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*Now that Oprah Winfrey is not confined to the four walls of her TV studio, she’s out and about meeting folk and building some strong international relationships. This week, the media mogul is visiting the president of Haiti, Michel Martelly. His hope is to partner with Winfrey to rebuild the country, attract investors and ultimately, [...]
*When the earthquake devastated Haiti, several celebrities jumped on relief efforts, some more than others. Among the big names was Wyclef Jean who also made an attempt to run for president. He helped raise monies and brought to light some of the major issues plaguing the small country during that time. But a recent report [...]
*Flamboyant carnival musician Michel Martelly edged out former Haitian first lady Mirlande Manigat in a pivotal presidential runoff vote held last month, according to preliminary results released Monday. Martelly, 50, took 67.6% of the vote, while Manigat, 70, received 31.5%, according to Pierre Thibault, spokesman for Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council. After the announcement, streets around [...]
*Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier has been hospitalized after having chest pains, his longtime companion and associates said Thursday without giving details about his condition. Duvalier, who made a surprise return to the Caribbean nation in January, was admitted Wednesday night, companion Veronique Roy said as she took a break from visiting him [...]
*Former Fugees member, Wyclef Jean, addressed rumors of a gunshot wound yesterday. Previously it was reported that the Haitian born/American raised singer was shot in the hand while in Haiti to support presidential candidate Michel Martelly. However, the doctor who treated Jean explained the injury wasn’t caused by a bullet. It was glass. “I think [...]
*Saturday night in Haiti, musician Wyclef jean was shot in the hand. But according to his spokesman, he has been treated and released from the hospital. He told The Associated Press that he had just stepped out of his car to make a phone call when he heard gunfire. Jean says the next thing he [...]
*Elections in Haiti are this Sunday, March 20, and presidential candidate Michel Martelly – shown above in the photo with Jimmy Rosemond, Wyclef Jean, and Pras – is expected to win. Rosemond, by the way, assisted in organizing a concert for the final rally that will lead up to the election. The concert will feature [...]
*Wyclef Jean on Wednesday endorsed the candidacy of popular carnival singer Michel “Sweet Micky” Martelly in his bid to become the next president of Haiti. The rapper/musician, whose own presidential campaign was rejected by election officials last year, said he decided to endorse his longtime friend because he’s technologically savvy and has a charismatic personality [...]
*It wasn’t that long ago that musician Wylef Jean and actor Sean Penn weren’t seeing eye to eye over Clef’s Hatian presidential bid. Well now they’ve reconciled their differences. Last year the two became involved in a very public feud after Penn made comments dissing Jean’s candidacy. Then, during one of his performances, Jean fired [...]
*Well look who’s back in town … but why? Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier returned Sunday to Haiti after nearly 25 years in exile, a surprising and perplexing move that comes as his country struggles with a political crisis and the stalled effort to recover from last year’s devastating earthquake. Duvalier, wearing a [...]
*The Haitian witch doctor stepped into the hot, open air of his yard, his arms filled with the paraphernalia of his dark practice. That caught the attention of his neighbors, who were still living among earthquake-ravaged ruins of their homes in Port-au-Prince. The man dropped his voodoo tools and fetishes on the ground, dug a [...]
*Today marks the one year anniversary of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that killed more than 230,000 people in Haiti. Roughly a million remain homeless amid the debris and stuttering reconstruction efforts in Port-au-Prince, according to the AP. A year later, nearly a million Haitians remain in tents or other temporary shelter. The death of so [...]
*The cholera epidemic in Haiti is getting worse by the minute. The United Nations now expects that there will be some 425,000 cases of the disease across the country in the first six months since it appeared, more than twice as many as originally projected. And the tally could reach 200,000 before the year is [...]
*This is just what they don’t need. An outbreak of cholera has spread outside a rural valley in central Haiti, intensifying worries the disease could reach squalid tarp camps that house hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors in the capital. More than 200 have been confirmed dead in the poor Caribbean nation’s worst health crisis [...]
*Geensboro, NC — Dr. Julianne Malveaux, president of Bennett College for Women, will be among a 17-person delegation traveling to Haiti Oct. 7-11 as part of the Haiti Support Project, Pilgrimage and Assessment Delegation. Their mission is to lay down the groundwork for creating a support system that will assist the Haitian people in developing [...]
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