Jacmel, Haiti News

My Haiti Travels , a New York-based boutique concierge firm that produces high-quality travel experiences with a social impact for groups seeking to explore Haiti for leisure and business purposes, successfully presented its second annual " Impact Week " signature expedition to Port-au-Prince, Haiti in January.

Win Butler took a solid swig off a bottle ot Barbancourt rum, before taking the stage.

A farmer and his children plant a field with bean seeds and fertilizer in southern Ethiopia in 2008, a year after severe floods destroyed most of the food crop.

A trip by a Carmel minister to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake has now snowballed into a mission to help children at the Faith and Love Orphanage in the city of Jacmel in Haiti.

By Jean H Charles Pope Francis 1, like God, is having fun multiplying the pleasant surprises in different parts of the world.

The mesmerizing sights of Jacmel Carnival found its way into one of Arcade Fire's music videos, and its drum-fused rhythms crept onto the tracks of the indie rock band's latest album, On Friday, Chassagne, the daughter of Haitian immigrants who fled Haiti's brutal Duvalier dictatorship regime in the 1960s for Canada, and husband and band ... (more)

Arcade Fire co-leader Regine Chassagne has family roots in Haiti; both of her parents emigrated to Canada from the country.

By Jean H Charles On this day of February 14, dedicated to lovers, or the day when boys meet girls, I am taking delight in presenting my empirical observation on the men and the women of Haiti, in particular those men from the North and the women from Jacmel who make the cut in being the best that you may find in the country.