FOR decades, Haiti was plagued by human-made and natural disasters. But for more than a century it had no cholera, which thrives where sanitation infrastructure is negligible and personal hygiene is poor.

People-smugglers abandoned 84 migrants from Haiti on a deserted island off the west coast of Puerto Rico, the US said.

Denis O’Brien told the High Court it was not true the final report of the Moriarty Tribunal was devastating for him.

The Haitian government plans a low-key ceremony today for the third anniversary of the earthquake that devastated the country and killed hundreds of thousands of people.

Haiti’s president performed a duet with Spanish crooner Julio Iglesias in a celebrity-studded concert in the Dominican Republic to help raise money for impoverished children.

The non-profit aid group founded by Hollywood star Sean Penn in the aftermath of Haiti’s deadly 2010 earthquake will oversee demolition of the wrecked National Palace, the Haitian government said.

There’s something sick about any Irish Government going to Europe to plead and bargain, just to get a little bit of a delay in the payment of a just a portion of what the Irish people are being forced to pay of other people’s losses and still other people’s debts.

Haitians marked the second anniversary of the devastating 2010 earthquake with church services across the deeply religious country on a national holiday of remembrance.

Conall Ó Fátharta returns to Haiti nearly two years after the devastating quake and is shocked to see how, apart from a handful of NGOs, the world has largely ignored the nation’s plight

Several hundred Haitians demonstrated in support of an 18-year-old man who said he was sexually assaulted by peacekeepers from Uruguay on a UN base along the southern coast of Haiti.

SARAH STACK’S short piece on the Gaza flotilla (News, June 21) lacked only one thing: a statement from the Israeli side.

Musician Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly scored a come-from-behind victory in Haiti's presidential run-off, according to preliminary results from last month's election showing he easily defeated a former first lady for the leadership of a country facing enormous challenges.

Haitians will have to wait at least a few more days to learn the preliminary results of their presidential election because of alleged irregularities and fraud uncovered at the vote-counting centre, officials said.

Haitians scarred by decades of poverty, political corruption and natural disasters have cast their ballots for a new president.

VOTING in Haiti’s presidential run-off started slowly in some places yesterday, with foreign donors hoping the poll would produce the stability needed to rebuild the earthquake-crippled nation.

Former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide returned home from seven years in exile to a celebrity welcome today, and immediately took a swipe at the decision to bar his political party from the country’s presidential election.

IT IS heartening to see that Haiti’s monstrous former dictator, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, has failed, thus far at least, in his sleight-of-hand attempt to gain access to the millions of dollars he has stashed away in currently-frozen Swiss bank accounts. Instead, he is facing serious criminal charges in Haiti.

Former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier told Haitians he had returned after 25 years in exile to participate in the post-earthquake reconstruction of his homeland and was ready to face “persecution” for alleged crimes during his administration.

Haitians adjusting to the sudden return of one exiled ex-president could soon have another on their hands.

OUSTED dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier is planning to stay in Haiti and play some kind of political role, his lawyer said.

Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier returned to Haiti after nearly 25 years in exile, a surprising and perplexing move that comes as his country struggles with a political crisis and the stalled effort to recover from last year’s devastating earthquake.

SINGING and praying sounded across Haiti yesterday as ceremonies marked the moment a year ago to the day when the earthquake struck and left over 250,000 dead.

FOR many Haitians made homeless by last year’s earthquake, the possibility of having their own secure homes, gardens or even personal toilets are far off, maybe years away.

Memorial services are being held across Haiti to mark a year since the devastating earthquake hit.

AN historic symbol of hope and vitality reopened among the rubble of Haiti’s capital yesterday as figures showed the struggling country’s citizens were starting to leave emergency camps.

More than 100 protesters angered by a dysfunctional election commemorated Haiti’s Independence Day today by burning tyres and demanding that President Rene Preval be arrested.

AN AMERICAN who sold his construction business and travelled to Haiti to help earthquake victims was in jail yesterday as authorities investigated allegations he kidnapped an infant.

The United Nations secretary-general plans to call for an independent commission to study whether UN peacekeepers caused a cholera outbreak that has killed more than 2,400 people in Haiti, an official said today.

AT least 1,721 Haitians have died from a worsening cholera epidemic in the earthquake-devastated country, according to new figures released by the health ministry yesterday.

THE ballot was as crowded as the earthquake-ravaged capital itself, and a collapsed presidential palace the prize.

Protesters who hold UN soldiers from Nepal responsible for a deadly outbreak of cholera which has killed nearly 1,000 people have barricaded Haiti’s second-largest city, burned cars and stoned a peacekeeping base.

The United Nations is warning that up to 200,000 Haitians could contract cholera.

Hurricane Tomas pushed northward from Haiti, leaving villagers to mop up, evacuees to return to their tents and almost everyone relieved that the country did not suffer what could have been its first big disaster since the January earthquake.

Panicked residents fled a coastal city that has been hit twice already this decade by huge floods as an intensifying Hurricane Tomas moved up Haiti’s north western coast.

HURRICANE Tomas flooded the earthquake- shattered remains of a Haitian town yesterday, forcing families who had already lost their homes in one disaster to flee another.

United Nations investigators took samples of foul-smelling waste trickling behind a Nepalese peacekeeping base in Haiti amid claims that sewage from the newly arrived unit caused the cholera epidemic that has made more than 4,000 people ill.

A cholera outbreak that already has left 250 people dead and more than 3,000 sickened is at the doorstep of an enormous potential breeding ground: the squalid camps in Port-au-Prince where 1.3 million Haiti earthquake survivors live.

A SPREADING cholera outbreak in rural Haiti threatened to outpace aid groups as they stepped up efforts at the weekend hoping to keep the disease from reaching the squalid camps of earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince.

A spreading cholera outbreak in rural Haiti threatened to outpace aid groups as they stepped up efforts hoping to keep the disease from reaching the squalid camps of earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince.

Health workers said the number of people confirmed dead from cholera in Haiti is almost 200 with more than 2,300 sick.

Senegal is one of the poorest countries in the world with its GDP only marginally higher than Haiti’s, but that has not stopped the government from going ahead with a plan to offer a new home to 163 victims of the catastrophic earthquake.