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One month after Haitians went to the polls to choose a new president, Haiti’s electoral council has announced the official results — triggering violent protests by supporters of Moise Jean-Charles, who finished third in the Oct. 25 election.
Puerto Rican company Caribbean Biotechnologies Inc. was recently granted approval by the Ministry of Health of Haiti to conduct clinical studies to test its new technology for the instantaneous detection of Tuberculosis in patients, in partnership with International Child Care's Grace Children's Hospital in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti.
A group of young leaders from San Juan were among the 2014 winners of The Coca-Cola Company’s “Shaping a Better Future Grant Challenge,” a competition exclusively for members of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers community.
WASHINGTON — Jan. 12 marks five years since a magnitude-7.0 earthquake razed Port-au-Prince and threw Haiti into chaos. Raymond Joseph was Haiti’s ambassador to the United States at the time. While his country’s president and politicians hid from the public, he famously filled the void of leadership, activating the international community’s first-aid response. Now Joseph, […]
WASHINGTON — Several hundred people packed the Chilean ambassador’s residence Thursday night to celebrate as Haitian politician Gérard R. Latortue received Chile’s highest honor for foreign nationals, the prestigious “Órden al Mérito.”
Four years after an earthquake killed 300,000 of its people and devastated its capital city, Haiti will outpace all its Caribbean neighbors in terms of economic growth.
Despite a U.S. State Department travel advisory warning Haiti-bound Americans about violent crime, infectious diseases and substandard medical facilities, several large tourism projects are proceeding as planned in the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country.
BOWIE, Md. — With a prayer and a speech, Raymond Joseph, Haiti’s former ambassador to the United States, has officially launched A Dollar A Tree for Haiti Inc.
On Jan. 12, 2010 — the day a powerful earthquake destroyed Haiti’s capital city and wrecked its economy — Paul Altidor was at the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince, advising his government on a pending deal to privatize the state-owned phone monopoly.
Last year, Haiti received around 600,000 foreigners — half of them “diaspora Haitians” visiting family and friends. The other half was largely business executives and representatives of NGOs. This excludes the 600,000 cruise Haship tourists who called on Labadie, Royal Caribbean’s private island off the north coast of Haiti.
PORT-AU-PRINCE — Two years since the worst earthquake to ever strike the Caribbean, Haiti is desperately trying to turn its shattered economy around —and it’s counting on tourism to bring in badly needed dollars.
A group of businesspeople, professionals and families of Puerto Rican and Dominican descent have come together to collaborate with the Ferries del Caribe Foundation to build 199 cement homes for underprivileged families living in subhuman conditions on the Haiti-Dominican Republic border, the company announced Monday.
New hotels, cruise-ship projects and tourist facilities are all on the drawing board for Haiti as it struggles to attract foreign investment and recover from the magnitude-7.0 earthquake that leveled Port-au-Prince and destroyed the island nation’s fragile economy nearly two years ago.
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