Above: Jean-Jacques Dessalines By Ilio Durandis CJ Contributor After more than two centuries of suffering, humiliation and inhuman conditions, brave slaves and free people of colour revolted against their French masters to proclaim their freedom and the independence of their […]

Above: Members of the Haitian National Police (UN Photo/Victoria Hazou) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Haitian government’s Office of the Secretary of State for Public Security announced the creation of a new security hotline for the country. The “177” […]

Above: several of the carnival kings and queens (Photo: OP) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti began its national carnival celebration in the city of Les Cayes Sunday. The celebrations, which followed last week’s fete in Jacmel, included the crowning […]

Above: Haitian President Michel Martelly (Photo: OP) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haitian President Michel Martelly said the Presidential Motorcade was attacked by “troublemakers” today shortly after 3PM. According to Martelly’s office, the attack occurred from the University of Haiti’s […]