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Broward Women Scam Haitian Immigrants With False Promises of U.S. Jobs

Two Broward women hatched a heinous plot that lured over 140 Haitian immigrants to the U.S. with false promises of a job and a new life for the low low fee of $3,500. There were no such jobs, and the Haitians who were duped where left to fend for themselves, alone and broke, after being ganked by t ... More >>

South Florida-Based Charity Planting Peace Loses Funding for Haitian Orphanage

Aaron Jackson, South Florida's most lovable do-gooder, whose non-profit Planting Peace helps house and feed homeless children throughout the developing world and in March took on the Westboro Baptist Church bigots with its rainbow-colored Equality House, needs help. Planting Peace is looking for s ... More >>

Lynn University Students Killed in 2010 Haiti Earthquake Will Get Their Degrees

​On January 11, 2010, 12 students and two teachers from Boca Raton's Lynn University traveled on a service trip to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. On January 12, six of them were killed in the massive earthquake that hit the island, in what the school calls "the darkest day in the university's history ... More >>

Bernard Mevs, a Tiny Hospital Founded by Floridians, May Be Haiti's Best Hope

Michel Martelly Is Haiti's New President. But the Former Palm Beach County Resident Has a Dark Side

Allure of the Seas Crew Member Murdered on Stopover in Mexico

​In mid-November, the world's largest cruise ship arrived at its new home in Port Everglades to throngs of cheering fans. Soon it embarked on its maiden voyage, a cruise of the Caribbean -- including a stop at Labadee, Haiti, an isolated hamlet just miles from the cholera and destruction of Port-a ... More >>

A Murder in Haiti Threatens to Become Lost Amid the Rubble

Courtesy Viola Semxant-ZuckerGregoire-Ronald Chery on an earlier, happier trip to Haiti.​Our feature story this week tells the harrowing tale of Gregoire-Ronald Chery, who was murdered in Haiti when kidnappers came for a young girl in his family. Chery was a 17-year federal agent who worked in the ... More >>

Haitian Kidnappers Kill an American Federal Agent in Their Quest to Abduct a Child

Haitian Kidnapping: One Clueless Journalist's Story of an Angry Mob in Port-au-Prince

Erosion -- and kidnappers -- awaited us on a road outside Port-au-Prince.​It was my first day in Haiti when my translator and I were nearly kidnapped. If things had gone down differently that day, the two of us may have ended up tortured and held for ransom. Or maybe dragged out of our car and bea ... More >>

In Protesting Haitian Election, Candidate Baker Aligns With Wyclef and Rival Sweet Micky

twitter.com/CharlesHBakerSweet Micky, Charlie Baker, and Wyclef Jean.​Imagine Al Gore and George W. Bush riding hand-in-hand down Okeechobee Boulevard in November 2000 to protest hanging chads. Something in that vein happened in yesterday's Haitian election, which went just about as badl ... More >>

Embattled UF Film Students Bring Haiti Documentary to FLIFF

Jon Bougher and Roman Safiullin with the subject of their film.​The two University of Florida graduate students who almost didn't get to graduate, are now bringing the controversial film to the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. And there will be no disclaimers.Jon Bougher, originally fr ... More >>

Latin American Dictators Love South Florida

A Miracle Peanut Butter Could End Malnutrition in Haiti

Morning Juice: As Pilots Strike, Spirits Cancel Flights; Dog Fight in Broward Over Kill Policy

​Here's what's happening in South Florida this Monday morning:With its pilots on strike, Miramar-based discount airline Spirit has canceled flights through Tuesday, forcing local air travelers to scramble for another way to get to their destinations. [CBS4]In a much more uplifting story about air ... More >>

Dashboard Confessional's Chris Carrabba to Perform Memorial Concerts for Lynn University

Punching, for Haiti

Morning Juice: Eggelletion Prepares for Prison; Norovirus Fears in Broward

​Here's what's happening in Broward and Palm Beach this Friday:Former Broward County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion will be sentenced today after pleading guilty to charges stemming from an FBI bribery sting. [Miami Herald]Police have identified the man whose remains were found in a box near Jo ... More >>

As Haitians Rebuild, a Photographer Captures the Catastrophe

Palm Beach Princess Planning to Give Haiti Volunteers the Royal Treatment

Flickr: BurningQuestionThe Palm Beach Princess​Docked at the Port of Palm Beach, the Princess is just a rundown, financially strapped gambling barge. But when it arrives in earthquake-ravaged Port-au-Prince, the Palm Beach Princess will look positively luxurious by comparison."If" it arrives, that ... More >>

Anderson Cooper Helps Aaron Jackson Help Haiti

Aaron Jackson and his younger brother, Will, at a fundraiser for Haiti last year.​When the earthquake first hit, Aaron Jackson immediately announced that his charity, Planting Peace, would help as many Haitians as possible with food, water, medicine, and shelter. Within days, Aaron was on the grou ... More >>

Orthopedic Surgeon From Imperial Point Tells Harrowing Tale of Post-Quake Haiti

Boston Herald / Bill GreeneDr. Boutin, with the hacksaw, performing another amputation in Haiti.​At 73 years old, Dr. Georges Boutin had never been to Haiti, and he had no reason to ever go until a phone conversation he had two weeks ago with his daughter Pier, an orthopedic surgeon who lives with ... More >>

Morning Juice: Newly Released Evidence Adds to Intrigue to Two Unsolved Murder Cases

