Haitian Times News Roundup – July 27 Haiti Haiti grapples with task of helping its vulnerable children Like roughly a quarter of Haiti’s children, 11-year-old Franchina has spent much of her short life without parents. Her mother dead, her father in prison, Franchina was placed in a state-run orphanage as a toddler, remaining illiterate…
Haitians in America Haitians In America: Photographer Captures Injustice Through Work Zarita Zevallos is New York-based architect and photographer. However, everything that makes her who she is comes from Haiti, her native country. Zevallos uses her craft to capture injustices and break the system. Continue reading. Politics Judge denies Trump bid to toss immigration…
South Florida ‘Scared to death’: Miami Haitians fear family separations if protected status expires Warning of the potential for a new family separation crisis within South Florida’s sprawling Haitian and Central American neighborhoods, immigrant advocates and Haitian-born recipients long shielded from deportation are calling for the Trump administration to extend their Temporary Protected Status prior…
Haitians in America Haitian American Academic Named Harvard Dean A member of the Harvard faculty since 2006 and the FAS dean of social science since 2015, Gay is the Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African American Studies and is the founding chair of Harvard’s Inequality in America Initiative. She will…
Food 5 South Florida Restaurants For Haitian Culture And Food Diners usually stop by for a taste of Taty’s Griot (pork), Legume (stew vegetables with meat) and red snapper fish. According to the manager Marie Gustave, “Love Is What Makes Our Food Authentic. Every Meal Is Cooked With Love And Passion.” and the food is…
Haiti Haiti’s maternal mortality rates among the highest. So why is this hospital closing? In a country where more women die before, during and after childbirth than anywhere else in the Western Hemisphere, poor women in Haiti with high-risk pregnancies now have one less option for life-saving care. Continue reading. Haitians in America Haitians In…
Food A Huge Haitian Food Festival Is Happening In Montreal The 12th annual Haitian festival called Haiti En Folie is going down next weekend. The festival actually has multiple components at various locations, but if you’re strictly looking for food you have to attend the Foire Culinaire which will be held in Parc Lafontaine in…
Haiti Haitians shut down streets demanding jobs, rollback of prices Politicians in Haiti thought they had a bright idea. Since people were following the World Cup soccer match between Brazil and Belgium on July 6, rooting deeply for Brazil, they would choose that time to obey the International Monetary Fund and raise the price of…
Haiti Haiti fuel price jump was ‘guaranteed to lead to backlash,’ U.N. poverty expert says The United Nations’ top expert on poverty criticized the International Monetary Fund’s continued push to force Haiti to remove fuel subsidies on Monday, and said donors such as the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank should help poor Haitians cushion…
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