The happenings of the Haitian Diaspora right here on Rapadoo.
Rioting in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince grew so intense in July that the U.S. sent in the Marines to secure U.S. interests there, according to CNN. That unrest forced the nation’s […]
The end of Temporary Protected Status by the Trump administration will force families back to their native countries, including their legal-citizen children. Source: USA Today
Boston Fashion Week starts Sunday. “Boston” and “Fashion” might seem like an oxymoron to the snobbish, but the series of fashion-related events highlights the local industry and its talent. For models such […]
“When I first arrived in the U.S. in 1981, an area like Sabal Palm for example in Little Haiti, was inhabited mainly by Haitian immigrants,” writes Bastien, the head of Family Action Network […]
Valérie Alcide was officially crowned Miss Grand Haiti 2018 and will represent her state at Miss Grand International 2018 which will be held in the beautiful sovereign state of Myanmar. She succeeds […]
“Development and change are good. Over-development will destroy the cultural fabric of Little Haiti and it will push the very people who built this wonderfully culturally rich neighborhood,” Bastien argued. The area […]
Proponents of the Magic City Innovation District, which will be headquartered at 6001 NE Second Ave., say that the massive development, which is projected to take 10 to 15 years to complete, […]
“The police chief of Biscayne Park essentially wanted to have good stats with 100 percent solve rates on thefts and burglaries, so he ordered his police officers to go after people — from […]
My studio was across the street from the Zubi Market, a small bodega that stayed open during Hurricane Irma after all the major chain drugstores and groceries had closed. I lived down […]
“They need your help, your advice in order to scale up their enterprises to the next level,” Michele Sison said, delivering the keynote address at the Haitian-American Chamber of Commerce of Florida’s […]
A property that for decades was home to a trailer park is to be reborn as a major mixed-use development bringing thousands of residential units, hotel rooms, nearly 350,000 square feet of […]
“This moment means so much to the Haitian community,” said Ms. Casimir, 26, a social worker. “It shows we are strong and powerful.”As the paper bag covering the new street sign was […]
“We are identifying people who are close to Trump to make the case for TPS families,” said Marleine Bastien, executive director of FANM. She said the organization plans to identify 100 business […]
Rosanna is a bright 17-year-old who was born in the Dominican Republic. She was raised by parents who migrated from Haiti over 20 years earlier. For two years she has been unwittingly […]
Haitian migrants and their Dominican-born children — the vast majority of whom are black — have faced an uncertain future in the Dominican Republic for years. The country did away with birthright […]
South Florida immigration and Haitian activists vowed Tuesday to closely monitor a new U.S. immigration policy that will allow thousands of Haitians who are eligible to receive a green card in two […]
Known as the Guantánamo Public Memory Project, the traveling exhibit makes its debut in South Florida on Thursday at the Little Haiti Cultural Center, 212 NE 59th Ter. From 6 to 9 […]
The Haitian government guaranteed that in less than a month they will begin a program to provide birth certificates, passports and an identification card to their citizens who reside illegally in the […]
The Senate in the Dominican Republic has given final legislative approval to a bill that will set up a system for granting naturalized citizenship to people of Haitian descent born in the […]
After a whirlwind 36 hours, North Miami Mayor Lucie Tondreau flew back to Miami to turn herself in and face charges on mortgage fraud — then emerged from the federal courthouse late […]
North Miami Mayor Lucie Tondreau turned herself in to authorities Tuesday morning to face charges for her alleged role in a multi-million dollar mortgage fraud scheme. Tondreau walked into the FBI office […]
Haiti is launching a program to register its migrants who live without documentation abroad, including in the Dominican Republic, where thousands of people of Haitian origin are in danger of being left […]
About 30 migrants were dropped off Thursday morning in the 1700 block of South Ocean Lane in Fort Lauderdale, according to early reports. Officials have several women in custody. Fort Lauderdale police […]
“This is unbearable, and we need to act,” Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe told the Miami Herald from Paris, where he was en route to an African Union summit in Addis Ababa, […]
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The Coast Guard returned nine Haitian migrants to their Caribbean homeland. According to authorities, the Haitians were aboard a suspicious vessel spotted Jan. 12 east of Port Everglades. The Coast Guard said […]
