By Stephen Weir If Alain Bidard makes it up to the Caribbean Tales Film Festival on September 23rd he probably won’t bring all his film festival trophies with him when his animated movie, Opal, is shown in Toronto. There is not enough room in his suitcase for all the awards the Martinique producer/director has captured […]
US officials say there has been a surge of high-powered weapons being smuggled from Florida to Haiti. The Caribbean country has been rocked by brutal gang warfare in which hundreds of people have been killed in the past six weeks alone. A US federal agent said that the number of weapons illegally shipped to […]
A former senator who worked for the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor was killed in an upscale neighborhood near Haiti’s capital and his body set on fire along with his nephew, Government Commissioner Jacques Lafontant told media on Sunday. The bodies of Yvon Buissereth and his unidentified nephew were found Saturday afternoon in the […]
More than 800 Haitians trying to get to the U.S. shores aboard a ship have instead landed in central Cuba. According to news reports, this was the largest group of Haitians who are fleeing their crisis-stricken country in hopes of starting anew in the so-called land of the free. The ship was crammed with 842 […]
Haiti wants a former politician accused in the brazen assassination of President Jovenel Moïse last July to be returned to the country from Jamaica. The country’s foreign minister has sent an official request to Jamaica seeking the return of former senator John Joël Joseph, a high-ranking Haitian government source confirmed to the Miami Herald. […]
He was Haiti-born Jean-Baptiste Jean Like many Montrealers, Rachel Guénin has fond memories of her father dropping her and her sister off at the mall when they were young. The only difference is, unlike most dads, their father, Jean-Baptiste Jean, was driving the 161 bus. “That route would start at Rosemont and then it […]
Haitian political leaders nailed down plans for a transitional government last Monday after days of negotiations at Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge. The conference, called the Haiti Unity Summit, was moderated by U.S. Lieutenant General Russel Honoré, known for leading military relief efforts around New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Negotiations began Friday and […]
A group concerned about Haiti’s future is calling for a provisional government in the Caribbean country to bolster its security and ensure free elections in two years. The group, called Montana Accord, is proposing its 65-year-old leader and economist Fritz Jean to take the helm of the two-year transition government of Haiti—replacing Prime Minister Ariel […]
Haiti’s National Police said last Saturday that a former senator who is a prominent suspect in the July 7 killing of President Jovenel Moïse has been arrested in Jamaica. Police spokesman Gary Desrosiers confirmed that John Joël Joseph was in custody. No further information was immediately available. Meanwhile, Jamaica Police Superintendent Stephanie Lindsay said that […]
Two Haitian journalists were the latest casualties of the increasing gang violence in the beleaguered Caribbean nation. John Wesley Amady and Wilguens Louissaint were slain by “armed bandits” last Thursday in Laboule, a conflict-ridden area south of Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince. Amady, 30, who worked for Montreal-based radio station Radio Ecoute, and Louissaint, 22, a local […]
