Haiti
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Haiti sees big money reviving flagging tourism
MONTROUIS, Haiti (AP) — The Club Indigo beach resort north of the Haiti capital was crowded with U.N. peacekeepers, aid workers, diplomats and missionaries on a recent Sunday. But the only real, live tourists seemed to be Anne Fournier and her husband. The young couple from Montreal is a rarity in this afflicted country. Crime, health scares, hurricanes and the…
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Haiti hopes $160m for high-end tourism pays off
MONTROUIS, Haiti—The only leisure tourist among the UN peacekeepers, aid workers, embassy personnel and missionaries on this beach north of the Haitian capital must have been Anne Fournier. She didn’t live or work in Haiti or pretend to help. Fournier was here for fun, travelling to Haiti for the first time with her Port-au-Prince-born husband of almost two years. The…
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Genomes of cholera bacteria from Haiti confirm epidemic originated from single source
The strain of cholera that has sickened thousands in Haiti came from a single source and was not repeatedly introduced to the island over the past three years as some have thought, according to a new study published in mBio®, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology. The results of this latest study are consistent with earlier…
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Thirty-fourth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM Transportation – a major area of focus
CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana – There is a school of thought that a more positive and apt description of the group of States that form the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is one couched in language that infers connectedness rather than divisiveness by the Caribbean Sea. In other words, the characteristic of being connected by the Caribbean Sea lends to…
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Nicolas Maduro makes first trip to Haiti as Venezuela’s president, after cancelling April visit
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro made his first official visit to Haiti on Tuesday as the countries began negotiations to figure out ways to renew a special fund that uses oil money on mostly infrastructure projects. Maduro and Haitian President Michel Martelly met privately for several hours on the grounds of where the National Palace stood before it…
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GAO slams USAID’s Haiti rebuilding efforts
WASHINGTON — U.S. efforts to help rebuild Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake have been plagued by poor planning, delays and mistaken cost estimates that have forced many projects to be scaled back, the Government Accountability Office has concluded in a report released this month. Of the $651 million Congress allocated for Haiti reconstruction to the U.S. Agency for International…
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US Coast Guard rescues Haitian fishermen
MIAMI, CMC – The United States Coast Guard says it has rescued five Haitian fishermen aboard a disabled vessel that had been drifting in the waters off northern Haiti. A brief Coast Guard statement said officials were notified that the vessel had been found in the area of Canal de Tortue and contrary to earlier reports, there were five fishermen…
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Top official discards Haiti-Dom. Rep. energy link for now
Santo Domingo.- Energy Commissioner Enrique Ramirez on Monday debunked notions of interconnecting Haiti and Dominican Republic with power lines for now, “maybe down the line, say in 20 years.” His affirmation comes in the wake of a report by Haiti newspaper Le Nouvelliste, that Andress Appolon, director of that country’s electricity utility EDH, is in Santo Domingo to review possibilities…
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IDB providing millions in funds for water project in Haiti
WASHINGTON, CMC – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says it is providing a US$35.5 million grant to Haiti for a programme to expand and improve drinking water services in the capital of the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country. It said the grant will support the second phase of a programme launched in 2010 with support from the IDB and the…
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US claims relatives fueling Haitian migrant smuggling
MIAMI, CMC – A high-ranking United States military official claims that Haitian family members in South Florida are possibly behind a “dangerous new trend” in the smuggling of undocumented Haitian immigrants from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico. “The new thing that’s happening is in the Mona Passage between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, and it’s being fueled, we…
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