Haiti Travel News

Princess Juliana International Airport operating company PJIAE welcomed Air Caraibes' inaugural transatlantic flight 534 with the customary shower of water as it touched down and taxied towards its arrival gate Saturday afternoon, to launch the company's new, twice-weekly Paris-St. Maarten-Haiti service.

When the the Rev. Glenn Meaux of Abbeville arrived there more than 20 years ago, he found families living in shacks with packed mud floors.

Like a hurricane born in the Caribbean and gathering momentum as it pushes northward, word spread last week that Jean-Claude Duvalier, 34, Haiti's President-for-Life, had fled his country.

In this month's Reader's Digest, November 2009, there is a great story by Michael Meyer about the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

Port-au-Prince, Oct 30 Haitian government became leaderless Friday after the Senate removed Prime Minister Michele D. Pierre Louis, who knew in advance that her destiny as head of state had been already decided.

But she refused to attend the session, which senators said would likely lead to her dismissal.

While awaiting his likely arrest, a Connecticut man charged with sexually assaulting boys at the internationally recognized charity he founded for orphans in Haiti tried to buy off his victims and otherwise thwart an investigation of his conduct, federal authorities say.

MAIDEN VOYAGE: A four-night trip to Labadee, Haiti, departing Dec. 1. Staterooms still available.

A former Windsor priest has been arrested in the Dominican Republic and faces charges of sexually assaulting teenage boys in Haiti, says a local media report.

Asheville's Haiti connection: MissionMANNA's medical-support project unfolds This past Saturday, a group of Asheville doctors, nurses and volunteers from Mission MANNA flew to Haiti, as they do twice yearly, to provide ongoing medical assistance to more than 1,000 kids in need.

A former Ontario Catholic priest wanted for allegedly sexually abusing Haitian children was arrested in the Dominican Republic on Tuesday on a Canadian warrant, according to authorities in the capital of Santo Domingo.

Wednesday, October 21 11:03:46 Irish Entrepreneur Terrry Clune has opened an office for his tax refund company taxback.com in Haiti, one of world's poorest countries.

Labadee is a private resort in Haiti, on the island of Hispaniola. Haiti is a very poor country, but Royal Caribbean , has leased a peninsula of the island from the Haitian government since 1986.

Asheville's Haiti connection: MissionMANNA's medical-support project unfolds This past Saturday, a group of Asheville doctors, nurses and volunteers from Mission MANNA flew to Haiti, as they do twice yearly, to provide ongoing medical assistance to more than 1,000 kids in need.

N.C. groups reaching out to rebuild ravaged Haiti Submitted by SHNS on Thu, 10/15/2009 - 14:04 Dozens of North Carolina aid groups and churches are scrambling to raise money and send relief to storm-ravaged Haiti.

Bill Clinton, UN special envoy to Haiti and former U.S. president, center, speaks with Paul Farmer, right, and a Haitian businessmen at a private port that will be used by a new free-trade zone in Port-au-Prince, Friday, Oct.

Virginian-Pilot writer Nancy Young recently tagged along with a church group from Suffolk, Portsmouth and Chesapeake on their mission to Haiti.

The leaders of Haiti and Dominican Republic agreed Thursday to cooperate in a campaign aimed at eradicating the last vestiges of malaria from the islands of the Caribbean by 2020.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - A former Connecticut man charged with sexually abusing nine boys at a school for poor children he founded in Haiti should not be released from prison because he poses a "clear and continuing danger," federal prosecutors said.

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