Information About Haiti

Norwich Free Academy senior Jerry Dauphin was the “bad boy” on May 18, corrupting a recent Haitian immigrant girl, distracting her from schoolwork, getting her pregnant and even infecting her with HIV.

It’s been five months since a massive earthquake devastated Haiti, killing up to 300,000 people. Since then, medical volunteers have flocked to the impoverished Caribbean country, trying to help survivors. But one organization has an even bigger goal: to empower Haiti’s nurses.

MONTREAL, Canada – Canada has invited Jamaica and Haiti for talks on development and security on the periphery of this month’s G8 meeting here.

Julian Brelsford, who was in Haiti when an earthquake hit the country in January, spoke at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Anchorage Sunday. He discussed the importance of optimism and economic perspectives.

Art for Haiti, a benefit exhibition featuring two- and three-dimensional artwork by 10 Springfield and Branson artists, will open Friday with a reception for the artists from 7 to 9 p.m. at The Gallery at National Avenue Christian Church, 1515 S.

FITCHBURG — Maudeline and Guirlene latched onto Micah Tully as soon as he showed up on the beach in Haiti in 2004. And he quickly returned the smitten girls’ affections with brotherly love. Tully was visiting Haiti with a mission group from Grace Community Church, of Chelmsford, when he met them in 2004.

Art for Haiti, a benefit exhibition featuring two- and three-dimensional artwork by 10 Springfield and Branson artists, will open Friday with a reception for the artists from 7 to 9 p.m. at The Gallery at National Avenue Christian Church, 1515 S. National Ave.

Volunteers and donations of raffle and auction items are being sought for a fundraiser next month at the Crocker House Ballroom for Haiti earthquake-relief efforts.

An illegal radio station that broadcast music and religious content to the Haitian community was shut down Thursday in Orange Park after a 60-year-old man was charged with unauthorized transmission or interference with a radio station, according to the Clay County Sheriff’s Office. Fritzner Lindor, a Port-au-Prince native who now lives in the 3500 block of Silver Bluff Road, was arrested after …

During the Friday night ceremony — which took place in the First Haitian Baptist Mission located at 14600 U.S. 41 East — prayers were said, words of encouragement and support were shared and loads of advice was given to the new graduates. However the ceremony’s purpose was more than just to congratulate the new graduates.