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Discover Haiti Miami: Donna Karan Showcases Haitian Artisans At The Little Haiti Cultural Center Huffington Post, By Jennifer Kay, 05/17/13 MIAMI — The handbag Donna Karan was showing off Friday lacked her signature logo, or any designer’s logo. It was made of paper mache and, the fashion designer said, represented Haiti’s handmade carnival masks – Read more
May 18, 2013 in Haiti News by Renee
Haiti Libre, 05/16/2013 The Prime Minister, Laurent Lamothe at the head of the Haitian delegation of high-level is on an official visit to Havana (Cuba) to follow up on the Cuban cooperation in the field of agriculture, health and literacy and strengthen relations between the two countries. The Prime Minister, accompanied by Jean Patrick Alfred, Read more
May 17, 2013 in Haiti News by Renee
The New York Times, The Opinion Pages, By Nora Schenkel, May 15, 2013 Port-au-Prince WHEN I was living in Haiti, people often asked me for money. Strangers in the street held out their hands to me on the rare occasions that I walked by on foot. The construction workers shoveling sand in front of my Read more
May 15, 2013 in Haiti News by Renee
The Wall Street Journal, By Lora Kolodny, May 14, 2013, 1:49 PM A “for-profit, for-good” startup, dloHaiti, raised $3.4 million in Series A funding to bring clean, affordable water and new jobs to communities across Haiti, according to the company’s chief executive and founder, Jim Chu. (Photo: dloHaiti, The water purification system used at dloHaiti’s Read more
May 14, 2013 in Haiti News by Renee
The Caribbean Journal, By Ilio Durandis, CJ Contributor, May 14, 2013 THE STRUGGLE to reform the educational system in Haiti is nothing new; everything from using Creole to incorporating a practical approach to science, technology, math and the arts in every classroom have been a dream for so long, but, more recently, a glimpse of Read more
May 14, 2013 in Haiti News by Renee
The Miami Herald, The Associated Press, Monday, 05.13.13 MIAMI — JetBlue Airways Corp. is extending its service in the Caribbean to Haiti. The airline announced Thursday that it plans to offer daily nonstop flights to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, from New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and South Florida’s Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. The flights Read more
May 14, 2013 in Haiti News by Renee
Haiti Libre, 05/13/2013 This Monday, Leopard Capital LP announced today that Leopard Haiti Fund LP has made an equity investment in dloHaiti, Inc., a water kiosk venture that will provide safe, affordable drinking water to underserved neighborhoods across Haiti. dloHaiti will establish a network of wells serving water kiosks that will dispense and deliver water Read more
May 13, 2013 in Haiti News by Renee
The Haitian Times · May 13th, 2013 PLANO, TX — On Saturday, May 11, City Councilman Harry Agnant LaRosiliere won a historic election to become the first black mayor of Plano, a suburb in the Dallas-Forth Worth, Texas metro area. LaRosiliere, a New York-bred financial advisor of Haitian descent, bested Fred Moses, the African-American Collin Read more
May 13, 2013 in Haiti News by Renee
The Calgary Herald, By The Associated Press May 10, 2013 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Diplomats from donor nations met in Haiti on Friday to learn more about a new government panel that seeks to co-ordinate billions of dollars in aid money and speed up their release. (Photo: Former President Bill Clinton, left, and newly named Finance Read more
May 11, 2013 in Haiti News by Renee
On Canada’s changing aid to Haiti, the merger of CIDA and DFAIT, and the role of the private sector in development MACLEAN’S, by Luiza Ch. Savage on Friday, May 10, 2013 Julian Fantino, a former police chief of Toronto, has been Minister of International Cooperation since July 2012. In that short time, he has presided Read more
May 10, 2013 in Haiti News by Renee