Tears and tribute for the Rev. Gerard Jean-Juste – Haiti & Caribbean

May 30th, 2009No Comments

There on a gritty street corner, long the stomping grounds for one of South Florida’s most charismatic activists, a few dozen admirers gathered Thursday night to sing the praises, pray and remember the late Rev.Gérard Jean-Juste.

Video Available*** Coast Guard repatriates 35 Haitian migrants

May 30th, 2009No Comments

The Coast Guard Cutter Reliance repatriated 35 Haitian migrants to Cap Haitien, Haiti, Wednesday, after a dangerously overloaded vessel with more than 100 Haitian migrants aboard was sighted by a Coast Guard aircraft and interdicted by the Coast Guard Cutters Key Biscayne and Venturous Monday.

Toss this training book out…

May 30th, 2009No Comments

Above 85 degrees – the suggestion is: Forget it. I don’t think that training philosophy will work here. :) Maybe my trainer will arrange for Mother Nature to schedule only cloudy cool Fridays from here on out.We met up with Mr. E for a total tour of the path he created around the Petionville Club and it was about a 1.5 mile loop of amazing beauty. Trees, flowers, grass … it is nothing like

Interdiction of Haitian migrant boat touches off drama at sea

May 29th, 2009No Comments

U.S. authorities gave starkly different accounts of what happened on the high seas this week when an overloaded vessel of Haitian migrants trying to reach the U.S. mainland was intercepted by Coast Guard officials.

60 Haitian migrants held captive by smugglers

May 29th, 2009No Comments

Armed smugglers interrupted a U.S. Coast Guard operation to remove illegal Haitian migrants from an overloaded boat, holding 60 of the passengers at gunpoint as they escaped authorities, the U.S. Embassy said Thursday.

Remembering Father Jean-Juste

May 29th, 2009No Comments

Three years ago, Rev. Jean-Juste battled leukemia but had made a full recovery. He was contemplating a return to Haiti but on March 8 was admitted into Jackson Memorial Hospital complaining of trouble breathing.

Haitians in U.S. Illegally Look for Signs of a Deporting Reprieve

May 29th, 2009No Comments

For Danie, who moved from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to the United States in 2001 to live with her grandparents, there has never been a good time to go home.

Zombie Denied Social Security

May 29th, 2009No Comments

One of the first cases that will come before new Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is a discrimination suit. Haitian immigrant Jacques Orneuve filed a discrimination suit against the U.S. government, claiming he was unjustly denied Social Security benefits, simply because he is a zombie!

Mission trip to Haiti opens eyes

May 29th, 2009No Comments

Members of the First Presbyterian Church of Saline worked in a community in Haiti as a part of a mission trip.

Gerard Jean-Juste, spiritual leader of Haitian Americans, dies – Haiti & Caribbean

May 29th, 2009No Comments

The spiritual and political leader of the Haitian community in South Florida died in Miami after suffering a stroke.

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