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Seven members of an Annville family will run in distance races in Florida next month to raise money for a medical facility in Haiti.

Haiti's new prime minister will be the keynote speaker Tuesday night at the annual Miami Conference on the Caribbean, which gives special attention this year to the distressed nation recovering from back-to-back hurricanes.

Farmville proves that digital goods could well be the most powerful tool for nonprofit funding.

Mike Vansteel says it is opportunities like a mission trip to Haiti in January that reaffirm his decision to be part of the medical profession.

Something very important happened this Friday in Haiti, Oxfam published a report with the title: "A gathering storm, climate change and poverty in Haiti". It tells the story of a country deeply affected by hurricanes and tropical storms, which are predicted to get worse in the coming years. It is likely that hurricane's intensity could increase by 5 - 10% by around 2050, and it is predicted that rainy days will decrease.

When cellist Carolyn Armstrong wanted to educate people about the music programs in Haiti where she volunteers, she arranged a slide show of sights.

The Associated Press provides information that Haitian President Preval's LESPWA party was also banned from participation in the next parliamentary elections scheduled for early 2010.

A 3-year-old girl from Haiti is in Minnesota for a surgery to save hey eyesight.

This time last year I was in the throes of preparing to dispatch a petition to the then president-elect of the United States.

Some time ago, Brian Sievers picked up a crazy notion that one simple idea might just change the world.

Renowned Caribbean historian CLR James told the story of Haiti's struggle for Independence from France in 1804 in The Black Jacobins.

A new report released ahead of World AIDS Day says social and economic inequalities are fueling the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean.

At 83, Sarah Hackett could have spent Thanksgiving with her great-grandchildren in the gracious Annisquam village home her family has owned since 1829, overlooking placid Lobster Cove.

Westborough residents Trish Reske and Tom Slicklen visited the Caribbean nation of Haiti earlier this month with a precious cargo: Soccer balls.

Haiti's U.N. peacekeeping mission urged local officials Friday to provide a justification for banning 17 political groups from participating in next year's legislative elections.

On a Thursday morning in early November, Houston middle school teacher Marie Baptiste was driving to work when a squadron of unmarked government vehicles stopped her at a red light.

Dajabon, Dominican Republic.- The Dajabon Inter-institutional Committee, the Our Lady del Rosario Parish, Radio Marien, Border Solidarity and other community organizations today announced a "rally for the market," on the lands where the work is being built.

Haiti's electoral council has banned the influential party of exiled former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from next year's legislative elections.

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A former Windsor priest who was arrested in the Dominican Republic and accused of sexually abusing teenaged boys in Haiti was denied bail Thursday.

Beyond the noisy town hall meetings, Tea Party protests and sky-is-falling speeches characterizing much of the health care debate is a less visible, but no less intense push to broaden the face of the immigration reform movement.

Haiti's electoral council has banned the influential party of exiled former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from running in next year's legislative elections. Fanmi Lavalas is among the 17 parties barred from February's elections because it submitted improper documents...

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and former president Bill Clinton lead separate professional lives, but their work still intersects.

The political party of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide will be barred from legislative elections scheduled for Feb.

James Sullivan told fellow historical theology enthusiasts to meet on the corner of Barclay and Church Sts. to commence a walking tour of Pierre Toussaint’s life last weekend. Toussaint, well known for being on the path toward sainthood, came to New York in the late 18th century as a slave from Saint-Domingue, or present-day Haiti.

The political party of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide will be barred from legislative elections scheduled for February 28, Haitian elections officials said on Wednesday.

After her first mission trip to Haiti in 2001, Agnes Supernavage was hooked. She has dedicated herself to serving the poor in St.

In the kitchen at the Marriott Hollywood Beach, executive chef Ron Duprat is deftly garnishing plates, coaxing a laugh from his staff and showing off dishes from his new menu.

The U.S.-based charity organization The Salvation Army announced on Tuesday that it would increase funding to help fight the growing human trafficking in Haiti, which includes Dominican prostitutes. (had to fix title to reflect true meaning of story--Ed.)

Greetings from Haiti. Last year we had 1,200 students enrolled in our five parish schools.

Why is it that more than two thirds of the world's poor are women, although women are only half of the world's population? Discrimination is a key driver of poverty and women often face discrimination on multiple grounds they may be denied their rights because they are women and because they belong to a marginalized group.

