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• 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.

• THE WASHINGTON POST

  Impoverished Haiti slips further as remittances dry up

  The U.S. economic crisis touched down recently in the dusty town where Marie Rosita Simon ekes out a living selling sandals. Her brother, a New Jersey cabdriver, slashed his monthly $400 transfer to her by half because his business was off.

• THE WASHINGTON POST

  Editorial: Immigrants from Haiti should be allowed to stay in the U.S.

  President Barack Obama recently issued an order that allowed Liberian immigrants to stay temporarily in the United States. Immigrants from Somalia, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras have also been granted TPS in recent years. Why are immigrants from Haiti, a disaster-wracked country that is the poorest in the hemisphere, less deserving?

• THE NEW YORK TIMES - 1977 Report

  Living in a sea of mud, and drowning in dread

  The fear of the next big storm infects the whole town of Gonaives in Haiti. Everyone knows that the rains should start in April, and that by June hurricanes can begin to form out in the Atlantic — the deadly season lasting until November.

• ACN

  Haitian Government Delegation in Cuba for Working Visit

  The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Culture of the Republic of Haiti , Alrich Nicolas, is headsing a delegation from his country that is in Havana for a working visit.

• WALL STREET JOURNAL

  Uncertain Latin American Investors Line Up, Looking to Get Back Their Life Savings

  Customers of R. Allen Stanford's banking empire in the Caribbean and Latin America faced uncertainty over their accounts as some regulators struggled to stem the flow of withdrawals

• RFI

  Turmoil in France’s overseas departments and territories

  On Jan. 20, a group of labour unions in the French department of Guadeloupe in the West Indies, along with local politicians and community groups, declared a general strike to protest the high cost of living on the island, where the basic food items can cost over twice as much as they do on mainland France.

• HAITIXCHANGE

  Undocumented Haitians start getting Dominican IDs

  Dominican authorities began to issue documents to Haitians who work illegally in agriculture, construction and livestock in the north and northwest, to regulate the foreign manpower, said an official source Thursday.

• EFE

  Spanish queen visits storm victims in Haiti

  Spain's Queen Sofia saw firsthand on Thursday the devastating consequences of the four hurricanes that last year ravaged the northern coast of Haiti, which still has some flooded areas from the storms and hundreds of displaced people who are surviving thanks to international humanitarian aid.

• THE WASHINGTON POST

  New Bahamas reserve protects marine life from development

  The Bahamas government has created a marine reserve off the island of North Bimini, preserving critical mangrove habitat and a shark nursery that had come under threat from a resort there.

• Haiti Database

• PRENSA LATINA

  Spanish Queen visits Dominican Republic, Haiti

  Spain's Queen Sofia begins a four-day visit to the Dominican Republic to whom Spain donated some $23 million euros for development plans.

• CANADA PRESS

  Large crowds greet Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean on visit to Haiti

  It looks as though Canada's Governor General hasn't lost the rock-star status she enjoys among the people of Haiti, her impoverished homeland.

• CANADIAN PRESS

  Canada's Michaelle Jean in second official visit to Haiti

  Canada's Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean says the time for surveying the devastation in Haiti is over and the time for action has begun.

• CBS NEWS

  Wyclef Jean's hopes for Haiti

  Rock star. Hip hop artist. Millionaire. American resident. Wyclef Jean is all of those things, but deep down, he is a Haitian and has never forgotten it. This superstar is dedicated to helping the poor people in his native Haiti; he considers it a calling from God

• BBC

  Venomous mammal caught on camera in Haiti

  Rare footage of one of the world's most strange and elusive mammals has been captured by scientists in Haiti.

• LOS ANGELES TIMES

  U.S. inquiry targets LAPD veteran

  A veteran Los Angeles police officer who operates a security company in Belize is under federal investigation for allegedly smuggling handguns into the Central American nation, according to law enforcement sources and internal LAPD documents.

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