• Water Shortage Hits Haiti
Port-au-Prince, Jul 20 Nearly 50 percent of Haitian homes lack drinkable water and 70 percent have rudimentary sanitary facilities or not even have latrines, Le Nouvelliste reported on Sunday.
• Coast Guard Rescues, Repatriates 107 Haitian Migrants
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Vigilant repatriated 107 Haitian migrants to Cap Haitien, Haiti, Tuesday.
• Haitians recycle to survive
Haitians facing widespread unemployment or a minimum wage of less than US$2 a day are turning to the junk that litters the streets for survival.
• Haiti food aid lags, hunger deepens
DESCHAPELLES, Haiti - Every inch of Rivilade Filsame's body hurt, from his swollen, empty stomach to his dried-out, wrinkled skin.
• Haitians struggle with poverty but are rich in faith
These past four months I have enjoyed relating to you some of what Haiti is like.
• Haiti's Voodoo pilgrims pray for future
Every year, Haitians crowd into the basin of a sacred waterfall to relax and pray for a better future.
• Peoria doctor discovers joy of medical missions
Golf and beaches are nice, but Dr. Bill Edwards has discovered a new type of vacation.
• Haiti's lower legislative chamber approves new PM
With two leading political parties protesting the vote, Haiti's lower Chamber of Deputies Thursday voted in favor of Michèle Duvivier Pierre-Louis's nomination for the post of prime minister.
• Spanish authorities restart Haiti murder investigation
The Committee to Protect Journalists is encouraged by the decision of Spanish authorities to reactivate the investigation into the 2004 murder of Antena 3 correspondent Ricardo Ortega
• Mortgage fraud trips up accused torturer - St. Petersburg Times
Just as the gangster Al Capone was finally brought down on tax charges, one of Haiti's most notorious death squad leaders looks like he's headed to prison for mortgage fraud of all things.
• NYC trial begins for Haitian paramilitary leader
A former Haitian paramilitary leader once widely feared in his country was accused at trial Monday of becoming a common white-collar criminal once he fled to the United States.
• Charities help Haiti fishermen earn their keep
Venturing to sea in tiny boats powered only by sails, fishermen in this remote village on Haiti's western shore struggled for generations through stormy seas and windless days to earn their keep.
• Police fire tear gas at Haitian protesters
Police fired tear gas to disperse protesters who stormed past barricades Tuesday near the National Palace during a rally to mark the 55th birthday of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
• Imprisoned Haitian ex-PM wins in court --
FORMER PRIME MINISTER of Haiti, Yvon Neptune, who was persecuted and treated like a political prisoner by post-Aristide administrations in Port-au-Prince, has won an important case before the Inter-American ...
• Anti-immigrant sentiments threaten Caribbean Community economic plan
Callers to the Observer Radio program waste little time letting their hostilities loose.
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