Spirit Airlines airplanes at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US. Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday banned U.S. civilian flights to and from Haiti for 30 days after a Spirit Airlines airplane was struck by gunfire trying to land in Port-au-Prince a day … Read more
Passengers on a Spirit Airlines flight were left terrified after their plane was repeatedly shot at during its descent into Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince. Amid the ensuing chaos as bullets penetrated the cabin, one crew member was grazed by a bullet. The airline has confirmed that the staff member had a narrow escape from death as … Read more
According to the script, the title of the latest play by Dominique Morisseau is “Bad Creole Kreyòl.” We go with the simplified “Bad Kreyòl”—the language of Haiti written in its language, rather than its gallicization—because how can you bring voice to the strike-through, a gesture that underscores the voyeur state of the reader, “watching” the … Read more
A tanker truck exploded Saturday in southwestern Haiti, killing 24 people, authorities said, as witnesses reported that victims had been trying to collect fuel leaking from the vehicle. The explosion in Miragoane injured about 40 people, with some suffering burns over most of their bodies, Emmanuel Pierre, head of Haiti’s civil protection agency, told AFP. … Read more
Former President Donald Trump said Friday that if he becomes president, he will execute large-scale deportations of migrants, beginning in Ohio and Colorado. “We’re going to have the largest deportation in the history of our country,” he told reporters during a news conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. “And we’re going to start with Springfield … Read more
5/24: CBS News Weekender – CBS News Watch CBS News Lana Zak reports on three missionaries — including two Americans — killed in apparent gang violence in Haiti, the Memorial Day holiday travel rush, and tips from Olympic swimmer and swim safety advocate Cullen Jones on staying safe around water this summer. Be the first … Read more
Haiti’s health care system is on the verge of collapse, the United Nations Children’s Fund warned in a statement this week. “The combination of violence, mass displacement, dangerous epidemics and increasing malnutrition has bent Haiti’s health system,” said Bruno Maes, the UNICEF representative in Haiti. “But the strangling of supply chains may be what breaks … Read more
GENEVA — As Brazil’s heavily flooded southern state of Rio Grande do Sul braces for a weekend of intense rain, the U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, is calling for greater support to help tens of thousands of refugees, who are among the most vulnerable people affected by the disaster. “Those affected include some 41,000 refugees and … Read more
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The Vodou faithful sing, their voices rising above the gunfire erupting miles away as frantic drumbeats drown out their troubles. They pause to swig rum out of small brown bottles, twirling in unison as they sing in Haitian Creole: “We don’t care if they hate us, because they can’t bury us.” Shunned … Read more
By Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald When a sitting Haitian president was assassinated in 1915, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sent in the Marines to protect American interests and secure stability. The military occupation, which lasted 19 years, marked the start of more than a century of close and controversial U.S. entanglement in the volatile internal affairs … Read more
