North (Haiti)

Documents Say Abuse Suspect Tried To Buy Off Victims

While awaiting his likely arrest, a Connecticut man charged with sexually assaulting boys at the internationally recognized charity he founded for orphans in Haiti tried to buy off his victims and otherwise thwart an...

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HAITI- Saviour' faces court on sexual abuse charges

SCHOOL: Boys from Project Pierre Toussaint AMERICAN PASTORAL minister Douglas Perlitz, 39, a volunteer and founder of the Project Pierre Toussaint school in Cap-Haitien, is to again face a court on October 19 to answer charges...

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Founder Of Haiti Charity, Accused Of Molesting Children, Pleads Not Guilty

The Connecticut founder of an internationally known charity for homeless boys in Haiti, accused of repeatedly sexually abusing some of the children, pleaded not guilty Thursday at U.S. District Court.

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Mega-ship, mountain fort could boost Haiti tourism

LABADEE, Haiti (Reuters) - An ultramodern ocean liner and a 19th-century mountaintop fortress built by a slave rebellion leader figure prominently in Haiti's plans to revive tourism in the poorest nation in the Americas.

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Man indicted in US with abuse at Haiti school

The founder of a school for poor children in Haiti has been indicted on charges of sexually abusing nine boys there, allegedly threatening them with expulsion or withholding benefits if they did not comply with his demands....

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Police arrest elusive Haitian gang leader

A Haitian gang leader wanted by U.S. and French authorities on kidnapping and homicide charges has been arrested in the Dominican Republic after years on the run, Dominican authorities announced Wednesday. Amaral Duclona was...

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Two-time turd-spelunker caught peering up from the bottom of pit latrines again

Portland's Gary Moody has been caught -- for a second time -- hiding inside a pit latrine at a campsite. The first time he claimed he'd dropped his wedding ring (authorities sieved the biomass and found no ring); this time he...

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Turks and Caicos flies Haitian shipwreck survivors home; migrants rue lack of jobs

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The last of the Haitian migrants who survived a deadly shipwreck near the Turks and Caicos Islands began arriving home on Thursday. Some 30 disheveled migrants stepped off a...

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Hard times in Haiti mean many risk lives at sea

Residents walk past a boat in construction in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, Friday, July 31, 2009. LIMONADE, Haiti _ When Alix Charles slipped out of his tin-roofed shack at night, he didn't say where he was going, only that he would be...

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Scratches clawed by drowning shipmates

CAP-HAITIEN - There was no warning when the overloaded sailboat ploughed into a coral reef and began to break apart. In the darkness, 200 migrants were plunged into the water, grabbing desperately at anything that might help...

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