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Saline High School teacher Jan Denzin talks to the Board of Education about her Senior Capstone class trips to Haiti. There have been two trips where students and teachers installed water filters for people to provide them with clean drinking water. Denzin asked the school board to consider regularly funding future trips to ... (Haiti Sun)

Miami.- JetBlue Airways Corp. announced it plans to offer daily nonstop flights to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, from New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport and South Florida's Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. According to a statement from the airline, the flights are scheduled to begin Dec. 5. Haiti's consul general in New York said JetBlue's service ... (Haiti Sun)

By Alastair Jamieson, Staff writer, NBC News A political leader on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao was shot dead as he drank beer on a beach Sunday, authorities said.Helmin Wiels, whose Pueblo Soberano party campaigns for independence from the Netherlands, was killed by gunmen who sped off in a car, according to multiple witnesses.The 54-year-old died ... (Haiti Sun)

Two years after his surprise return from seven years in exile, former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide breaks his silence. (MiamiHerald.com)

Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide emerged from months of seclusion for a second straight day and took several swipes at the current government. (MiamiHerald.com)

Pending approval, JetBlue Airways plans to offer flights to Haiti. Meanwhile, IBC Airways is teaming up with a Haitian start-up to expand its reach in the Haitian market. (MiamiHerald.com)

Ex-Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, little seen in public since his return home two years ago, was in court to answer a summons. (MiamiHerald.com)

Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide made a rare public appearance Wednesday and thousands of supporters shadowed the ex-leader's motorcade following a court hearing. (MiamiHerald.com)

Haitians have been fleeing their troubled country for years, trying to reach the U.S. or other Caribbean islands by sea or by trekking across the island of Hispaniola to scratch out a living in the Dominican Republic. (MiamiHerald.com)

Haiti’s prime minister has tapped cabinet members to replace two departing ministers within days of one another. (MiamiHerald.com)

Thirteen years after her husband, famed Haitian journalist and agronomist Jean Léopold Dominique was gunned down in the courtyard of his radio station, Michèle Montas finds herself at the center of two epic cases winding through Haiti’s broken justice system. (MiamiHerald.com)

Haiti’s minister of finance and economy has resigned, effective immediately. (MiamiHerald.com)

Reshma was trapped in a wide Muslim prayer room located in the basement of the eight-story Rana Plaza building that housed five garment factories and thousands of workers in Bangladesh .

Ten high school students from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts are taking their talents to an orphanage in Haiti this summer.

Diplomats from donor nations met in Haiti on Friday to learn more about a new government panel that seeks to co-ordinate billions of dollars in aid money and speed up their release.

The people of Haiti stand for justice, but they are against the misuse of the justice system for political persecution.

Members of the Milledgeville Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta sorority donated much-needed supplies to Project Haiti Heart Thursday to help make the lives of children and families overseas a little easier.

That unlikely destination was chosen because Qatar will join Oneworld, and US Airways has a large presence in Philly.

Katie Fogle hugs Rithnica, an orphan in Haiti with whom she had an instant bond during the March 2013 trip with a team from Huntsville's First Presbyterian Church.

A priest, a doctor and the Prince of Denmark walk into a bar. That could be the tagline for the latest production at Portland Stage Company, the comedy "Wittenberg." It's a tale of trouble brewing at Wittenberg University as professors Martin Luther and Doctor Faustus duel for the allegience of their pupil, Prince Hamlet.

Victims of the cholera epidemic in Haiti have given the UN 60 days to stop evading its moral and legal obligations and provide justice and reparations to the thousands affected by the disease it brought to the nation or they will sue.

JetBlue continues its Caribbean expansion, announcing today that it intends to fly to Haiti.

Along Rue Champ de Mars, he waved to cheering crowds from his slow-moving, police-escorted motorcade.

Below, Haitian women workerstell of their experiences in sweatshops. These interviews, gathered over the past two years, are among many dozens that this writer has collected from Haitian sweatshop workers since the early 1980s.

Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is making a rare public appearance as he testifies before a judge investigating the slaying of one of the country's most prominent journalists.

He used to be the highest-paid, most-watched actor on TV but now Hugh Laurie has got the blues.

Fair City stars Bryan Murray and Eamon Morrissey and RTE broadcasters Eileen Dunne and Rick O'Shea are among those taking part in Words on the Street - European Literature Night in venues around Dublin on Wednesday May 15.

PRINCE, Haiti - Haiti's top police officer said Tuesday that all street demonstrations are banned for Wednesday, when former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide heads to court for a rare public outing that is expected to draw thousands of his supporters.

A Knoxville Police Department detective will soon swap his crime fighting mission for a spiritual mission.

The annual Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala is one of the biggest events on the fashion calendar, and the stars usually save their biggest and best frocks for the night.

As part of the bilateral cooperation, the Dominican Republic runs a plan to support the Republic of Haiti to strengthen the Haitian Agricultural Market Information System, in order to streamline the mechanisms of commercialization of products from the field.