​The news in Broward and Palm Beach this Tuesday:Police in Rye Brook, New York, say that an anonymous letter they received in July contains details of the Ben Novack murder case that, during the subsequent investigation, have proven accurate. Among the claims: that the death of Novack's mother in ... More >>

Lake Worth's Living Water Ministries Steps Up Haiti Meal Distribution

photo of Haiti courtesy of Living Water Ministries​In one respect, Living Water Ministries was lucky when it came to helping Haitian victims of last week's earthquake: They already had a large network of employees and contacts in Port-au-Prince and many others in outlying villages in the far North ... More >>

Morning Juice: Another Quake in Haiti; Fins Find a Defensive Mastermind in Denver

​A glance at local headlines this January 20:A 6.0 quake rattled nerves in Port-au-Prince this morning, but there's not much left to destroy in a city where the death toll is at 72,000 and counting. [Miami Herald]The Broward County School District has to trim $47 million from its budget, and a who ... More >>

Morning Juice: Haiti Quake Survivor Tells Miraculous Story; MLK Parade in Hallandale Nearly Takes Tragic Turn

​Here's what's in the local news this Tuesday morning:Mereille Dittmer, the 50-year-old woman from Pembroke Pines who somehow survived for five days in a tiny space within a collapsed Port-au-Prince grocery store, told her amazing story to reporters Monday. [WPTV]The families of the four Lynn Univ ... More >>

Mother of Lynn University Student Vents on Video

It's hard to blame Jean Gianacaci for being frustrated. She's the mother of Christine Gianacaci, one of the four people from Lynn University who are still missing in the rubble of the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince. That video posted today.Considering the scenes of devastation, I don't know whethe ... More >>

Morning Juice: Lynn Students Tell Quake Survival Tale; Questions About Major Haiti Charity

​Here's what happened in Broward and Palm Beach over the weekend:The Lynn University students who escaped the earthquake in Haiti gave their horrifying first-person account. Two of the students and the group's two faculty advisers remain missing. [Palm Beach Post]Scott Rothstein has been a wreckin ... More >>

Morning Juice: Aid to Haiti Trickles in; FPL Rate Hike Denied

​The catastrophe in Haiti dominates the headlines in South Florida and around the world:The Port Au Prince airport is now taking chartered flights and aid has arrived -- just nearly enough to meet the dire need for water and fuel. [New York Times]Lynn University in Boca Raton learned late last nig ... More >>

Morning Juice: All Eyes on Haiti

​Thursday brings another chilly morning but warm weather is on the way. Let's look at the local headlines:A Boynton Beach man was at the Port Au Prince airport when the earthquake hit and says it felt like an airplane strike. [Palm Beach Post] Members of a united nations United Nations stabilizati ... More >>

UPDATED: Haiti Earthquake Jolts Local Charity

A scene from LW's "Women helping women" program​Jon Pace, a boardmember of local charity  Living Water Ministries of the Palm Beaches told us by phone this morning that Executive Director Pastor Etienne Jacklin's house in the Bon-Repos area north of Port au Prince was destroyed, and his wife' ... More >>

Will Haitian Quake Be Crist's 9/11?

Flickr: The PeacekeepersA scene from yesterday's devastating earthquake in Haiti.​Charlie Crist juggled his schedule so he could fly down to Miami-Dade, where a press conference will be staged to comfort the Haitian people. But however little Crist has to lose in his Senate race against Marco Rubi ... More >>

Culturespotting

With the help of Rainn Wilson, Aaron Jackson tries to cure a country.

Morning Juice: GOP Cuts Everything to Save Cigs, Prosecutors Rebuked for Being Dicks, Haitians Get Conversation Starters

GOP Cuts Everything, Saves Sweet, Sweet TobaccoAs I sit here puffing on my Camel Wide with the filter broken off, my lungs blackening like beach tar, I'm thanking the state's Republicans. Because it is the GOP lawmakers who fought off attempts in Tallahassee to increase cigarette taxes in order to c ... More >>

Tap Tap Sunday

This Sunday evening, recording artist Farah Juste will be at Tap Tap Haitian Restaurant on South Beach for "a CD signing and celebration". Ms. Juste's career as a passionate singer of Haitian folk songs took off with her debut solo album in 1977, and since then she has performed from Paris to Switze ... More >>

Mano a Mano Against Poverty

Planting Seeds of Hope

Questions For Earl Maucker

Butts in Seats

Voodoo Man

A voodoo ceremony in the 'burbs? Who'da thunk it?

Adiós, Fidel

And hello again. Why Broward-Palm Beach immigrant groups are tired of the endless Castro drama.

Stomp the Worm

Saint Aaron to the rescue in Haiti

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Free This Priest

Father Gerard Jean-Juste is no outlaw. He's a Magic City hero.

Saint Aaron

Living like a pauper himself, a young man from Broward is trying to save Haiti's children

Who Zin Town?

Hip-shaking zombies, unite!

Vice Squad

Haiti's T-Vice is ready for its big break -- and being sex symbols doesn't hurt

Radio Free Haiti

Jonathan Demme's documentary brings a joyful revolutionary to the screen

Once You Pop...

Delray goes snap, crackle, Popscene

The Perils of Marilise

A child of a Tonton Macoute family escaped political violence in Haiti - and then her real troubles began

Mother of Haiti

Carole Demesmin is a vodou priestess, singer, activist, and -- above all -- a hopeful savior of her troubled homeland