The Haitian National Police (HNP) may be the best functioning state institution in Haiti and can therefore

arguably be considered one of the few post-2004 crisis success stories. With support from the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), it grew from 3,500 in 2005 to just over 8,000 elements by 2010, and in spite of having [...]

An upgraded international airport in Haiti’s second largest city, Cap-Haïtien, will bear the name of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.
Haiti’s Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe, who is on a six-day visit to the United States to tout his government’s achievements, confirmed the news on Twitter Thursday afternoon.
Lamothe’s tweet in French came after a day of confusion [...]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A U.S. hotel chain opened a hotel in Haiti on Thursday for the first time in 15 years.
Best Western International has completed construction on a $15 million, seven-story hotel that features 106 guest rooms and several suites.
The towering facility is located in the hillside district of Petionville and is targeted at [...]

Business-oriented solutions that create jobs and revitalize industry can create a stronger Haiti that relies less on foreign aid and more on the enterprise of its people.
Technoserve’s Haiti Hope Project works to improve long-term income for smallholder mango farmers and their families by strengthening the mango value chain and increasing farmers’ revenues. Mangoes are already [...]

[ March 18, 2013; 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ]

  
Memorial Hall 346 Broadway Suite 812 New York, NY 10013
Dear friends,

It is both with honor and humility that I reach out to you dear comrades. We all have traveled difficult roads which have earned us the right to be here.What I most recently learned is that one can thwart oneself just as effectively [...]

Fredrick Douglas was the U.S. Ambassador to Haiti from 1889-91. Here is what he said of Haiti in a speech at the World Fair in Chicago in 1893.
Frederick Douglass Speech in Chicago
Lecture on Haiti
The Haitian Pavilion
Dedication Ceremonies Delivered at the World’s Fair, in Jackson Park,
Chicago, Jan. 2d, 1893
By the HON. FREDERICK DOUGLASS,
Ex-Minister to Haiti
Introductory by [...]

[ January 30, 2013; 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm. ] Join us!
 In Support of
Jacques Léandre, Esq.  
Candidate  For
New York City’s 31st Council District

Wednesday, January 30th, 2013
 
Time: 7:30 PM -10:30 PM
 
At:

Brooklyn’s hottest new Haitian-American restaurant
La Caye Restaurant
35 Lafayette Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Cross-streets: Ashland Pl & St. Felix Street

Suggested contribution $85

[ February 14, 2013; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_2994" align="aligncenter" width="588"] Haitian Indepence Day 2013[/caption]

Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer And the Haitian Roundtable invite you to
The 2013 Program and Reception in honor of  HAITIAN INDEPENDENCE

Somalia tops the 2012 Failed States Index because of “widespread lawlessness, ineffective government, terrorism, insurgency, crime, and well-publicized pirate attacks against foreign vessels,” the list’s compiler, Washington-based nonprofit Fund for Peace, said on its website Monday.
The group’s eighth annual list, which ranks instability risks of 177 nations based on 12 social, economic and political indicators, [...]

The Obama administration said Friday it will stop deporting young illegal immigrants who were brought to the United States as children if they meet certain requirements.
The new policy change will cover people younger than 30 who came to the United States before the age of 16, pose no criminal or security threat, and were successful [...]