Haitian Diaspora News

Did you know? There is a simple way to make unlimited calls to Haiti from the USA... A friend of mine has a great service that offers an UNLIMITED Haiti calling plan that allows you to call one person in Haiti anytime, talk as much as you want...

Can you believe this? In the year 2015, a racist ad in the a New York pennysaver reads: 'NO HAITIANS'... Seriously???

Haiti Immigration/Emigration Update -- A top Dominican immigration official revealed 4,800 Haitians have been repatriated to Haiti since 14 August 2015... Compare that to 8 Cubans, 4 Iraqis, 2 Colombians, 1 Italian, 1 German and 1 Dutch repatriated to their respective countries...

Bad News... Port-au-Prince Haiti -- American missionary Roberta Edwards was shot and killed in her car by gunmen Monday. A 4-year-old child who was with her at the time was kidnapped, authorities said...

Haiti Diaspora News -- Have you heard? Haitian North Miami Senor High's night school principal Jean Coty Ridore was arrested monday on corruption charges... An undercover policeman recorded Ridore taking $1,000 cash to hire him as a no show employee...

Haiti President Michel Martelly paid a visit to the Haitian Diaspora in Spring Valley, New York Wednesday, 30 Sept 2015... This the FIRST time ever that a sitting Haitian President as ever visited Spring Valley, says Demeza Delhomme, the Haitian Mayor of Spring Valley...

This is a sad story... 21 year old Haitian-American Kyle Jean-Baptiste made history on Broadway as the first African American and the youngest person to ever play Jean Valjean in Les Miserables, on Broadway... Last week, Kyle fell to his death, four stories from a fire escape at his mothers apartment in Brooklyn New York...

Have you heard? When it comes to back to school supplies Amazon beat out two if its biggest competitors, Walmart and Target... It seems parents in the diaspora would save more money if they were to shop for back to school supplies online than in the stores... Question: How many Haitians parents actually shop online?

Haiti Diaspora News -- The Haitian community in Boston is mourning the death of one of their own, retired Haitian-American Boston police detective Yves Dambreville, 66, who was shot and killed in Port-au-Prince during a recent visit.

We have just learned that A Haitian was killed and five others were wounded by gunfire last week in an attack orchestrated by Brazilians hostile to their presence in Sao Paulo (Brazil)...