Category: Haiti News
Overview: Haitian American sisters Pierrelande and Marie Saint Cyr founded NouBon, a small-batch Caribbean-inspired snack and nut butter brand, after growing up unable to find familiar Caribbean snacks on U.S….
Overview: Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) has reshuffled its four-member executive bureau, replacing Jacques Desrosiers as president with Peterson Pierre-Louis, the council’s former secretary-general. The rotation does not alter the…
Overview: The two-time U.S. Open champion lost a lopsided fourth-round match to second-seeded Elena Rybakina. But she continued to make her mark as the undisputed fashion queen on tour. Her…
Overview: Three public figures — journalist Wesly Renaud Jean, lawyer Caleb Jean-Baptiste and government agency’s Director General Stéphanie Paultre — were kidnapped in separate incidents in Delmas and the Artibonite…
Overview: Brooklyn’s Eastern Parkway will buzz with steel drums and flag-draped floats on Monday during the West Indian Day Parade. But Haitians are marching under more solemn circumstances this year….
Overview: Haiti’s government has announced a 2.5 billion-gourde—roughly $17 million—cash-transfer program for 140,000 parents of students, with each eligible beneficiary receiving 15,000 gourdes, or about $116. A broader back-to-school package…
Overview: A Queens parking lot built atop the 18th-century burial ground of the St. Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church — where an estimated 290 free and formerly enslaved Black people…
Overview: Elected officials, community leaders, cultural figures and supporters gathered in Brooklyn for the West Indian American Day Carnival Association’s 59th annual VIP Breakfast. The Labor Day event at the…