The newly elected chief of Dominica's Caribs, the last remaining pre-Columbian tribe in the eastern Caribbean, said Thursday he has high hopes for the island's dwindling indigenous population.
The Paris Club of creditor nations said Wednesday it has canceled $62.73 million of debt it is owed by Haiti and that further bilateral agreements have cleared the Caribbean nation's remaining debt to individual club members.
Students at Gulliver Prep in Pinecrest are developing ways to provide clean drinking water to storm-ravaged Haiti.
Former President Bill Clinton, now the special envoy to Haiti, got a firsthand look at Gonaives, which was battered last year by tropical storms.
A budding alliance between Venezuela's Hugo Chávez and several small, English-speaking island nations is creating waves in the Caribbean.
A lack of coordination among aid groups and Haitian leaders is hurting efforts to ease poverty in the Caribbean nation, Bill Clinton said Wednesday as he wrapped up his first trip here as a special U.N. envoy.
Bill Clinton aims to refocus international attention on this Caribbean country's deep economic problems and environmental decay during his first visit as the United Nations' special envoy to Haiti.
When Micheline Leon was diagnosed with HIV, her parents told her they would fit her for a coffin.
Cash-strapped Caribbean leaders plan to lobby international financial institutions for assistance.
Members of the CARICOM regional group seek unity as Caribbean nations as economic, trade and immigration challenges threaten the stability of the region.
British officials looking into corruption allegations in the Turks and Caicos Islands have called for a criminal investigation of Premier Michael Misick, authorities said Thursday.
With the United States in the midst of recession, the tourist-dependent Caribbean searches for ways to cushion the blow during a four-day summit.
A teenage girl who has undergone several operations to transform her disfigured face is blooming into a confident teenager.
Cash-strapped, storm-battered Haiti is finally getting relief. After years of struggling to meet the requirements for cancellation of most of its $1.7 billion in foreign debt, the country has finally achieved $1.2 billion in debt forgiveness from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
Miami Dolphins defensive end Jason Taylor and two partners were cleared Tuesday in a civil suit of reneging on a deal to buy a private island with sandy shoals and wind-swept grasses.
Three international organizations canceled $1.2 billion of Haiti's debt Tuesday, freeing up millions of dollars each year for the deeply impoverished Caribbean nation that is beset by humanitarian crises.
It is one of the most controversial periods in Haitian history, and yet Jamaican anthropologist and University of the West Indies lecturer Matthew Smith argues that it was also perhaps modern Haiti's greatest moment of political promise.
President Rene Preval's party won five of 11 contests to fill open Senate seats, according to preliminary results released Monday by the provisional electoral council.
Haitian police say a demonstrator found slain after a clash with U.N. peacekeepers during a funeral procession was killed by a bullet, and not by a rock as peacekeepers initially reported.
Florida Sen. Bill Nelson is calling on the U.S. government to provide more assistance to help Haiti combat drug traffickers who have turned the country into a popular transit point for Colombian cocaine shipped through Venezuela to the United States.
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