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South Florida health officials have confirmed that a passenger suspected of suffering from cholera was sick with the potentially fatal disease when they landed at Miami International Airport last month. Although cholera can kill, it can not be easily spread from person to person in normal circumstances, they said.
A South Florida girl is making her mark on earthquake ravaged Haiti. Twelve-year-old Gianna Moline-Willsey won a contest to name a brand new school that is giving hundreds of Haitians a chance at a brighter future.
Still reeling from the effects of an earthquake in January, the passing of Hurricane Tomas over the summer and an outbreak of cholera in the fall, the people of Haiti are doing all they can to hang on.
One day after voting wrapped up in Haiti's presidential election, protests have erupted in the streets.
The family of Lynn University student who died in the January earthquake in Haiti plans to build an orphanage there in her honor.
Britney Gengel, a Lynn University student who lost her life during the Jan. 12th Haitian earthquake will be remembered with an orphanage built in her name. Her family, who lives in Holden, Mass., left New England Nov. 23 driving a 26-foot box truck loaded with the equipment needed to build an orphanage in Britney's name – in Haiti.
Haitians head to the polls Sunday to wade through a crowded ballot for President and more than a hundred Senate and lower house seats.
Haiti's presidential candidates are wrapping up their campaigns with loud, musical rallies, as Haitians in South Florida watched from afar as their homeland prepares for Sunday's election, the first since an earthquake devastated the country.
South Florida health officials are gathering more information about a passenger, who may be suffering from cholera, that landed at Miami International Airport. As they investigate, they are warning people that even if the person has the disease, there is virtually no chance of it spreading here as it has in Haiti.
Project Medishare continues to work hard to help Haiti in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake of January 2010.
More than 400 Haitian-Americans gathered at a South Florida university Sunday hoping to hear how a handful of Haiti's presidential candidates would rebuild their Caribbean homeland. But they also were skeptical that anything in Haiti would change after the Nov. 28 election, because so little has been accomplished since a catastrophic earthquake in January.
Hoping to raise funds and support, some of Haiti's presidential candidates are in Miami meeting with Haitian-American leaders.
In the shadow of the devastation, homelessness and disease that remain in Haiti after January's devastating earthquake, there is beauty and art. Haitian writers offer stories of their country, some of which will highlight the Miami Book Fair International from Nov. 14 to 21.
