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Port-au-Prince.– Haiti's U.N. peacekeeping mission urged local officials Friday to provide a justification for banning 17 political groups from participating in next year's legislative elections.... (Haiti Sun)

At 83, Sarah Hackett could have spent Thanksgiving with her great-grandchildren in the gracious Annisquam village home her family has owned since 1829, overlooking placid Lobster Cove. (Haiti Sun)

The Honduran Permanent Contingency Committee (Copeco) issued a green alert Friday after constant rains caused flooding in the north and in the Caribbean area of Honduras. Copeco said the measure will ... (Haiti Sun)

"It was fantastic!"Rosalie Wilson of Vincent was describing the Swish's Wishes benefit trip to the Dominican Republic this month.The trip to Melia Caribe Tropical hotel in Punta Cana raised $8,200 for... (Haiti Sun)

written by Oscar Ramjeet who has been following the operations of the Caribbean Court of Justice, that a few more countries including Belize, Jamaica, Grenada, and St. Lucia are contemplating joining ... (Haiti Sun)

By Jean H Charles My cultural calendar for the year started on November 1 with the Day of the Dead. I can be found either in Greenwich Village, New York City attending the Halloween party, or Roseau, ... (Haiti Sun)

Jeb Sprague interviews Mario Josph and Brian Concannon Over nine and a half years ago, on April 3, 2000, popular radio journalist Jean Dominique was shot four times in the chest as he arrived fo... (Haiti Sun)

"No other island in the Caribbean is as beautiful or as productive," said Grace Elmore from behind the bar at Richmond Hill Inn, a colonial lookout-cum-eyrie owned by her family since the 1960s. It ri... (Haiti Sun)

The mission's statement came a day after the electoral council in this Caribbean nation barred the groups, including Lavalas, the influential party of exiled former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, w... (Haiti Sun)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—Haiti's U.N. peacekeeping mission urged local officials Friday to provide a justification for banning 17 political groups from participating in next year's legislative elec... (Haiti Sun)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haiti's U.N. peacekeeping mission urged local officials Friday to provide a justification for banning 17 political groups from participating in next year's legislative ele... (Haiti Sun)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti's U.N. peacekeeping mission urged local officials Friday to provide a justification for banning 17 political groups from participating in next year's legislative el... (Haiti Sun)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Haiti's U.N. peacekeeping mission urged local officials Friday to provide a justification for banning 17 political groups from participating in next year's legislative electi... (Haiti Sun)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Haiti's U.N. peacekeeping mission urged local officials Friday to provide a justification for banning 17 political groups from participating in next year's legislative electi... (Haiti Sun)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Haiti's U.N. peacekeeping mission urged local officials Friday to provide a justification for banning 17 political groups from participating in next year's legislative electi... (Haiti Sun)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haiti's U.N. peacekeeping mission urged local officials Friday to provide a justification for banning 17 political groups from participating in next year's legisla... (Haiti Sun)

An approaching global climate summit has raised the temperature at what is usually a low-key meeting of leaders from Britain's former colonial empire.The Commonwealth heads of government, meeting Frid... (Haiti Sun)

Dajabon, Dominican Republic.- The Dajabon Inter-institutional Committee, the Our Lady del Rosario Parish, Radio Marién, Border Solidarity (SF) and other community organizations today announced a “r... (Haiti Sun)

British Foreign Office Minister Glenys Kinnock says she is concerned that a deal to end Europe's long-running trade war over taxes on banana imports will hurt Caribbean banana producing nations. (Haiti Sun)

Haiti's U.N. peacekeeping mission urged local officials Friday to provide a justification for banning 17 political groups from participating in next year's legislative elections. (MiamiHerald.com)

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Trinidad and Tobago on Thursday to a wave of enthusiasm but also concern as some world leaders wonder if they can reach an agreement on climate change ahead of an upcoming international summit, and some in the Caribbean question whether they should remain tethered to the British monarch. (MiamiHerald.com)

Caribbean voters living in the tiny island of Dominica will head to the polls on Dec. 18 for general elections, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit announced during a rally. (MiamiHerald.com)

Deep in the heart of Vatican City, Cuban-born Roman Catholic theologian Miguel H. Díaz has managed to find an Italian version of a sandwich that reminds him of home: pan con lechón. (MiamiHerald.com)

Having spent a comfortable 30 years in the United States, Nicole Muller Cesar decided to move back to her native Haiti a decade ago.<p/> She had been working as a social worker and therapist in Boston and remained a fixture in Haitian activist circles. But the low-level political instability in the late 1990s in Haiti -- and the children who suffered from it -- compelled her to move back and launch her own group to fight for abused and abandoned young people. (MiamiHerald.com)

The Security Council has voted unanimously to extend the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti for a year, saying the situation in the impoverished Caribbean nation still constitutes a threat to international peace and security despite recent progress. (MiamiHerald.com)

Renowned Caribbean historian CLR James told the story of Haiti's struggle for Independence from France in 1804 in The Black Jacobins.

A new report released ahead of World AIDS Day says social and economic inequalities are fueling the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean.

At 83, Sarah Hackett could have spent Thanksgiving with her great-grandchildren in the gracious Annisquam village home her family has owned since 1829, overlooking placid Lobster Cove.

Westborough residents Trish Reske and Tom Slicklen visited the Caribbean nation of Haiti earlier this month with a precious cargo: Soccer balls.

Haiti's U.N. peacekeeping mission urged local officials Friday to provide a justification for banning 17 political groups from participating in next year's legislative elections.

On a Thursday morning in early November, Houston middle school teacher Marie Baptiste was driving to work when a squadron of unmarked government vehicles stopped her at a red light.