Haiti Photo Stories

Look at this photo... Long lines at a GO Gas Station in Hinche Haiti. After days with gasoline cars and motorcycles invade this gas station hoping to get some gas.

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Serena Williams will look to finally win a set -- and, of course, a match -- over Naomi Osaka in a replay of the one of the sport's most controversial championship clashes, the 2018 US Open final.

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Here is a photo of Tennis legend Serena Williams hugging Haitian-Japanese Tennis player Naomi Osaka after she loosing to the 20-year-old who idolizes her at the 2018 US Open Grand Slam.

Osaka jokingly told television host Steve Harvey "my dad congratulated me but it felt better coming from Serena Williams" while she was a guest on The Steve Show

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Car Wash Party is the new form of wet and wild street party in Haiti where DJs are playing live in the streets and young party animals are drinking beer while being sprayed with water car wash style.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is expected to begin the raids in at least 10 major cities on Sunday July 14 2019, targeting thousands of immigrants who have been ordered to be deported, The New York Times reported.

Agents will also sweep up other immigrants who are present for the arrests even if they are not among the targets, according to the paper.

Click on the related articles below to stay up-to-date with news regarding these ICE raids.

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After a long work week, this young Haitian-American hops on his John Deere lawnmower to cut his grass. No time to think about the stupidities of politics in Haiti.

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June 2019, The Haitian currency is approaching 100 gourdes for one US dollar. All of this Haitian money you see here, it's only worth about 50 dollars US.

If you count it, there is 5,000 gourdes here, once upon a time it was worth about 1,000 dollars US, nowadays it's only worth a measly 50 bucks!

When I was growing up in Haiti, a U.S. quarter was 'Goud e ka' (1.25 Gourdes) and 5 gourdes was equivalent to ONE U.S. Dollar. it was written right on the currency. Read more Haitian Money - Why has the Haitian currency depreciated so much in value?

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Virtually 90 percent of the rice sold in Haiti is American Rice. Whether is says diri Mega, diri Bongu or diri Tchako, it's all American rice. Once upon a time Haiti was self-sufficient in producing rice.

Growing up in Haiti I used to eat diri pilon, diri chode, all Haitian rice grown on the country side.

I remember going to the countryside at my auntie's house she they would hand us kids a quantity of rice with the husk where would put it in a "pilon" and mash the living daylight out of it to remove the kernel (pay diri a) but the rice bran (the outer layer of the rice kernel) and the germ would would remain, all nutritious, all good for you.

Do you know why rice is sole white and why the bran was removed? Read the related article below.

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Times are hard in Haiti these days, the average Haitian consumer cannot afford all the produce needed for the family meal.

Yes, you to market and you see all these foods, rice, corne, beans etc, but the money in your pocket, if any, cannot afford to buy it because most if not all these products are imported and you have to buy it "au taux du jour" (at the current exchange rate).

"The Haitian middle class of today exists between poverty and misery," says Haitian politician Louis Gonzague Edner Day.

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On Monday July 09 2018, the U.S. State Department issued a Level 4: Do Not Travel Haiti Travel Advisory following violent protests that erupted after a hike in gas prices.

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