UN News - As cholera continues to spread in Haiti, a $145 million appeal to support the response is only 16 per cent funded, the top UN aid official there reported on Thursday. Ulrika Richardson, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in the Caribbean country, updated journalists
UN News - Immediate action is needed to save young lives in Haiti amid the “triple threat” of cholera, malnutrition and violence, said the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) CRC members urged the international community to support authorities in the Caribbean country in guaranteeing
An escalation in what the UN is calling “violent civil unrest” in Haiti, and the subsequent blockading of roads across the country, is making it “very challenging for humanitarian partners to assist”, according to the UN Spokesperson, Stephane Dujarric. Nationwide protests sparked initially by the almost
Release - Ophthalmology specialists from AdvantageCare Physicians (ACPNY), one of the largest primary and speciality care practices in New York City, travelled to Haiti earlier this month on a medical mission of mercy. Doctors Anika Michael and Benjeil Edghill spent a five-day care mission in the Caribbean
UN NEWS—Amid the rapidly deteriorating security situation in Haiti, discussions about the country’s future governance remain deadlocked, UN Special Representative Helen La Lime said in a briefing to the Security Council on Thursday. She called for greater support for the Caribbean nation as protracted insecurity and
More than 800 Haitians trying to get to the U.S. shores aboard a ship have instead landed in central Cuba. According to the report by The Guardian, this was the largest group of Haitians who are fleeing their crisis-stricken country in hopes of starting anew in
A series of earthquakes has been detected in the Caribbean in the last 12 hours, with the latest one recorded at magnitude 5.1 on Saturday morning. The epicenter of the magnitude 5.1 earthquake was located at 288km North-Northeast of Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis, according to
In a bid to reduce the number of migrants, drugs, weapons and contraband coming in Dominican Republic, its government has begun construction of a border wall with Haiti, causing controversy among neighboring nations in the Caribbean. The Guardian reported that the concrete barrier will span half
Former Haitian senator John Joel Joseph, together with his wife and two children, is set to attend court proceedings next month after his and his family's arrest last weekend in Jamaica over allegations of being involved with the Haitian president's killing. The Kingston and St Andrew
Two Haitian journalists were the latest casualties of the increasing gang violence in the beleaguered Caribbean nation. In a report by The Guardian that cited Radio Ecoute FM as source, journalists John Wesley Amady and Wilguens Louissaint were slain by “armed bandits” on Thursday in Laboule,
