On his way to Washington, D.C., Haiti Prime Minister Garry Conille stopped in Miami for a meeting in Little Haiti with U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson and local Haitian-American leaders. Originally scheduled to be a 45-minute closed door meeting at Notre Dame d’Haiti Catholic Church, 110 NE 62nd St., the visit ran for well over two […]
A day after almost 120 people from Haiti arrived in Key West on a migrant sailboat, a small group of Haitians landed on the shores of a gated community about 120 miles away at the opposite end of the Florida Keys, according to local police and federal agents. Thursday night, around 8:15 p.m., the Monroe […]
The Biden administration on Friday announced new temporary protected status for Haitians who arrived in the U.S. on or before June 3, 2024, to shield even those who entered the country illegally from being deported back to Haiti, which remains in the grip of gang violence. “We are providing this humanitarian relief to Haitians already […]
MIAMI (AP) — A group of more than a hundred Haitian migrants arrived in a sailboat off the lower Florida Keys on early morning Wednesday, local and federal officials said. The boat arrived about 100 yards (91 meters) away from a condominium in Key West at 4:00 a.m., and shortly after that law enforcement officers […]
Derismond Germinal, 30 years old, who arrived in Boston last December gets a graduation certificate and a medallion from NECAT – the New England Culinary Arts Training program. “He’s a good cook too,” said Chef Michelene Desormeau, an instructor at the school. Germoinal is thrilled. He told us through a translator, “The fact I’m graduating today […]
On a recent afternoon in Little Haiti, more than 100 recently arrived Haitians bustled around tables of community organizations offering social services and employers scouting for workers. People passed heaping plates of diri kole avec poule fri — rice and beans and fried chicken — from one pair of hands to the other. The sound […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — For 12-year-old Juliana St. Vil, life begins every afternoon. She bounds out of the crowded shelter where she’s been sleeping on the concrete floor for 10 months, a smile on her face despite harsh surroundings. Not yet a teenager, Juliana must navigate a Haiti oppressed by gangs that killed her father […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Students often throw up or wet themselves when gunfire erupts outside their school in northern Port-au-Prince. When they do, school director Roseline Ceragui Louis finds there’s only one way to try to calm the children and keep them safe: getting them to lie on the classroom floor while she sings softly. […]
Sak pase? Haitian Flag Day is May 18, but you don’t have to wait until that Saturday to celebrate 220 years of Haitian independence. Gov. Kathy Hochul proclaimed May to be Haitian Heritage Month in New York last year. There’s lots to do in honor of the occasion in Rockland County and beyond. Read on […]
By Emma Farge and Catarina Demony GENEVA (Reuters) – France should repay billions of dollars in reparations to Haiti to cover a debt formerly enslaved people were forced to pay in return for recognising the island’s independence, a coalition of civil society groups said on Thursday. The Caribbean island became the first in the region […]
Haiti’s leaders have finalized a political agreement to serve as the framework of a 22-month transitional government that will be charged with returning order to the gang-plagued capital and pave the way toward elections for the swearing-in of a new president in two years — on Feb. 7, 2026. A nine-member ruling council, made up […]
The Biden administration is under increasing pressure from human rights organizations to rethink its treatment of Haitian migrants trying to flee Haiti or currently living undocumented inside the U.S., but so far there are no plans to change course, three U.S. officials told NBC News. More than 480 human rights organizations sent a letter to […]