CaribWorldNews, NEW YORK, NY, Weds. Nov. 25, 2009: HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean region may have experienced a slight decline in new cases according to the UN AIDS agency, women still remain the most affected.

The general of the U.S. Salvation Army says the organization will likely increase its funding to Haiti to fight human trafficking.

Haitian American politicians from across the United States, anxious to exert some influence over U.S. immigration laws, have forged an alliance in hopes of shaping legislation and policy toward Haiti.

What's Your Reaction? My wife Gouya and I traveled to Haiti last month with a group of supporters of the Mona Foundation , which included "The Office" actor Rainn Wilson and his wife Holiday Reinhorn.

In a documentary film produced by St. Thomas University students, Tata Dumaise, a mother of five, recounts how she's been able to provide for her family through a fair-trade women's artisan project in Haiti. Blooming Hope: Harvesting Smiles in Port-de-Paix, takes a look at three sustainable development projects in the far northwest of Haiti, from Port-de-Paix to Jean-Rabel.

After a reshuffling of Haitian president Rene Preval's handpicked Provisional Election Council (CEP) that nation's largest political party is poised for a comeback. The Fanmi Lavalas political organization of exiled president Jean-Bertrand Aristide were excluded from Senatorial elections on a technicality earlier this year but are now officially registered to participate in upcoming parliamentary elections in 2010..

Haitian Lucilien Joseph is making a special request to French President Nicolas Sarkozy who will be attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting to be held in Port-of-Spain from November 27 to 29.

As tax havens increasingly co-operate with international law, Haiti's 'Baby Doc' Duvalier is the latest to have his money seized.

The remarkable voices, songs and images in the recently released box set Alan Lomax in Haiti are a stunning, delightful treasure, a vivid portrait of a time and place.

A major Immokalee, Fla., tomato grower and repacking operation is fighting a federal lawsuit that alleges it violated a group of workers' rights.

Santo Domingo.- The ruling party's most influential figure after president Leonel Fernandez on Sunday affirmed that France, the United States and Canada have plans to unify Hispaniola island , project he affirms they've bee working on for decades.

Brian Taglieri, 49, is to be sentenced in U.S. District Court on Jan 29. He pleaded guilty last week to one of 10 charges he faced in connection with a scam called Homepals Investment Club.

There was a time when Haiti was known as the "Pearl of the Antilles," a Caribbean vacation destination as famous as Jamaica or Puerto Rico are today.

In 2007, riots broke out from Egypt to Haiti when food shortages grew around the globe.

The deadline for the submission of bids for a 60% stake in state-owned Telecommunications d'Haiti has been extended from 9 November to 30 November.

A US judge on Thursday handed down prison terms of eight and nine years to two more men accused of swearing allegiance to Al-Qaeda and plotting to blow up the Sears Tower, the tallest building in the United States.

In Haiti on November 10, UN peacekeepers fired live ammunition resulting in injuries to civilians.

They come to refugee resettling agencies hoping to find any kind of lead. They listen closely to this country's interviewing tips - smile, maintain eye contact, give a firm handshake.

This Nov. 13, 2009 photo shows Leonardo Sanchez, 12, holding a market sign that reads in Spanish "take advantage," as he works with family members in the La Merced market in Mexico City.

PRINCE, Nov 20 - Under a beating sun in the grassy field where two U.N. helicopters landed in Grand Goave last week, 19-year-old Benson Blanc moved his hands as if rapid-firing a gun into the ground in front of him and made a "tok-tok-tok-tok" sound.

Editor's note: The Huntsville Times welcomes reports of intensive local, national and international mission work by congregations.

SANTIAGO, Dominican Republic - Residents of the northern Dominican town of Manga Larga went on a rampage against Haitians after a local man was slain by an undocumented migrant from the neighboring country.

A self-proclaimed investment guru has agreed to a settlement with federal securities regulators over charges he bilked hundreds of fellow Haitian Americans out of $23.4 million, the Securities and Exchange Commission said Wednesday.

Haiti needs to enact legislation to protect children who are working as domestics in conditions that amount to slavery, an international organization suggests.

Authorities in Haiti must enact legislation to protect children working as domestic help in conditions that amount to slavery, said Amnesty International ahead of Universal Children's Day.

The new campaign draws on Voila's strong commitment to Haiti and features a television spot with Haitian-born musician Wyclef Jean .

