"Here I was trying my best to grasp the language and succeed, yet I found very little help in terms of English instruction to learn the language and any kind of technical support to ensure the requirements I needed to meet to get out of there," said Cawalla, a recent immigrant from Haiti. more>

I urge Jean to stick around and not just for publicity stake, if he's serious about becoming president. Five years is not a long time to wait. more>

Wyclef Jean clearly lacks the political wherewithal to deal with the complex situations he is likely to face in Haiti and abroad. more>

After six trips to Haiti since the quake, Haitian Times editor Garry Pierre-Pierre discusses what has yet to be done to set the country on the right track.  more>

"Not only do we have to worry about finding a suitable school for the kids, suitable meaning that the school will be able to accommodate the language needs of the student, but, often times, you will find a school and they have no space or they do not accept students mid-term," said Nicole Rosefort, director of Haitian Bilingual and ESL Technical Assistance Center at Brooklyn College. more>

VIDEO :: A member of Saint Lucias Health team, Dr. Gemma Cherry, said the world has to move fast to avoid a medical disaster in Haiti.  more>

UN Special Envoy to Haiti Bill Clin­ton is organiz­ing a trade conference to bring investors to the island nation, and has obtained commitments worth millions of dollars from friends around the World – from India to Ireland. Now, he says, it is time for the Diaspora to pitch in. more>

Parents who migrate here from Haiti find it difficult to balance work and their children's academic lives, due to the lack of understanding about the schools in the United States.  Most significant however, is their struggle to make ends meet. more>

Last year, Raymond's long career as an educator came to an abrupt end when Department of Education officials decided to do away with the automatic assignment of students with limited English skills to a bilingual program.

VIDEO :: Professor A. Picciano of Hunter College provides a brief history of bilingual education in America. more>

Deportations to Haiti have resumed after being suspended for nearly three months following a wave of deadly storms that racked the country, federal immigration officials said Monday. more>

There are hundred of thousands of us out there, Haitian citizens, who hold a permanent resident card, or more commonly known as an Alien card, in the United States of America. Lately, I have been thinking about our legal status. I have been thinking about our fundamental rights as citizens of a poor nation in a wealthy country. more>

Over the past two weeks, Wall Street has been coping with a financial catastrophe. Thousands of New Yorkers have lost their jobs and those who haven't are worried about the economic fallout. But since August, the city's Haitian community has been worrying about a disaster of a different kind. more>

The American Haitian community listened anxiously as Hurricane Ike trudged toward areas still flooding up after Gustav, Hannah and Fay, with disasters declared in much of Artibonite Region and the Southern Haiti. So far, about 500 people are reported dead and thousands left homeless. more>

The author argues that the active role the Diaspora plays in aiding their countries of origin suggests philanthropies, non-government agencies and governments should not ignore them when formulating aid strategies. more>

“There is a little bit of improvement [at NYPD],” said Abner Louima, who was sodomized inside a police precinct station on August 9, 1997. “Before police brutality used to be very isolated that no one talks about it. Now the media is more involved. Police will think twice before they do something.” more>

Ferdinand Zizi’s surprising departure narrows the field of the race for one Haitian candidate, Mathieu Eugene, who is now going to face a full stable of candidates vying to win the special Feb. 20 election to fill a City Council seat made vacant by the newly elected U.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke. more>

Mathieu Eugène made history by becoming the first Haitian-born elected to the New York City Council. This long coming milestone, bedeviled New York Haitians as we watched other enclaves around the country, like South Florida and Boston, flex their political muscles and elect Haitians to office. more>

For years, Haitian members of a bus driver union have complained that Local 1181 Union management fails to reflect their growing numbers. But with the indictment of top officials, Salvatore Battaglia and Julius Bernstein, on racketeering, extorting and bribery charges, Haitians now believe that they may finally have a voice in the union. more>

Undocumented immigrants aren’t aware of the consequences they face when re-entering the United States, but new Sentencing Commission guidelines are some of the harshest in the federal system. more>

In a paid commercial broadcast in Haitian Creole on radio and television stations, the U.S. government promised compensation to those who would provide information about groups who own illegal weapons. more>

With election-time coming, the author contends, U.S. politicians have all of a sudden started to talk about the issue of race, hoping to win votes. more>

In an ongoing protest outside the Dominican Embassy in Manhattan, Haitians and Dominicans look to shame the Dominican government. The reason: systematic racism blamed Haitians for the murder of a Dominican woman, while hospitals fail to provide birth certificates to Haitian children born in the Dominican Republic. more>

The author says that persuading a Harvard MBA to leave a blue chip firm for the canyons of Haiti is a daunting challenge on which certain organizers should focus their attention to improve the state of the country. more>

“What we are asking the government to do is to temporarily stop the deportations to give Haiti some time to recoup, to settle its internal conflicts,” said Ariol Eugene, a Miami attorney who said he would be filing the motion on behalf of 50 clients through next week. more>

The New Jersey Immigration Policy Network, a coalition of more than 70 civil rights, community and social services organizations, has called on Governor Jon Corzine to create a statewide office on immigrant affairs and to push a bill allowing immigrant children to be eligible for in-state tuition at state colleges and universities within his first 100 days in office. more>

Unlike law, medicine, of real estate to name a few, we have no boards to regulate our profession. The Founding Fathers of this country wanted it that way. A free press they argue correctly was the bedrock of this democracy and that the press and now the media, should police itself. Yet, double standards and contradictions abound. more>

Crime rate is high and quality of life has declined in Canarsie, but Haitians and other ethnic groups start moving there to avoid the skyrocketing rents and hot real-estate market in Manhattan and other boroughs. more>

Constant reports of kidnappings, murders and armed robbery are keeping Haitians living abroad from visiting their homeland and have damaging effects on the country’s economy. more>

The recent incident at P.S. 34 involving two Haitian students continues to make its way through the world of politics, the media and the schools chancellor’s office. But reaction from both sides of the social divide in the Haitian communities of Queens is threatening to take the focus off the issue. more>

According to a recent report by the New York City Planning Department, Haitians make up 7 percent of Brooklyn’s 2 million residents. This large group now needs to organize itself to build community institutions and advocate its interests in the local government. more>

Some of the 36,928 Haitians over age 62 who the Census Bureau estimates reside in the United States are at the beginners’ level of learning about finances. According to community organizers, typically, lower-income seniors don’t have access to information, especially if there’s a language barrier. more>