Haitian Newsletter Articles

There is a LOUD music phenomenon in Haiti, at least the city where I live. All day long, young men particularly walk around with a radio boombox and they play their music so loud the world can hear...

Many Haitians in the Diaspora await their fate as the deadline for the Trump administration to decide whether it wants to extend temporary protected status for Haitians, May 23, approaches.

This Haitian mother comes to me telling me a story about how he cursed this boy trying to date his 17 year-old daughter. "My daughter is NOT ready," she said... So let me ask you this: What age do you let your daughter start dating?

Begging in Haiti has taken a new form... Normally, a poor street beggar will ask you for HTG $5 gourdes, but these new smart beggars are clean cut, well dressed, they ride on motorcycles and they ask you for GAS money...

Haiti's government television (TNH) is anything but "National." It is more like Television Port-au-Prince since only Port-au-Prince and the surrounding areas can watch it.

Are you getting enough sleep? Did you know that sleep deprivation has been tied to an increased risk of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and depression?

You often hear about the Haitian school teacher who is constantly on strike because he is teaching students and is not getting paid but did you now about the teachers in Haiti who are getting paid and have never stood in front a classroom?

Jetblue flight 1845 was en route to the Port-au-Prince airport from JFK airport in New York but had to make an emergency landing in the island of Bermuda Saturday...

These days everyone in Haiti is talking about the dreaded eye sickness "AZOUMOUNOU". You wake up one day and your eyes are so itchy, you go to sleep and wake your with your eyes lids stick together...

Marie Nelson Laferrière, mother of Haitian author and Académie française immortal Dany Laferriere has died Thursday 11 May 2017.