Haitian Diaspora News

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)...

Haiti-Dominican Repatriation Update -- Reports are coming in from every corner of the Haiti-Dominican frontier about Haitians who were living in Dominican Republic returning home, many voluntarily, others are forced to leave...

Haiti - In order to assist the hundreds of thousands of Dominicans of Haitian decent who are about to be repatriated from the Dominican Republic, employees ONA have raised more than two million gourdes and placed in in a special fund called FONDSONA...

SOS... SOS... In the Dominican Republic, its government has passed laws... The Dominican government has publicly stated that mass deportations of its citizens of Haitian descent will commence on or about June 17, 2015. That government has massed a fleet of buses to deport these Dominicans to a land largely foreign to these people. The Dominican military, for its part, is ramping up efforts at collective deportations, according to reports, sweeping up anyone who "looks" Haitian, and dumping them in Haiti. Despite these horrors, no world leader and few media outlets are focusing on this very real human rights tragedy.