Reproducing inequities; poverty and the politics of population in Haiti.
9780813538549 Reproducing inequities; poverty and the politics of population in Haiti. Maternowska, M. Catherine. Rutgers U. Press 2006 221 pages $26.95 Paperback Rutgers studies in medical anthropology HC153 Investigating...

Twinning faith and development; Catholic parish partnering in the US and Haiti.
9781565492363 Twinning faith and development; Catholic parish partnering in the US and Haiti. Hefferan, Tara. Kumarian Press 2007 241 pages $23.95 Paperback BX2347 Hefferan (cultural anthropology, Alma College) considers how individual...

Island Divide: Haiti vs. the Dominican Republic; Haitians far more likely than Dominicans to have gone hungry, been assaulted in the past year.
Byline: Linda Lyons Synopsis: Gallup World Poll data highlight the stark disparities that have evolved between the two populations sharing the island of Hispaniola. Almost three in four Haitians (73%) say they have gone hungry at times in the past year, compared to 36% of Dominicans. Thirty...

Gardner High's talent goes a long way; Faculty show helps raise money, awareness for medical clinic in Haiti.
Byline: Jay Gearan GARDNER - As the late, great Ed Sullivan would have said: "It was a really big show." And it produced a really big check. The recent Gardner High faculty talent show drew a capacity audience to Landry Auditorium, and the proceeds amounted...

Ghosts of Cite Soleil.
* Since declaring its independence in the early 1800s, things have been grim for Haiti. Degradation of its forest coverage has deadened the farmland, years of instability has demolished nearly all tourism and the government is in a constant state of disarray leaving Haiti one of the poorest countries...

Ghostbuster.
I love The FADER BUT ... being someone who has a deep interest in human rights and Haiti I was really surprised that you guys would write something on the recent film Ghosts of Cite Soleil. I am sure it was innocent and simply done out of a third...

Charcoal technology holds promise for developing countries.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology student Jules Walter has seen firsthand the impact of deforestation in his native Haiti. Nearly 98 percent of the island's forests are gone, and more trees are being cut down every year. Deforestation is not only an environmental problem in that country, but it also...

Edwidge Danticat: the Haitian novelist turns from fiction to memoir.
BELOVED HAITI, there is no place like you. I had to leave you before I could understand you." This popular Haitian song, which Haitian refugees sing in the first story of Edwidge Danticat's collection Krik? Krak! (1995) and which plays on the radio in the last, captures the author's...

International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition.
THE night of August 22-23, 1791, in Santo Domingo, a territory shared today by the independent state of Haiti and the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean, saw the beginning of an uprising that would play a crucial role in the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. In recognition of...

Blast from the past.
Byline: Gypsy Baldovino Her conversation is bursting with a lot of namedroppables, the likes of King Faisal of Iraq, King Hussein of Jordan, Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, Chiang KaiSek of China, Gerald Ford of the United States and Francois Duvalier of Haiti--all world leaders, who were...