At least 42 people were dead and thousands were displaced after a weekend of heavy rainfall and widespread flooding in Haiti, the country’s disaster response agency said on Monday. The heavy rain, which fell mostly on Saturday and Sunday, flooded more than 13,000 homes, displacing people across Haiti, according to the agency. It also said […]
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The 14 presumed gang members under arrest were arriving at a police station in Haiti’s capital, when a group of people overpowered the police, rounded up the suspects outside and used gasoline to burn them alive. The gruesome executions on April 24 marked the start of a brutal vigilante campaign to reclaim the streets of […]
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But while the numbers did not spike on Friday, officials said crossings had reached historically high levels in the days before Title 42 ended. On some days this past week, more than 11,000 people crossed the southern border illegally, according to internal agency data obtained by The New York Times, putting holding facilities run by […]
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ACLU sues to block new asylum restrictions | The Hill Skip to content Migrants waiting to apply for asylum between two border walls look through the wall Thursday, May 11, 2023, in San Diego. Pandemic-related U.S. asylum restrictions, known as Title 42, are to expire May 11. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) The American Civil Liberties Union […]
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The president of France on Thursday stepped into the cold mountain prison where Toussaint Louverture, a famed leader of the Haitian Revolution, died 220 years ago after being tricked, kidnapped and secreted across an ocean and into the French hinterland. Standing in the armory, not far from the cell where Louverture spent his last days, […]
Read MoreHaitian gang lord and rapper Izo Vilaj de Dye poses with his YouTube prize on his TikTok channel. One of Haiti’s top crime bosses, who heads a gang known for kidnapping and extortion, was just awarded a prize by YouTube for getting 100,000 followers. Izo Vilaj de Dye, also a popular rapper, is said to be […]
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Family members say Abigail Toussaint and her husband, Jean-Dickens Toussaint, were kidnapped in Haiti on March 18. Photo: CNN Nikese Toussaint, the sister of Jean-Dickens Toussaint, recently spoke to the Associated Press about her brother being kidnapped on March 18 in Haiti. Toussaint, his wife Abigail Michael Toussaint and another person were taken off a […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Anadolu Agency / Getty The family of a US couple kidnapped in Haiti is pleading with gang members for the safe release of their loved ones. On March 18, Jean-Dickens Toussaint and his wife, Abigail Michael Toussaint were kidnapped in Haiti after their bus was hijacked by gangs trying to cross […]
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Four things on the agenda for Biden’s first trip to Canada as president | The Hill Skip to content AP Photo/Andrew Harnik President Joe Biden arrives or a news conference at the 10th North American Leaders’ Summit at the National Palace in Mexico City, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. President Biden is making his first trip […]
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One by one, schools and hospitals have closed. Kidnappings are an everyday risk and gang warfare rages openly on the streets. But now, the chaos that has long consumed many parts of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, has spread: The national police, outgunned, outnumbered, underpaid and demoralized, have ceded control of most of the city […]
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A Homeland Security official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal data, said that more than 46,000 migrants from over 85 countries had made appointments. Venezuelans and Haitians made up the nationalities of those who had secured the most appointments. Mr. Termulis eventually scheduled an interview for himself and his wife, but in […]
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A child cries in her mother’s arms at the Lima batey in La Romana, Dominican Republic, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. The bateyes formed around the sugar cane mills where cane workers, mainly Haitians, eventually established their immigrant communities.Photo: Matias Delacroix (AP) It appears as though Haitian people may finally be welcomed into the U.S. In […]
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Federal agents on Tuesday arrested the owners of a South Florida security company with ties to the assassination of Haiti’s former president, according to one of their lawyers, the latest step in an investigation that has implicated several American citizens. The suspects, Antonio Intriago, a Venezuelan-American businessman, and Arcángel Pretel Ortiz, a Colombian American citizen, […]
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