Cassandra Paul, 19 ans, miss Teen Haïti 2013, ex-mannequin de l’agence Hibiscus dirigée par la présentatrice et actrice Nadège Telfort, vient de gagner avec honneur la première place du concours « Reinado […]
La métropole a connu une forte hausse de l’immigration en provenance d’Haïti dans les trente dernières années, contrairement à l’immigration italienne, selon les données de l’Enquête nationale auprès des ménages de 2011, […]
The Andrew Square-based IJDH helps individual Haitians enforce their basic rights—in the courts, in police stations, and on the streets—in ways that force the justice system to work better for all Haitians. […]
« Les enfants doivent bénéficier gratuitement d’un enseignement primaire de qualité. Soucieux d’affirmer ce droit, le gouvernement des États-Unis à travers plusieurs états ont fait de l’enseignement primaire pour tous, à l’horizon […]
Fraught with tricky currents, rough surf and rocky cliffs towering 200 feet above the sea, the Mona Passage has long been known as among the most treacherous stretches of ocean in the […]
L’ingénieur Jean François Verdier est décédé jeudi dernier à Miami, en Floride, suite, vraisemblablement, à un accident cérébro-vasculaire, a appris Radio Kiskeya. Jean Verdier, très connu dans le monde des médias pour […]
At least 10 Haitian migrants were killed and about 100 more were clinging to the hull of an overloaded freighter that capsized in the Bahamas, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Tuesday. […]
Les heures d’études prennent encore plus de sens pour les Apprentis d’Auteuil. Jusqu’au 5 décembre, les pensionnaires du Village éducatif Saint-Philippe à Meudon participent à la onzième édition des Olympiades de l’étude […]
The U.S. Coast Guard has picked up more than 230 Haitian migrants at sea and returned them to their Caribbean homeland. The migrants were taken Thursday to Cap-Haitien, a city […]
A en croire le gestionnaire du programme contre la traite et le trafic humain de l’Organisation internationale pour la migration (OIM), Tobias Metzner, les voyageurs clandestins paient entre 2 500 et 5 […]
Les autorités des iles Turks and Caicos se lancent dans une véritable chasse à l’homme ciblant des haïtiens en situation irrégulière sur l’archipel. La police locale et même de simples citoyens sont […]
A Haitian woman whose body washed ashore in South Florida in August accidentally drowned during a smuggling operation, authorities have concluded. Judith Valentin\’s body was found Aug. 28 in Palm Beach by […]
\”Cinquante Haïtiens arrivent chaque jour au Brésil sans papier et par des voies irrégulières\”, a déclaré Madame Camila Asanu, de l\’ONG Conectas Direitos Humanos lors d\’une audience à l\’OEA. Selon la responsable, […]
Fear gripped the would-be migrants the moment they spotted what they would be traveling in for the next few days — a 25-foot, white recreational fishing boat. The small craft, which would […]
Dossier Haïti : C\’est un projet caressé par des milliers d\’Haïtiens… Partir au Brésil pour échapper à la misère. Depuis le mois de juillet, les procédures sont devenues plus simples : il […]
The Constitutional Court’s ruling says officials are studying birth certificates of more than 16,000 people and notes that electoral authorities have refused to issue identity documents to 40,000 people of Haitian descent. […]
In making the announcement on Wednesday, the department also pointed out that natives of the Dominican Republic are also barred from the programme as, along with Jamaica and Haiti, more than 50,000 […]
The facility will serve as a one-stop technology center for residents seeking new careers and personal enrichment. It will offer a wide range of classes and services that will include Internet Access; […]
It began as a pilot program last school year. About 55 ninth-graders were selected to take about 40 percent of their classes with Edison’s Creole-speaking teachers to see if the students’ test […]
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Adonis Stevenson (born 22 September 1977) is a Canadian boxer who was born in Haiti, who goes by the nickname “Superman”. In the amateur, he was Quebec Middleweight champion in 2004, best […]
Arrivée à Toulouse en 2002, Moonlight Benjamin s’est très vite consacré à ses projets artistiques dans le but de faire connaître « la richesse de la culture haïtienne qui est bien vivante ». […]
La façon la plus simple de définir l’impérialisme est celle-ci: « Celui qui cherche à étendre son autorité sur d’autres » notamment les plus petits états. Le Brésil, avec sa présence militaire […]
In a hard-fought election, she defeated Kevin Burns with 55.7 percent of the vote with all precincts reporting. The race for city council was also a contentious race. According to the Miami […]
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