Open house on trade and employment in southern Haiti highlights youth skills and ambition
Over 100 young Haitians gathered in Camp-Perrin this month for the fourth edition of nonprofit Helvetas Haiti’s Open House on Trade and Employment,. The event brought together students, artisans, entrepreneurs and institutional leaders to promote vocational training, entrepreneurship and pathways to employment.
Fear grips Haiti’s northwest as gangs push violence beyond the capital.
Residents of Port-de-Paix and Saint-Louis-du-Nord report ongoing armed attacks, robberies and sexual assaults as gang violence spreads into provincial towns, threatening end-of-year celebrations amid weak police response.
Trapped behind bars: Reforming Haiti’s broken detention system
Fifty-two prisoners have died in Haiti’s overcrowded prisons between July and September this year in conditions that have been described by the United Nations as “inhuman and degrading.” Most of those people died “as a result of lack of medical care, unsanitary cells, insufficient food, and limited access to drinking water,” according to the latest UN human rights report about the situation in the Caribbean island nation.
Tension, vigilance and celebration on Election Day in Labadie
Residents dressed mostly in black crowded the entrance of Saint-Mary National School, their faces tense as they scrutinized everyone trying to enter. Standing shoulder to shoulder with hired security guards, they served as unofficial watchdogs during the 2025 Committee of Coordination of Labadie (CCL) presidential election.
How Haitian gangs extort up to $75 million a year
Haiti’s Viv Ansanm gang coalition, labeled a terrorist organization by the United States, generates an estimated $60 to $75 million a year by extorting cargo shipments from the Dominican Republic and charging illegal tolls on roads and ports, according to a new report by the International Crisis Group.