Haitian Family

During Haitian mother's day Sunday mass, the priest ask all the mothers to come forward for a special mother's day blessing. The whole church got up a came forward. There was only a few men here and there still left sitting.

Imagine that... A baby is crying all day and all night, she is not eating, she just keeps on crying. The family refuses to take her to a hospital. Instead, they think it's some poor lougarou neighbor trying to suck the blood of the baby.

When it comes to birth control in Haiti, a vasectomy is not common practice among Haitian men. That's why a group of doctors were so surprised when a Haiti vasectomy campaign drew more men they they expected.

Even President Donald Trump's own State Department officials have warned him against his moves to deport more than 46,000 Haitians , 57,000 Hondurans and 195,000 Salvadorans who enjoyed Temporary Protection Status, or TPS, in the United States. Such a move will destabilize the entire region but will Trump listen?

If you are a man, you are sexually active and you don't want to have babies then you need a form of male birth control. You can use a condom, you can pull out (good luck), or you can have a vasectomy.

My Sabbath Experience - This weekend, I wanted to visit an old friend of mine but I wanted to keep the visit short because I was afraid it would interfere with his rituals, if I may call it that. He did not mind, he said, and I did not regret it.

A young Haitian mother living in Brooklyn NY is sharing her life experience with her sister in Haiti. Childcare is expensive she says... Her first experience.

Breaking News... The big sister of Haiti's Minister of National Education was murdered late Monday night at her home in St-Louis du Nord, Haiti.

It's Thanksgiving... and I am sad... I just spoke my mom and dad in New York, my brothers and sisters, they are all getting ready to eat that thanksgiving turkey... Me, I am in Haiti, eating Poul Di... That's not fair... :(

"Haiti is a beautiful little country," says Haitian-Japanese Tennis Player Naomi Osaka, "the negative comments do not reflect the reality." Naomi Osaka visited her father's native Haiti for the first time in her young 20 years, a personal decision she said.