More than 250 students have gathered in the two rooms of a small public school here, some 30 kilometers from the country's capital Port-au-Prince, waiting for a meal prepared by the World Food Program.

A new shipping line is launching in South Florida to serve Haiti, with the former director of the Port of Miami at the company's helm.

In the frantic seconds before a play, as USF's defense is lined up and awaiting the snap, Bulls linebacker Sabbath Joseph will sometimes tap defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul on the shoulder.

The Office star Rainn Wilson recently embarked on a charity trip to Haiti and kept a diary detailing his adventures for USA TODAY.

A look at the world's 10 most corrupt and 10 least corrupt countries according to the Corruption Perceptions Index report published Tuesday by watchdog Transparency International. (slight progress. . .Ed.)

The United Nations decorated the Chilean peacekeeping force in Haiti with the "Medal Parade," the Chilean Army said in a statement on Monday.

An illegal Haitian now residing at Her Majesty's Prison in Grand Turk awaiting court hearing on a charge of attempted murder of a police officer wants the authorities mount an investigation into why he was "unnecessarily shot", claiming that he was unharmed and running away from the police.

A hard rain can be deadly here. A family of four was reported killed late last month when rushing stormwater loosened soil under their hillside house and brought the structure down on them.

On the morning of Nov. 7, 2008 shortly after 10 a.m. as the second period was beginning, College La Promesse Evangelique, a three-storey cinderblock school in the Nerette neighbourhood of Petionville, fell in on itself.

Album review: Wyclef Jean's 'From the Hut, to the Projects, to the Mansion' November 9, 2009 5:30 pm During the second track of his latest album, Wyclef Jean relates the tale of an autograph-seeking fan mistaking him for Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am. It's an interesting illustration of how far below the radar the former Fugees frontman has fallen...

More than once, Haiti's "Independence City" was nearly destroyed by nature, and it could happen again if the authorities don't finish construction on flood control systems in time.

World leaders at a food summit have rallied around a new strategy to fight global hunger by helping poor countries feed themselves, but rebuffed a UN appeal to put a price on funding.

Dec. 1 -- Oasis will sail a single four-night cruise to Labadee, Haiti, a private resort that underwent a $55-million expansion, including an 800-foot pier with a beach club with private cabanas, a roller coaster, new dining facilities, and a new and bigger artisans' market.

Feeding body, mind and spirit was the focus when the Taiwan Embassy in Haiti and Taiwan International Cooperation and Development Fund joined representatives of Food For The Poor on a recent trip to examine promising new fish ponds, witness a harvest at another, and dedicate computers for students.

I grew up in a household with a strong sense of cultural pride. My parents were always proud to say they were Haitian and constantly reminded me that I was Haitian-American. At home, my mom spoke to me in her native Creole and French, and we always had Haitian food for dinner.

High in the Colorado Rockies a life-saving necessity is making its way to the island nation of Haiti and abroad. By partnering with Clean the World, Inc., RockResorts is collecting barely-used soap and shampoo from its collection of 8 hotels and enabling the Orlando charity to provide the much-needed supplies to needy people in homeless shelters and impoverished countries around the world.

Albert Valdman never thought he was going to have a career in Creole. Forty-six years after he began teaching the language native to Haiti, Valdman is being recognized at the 21st-annual Haitian Studies Association Conference this weekend at IU with a lifetime achievement award, and IU's Creole Institute is being honored for having one of the top Creole programs.

As the poorest country in the western hemisphere and plagued by years of social and political unrest, Haiti's education for its children has suffered terribly.

Last year, Haiti was devastated by four hurricanes in as many weeks, killing 1,000 people and leaving 800,000 homeless.

Haiti's new prime minister was inaugurated Wednesday and promised to attract more investment and create jobs, while forging good relations with lawmakers who have ousted two heads of government in as many years.

Although freshman Lauren Ramey does not study art, the nursing major found herself at the IU Art Museuma s Noon Talk Series on Thursday. Ramey said she heard about visiting Haitian art and culture expert LeGrace Benson’s talk, “Images of Haiti as a Colony and as a Free Black Nation,” and decided it was her best bet for the assignment.

