Windies carrying World T20 confidence to Champions Trophy

West Indies head coach Otis Gibson says the Caribbean cricketers will arrive in England for the Champions Trophy full of confidence on the strength of their triumph at the World T20 last year. Gibson, playing down suggestions that the Windies could be under pressure to perform, says the success in Sri Lanka late last year, could instead provide a fillip. The Windies head coach was speaking at ...

Two years into his presidency Michel Martelly says Haiti is on the move

HAUT-DU-CAP, Haiti -- As he begins his third year in office, President Michel Martelly is adding a dose of reality to his campaign promises, telling the Haitian people he alone cannot transform their lives. Calmer and more mature in his rhetoric, Martelly is calling for greater social responsibility, describing his nation’s deep-seated social ills —hunger, joblessness and poverty ...

No injuries when Brazilian plane with 121 UN peacekeepers runs off runway at Haiti airport

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Police in Haiti say a Brazilian military plane veered onto the grass next to a runway of the capital's airport after one engine caught fire as the aircraft attempted to take off. There were no injuries. Airport police spokesman Max Justin says the fire erupted as the airplane was speeding down the runway Sunday and the craft ran into the grass. Fire crews put out ...

Haiti’s Ex-Slaves Demand Land and Mule From France’s CDC

William Sherman . Haiti, France's most valuable 18th-century colony because of sugar and coffee production, became independent in 1804 after a slave revolt. Under the threat of attack from French warships in 1825, the country agreed to pay reparations of 150 million francs as compensation to former slave owners. Though the amount was cut in 1838, it took Haiti until 1947 to pay off ...

Finding peace in post-disaster Haiti

Ochberg Society for Trauma Journalism . On January 17, 2010, five days after the earthquake in Haiti, while hurrying to a press conference in the back of a pickup truck, I spotted two bodies lying in the sun. This should not have been remarkable. Thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of corpses were strewn in the rubble those days, the air thick with their sour-sweet smell. But as I got ...