A bank in your pocket, Haitian style
Mobile phones can do such impressive things these days that the ability to talk to another person seems almost secondary. Voice calls?...
The nil of victory: how Haiti won the CONCACAF Champions’ Cup
Here’s a riddle: how do you win a football cup without winning the final? It happened to a Haitian team in 1963, when they won that...
Haiti’s Jacmel: Can’t stop the Kanaval
Founded at the end of the seventeenth century, Jacmel on Haiti’s south coast has long been renowned for its historic architecture, its...
Massacre River of blood
The placid Massacre River (or Río Massacre) seems to belie its ominous name. Running in wide shallow bends and occasional faster-flowing...
Haitian art: rising from the ruins
One of the most harrowing images to have emerged from the January 2010 earthquake which shattered the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, with...
Helping Haiti hold on to its honour
The 200 rusted steps of the unfinished Bicentennial Monument in Port-au-Prince were meant to commemorate two centuries of independence. Now...
Moises Jonas: the art of disaster relief
Thirty-six-year-old Moises Jonas hasn’t lived in his native Haiti for several years, but this painter-turned-businessman is helping with...
Pierre Toussaint: from slavery to sainthood
The search for the Caribbean’s first saint began 70 years ago, in December 1941, in a dark and overgrown New York churchyard. Leading the...
