HAITI

Donors urged to fulfill pledges to Haiti

At a U.N. Security Council meeting, ex-President Bill Clinton called on nations to make good on their donations to help rebuild Haiti.

CARIBBEAN BUSINESS

Caribbean contest rewards innovative businesses

The winner will be named Friday in a contest for small- and medium-sized Caribbean businesses.

U.S. Coast Guard repatriates more than 160 Haitian migrants

While on a routine patrol on Monday, crew members of the Coast Guard cutter Bear located an overloaded, 40-foot sail freighter about 30 miles west of Great Inagua, a southernmost island in the Bahamas archipelago.

HAITI

In Haiti, abandonment of disabled babies a growing problem

In Haiti, a growing number of disabled children are left for dead along roadsides, hospital courtyards and sewers -- abandoned by parents who cannot cope.

U.N. expresses `cautious optimism' on Haiti

Following up on a critical assessment made by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last February, the United Nations Security Council met in a special session Wednesday to hear a ``status update'' on the situation in Haiti.

Innovative business contest focuses on Caribbean

One is a male spa that is making it their business in this gritty machismo society to remove the stigma of a man caring about his appearance. Another devised a text messaging service alerting bank customers when remittances have hit their accounts. And a third adds value to wood by turning dried lumber into construction material and giving the wood waste to chicken farmers.

UN's deputy special envoy to Haiti wraps up first trip

A prominent Harvard doctor and Haiti advocate completed his first visit to the Caribbean nation Tuesday in his new capacity as the United Nations' deputy special envoy.

HAITI

Handbags inspired by Vodou symbols are an emblem of identity

Lured by the hand-sewn gold sequins with hints of red and green, and the warm hues of brown and orange hanging off a stranger's arm, the stylishly dressed woman with the closely cropped hair plowed through the crowded hotel lobby like an entranced fashionista hot after a must-have.

Hurricane center closely watching tropical wave

A large, well-organized tropical wave that appears likely to become the season's fifth tropical storm, Erika, continued to move toward the Windward Islands on Monday.

HAITI

In U.S., young Haitians mobilize to help their nation

In the U.S. and elsewhere, a movement to get young Haitians involved in rebuilding their troubled country is gathering strength.

IMMIGRATION

Release Haitian parents of dead infant, immigration advocates urge

The Haitian parents of an infant need to be released from detention so they can bury the girl, who died in a migrant boat tragedy, advocates say.

TRAGEDY OFF TURKS AND CAICOS

Search for missing Haitian migrants called off

The search for dozens of Haitian migrants feared dead in a boating tragedy off the Turks and Caicos Islands ended Wednesday.

Suspect in Guyana official's death dies in jail

A suspected gang member accused of helping kill Guyana's former agriculture minister has died in custody, prompting suspicions he may have been poisoned and raising questions about the integrity of the South American country's judicial system

Guyana opens new eye center offering free services

Guyana has cut the ribbon on a $700,000 ophthalmology center where patients who previously would have been flown to Cuba for free eye surgery can seek treatment.

Amnesty says police killings rising in Jamaica

An increase in fatal shootings by police is setting back efforts to curb violence and build faith in the Caribbean nation's justice system, Amnesty International said Tuesday.

OUTBOUND

Oregon construction worker, Miami surgeon go to Trinidad

Some weeks ago, an unemployed construction worker from Oregon and his wife stopped briefly in Miami on their way to Trinidad for a prostate operation.

REV. GERARD JEAN-JUSTE

The life and times of the Rev. Jean-Juste

1946: Born in Cavaillon, Haiti, the fourth oldest of nine siblings. His mother Marie Yves Joute was a homemaker, his father Gesner Jean-Juste a farmer.

BBC MONITORING

Stay out of our internal affairs, Cuban envoy tells Dominica

Cuba's Ambassador to Dominica, Oswaldo Cobacho, is urging authorities there to stay out of his country's internal affairs.

WALL STREET JOURNAL

Haiti starts over again

Close your eyes and imagine you are the new prime minister of a poor Caribbean country. Yours is not a run-of-the-mill, low-income nation but one so destitute that last year the Associated Press reported that children were being fed cookies made of "dried yellow dirt" to relieve their hunger.

Miami Herald photographer Patrick Farrell wins Pulitzer for Haiti images

Veteran Miami Herald photographer Patrick Farrell has been awarded journalism's biggest award, the Pulitzer Prize, for his harrowing images of the victims of the storms that ravaged Haiti in 2008.