At the risk of making myself a social pariah, like Elaine in that Seinfeld episode where she admits she hated the film The English Patient, I am going to say right up front that I did not enjoy Dany Laferrière's new book, L'Énigme du retou

Team arrives in Cayman after the victories. The brave Cayman Islands National Under 17 girls were placed second in Group A of the CFU World Cup qualifying tournament after a awesome and historical performance at the end of the tournament recently, when they lost 1-0 to tough Haiti before a crowd of over twenty thousand spectators in the Sylvio Cator Stadium...

I just spent a full week in the Dominican Republic visiting the cities of Santiago and Santo Domingo as well as the towns and the villages in between. (Just visited myself and had many of the same observations, Ed.-)

Two women who have devoted their careers to educating people in the poorest communities in Haiti will be the special guest speakers at a public forum from 9 to 11 a.m. Monday at the offices of LEAP , 440 Civic Center Plaza.

As many people know, some of the greatest opportunities in the game of life lay hidden, disguised as changing plans and unexpected situations.

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.

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.

The United Nations says at least 50 peacekeepers have been punished by national authorities in the last three years for committing sexual abuses while on UN missions.

The Haitian Studies Association's 21st annual conference will take place Nov. 12-14 at Indiana University Bloomington.

Elected officials of Haitian descent have joined together to form a national network to support federal initiatives to assist the impoverished Caribbean nation.

Haitian-born Montreal writer Dany Laferriere displays his book L'Enigme du retour after he received the Medicis literary award in Paris November 4, 2009.

At a screening of his 2007 documentary about the Haitian revolution at the Watson Institute for International Studies last night, filmmaker Noland Walker discussed the implications of the momentous event in the context of human rights and slavery.

Occupation: Members of Zili Misik, all-female world music group. Tell me how the all-white clothing concept began.

The Senate is expected to meet as early as Friday to consider Bellerive's appointment.

Our first full day in Haiti starts early. At 7 a.m., thirteen of us pile into two battle-worn SUVs.

Team at the Haiti National stadium before training. The Cayman Islands national Girls Under 17 squad arrived safely in Port -au- Prince, Haiti last Saturday evening, where they will spend one week participating in the CFU World Cup qualifying games against three other countries.

For almost 10 years, Natalie Miller longed to join her father on his mission trips to Haiti.

SANTIAGO, Dominican Republic - A Haitian woman was beaten to death and her body was thrown into some bushes in Esperanza, a city in the northwestern Dominican Republic, police said.

To hear his family tell it, Don Titus was full of surprises. Just when they thought he was satisfied with his life as a West Virginia dentist, he became a missionary.

Today is Election Day in Virginia. We're voting for governor, some statewide legislative offices and, in my city, sheriff. I remembered it was Election Day with a shrug a few moments after I woke up. Gotta go vote. My duty, yada, yada, yada. It was a coincidence that, before I did, I happened to be reading Maggie Steber's book of photographs from Haiti, "Dancing on Fire." The images are largely from the 1980s and early 1990s, just after Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier was overthrown and the hope of that time was fused with violence.

It was said that during the reign of Jean-Jacques Dessalines - liberation icon, military dictator and "emperor" who ruled Haiti from 1804 until 1806 - a certain level of corruption was tolerated and dismissed with the phrase plumez la poule, mais ne la faites pas crier.

ASSOCIATED PRESS Haiti Sens. Jean Baptiste Jean Willy and Youri Latortue confer before a Senate session Thursday in Port-au-Prince, a day before the lawmakers voted to oust Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis in a move that could hinder efforts to attract foreign investment in the impoverished country.

Model-turned-actress MOLLY SIMS is in shock after meeting women forced to sell their bodies to feed their families during a recent charity mission to Haiti.

He brings star power and loads of contacts in the U.S. administration, along with multilateral donors and investors.

Days after ousting Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis, Haiti's Senate is expected to ratify a new man for the position this week.

When Darlington Soccer Academy Director Chad Liddle and his wife, Darcy, traveled to Pignon, Haiti, earlier this month, he had planned on delivering the soccer equipment his players had collected over the past year and doing some mission work.

As the ouster of Haiti’s Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis was negotiated last week, I happened to be reading The Comedians, by Graham Greene. Published in 1966, set in Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier’s Haiti.

For an understanding of what's happening in Haiti at a pivotal time, you need only track the hectic week Miami Herald Caribbean correspondent Jacqueline Charles just spent in pursuit of two very different stories.

Cillian Twomey is an eminent doctor, a geriatrician in his native Ireland. So what is he doing here, in this bleak, sweltering Haitian border town? Unstopping toilets, for one.