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Healthy Food Choices Combat Heart Disease and Stroke

The World Health Organization released statistics of coronary heart disease and stroke deaths. According to the agency, Haitian victims of heart disease, who died, numbered 2,913 (3.91%) of all deaths. The age-adjusted death rate was 55.48 for 100,...



President Martelly visiting Pilate, Port-Margot and Borgne

On Friday, April 11, 2014, President Michel Martelly, accompanied by Philippe Cinéas, the Secretary of State for Public Works, had toured a day in the North, especially in the municipalities of Pilate, Port-Margot and Borgne. On his tour, he...



Haitian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Religious Affairs Duly Brutus to visit Turkey

Mr. Duly Brutus, the Haitian Minister of Foreign and Religious Affairs will visit Turkey to attain an important meeting of the CARICOM in Istanbul between 12th and 14th May, 2014. He is expected to sign several agreements on improvement of diplomat...



16th Annual Haitian Compas Festival with Kassav, Tabou Combo, Barikad Crew

In 1983, Jacob Desvarieux was on a Caribbean tour with his band when a superb idea hit him. While inside a Port-au-Prince hotel, he got hold of a pen and paper and begun writing what would later develop into the band’s first major internation...



Rodney Noel to expand Haitian Compas Festival to include Kassav

South Florida will play host to the Haitian Compas Festival, which is for lovers of Haitian and Caribbean music. As it usually happens, thousands of music lovers will throng to South Florida for this festival, just as they usually do every year. Ka...



Nikki James is back on Broadway as �ponine in Les Mis�rables.

Nikki James is a Tony-Award winning American actress (2011) and singer of Haitian and Vincentian descent who graduated from Livingston High School in New Jersey. Both of her parents are immigrants-- her mother hails from Haiti and her father from S...



Raoul Peck, named Tisch School of the Arts? new scholar-in-residence

Raoul Peck, the former minister of culture of the Republic of Haiti is an award winning filmmaker. He has been named as a new scholar-in-residence at Tisch School of the Arts’, New York, United States. Christine Choy one of his former colleag...



Delray?s Southeast Second Avenue renamed Toussaint L?Ouverture Way

Delray Beach’s City Commission is at long last acknowledging the many ways in which the Haitian Diaspora living there has added to the community’s economy, culture, and diversity. The Commission has decided to rename Southeast Second Av...



President Michel Martelly decorated Pastor Wallace Turnbull

At Haiti’s National Palace in March, President Martelly conferred Commander of the Order of Honor and Merit on Pastor Wallace Turnbull, who established the Conservative Baptist Mission of Haiti (CBMH) in Fermathe in 1943. Present at the honor...



Haiti First Lady Sophia Martelly visits Epilepsy Clinic of Port-au-Prince

World Epilepsy Day or Purple Day has been celebrated every year since on March 26, 2008. It is the international day for raising epilepsy awareness. The day is also known as ‘Purple Day’ because ‘purple’ and ‘lavender&...



Artibonite Bike-Patrol brigade

After waiting their turn patiently, residents in the Artibonite region are finally receiving their own Bike-Patrol brigade. The introduction of these new types of policemen started in the areas of the West, South and Southwest before finally reachi...



Carl Juste Documents 25 years of Photojournalist?s Career

Carl Juste, the great photojournalist is a graduate of Archbishop Curley Notre Dame (ACND) Prep 1981. This award-winning Miami Herald photojournalist was forced to flee own homeland Haiti along with his politically active family in 1965. After leav...



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