Haiti

America 10/20/21, 03:06

A Haitian gang is demanding $17 million to release 17 abducted U.S. and Canadian nationals they kidnapped on Saturday, Oct. 16 in Haiti. The gang captured the missionaries using heavy firearms as they traveled by bus to an airport in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. The missionaries are associated with an ...

Central America 10/18/21, 15:51

A Haitian criminal gang suspected of kidnapping 16 American missionaries and 1 Canadian allegedly did the same to many more earlier in the year. Authorities confirmed seven women, six men and five children are the latest Mawozo 400 abductees so far in 2021. They were abducted after visiting an orphanage they ...

Central America 10/17/21, 16:47

Seventeen U.S. missionaries were kidnapped at gunpoint on Oct. 16. Authorities are investigating what appears to be a gang-style abduction of missionaries and loved ones in the Haitian capitol of Port-au-Prince. Haitian security officials claim an armed 400 Mawozo gang-member stopped the group during a bus trip to Toussaint Louverture International Airport. ...

Central America 09/27/21, 06:17

As the Biden administration is expelling Haitian illegal immigrants back to their chaotic country, thousands of others are making their way to the U.S. border through treacherous jungles. Newsmax citing Panamanian government sources, reported that up to 4,000 migrants, most of them Haitians, have passed through the jungles of the Darien ...

U.S. 09/25/21, 19:22

Rev. Al Sharpton, a civil rights advocate, faced protests during his trip to the Haitian migrant encampment on the U.S. southern border in Del Rio, Texas. After touring the area with Democratic Del Rio Mayor Bruno Lozano, Sharpton held a press conference where he was trying to criticize the Border Patrol's ...

U.S. 09/24/21, 01:41

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Thursday, Sept. 23 that it had temporarily stopped border patrols in Del Rio from using horses during their duty patrols.  "We have ceased the use of the horse patrol in Del Rio temporarily," a DHS official said in a call with reporters, according ...

U.S. 09/22/21, 03:45

A Border Patrol bus carrying Haitian migrants away from Del Rio was taken over by some of the passengers who managed to escape, according to the Washington Examiner. Two law enforcement officials told the news media that the migrants revolted during the journey and took control of the federally hired ...

U.S. 09/18/21, 02:15

On Friday, Sept. 17, Fox News said that its drones are now allowed to continue hovering around the Texas-Mexico border after initially being banned. "FoxNews applied this morning and has received clearance to operate from now until the end of September in the restricted airspace," the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced ...

U.S. 09/16/21, 23:28

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is closing down six entry points along the southern border over a new massive influx of asylum seekers, Fox News reported on Thursday, Sept. 16. As updated by Fox News reporter Bill Melugin, the number of illegal migrants gathering under the International Bridge in Del Rio, ...

World 08/16/21, 15:50

As the grueling rescue work by local residents in collapsed buildings continues, 1,297 people have been killed, 5,700 injured and many more displaced following the 7.2 magnitude earthquake of Aug. 14. It is estimated that thousands of homes have been destroyed, plunging the country into a humanitarian crisis of major proportions ...

America 07/19/21, 16:58

It has been revealed that the Haitian president made two phone calls asking for help for his life about 15 minutes before being executed at his home, leaving the three units in charge of security even more compromised for having taken so long to respond, a report by the British ...

World 07/16/21, 04:20

President Joe Biden reaffirmed that he has no plan to dispatch U.S. forces to Haiti at the moment after its interim leader asked for U.S. troop deployment to help protect the country’s infrastructure amid turbulence following the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise. “The idea of sending American forces into Haiti ...

America 07/12/21, 15:44

As investigations into the brutal assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse continue, Haitian authorities have announced the arrest of Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a doctor living in Florida, USA, as the possible mastermind of the assassination.  Haitian National Police Director General Léon Charles announced, "When the bandits' advance was blocked, the first ...

World 07/10/21, 15:50

Haiti’s interim leader on Friday, July 9, requested the U.S. troops to the country to help protect key infrastructure following the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, but the United States rebuffed the request. In an interview with The Associated Press, Haiti’s Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph confirmed that the government had ...

Central America 07/07/21, 18:42

The president of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse, died after a brutal shooting attack on him and his wife, the first lady, Martine Moïse. The latter survived after being hospitalized. The news of the assassination was released by the interim Prime Minister, Claude Joseph, who described it as a "hateful, inhuman and barbaric ...

America 05/16/19, 23:06

When her daughter was 4 years old, Jennifer Jean started a small catering business in Bourdon, a lower middle-class district of the Haitian capital.Starting with the occasional wedding or corporate meeting, she grew the business into a venture that earned her as much as $1,000 a month, enough to pay ...

World 04/28/19, 12:51

Thousands fleeing conflict or poverty in Nigeria, Cameroon, Bangladesh, Haiti and Cuba have traveled across oceans, through the jungles and mountains of South America, up through Central America, on a route that — so far — ends here: the steamy, crumbling Mexican city of Tapachula, near the Guatemala border. Over 1,500 ...

America 04/26/19, 21:00

Sen. Gracia Delva defends his interaction with notorious criminal despite condemnation from public

Politics 03/22/19, 00:09

The political and economic crisis in Venezuela tops the agenda of President Donald Trump's meeting Friday with leaders from the Caribbean, a region that has been far from united in joining the U.S. call for the ouster of President Nicolas Maduro. Trump is hosting the leaders of Jamaica, Bahamas, Haiti, Dominican ...

America 03/21/19, 12:42

An American security contractor at the center of a mysterious case roiling Haitian politics says that he and a group of fellow veterans were sent to Haiti on a mission to protect a businessman signing a more than $50 million contract at the country's central bank.Chris Osman, a 44-year-old retired ...