Sadly, this year the U.S. has been cutting a lot of humanitarian aid which actually represents a relatively tiny part of the federal budget. We could certainly be increasing food ...

The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner recently interviewed former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre by phone regarding her new book, Independent ... KJP: As a black woman who is LGBTQ, Haitian, ...

South Florida was spared a direct blow from Hurricane Melissa, but the massive storm still hit home for the millions of residents there who have deep roots in the Caribbean.

Former Haitian prime minister Claude Joseph welcomed the UN Security Council's recent decision to transform the multinational police support mission into a more robust anti-gang force. "I believe it's ...

Hurricane Melissa has left a trail of destruction across Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica. The storm made landfall Tuesday in Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane, with winds reaching 185 miles ...

Gangs in Haiti took over 90 percent of the capital despite the presence of an armed United Nations mission. A new ...

In a joint move by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the United Nations Security Council, sanctions were imposed on ...

Port-au-Prince has become a city defined by collapse. Gangs control its streets, aid has failed to reach the desperate, and the government’s grip has vanished. This is the story of a capital swallowed ...

After The Haitian Times reported on Sept. 16 about Emmerson Philippe and his wife Michelle Lake-Philippe’s appeals to Haitian officials for passports for their two adopted children trapped in ...

The United States and the United Nations slapped sanctions on the former head of Haitian presidential security and the leader of a Haitian gang on Friday for their roles in criminal gang activities ...

The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday announced fresh sanctions against the leader of a Haitian gang in the capital Port-au-Prince, as well as a former police officer once imprisoned over ties to the ...

Haitians are also enjoying some reserved optimism after the UN Security Council passed a new 5,550-strong Gang Suppression Force (GSF) to deal with growing violence in the Caribbean country. The ...