has claimed well over 6,000 lives.
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  Haiti earthquake

  Local Haitian injured in quake struggles to provide for family

  Richard Jacque-Pierre, who moved to South Florida after the Haiti earthquake, is struggling to provide financially for his family back home.
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  MILITARY

  Defense strategy doesn’t suggest more US military to Latin America

  The Obama administration rollout of its new Defense Department strategy says little about Latin America and the Caribbean and does not foreshadow whether cuts are in store for Southern Command, the Pentagon’s outpost in Miami.
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  US Coast Guard repatriates 149 Haitians, Cubans

  The U.S. Coast Guard said Saturday it had returned almost 150 migrants to their Caribbean homelands after intercepting their boats at sea.
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  HAITI

  Oprah Winfrey to see Haiti’s President Michel Martelly, Designer Donna Karan, Sean Penn’s DP camp

  The TV talent is expected in Port au Prince Sunday evening to visit a settlement camp for displaced people run by Hollywood actor Sean Penn and meet with fashion designer Donna Karan on Monday.

• Haiti reconstruction

  Haiti leaders to begin talks on improving investment laws

  As business opportunities in post-earthquake Haiti yield enthusiasm and opportunity, the government commits to passing law to make country more business friendly.

• Manufacturing

  Brazilian firm buys trade secrets to build low-cost homes

  Millport Associates, a subsidiary of a Brazilian conglomerate, acquired InnoVida’s trade secrets in a bankruptcy auction.
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  SONIA PIERRE

  Sonia Pierre leaves behind legacy of activism for Haitians in Dominican Republic

  Ninaj Raoul, a human rights activist and executive director of the New York-based Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees, remembers meeting Sonia Pierre in 1994 at a conference decrying the agonizing plight of Haitian refugees.
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  Media

  Miami Herald staff wins regional Emmy award for Haiti documentary

  Nou Bouke, a documentary that captured the mood of Haiti after the devastating earthquake in 2010, received a regional Emmy award Saturday in the documentary-topical category.

• Haiti Business

  Charity fatigue has Haitian officials calling for more investments

  As Haiti wrapped up a two-day investment seminar and heralded some good news, supporters say now comes the ‘homework” needed to create a business climate.
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  Haiti

  Wyclef Jean: Yele misspending allegations are bunk

  The charity founded by musician Wyclef Jean says recently allegations against it are out of context and false.

• Haiti

  Hundreds of investors in Haiti for two-day forum

  Haiti kicked off a two-day investment forum Monday with the inauguration of a major road, a new industrial park and announcement by hotel chain Marriott that it is coming to the country.
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  Wyclef Jean defends Haiti charity’s actions

  Haiti-born hip hop star Wyclef Jean says an article in the New York Post questioning how his charity, Yele Haiti, spent millions of dollars in aid for victims of the January 2010 Haiti earthquake is “misleading, deceptive and incomplete.”

• Haiti

  Haitian President Michel Martelly delays controversial army plan

  President Michel Martelly is delaying his plan to reinstate the army and instead wants a commission to study the matter.

• Americas

  IDB touts investment in Haiti, the region

  Inter-American Development Bank President Luis Alberto Moreno praised the role of social entrepreneurs in bringing about economic change Thursday at the Americas Business Council Foundation Continuity Forum.
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  Deportations

  US deportees face illegal detentions, health risks in Haiti

  Deportees from the U.S. to Haiti face myriad risks once in the country, including life-threatening cholera infections.

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