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 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:13:00 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1325234.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1325234.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Haiti and Guyana are the two countries in the Caribbean that are expected to post positive growth this year, despite a global economic crisis that sent financial shock waves through the region. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1321131.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1321131.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:48 EST The Haitian Senate unanimously approved a longtime technocrat as prime minister Friday, hoping that a man with long ties to Haiti's political power brokers and the international community can lead this nation through its fifth change of cabinets in five years. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1320857.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1320857.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:50 EST Haitian senators have taken a key first step toward replacing the prime minister they ousted a week ago. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1319257.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1319257.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:22 EST ARROYO BARRIL, Dominican Republic -- Maximiliano Calcaño is 2 and was born with no arms.<p/> ``When I was pregnant, I was dizzy, vomiting and could barely walk,'' said Maximiliano's mother, Anajai Calcaño, 20. ``My tooth cracked and fell out. Then my baby was born like that, without arms. Nothing like that had ever happened here before.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1310360.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1310360.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Cillian Twomey is an eminent doctor, a geriatrician in his native Ireland. So what is he doing here, in this bleak, sweltering Haitian border town? http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1309100.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1309100.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT When dozens of Haitian leaders mingled at a luncheon fundraiser on a cruise ship docked at the Port of Miami, one topic kept popping up over and over: The imminent dismissal of Prime Minister Miche`le Pierre-Louis. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1309084.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1309084.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Schools opened, public transportation ran as usual and Haitians went about their daily struggle Friday as this Caribbean nation awoke to find that Prime Minister Miche`le Pierre-Louis' year-old government had been toppled overnight. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1308881.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1308881.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:21 EDT Haiti's president turned Friday to a member of his former prime minister's freshly dissolved Cabinet to replace her, a day after she was abruptly removed by the Senate in a vote that reflects the country's deep political divisions. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1307474.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1307474.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Haiti's Senate voted just after midnight Friday to dismiss Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis, following almost 10 hours of debate.<p/> Senate President Kely Bastien, who is not allowed to cast a vote under Senate rules, said a letter will be sent to President René Préval notifying him of the Senate's 18-0 decision. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1306919.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1306919.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:01 EDT A small plane crashed into a field and burst into flames shortly after taking off Thursday in St. Croix, killing all three people on board, authorities in the U.S. Virgin Islands said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1307033.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1307033.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:51 EDT Roman Catholic officials in Grenada have temporarily banned wine-drinking and hand-holding during Mass out of swine flu concerns. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1307183.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1307183.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:51 EDT Jamaica is resisting a U.S. request to hand over a suspected crime boss with ties to the Caribbean nation's governing party amid reports he is stockpiling weapons in his Kingston stronghold to prevent arrest. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1306757.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1306757.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:31 EDT Haitian lawmakers ousted the prime minister Friday in a power struggle that threatens to undermine a campaign to attract foreign investment to the impoverished country. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1305762.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1305762.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT As Haiti's lawmakers appeared poised to reject a last-minute plea from Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis to delay Thursday's vote to oust her, the international community appeared resigned to accept her likely dismissal. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1303210.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1303210.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:20 EDT A U.S. man faces life in a sweltering Caribbean prison after a jury convicted him of drowning his wife during a scuba-diving trip a decade ago in what prosecutors called a near perfect murder. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1302776.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1302776.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:21 EDT The owner of a neighborhood bar and grocery where seven people were shot to death was arrested and charged with drug trafficking Tuesday, authorities said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1301613.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1301613.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT With Haiti poised to enjoy the economic benefits of long-elusive stability, foreign diplomats are scrambling behind the scenes to keep it all from unraveling as several lawmakers demand the ouster of the country's prime minister. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1300026.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1300026.html Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Haitian-American and immigrant activists who greeted President Barack Obama's election with high hopes are growing frustrated with the administration's failure to deliver one of their top goals. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1297734.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1297734.html Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Having spent a comfortable 30 years in the United States, Nicole Muller Cesar decided to move back to her native Haiti a decade ago.<p/> She had been working as a social worker and therapist in Boston and remained a fixture in Haitian activist circles. But the low-level political instability in the late 1990s in Haiti -- and the children who suffered from it -- compelled her to move back and launch her own group to fight for abused and abandoned young people. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1281029.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1281029.html Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:12 EDT The Security Council has voted unanimously to extend the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti for a year, saying the situation in the impoverished Caribbean nation still constitutes a threat to international peace and security despite recent progress.