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.

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 ...

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 ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Three suspected drug traffickers were killed in an exchange of fire as police in Haiti confiscated more than 2,300 pounds (1,000 kilograms) of cocaine aboard a boat ...

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 ...

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 ...

Haiti’s political and humanitarian crisis has deepened as the country’s ten remaining senators left office, leaving the country without any democratically elected officials. Ruled by gangs ...

In Haiti, Customs Crackdown Hits Island's Needy Businesses in Miami Feel Reverberations By Jacqueline Charles March 16, 2008 at 1:00 a.m. EDT ...