Recent reports from the Haitian Anti-Corruption Unit have detailed cases whereby US$194 million was stolen from the Haitian government by corrupt ‘oligarchs’ overcharging the state for oil. As disclosed in the reports, seven million gallons of imported gasoline and diesel ‘disappeared’ from state reserves between March 2010 and May 2020.
To Ashley Laraque, a Haitian actor in Port-au-Prince, it seems his compatriots are simply too caught up in the outcome of the U.S. presidential election. It’s gotten to the point that things in Haiti are being neglected, a heated Laraque said on a radio show Thursday.
As the cholera outbreak wreaked havoc in the country, national and international human rights groups joined hands to demand an immediate U.N. response and justice for the victims. But even against this public outcry, the U.N. refused to be held accountable for its mistakes.
Indhira Suero Acosta As journalists from around the world navigate the final weeks of a contentious U.S. presidential election during…
Haiti has never criminalized same-sex relations. Yet hostility towards LGBTIQ people is among the worst in the region, and violent attacks and even murder of LGBTIQ people have been increasing in recent years.
Karl-Henry Châtelier, Haiti’s Consul to the Bahamas, was fired after a video allegedly of him masturbating surfaced on social media Sept. 28.
Emergency management officials from Antigua to Puerto Rico to the Bahamas spent Tuesday watching — and preparing — for the…
By Jacqueline Charles Less than three weeks after reopening its borders to international visitors, the Bahamas on Sunday announced that…
BY JACQUELINE CHARLES AND BIANCA PADRÓ OCASIO Targeting Florida’s surging coronavirus infections as a public health threat, two Caribbean destinations joined the…
By Jacqueline Charles and Bianca Padró Targeting Florida’s surging coronavirus infections as a public health threat, two Caribbean destinations joined the…