Oct 04 Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier dies By Andrew Mach Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier died of a heart attack on Saturday, his lawyer said. He was 63. Continue reading
Jan 13 Watch 8:48 Haitians blame UN soldiers for cholera crisis in wake of earthquake disaster By PBS News Hour Three years ago in Haiti, as the country struggled to recover from a devastating earthquake, a river near a United Nations base was poisoned with cholera; hundreds of thousands of people have been infected. Inigo Gilmore of Independent Television News… Continue watching
Nov 26 Haitian migrant boat capsizes, up to 30 dead As many as 30 people may have died when Haitian migrant boat capsized off Bahamas - officials http://t.co/ceYSvgwHzS pic.twitter.com/bQWsjb5Jtd— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) November 26, 2013… Continue reading
Oct 09 UN sued over cholera epidemic among Haiti’s earthquake survivors A Hatian woman receives a vaccine for cholera.Photo by Jon Lascher A group of human rights lawyers are suing the U.N. on behalf of hundreds of thousands of Haitians who have contracted cholera since the 2010 earthquake. The… Continue reading
Sep 17 Watch Danticat Reads an Excerpt from ‘Claire of the Sea Light’ Edwidge Danticat Reads an Excerpt from ‘Claire of the Sea Light’… Continue watching
Sep 17 Watch Edwidge Danticat Reaches Back and Forward in Her New Novel Edwidge Danticat Reaches Back -- and Forward -- in Her New Novel Set in Haiti… Continue watching
Sep 17 Watch Edwidge Danticat Reflects on ‘Going Back’ to Haiti Through Her Writing In a seaside town in Haiti, a fisherman's daughter goes missing on her seventh birthday. What happens to the community as they search for her is the subject of a new novel, "Claire of the Sea Light." Acclaimed author Edwidge… Continue watching
Aug 21 How Candles Are Making New Opportunities for Women in Haiti By Larisa Epatko Siiri Morley, executive director of Prosperity Catalyst, knew ever since her Peace Corps days that she wanted to help women in poor parts of the world better their economic situations. But she also knew she had a lot to learn. Continue reading
Dec 24 Watch In Haiti, a Mission of Religion and Medicine for Father Rick The Rev. Rick Frechette went to Haiti 25 years ago on a religious mission to shelter families "broken by tragedy." In his mid-40s, he decided to become a doctor and built a modern pediatric medicine facility. Fred de Sam Lazaro… Continue watching
Oct 26 Hurricane Sandy Sweeps Along East Coast By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Hurricane Sandy is moving along the East Coast of the United States. The category one storm has left the Bahamas and is traveling north, leaving a trail a destruction through the Caribbean and blowing into Florida. Continue reading