Meanwhile, among Long Island's Haitian community — roughly 22,000 in Nassau and 11,300 in Suffolk, according to a recent American Community Survey — many share Saint Rose-Bienvil's heightened ...

The spiraling crisis in Haiti is raising fears in the United Nations and among aid groups of a complete collapse of humanitarian support for Haitians already struggling to access basic needs. Five ...

Ayear of staggering violence in Haiti ended in the most brutal fashion. Over the course of five days in December, in a slum near the capital, Port-au-Prince, 207 people were killed by gangsters.

According to any measure Hispaniola, the Caribbean island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, is two different planets in one. People in the Dominican Republic are 11 times richer than ...

The nation also includes several islands around the main island. Haiti is roughly 700 miles from Miami and more than 1,500 miles from New York City — about the same distance away as Denver.

CAMANO ISLAND, Wash. — A Camano Island family who runs a nonprofit in Haiti says they’re unable to leave the Caribbean island as violent gangs are jockeying for power. Ryan and Jill Dolan of ...

In Haiti, Customs Crackdown Hits Island's Needy. Businesses in Miami Feel Reverberations. March 16, 2008. By Jacqueline Charles. LES CAYES, Haiti -- Along Haiti's border with the Dominican ...

In Haiti, people are searching for loved ones and digging through the rubble of collapsed buildings after a major earthquake on Tuesday. The 7.0 magnitude quake has caused an unknown number of ...

Haiti is the second-largest Caribbean island, according to the Embassy of the Republic of Haiti. "Haiti is situated 77 km (about 48 miles) southeast of Cuba.

The Dominican Republic on Wednesday announced an "immediate" plan to deport up to 10,000 migrants per week, as it ramps up enforcement along its border with Haiti despite U.N. pleas for it not to ...