Haitian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Religious Affairs Duly Brutus to visit TurkeyMr. 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 CrewIn 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 KassavSouth 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... |
Delray?s Southeast Second Avenue renamed Toussaint L?Ouverture WayDelray 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... |
CELTIC targeting Haitian midfielder Jeff LouisHaitian-American Jeff Louis is primed to be signed by the Boston Celtics during 2014. He has been with AS Nancy since 2012 at a pay of 650,000 pounds. Several other ball clubs have been eyeing Louis as well, among them Monaco, Montpellier, Wolfsbur... |
Petra Nemcova living in Haiti full timePetra Nemcova, a Czech supermodel, who gained international fame with an appearance on a Sports Illustrated cover, is the founder and chair of her Happy Hearts Fund. She established the fund in 2005 after a brush with death during the Thailand Tsun... |
Haitian President to Open Government as new Elections nearIn a move to ease the political atmosphere in the country before a crucial legislative election, the Haitian President Michel Martelly has offered opponent political parties to take part in his government. He has placed this offer before his oppone... |
Dominican Republic to stop Haitian immigrants from studying in public schoolsDominican Republic was the first county to step forward to help Haiti by sending aid after the devastating earthquake in January, 2010. However, a proposal for a new regulation which suggests stopping illegal immigrants from studying in the public ... |
Orlando Morel Haitian Refugee Rescued By The Us Coast Guard That DayOrlando Morel is a 24 year old Haitian who has decided to devote his life as a Coast Guard to rescue the refugees coming to United States. It was not a decision that came all of a sudden. There is a story which Orlando recalls with a lot of grief a... |
Firmin Monestime, Haitian Canadian Mayor of MattawaFirmin Monestime was the first black mayor to be elected in any municipality of Canada as mayor. The francophone Haitian was a prominent doctor as well. He practiced medicine in both Haiti and Canada until he was elected as a mayor in Mattawa. Fi... |
Haitian American Patrick Gaspard, advocate for labor and health care issuesPatrick Gaspard, born in 1967, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Haitian parents, arrived in the U.S. with them at the age of three. He emerged on the political scene in 1988, when he helped run Jesse Jackson’s campaign for president... |
