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Haiti Launches Classical Music Project Modeled on Venezuela’s El Sistema

Above: students at Haiti’s National Institute of Music By the Caribbean Journal staff Can classical music help Haiti’s development? Haiti’s government thinks so, and has launched a new project to use classical music to help mentor the country’s youth, together […]

Haiti Receives $27 Million IDB Grant for Rural Land Tenure Project

Above: An irrigation channel; almost 60 percent of Haitians live in rural areas (IDB Photo/Paul Constance) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti will be receiving a $27 million grant from the Inter-American Development Bank for a pilot programme aimed at […]

Haiti: New Project to Launch First Communal Water Centre in Belloc

Above: A school in Leogane By the Caribbean Journal staff The Haitian commune of Belloc will get its first communal water centre on Thursday, thanks to an initiative from the ONE DROP Project Haiti. The new centre means residents of […]

Yele Haiti and HVS Launch Final Phase of Jacmel Hospitality Training Project

Above: students in the HEAT programme By the Caribbean Journal staff The Yele Haiti foundation, in partnership with HVS, a leading global hospitality consulting firm, has launched the final phase of its project to train 120 Haitian students in hospitality […]

CARICOM Begins Cholera Response Project in Haiti’s Cite Soleil

Above: patients with cholera wait for treatment (UN Photo/Sophia Paris) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Caribbean Community has begun a project to improve sanitation infrastructure and sensitize residents of Haiti’s Cite Soleil community in the practice of safe personal […]

Caribbean Task Force to Help Revive Tourism in Haiti

An International task force has been established to help respond to the immediate and long-term needs of tourism in Haiti. The Jamaica-based Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Center will be coordinating the task force, led by Jamaica Tourism Minister […]

How This Haiti Hotel Is Adding Art to the Streets of Port-au-Prince

By Dana Niland CJ Contributor Haiti’s Le Plaza hotel is doing its part to add even more art to the streets of downtown Port-au-Prince with major new mural project. The mural, commissioned last summer by the hotel’s management team and […]

Delta Launching New Nonstop Flights to Jamaica, Bahamas and Haiti

By the Caribbean Journal staff Delta Air Lines is planning a major Caribbean expansion out of New York City. The carrier has announced plans to launch new flights to Nassau, The Bahamas, Kingston, Jamaica and Port-au-Prince, Haiti this year. Delta […]

Curaçao Welcomes New Flights from Haiti’s Sunrise Airways

By Alexander Britell CURACAO — One of the Caribbean’s most forward-thinking airports has debuted another new route. Curaçao’s Hato International Airport officially welcomed a new nonstop route from Port-au-Prince, Haiti to Curaçao on Tuesday, complete with a water cannon salute. […]

JetBlue Launching New Flights to Haiti

JetBlue is expanding its service to the Caribbean with a new route to Haiti. The carrier has announced plans to launch nonstop flights between Port-au-Prince’s Toussaint Louverture International Airport and Orlando International Airport later this year. The flights are projected […]

Rethinking Disaster Aid in Haiti

It’s time for a new way to think about aid By Ilio Durandis CJ Contributor When disaster strikes all masks come off. Every little problem gets magnified 10 fold. This is exactly the situation in Haiti post-Hurricane Matthew. Immediately after […]

Haiti’s Constitutional Crisis

The constitution question By Ilio Durandis CJ Contributor How should Haiti proceed as the mandate of the current president comes to term on Feb. 7th and with no president-elect to assume power? Is the answer in the Haitian constitution, political consensus, through […]

Haiti Getting $41 Million Grant for Final Phase of Industrial Park

More funding for final phase of project By Dana Niland CJ Contributor The Inter-American Development Bank has approved a $41 million grant for the fifth and final phase of the Caracol Industrial Park, which has become the main manufacturing hub in […]

Sean Penn Has a New Plan to Reforest Haiti

It’s no secret that Haiti’s forest cover has been decimated in recent years. But a new coalition is looking to reforest the country with an initiative called “Haiti Takes Root.” Spearheaded by Sean Penn and his J/P Haitian Relief Organization, […]

