The Haitian Times

The Haitian Football Federation (FHF) has appointed Spaniard David Badía as the new head coach of the men’s national soccer team, putting him in charge of Les Grenadiers squad two months after Haiti returned to the World Cup for the first time in 52 years and entered a new competiti...

LÉOGÂNE, Haiti — For seven hours on Aug. 15, the courtyard of Anacaona High School— about 21 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital— became a place where children traded phones and screens for jump ropes, dominoes, cards, hopscotch,

PORT-AU-PRINCE — More than two centuries after enslaved Africans gathered at Bois-Caïman in northern Haiti in a moment that became central to the story of the Haitian Revolution, the Haitian government has formally made Aug. 14 a national holiday.

The decision gives official state recognition to a date long commemorated by Haitians, historians and ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE — A United States deportation flight brought over 160 people to Cap-Haïtien on Thursday, providing a first glimpse of the scale of returns Haiti could face as the Trump administration moves ahead with deportations following the end of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians.

None of those aboard the flight were former TPS beneficiaries, accord...

NEW YORK — What exactly are we mourning in Dèy, Edwidge Danticat’s new novel?

At first, given that the title is the Haitian Creole word for grief or mourning, the answer seems obvious and emotionally daunting. But as we meet Magnolia, a Miami real estate agent who survives a mass shooting, and her story unfolds, it becomes clear that mourning those who di...