On Thursday, Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) announced that popular musician Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly will face off against the front-runner, former first lady Mirlande Manigat, 70, in the runoff elections on March 20.
The plot to control Haiti has gone from the absurd to the ridiculous. The return of Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier to Haiti in the midst of a flawed election is truly shocking.
Haiti’s ruling Inite (Unity) party has not yet officially announced whether its candidate Jude Célestin will remain in the presidential race, but media reports have already indicated that he is about to drop out.
While Amnesty International is applauding the recent arrest of former president Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian authorities are being urged to investigate alleged human rights violations committed by the former tyrant, also known as 'Baby Doc'.
Duvalier, who has been accused of presiding over numerous human rights violations during his rule from...
Former president Jean-Claude Duvalier, who is believed to have stolen millions from government coffers during his rule, unexpectedly returned to Haiti on Sunday, throwing an already chaotic situation into even greater chaos.
The unexpected arrival of "Baby Doc", as he is also know, comes at a time when there is...
A Guyanese man, one of four, who was part of a failed bomb plot to blow up the John F. Kennedy (JFK) International Airport in New York in 2006, was on Thursday sentenced to 15 years in jail.
Today marks the one year anniversary of the catastrophic earthquake that struck Haiti. Nearly a quarter of a million lives were lost, more than three hundred thousand people were injured and more than a million people were left homeless.
As Haiti struggles to recover and rebuild one year later after a major earthquake claimed the lives of over 300,000 people on January 12, 2010, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday that the cholera outbreak which has killed 3,600 persons over the last few months, has not yet peaked.
If the U.S. prosecutor has his way, four-time Grammy nominated reggae artiste, Buju Banton, will face additional charges when he is retried next month in a Tampa Court.
Still angry over the results of the first round of the November 28th presidential elections, Haitians marked their country’s 207 years of independence from France this weekend with protests and demands for President René Préval to step down immediately.
A Florida International University (FIU) baseball star was charged with the rape of two women in the Bahamas last week, police said. The athlete, Garrett Wittels, 20 years, has been released on $10,000 bail, Bahamas Police Department Press Officer Sgt. Chrislyn Skippings told CNN.
Allen Stanford, the once flamboyant Texas billionaire accused of running a $7 billion Ponzi scheme and defrauding thousands of investors in Antigua, is seeking a delay of his trial for at least two more years. His trial was scheduled to begin on January 24, 2011.
The Jamaica government remains tight-lipped about diplomatic cables that have revealed an alleged alliance between don Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke and Mayor of Kingston Desmond McKenzie who tried to dissuade US officials from seeking the extradition of the wanted man.
Dr. Ralph Gonsalves led his United Labor Party (ULP) to victory for a third time in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, but barely so, with the party winning eight of the fifteen seats in the House of Assembly. The opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) more than doubled its share to seven seats from three.
With a three-day window opening today for candidates to formally lodge complaints in Haiti’s disputed elections, the United Nations and its partners have called on all concerned to use these legal means and to urge their supporters to avoid further violence.
Thousands of demonstrators continue to protest the outcome of Haiti's election, as calls for calm and an end to violence went unheeded. Yesterday, they set fire to the headquarters of the ruling Inite party, and attacked several shops, a post of the UN peacekeeping mission MINUSTAH, and a radio station owned by a Senate candidate with the ruling candidate, Carlos Lebon. It is reported that four have died so far as a result of the violence.
Haiti's deadly cholera outbreak which has killed more than 1,800 people so far, has been traced back to Nepalese U.N. peacekeepers whose toilets contaminated a river, a new report revealed.
The State yesterday admitted it had no defense to a lawsuit brought by a Trinidad woman, who was stripped and searched in full view of motorists during a roadblock exercise more than nine years ago.
Thousands of Haitians took to the streets on Sunday night to protest the outcomes of the presidential elections in that country, joining the calls from 12 presidential candidates to declare the polls null and void.
There are fears that, with the rising cholera death toll in Haiti which has now claimed the lives of 1,250 people, the disease could well spread to other neighboring Caribbean countries.
Welectricity, a social network, created in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, that helps users track and reduce their electricity consumption at home, was named by General Electric (GE) as one of 10 award-winners of their global Ecomagination Smart Grid Challenge.
Protests were reported in the cities of Hinche and Gonaives in Haiti's cholera-ravaged central region as well. Haitian officials said that more than 900 persons have died as a result of the disease.
Jamaican reggae superstar, Buju Banton will spend Christmas with his family. Yesterday, his legal team concluded arrangements after several weeks, which allowed Banton to take up a bail offer and walk out of the Pinellas County Jail unshackled and free.
Colton Harris-Moore, the 19-year-old more popularly known as "Barefoot Bandit", who engaged in a string of thefts over a two-year-period, from Washington state to the Caribbean, was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Seattle.
Barbadian and Grammy Award winning superstar Rihanna continues to rock the global stage, with her latest performance at the recent MTV European Awards 2010 in Madrid, Spain, coming in for some rave reviews.
Cuba, unveiled on Monday, new economic and social policy guidelines which will see the promotion of foreign investment and an expansion of private sector development.
Haiti was spared a direct hit by Hurricane Tomas which did minimal damage to that country's earthquake-ravaged capital, but another major catastrophe looms, as more and more people die from the outbreak of cholera that began on October 20, north of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
Reggae superstar Buju Banton's retrial has been pushed back to February 2011, after a judge granted a request for his defense team to allow the singer to spend time with his family over upcoming holiday period.
