According to TheSentinel: WASHINGTON, District of Columgia (defend.ht) – The NYPD will receive the U.S. Secretary of State’s Excellence in Criminal Justice Assistance Award for deploying dozens of Creole-speaking, Haitian-American police officers to assist in Port-au-Prince after the 2010 earthquake. New York Police Department Commissioner…
According to Beaumontenterprise.com: Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide made a rare public appearance Wednesday and thousands of supporters shadowed the ex-leader’s motorcade following a court hearing. The swelling crowd of backers who chanted songs and waved posters of Aristide in Haiti’s capital pointed to the…
The Haitian Education & Leadership Program provides merit- and needs-based university scholarships in Haiti to straight-A students from disadvantaged backgrounds. HELP’s mission is to create, through merit- and needs-based scholarships, a community of young professionals and leaders who will promote a more just society…
Thank you for this information post by blogger Naika in Balance: Castor oil is a vegetable oil obtained from the castor bean (technically castor seed as the castor plant), Ricinus communis. Castor oil is a colorless to very pale yellow liquid with mild or no odor or taste. It is a triglyceride in which approximately 90 percent of…
According to Wikipedia: Jason Joel Desrouleaux (born September 21, 1989), better known by his stage name Jason Derülo, is a Haitian American singer-songwriter, actor and dancer. After producing records for several artists and writing songs for Cash Money Records, co-founder of the label Birdman, Young…