Senate unanimously approves a bill providing path to citizenship to hundreds of thousands of Dominican-born children of migrants Alejandro Pierre is known as the king of bachata in his neighbourhood, on the outskirts of Santo Domingo. He loves the swaying hip movements of this uniquely Dominican dance. Continue reading... ...
Marine explorers believe they have discovered the 500-year-old remains of the ship sailed by Christopher Columbus on his famed voyage to the New World. Video released this week shows divers examining the heavily decayed vessel believed to be the Santa Maria. The wreckage was originally discovered in 2003 but could not be identified at the time Continue reading... ...
Marine archaeologists think they have located the remains of Christopher Columbus's flagship, the Santa Maria, off the coast of Haiti. It joins an impressive list of other historic wrecks that have been found recently Perhaps the most famous of all pirate ships began life in 1710 as a Royal Navy frigate called the Concord. Almost immediately after launch, she was captured by the French and converted...
Author Roxane Gay says it's inevitable that you'll dance to misogynistic music, that your opinions can't always be compatible with feminist ideology or perfect politics Roxane Gay is an author who has also become known for her incisive cultural and literary criticism. Gay's new novel, An Untamed State , is told from the point of view of Mireille Duval Jameson a Haitian-born woman, now married to an...
A micro-garden movement to combat post-earthquake hunger and despair in Cité Soleil, a poor neighbourhood in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, is uniting communities. The movement, which involves citizens working together to grow food, is inspiring families and restoring residents' pride. Kombit is a Sundance Institute short film challenge winner. Entries are open for next year's competition Continue...
Italy should have seen off Haiti with ease in 1974 but the group game burst into life through the unheralded Emmanuel Sanon The win-or-bust, tension-ratcheting final rounds of the World Cup allow memorable moments and dramatic sub-plots to breed like bacteria on a soggy handkerchief. Italy v Haiti, however, was the opening game of Group Four, a match which the heavy favourites won by a two-goal margin....
Plaintiffs hold UN responsible for outbreak of disease, which they say was carried into Haiti by peacekeepers from Nepal Ed Pilkington ...
UN assistant secretary general says deadly outbreak, which has been blamed on UN troops, demands decisive action Haiti needs a " Marshall plan " for water and sanitation to quell a cholera epidemic which poses a major threat to the Caribbean and Latin America, according to the UN assistant secretary general. Pedro Medrano Rojas, who is co-ordinating the response in Haiti, is visiting European capitals...
s it like to lose colleagues in the Haiti earthquake and what could you do to cope with death in the workplace? Read the experiences of two aid workers Haiti was struck by an earthquake on 12 January 2010. Over 100,000 people were killed , including 100 UN personnel . We lost three serving and one former UN volunteers: • Nivah Odwori, a Kenyan national working as a district coordinator. • Mamadi Conde,...
s first tablet computers are assembled. There are three models of the Surtab Android tablets, the most expensive of which is not dissimilar to an iPad Mini or Samsung Galaxy – but at half the price. "They show that Haiti can do hi-tech manufacturing and assembly," says Maarten Boute, Surtab's Belgian CEO and co-founder. "Everyone knows Haiti, but for the wrong reasons. Now, Surtab associates the Haiti...
In Haiti, Arcade Fire aren’t headliners. Not that it matters to Win Butler and Regine Chassagne, for whom it’s a kind of homecoming Edward Helmore ...
s beauty and its people – as well as its poverty. When they returned to Alabama, they collected clothes to send to Haiti and raised funds to start a school in Plaisance, Thelisma's hometown. That quickly evolved into the pair seeking a long-term solution to employ the children who graduated from the school. "Haiti once exported some of the finest vanilla products to Paris. They can do it again," says...
s capacity for resilient hope and determined rebuilding amid the ruins that remain on their doorstep. At either end of the social spectrum, Jimmy and Magalie's response to the 7.0-magnitude quake that struck in the early hours of 12 January 2010 was identical. Both their houses fell down, so they simply moved their families out into the front yard. With more spare cash than Jimmy, Magalie quickly built...
s rights to be properly consulted and compensated in relation to possible new uses of their land, on pollution control, on taxation, and on transparency around mining deals and mining companies' finances. Despite these problems there is still time to make things right for the mining industry in Haiti, the farmers living in the areas the companies want to exploit, as well as the country as a whole....
s popular radio journalist, Jean Dominique. He and his security guard were shot dead in the courtyard of Radio Haiti-Inter's offices. The killing of Dominique — affectionately known as "Jean Do" — shocked his many thousands of loyal listeners who enjoyed his broadcasts, aired in Creole rather than the "elite" French. Now a judge's report into the murders, read out in the appeal court, has named a former...
s commercial climate remains mixed after the 2010 quake, there are green shoots of independent growth Four years after the devastating earthquake that levelled Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, it's not quite business as usual. Economists say foreign do-gooders flush with funds have drastically altered the business ecosystem, with mixed results. Two clinics, 10 minutes apart in the city's busy government...
s share of US aid funding for projects in Haiti four years after the earthquake that levelled the capital Port-au-Prince, despite US government promises to spend more money through local organisations. Data released by the US agency for international development (USAid) last year shows it spent more than $270m on projects in Haiti in 2013, with US-based companies receiving almost half of this and American...
s textile exports may become uncompetitive if the bar is set too high. Garments constitute 90% of Haiti's exports, earning $800m (£485) a year, the biggest source of foreign exchange after diaspora remittances. The sector employs 31,000 people, a significant if small contribution to the organised jobs market in a poor, predominantly young workforce beset by unemployment rates of more than 40%. Ironically,...
s range, others to write the earthquake into the book. But as Danticat explained in an interview with Guernica magazine : "At some point in the writing, even before the earthquake happened, this place I was writing about became a town on the verge of disaster." The what-really-happened-later aspect of the book doesn't detract from or diminish what is contained in its pages; it magnifies it. One...
s chronic malnutrition. The poorest country in the western hemisphere, 75% of Haiti's population lives on less than $2 a day , half on less than $1 a day, according to the UN World Food Programme. It imports 80% of its rice and more than half of all its food, despite 60% of Haitians working in agriculture. An estimated 7 million of the 10 million population are food insecure and USAid estimates that...