"If people don't know that the problem exists, then how can you even begin to find a solution?" Miami Herald Caribbean correspondent Jacqueline Charles discusses the Cancer in Haiti series.

Dr. Paul Farmer, the tireless advocate for Haitians and global health crusader who devoted his life to delivering healthcare to millions of people on four continents, died Monday in Rwanda, his...

Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated and his wife wounded during an armed attack in the early hours Wednesday at their private residence above the hills of Port-au-Prince, plunging the...

New research suggests that a subset of patients with psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia may actually have autoimmune disease that attacks the brain.

Less than three weeks after reopening its borders to international visitors, the Bahamas on Sunday announced that it is closing all of its airports and seaports to tourists from the United States,...

The government of the Dominican Republic is pushing back against a U.S. Embassy warning to dark-skinned American tourists that stepped-up enforcement against Haitian migrants in the Caribbean nation...

The United Nations is calling on Haitian authorities to clarify the circumstances surrounding the deaths and injuries of several members of the Haiti National Police in a police operation turned...

Inside the cafeteria kitchen of a locally owned vetiver factory off a busy street in this quake-stricken southwestern Haitian city, the rush is on.

Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated and his wife wounded during an armed attack in the early hours Wednesday at their private residence above the hills of Port-au-Prince, plunging the...

There’s never been a more clear-cut case for reparations than that of Haiti.

The immigration agent appeared at the house in a popular tourist haven in the eastern Dominican Republic at the crack of dawn. After inviting himself in, he asked the 14-year-old Haitian girl if her...

The streaming service Netflix on Saturday removed the ninth episode of its History 101 documentary series after it provoked angry protest from Haitian Americans who launched a social media, email and...

A major earthquake struck southwestern Haiti early Saturday, collapsing buildings and historical cathedrals in a nation still struggling to recover from a devastating quake that left more than...

The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) has announced its honorees for the 2022 Hall of Fame Induction and Special Honors Awards.  All awards will be […]

With the shocking news of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse’s assassination at his home in the hills above Port-au-Prince early Wednesday, Haiti moved perilously close to being a nation without a...

The State Department is pushing back against the notion that a U.S. resolution proposing a rapid reaction force to Haiti is in peril and expects the dimensions of a force to be settled by early...

Inside the cafeteria kitchen of a locally owned vetiver factory off a busy street in this quake-stricken southwestern Haitian city, the rush is on.

The United States announced Thursday that it’s providing an additional $32 million in humanitarian assistance to Haiti to help with the response to its deadly 7.2 magnitude earthquake earlier this...

Jacqueline Charles, who has reported on the Caribbean for the Miami Herald since 2006, has been awarded a 2018 Maria Moors Cabot Prize — the most prestigious award for coverage of the Americas.

“This country will not die, which is a bit of a leap of faith these days. But if it’s not going to die, it’s going to grow at some point.”

It was the end of another dark period in Haiti’s worsening crisis. For months, nothing had been moving. Schools were closed. Streets were inflamed with burning barricades. And a rising tide of...

On the first day of Haiti’s pre-Lenten Carnival celebration, the country’s two armed forces squared off Sunday, with off-duty members of the Haiti National Police and their supporters exchanging...

For the umpteenth time amid Haiti’s gang-led spiral into failed-state chaos — what will the United States and the international community do? | Opinion

Once drowning in debt, Jamaica is getting noticed along with Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ leadership

The Miami Herald’s series, “Cancer in Haiti,” has received The American Association for Cancer Research’s June L. Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism (Large newspaper), the organization announced...

Three are former U.S. military and a fourth once worked as a federal contractor for the U.S. government.

A month after a deadly earthquake devastated communities along Haiti’s southern peninsula, many of the urgent humanitarian needs continue to go unmet, with some people yet to receive any aid, the...

Music-producer, rapper and long-shot U.S. presidential candidate Kanye West is in Haiti.

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He was one of the most talented musicians of his generation whose ode to his country — “Ayti Se” (Haiti is) — two years after its most devastating tragedy, the 2010 earthquake, touched Haitian hearts...

Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated and his wife wounded during an armed attack in the early hours Wednesday at their private residence above the hills of Port-au-Prince, plunging the...

Haiti has experienced a series of crises this year, from the middle-of-the-night assassination of its president to a devastating earthquake to kidnappings by warring gangs and now a deadly fuel...

Thirteen days before 16 Americans and a Canadian were brazenly kidnapped at gunpoint by a notorious gang on the eastern outskirts of Haiti’s capital last weekend, a prominent pastor and two of his...

Once drowning in debt, Jamaica is getting noticed along with Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ leadership

Haiti has experienced a series of crises this year, from the middle-of-the-night assassination of its president to a devastating earthquake to kidnappings by warring gangs and now a deadly fuel...

At a government-run hospital in this rural coastal city on Monday, there were dozens of earthquake victims with broken bones but not enough plaster to cast them. Basic medicines, such as painkillers,...