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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 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.
Spain's Queen Sofia begins a four-day visit to the Dominican Republic to whom Spain donated some $23 million euros for development plans.
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.
Canada's Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean says the time for surveying the devastation in Haiti is over and the time for action has begun.
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
Rare footage of one of the world's most strange and elusive mammals has been captured by scientists in Haiti.
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.
The Barbados National Football team arrived in Cuba on Sunday to continue in their quest to be crowned champions in the Digicel Caribbean Football Championships. However, all is not well in the camp as the accommodations that have been provided in Cuba have been reported to be not up to par.
Finally the Stephenson King government is getting some positive press. And for the time being seems to be on the good side of public servants, especially since the government has made good on a promise to pay out 25 million dollars in back-pay and salary increases to its employees.
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