Posted on 03 May 2012.
(CNN) – To call Mia Love a minority is an understatement. She’s a black woman who won an upset primary race to become the Republican candidate in Utah’s 4th Congressional District. If elected, she’d be the first black Republican congresswoman in the House of Representatives.
Love, who has attracted lots of national Republican support, also stands [...]
Posted in Haiti News, International, National, Political, Politics & Perspective
Posted on 07 March 2012.
Earthquake, Rape, Sexual Health, African swine fever virus, Sexual Violence’s, Famines, Political Dictatorship, Political Unrest, Tontons Macoutes, Tortured, Crimes, Kidnappings.
Let’s talk about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) for Haitian women.
Post-traumatic stress disorder is a type of anxiety disorder. It can occur after you’ve seen or experienced a traumatic event that involved the threat of injury or death.
PTSD can occur [...]
Posted in Haiti News, National, Political, Politics & Perspective
Posted on 15 August 2011. Tags: Haiti, The Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
The Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs welcomed the first-ever group of Youth Ambassadors from Haiti to the United States on August 7. For three weeks, 20 Haitian high school students will travel to New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C. where they will meet with their U.S. peers, live with [...]
Posted in Education, Haiti News, International, National, People, Political, Reconstruction News
Posted on 28 June 2011. Tags: Diaspora, Haiti, President Martelly
Newly-elected Haitian President Michel Martelly has reiterated his call to Haitian nationals in the Diaspora to support their impoverished, French-speaking homeland, in his first official visit to South Florida since elected president.
He urged his compatriots to “return home and help Haiti”.
“Everyone here has an important role,” he told nationals at the Florida International University’s Biscayne [...]
Posted in Haiti News, International, National, Political, Reconstruction News
Posted on 02 June 2011. Tags: Haiti, Haiti Government, Tents
Port-au-Prince, Haiti — On a small side street away from the public eye, a woman stands amidst debris. “Leve, leve!” she screams, reenacting for me how the police woke her in the morning, yelling at her to get out before they cut down her tent. Next to her, a panicked man is twirling in circles, [...]
Posted in Haiti News, International, National, Political, Reconstruction News
Posted on 16 May 2011.
Haiti’s new president, Michel Martelly, was sworn in on Saturday, May 14, 2001, to an audience of Haitians and diplomats from around the world. Martelly vowed Saturday to “change Haiti,” promising to restore order and confidence in a country struggling to emerge from one of the most destructive earthquakes of modern times.
This is the first [...]
Posted in Featured Stories, Haiti News, Political, Politics & Perspective, Top Stories
Posted on 05 May 2011.
President Barack Obama laid a wreath at New York’s “Ground Zero” as he sought to bring some closure to the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil after the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and send a message that the world will never forget those whose lives were sacrificed.
Obama’s stop at the Sept. 11 memorial was [...]
Posted in National, Political, Politics & Perspective
Posted on 11 October 2010.
The Honorable Mayor Jean-Yves Jason, Mayor of Port-au-Prince, Haiti was one of the VIPs at the “World Leadership Awards” event hosted by Haiti’s own Usher and his “New Look Foundation”
Posted in Political, Politics & Perspective
Posted on 22 August 2010.
Wyclef Jean, our premiere Crossover Haitian musician is returning home to the United States to relax with his family after the Haiti’s Electoral Council rejected his candidacy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010.
Posted in Political, Politics & Perspective
Posted on 22 April 2010.
Marie P. St. Fleur born in 1962, Haiti is a Massachusetts State Representative representing the fifth Suffolk district. Her district consists of parts of the Boston neighborhoods Dorchester and Roxbury.
Posted in Political, Politics & Perspective