Haiti News, Miami Herald

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Haiti’s diaspora contributes more than $Two billion annually in remittances. Outraged over a $159 income tax fee, they are revolting against President Jovenel Moïse’s administration.

Dr. Joseph Baptiste, a prominent Haitian-American who was a go-to man for U.S. officials seeking to learn more about Haiti, has been accused of attempting to bribe Haitian government officials.

With its refugee-friendly stance under fire, Canada is toughening its tone on immigration as it seeks to discourage Haitians from illegally crossing its border with the U.S. seeking asylum. Haitians in the U.S. fear the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants.

A Canadian lawmaker who was born in Haiti warns that Haitian refugees crossing illegally into Canada are at risk of being deported. They’re worried about losing their TPS status.

Amanita Pierre’s past was devastated by the earthquake that hit Haiti seven years ago. Now one of five Bank of America Student Leaders, she’s enrolled at Miami Dade College — tuition free with total scholarships, awards and grants — to pursue a career in criminal justice.

For Haitian families in the U.S. who have Improvised Protected Status, fleeing to Canada with their U.S.-born children is a high stakes proposition that could divide their families.

Thousands of migrants, many of them Haitian, are venturing arrest in Canada and an uncertain future after finding that the U.S. under President Donald Trump has become unwelcoming.

An international vaccination alliance wants Haiti to step up efforts to vaccinate children who are dying from preventable diseases.

Hit by a flood of asylum seekers, many of them from Haiti, Canada opened up Montreal Olympic Stadium and turned it into a makeshift shelter.

The prospect that thousands of Haitians living in the United States under Improvised Protected Status could soon be compelled to come back to Haiti worries humanitarians and activists in the Caribbean nation.

Already perplexed by Haitian migrants who are being deported from the Dominican Republic, aid agencies in Haiti say they aren’t ready to treat a possible influx of Haitians enrolled in the U.S.’s Makeshift Protected Program (TPS) who could soon be coerced to come back home.

As the United Nations indicates that it will seek to build community projects in Haiti to compensate victims of its cholera outbreak, victims and their advocates say no way.

Haitian cholera activist Berthony Clermont requests the U.N. compensates victims of the cholera outbreak following the two thousand ten earthquake.

The U.S. Coast Guard and the Royal Bahamas Defense Force rescued eighty eight Haitian migrants off the Bahamian Island of Little Inagua Friday.

Haitian Women of Miami launched a campaign to advocate for further extension of TPS for Haitians on Monday. Through their campaign they plan to encourage business leaders and politicians to attempt to influence the Trump administration to extend TPS.

Haiti has began to recruit youthfull Haitians inbetween the ages of 18-25 for its re-established army, much to the chagrin of the international community.

Nine months after Hurricane Matthew, Haiti’s storm victims are left to fend for themselves, feeling forgotten by foreign aid, and neglected by politicians.

In Oct. 2016, Hurricane Matthew devastated the southern Haiti hitting Port-Salut especially hard. Almost a year after the storm, the area is still fighting to rebuild.

U.S. Coast Guard repatriates one hundred two Haitians back to Haiti after interdicting them in Bahamian waters.

Klaus Eberwein, a former Haitian government official in the Martelly administration, was found dead in a Miami area hotel with a gunshot wound to the head.

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