A Big New Hotel Opens in Haiti

Haiti has its first major all-inclusive resort in decades. In what could provide a significant boost to the country’s inchoate tourism sector, the onetime Club Med property on Haiti’s Cote des Arcadins has been transformed into the new Royal Decameron […]

Chelsea Clinton’s Haiti Trip

Chelsea Clinton, Donna Shalala visit Haiti By Dana Niland CJ Contributor Clinton Foundation Vice Chair Chelsea Clinton and Clinton Foundation President Donna Shalala traveled to Haiti this week to visit the foundation’s initiatives that are supporting Haitian agriculture, health and women’s […]

A Major New Port in Haiti

Above: Port Lafito By Dana Niland CJ Contributor A major new port is now operational in Haiti. Port Lafito, the brainchild of the GB Group, is the country’s first Panamax Port. It was inaugurated in a ceremony last Thursday. It […]

A New Look at Haiti’s Top Museum

Above: the new interior garden at MUPANAH By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti’s Musée du Panthéon National Haïtien, one of the Caribbean’s leading museums, has gotten a makeover. This week, the museum has completed the first phase of an extension […]

How the Red Cross Failed Haiti

Above: The Red Cross promised to build hundreds of new homes in Campeche but none have been built. Many residents still live in crude shacks. (Marie Arago, special to ProPublica) By Justin Elliott, ProPublica, and Laura Sullivan, NPR THE NEIGHBORHOOD […]

Haiti’s Club Indigo Closes Ahead of All-Inclusive Transformation

Above: Club Indigo By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti’s Club Indigo resort has closed in order to begin a large renovation project ahead of its debut as an all-inclusive property. The hotel will be rebranded as the Royal Club Decameron Indigo […]

New Life for a Cinema in Haiti

Above: the Ciné Triomphe By the Caribbean Journal staff It had been closed since 1988. But now a famous Haitian cinema has new life following a long renovation project. The Ciné Triomphe is slated to open this month following rehabilitation and […]

Haiti, Mexico Sign Investment Pact

Above: the signing ceremony in Mexico (Photo: CH Mexico) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti and Mexico have signed a bilateral agreement aimed at investment promotion and protection. The agreement was signed last week by Haiti Industry Minister Jude Hervey […]

Expedia Is Making Big Moves in Haiti

Above: the Moulin Sur Mer Hotel, one of Expedia’s partners in Haiti By the Caribbean Journal staff Travel giant Expedia is making big moves in Haiti. The company reported this week that it had been making a “significant” expansion in […]

Haiti’s Martelly Visits Ile a Vache

Above: Haiti President Michel Martelly in Ile a Vache By the Caribbean Journal staff It’s perhaps the keystone of Haiti’s renewed tourism hopes: Ile a Vache. And the beach-laden island, which is the site of a major new development project, […]

Haiti’s New Marriott Opens Doors

Above: the new Marriott Port-au-Prince By the Caribbean Journal staff A major new hotel has opened its doors in Haiti. But while it’s a major boost for the country’s nascent tourism hopes, it might also be something else: a new […]

Haiti’s Current Crisis

By Ilio Durandis CJ Contributor AFTER THE earthquake in Haiti in 2010, former US president Bill Clinton championed the term “build back better” to emphasize that the post-earthquake Haiti should be better than the one that Haitians experienced before. Haiti […]

Haiti Begins Groundwork For Development of New Cruise Port

Above: Ile de la Tortue (Photo: MT Haiti) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti has begun the groundwork for the development of the new Carnival cruise port on the island of Ile de la Tortue. Haiti Tourism Minister Stephanie Villedrouin […]

Haiti, Dominican Republic to Lead Caribbean Growth in 2014, 2015

Above: the Dominican Republic (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff What’s the Caribbean island with the strongest economic growth? It’s Hispaniola, home to Haiti and the Dominican Republic, which are projected to lead the Caribbean in economic growth over […]

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