Haiti News

Lawmakers overwhelmingly gave final approval to Jean-Max Bellerive as Haiti's new prime minister Tuesday, making him the sixth person to hold the post since 2004 in this politically unstable nation.

THE national holiday, Jour des Morts, is a time for Haitians to immerse themselves in the spiritual and magical and forget, if only for a short time, the banal misery of day-to-day life.

This month, 15 members of Deer Lake United Methodist Church will go as a team to work in Haiti.

Margaret Trost, author of On That Day Everybody Ate , will speak at Carleton College about the story of how she came to commit herself to fighting hunger in a deeply impoverished region of Haiti.

When Edwidge Danticat tells stories, she taps into a long-flowing stream of family storytellers.

The Hemispheric Conference to Coordinate International Cooperation for the Republic of Haiti that was organized by the Foreign Ministry together with the Haitian government and the Organization of American States came to a conclusion today.

Nathaniel Anderson helps load more than 600 boxes meals into FedEx trucks. FedEx assisted the effort by helping defer the high cost of shipping.

The lower house of Haiti's parliament confirmed Jean-Max Bellerive as prime minister on Saturday, clearing the way for the economist and veteran politician to form a new government.

The Haitian Senate unanimously approved a longtime technocrat as prime minister Friday, hoping that a man with long ties to Haiti's political power brokers and the international community can lead this nation through its fifth change of cabinets in five years.

Carrefour, a slum in Port-au-Prince, the capital city of Haiti. Today is Jour des Morts, or Day of the Dead, and we are here to attend a vodoun, or voodoo, possession ceremony.

The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights in New York says it plans to present Bono and Wyclef Jean with its 2009 Ripple of Hope Award.

Economist Jean-Max Bellerive, who was appointed prime minister by Haiti's president last week, looks set to win speedy ratification in the nation's parliament, key lawmakers said on Wednesday.

Haitian senators have taken a key first step toward replacing the prime minister they ousted a week ago.

The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights today announced that Bono and Wyclef Jean will receive the organization's 2009 Ripple of Hope Award.

Ladies and gentlemen! Start your engines and head for Baden Square, 700 Gary, on Friday, Nov. 13. A chili/soup supper that evening along with an auction to benefit Bigarousse, an orphanage in Haiti, will provide you with a wonderful meal and opportunities to bid on some amazing items!

Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Wyclef Jean showed up at VILLA sneaker and apparel along Market Street on Wednesday afternoon to promote his project with Timberland Co., the Timberland Earthkeepers Yele Haiti Collection .

The two losses for Team Bahamas at the first stage of the Caribbean Football Union's Under-17 Women's Tournament, has crushed all chances for the national team to advance to the International Federation of Football Associations U-17 Women's World Cup, in 2010.

In connection with VILLA's Big Serve community initiative, the area's leading fashion retailer teamed up today with The Timberland Company, NBA Cares, The School District of Philadelphia and multiple Grammy Award-winning musician and humanitarian Wyclef Jean for a day of community service and school renovations at West Philadelphia High School.

Haiti, no stranger to volatile politics, is seeing more of it with the Haitian Senate's recent no-confidence vote removing Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis and her government from office.

"I don't see any signs that point to an end to the mission here," Gen. Floriano Peixoto Vieira Neto said by telephone late on Wednesday.