The Dominican Republic gained its independence from Haiti in 1844, after Haiti occupied it.
Mr. JAMES MORRELL (Director of Haiti Democracy Project): He presided over the destruction of Haiti's democracy.
Two stories from Haiti come to mind: During the 1970s, Haiti used to be self-sufficient in rice.
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Haiti is already heavily dependent on food imports more than half of Haiti's food comes from abroad.
Does it take President Obama to come down to Haiti, to go to Haiti to make things move faster?
World Food Programme, Yele Haiti Foundation, and the Clinton Bush Haiti Foundation.
Another 79 people were killed in Haiti by Hurricane Gustav last week, said Louis Pinchinat, deputy director of Haiti's Civil Protection Directorate.
Jean -- a native of Haiti and the New York host for the event -- talked about his visit last week to Haiti.
If these dedicated groups still have hope for Haiti, perhaps it will become contagious, and Haiti will begin to heal itself from within.
Mr Martelly said that too often the images of Haiti shown around the world were sad, but that Haiti had more to offer.
The United States, along with the world body, are working to try to fortify, rebuild Haiti, and Haiti is right in the path of Isaac.
But it's important that everybody in Haiti understand, at this very moment one of the largest relief efforts in our recent history is moving towards Haiti.
It aims to put contemporary creation and cultural industries at the centre of Haiti's reconstruction efforts while ensuring the protection of Haiti's artistic and cultural expressions.
In recent years, immigration from Haiti has remained high, he told Telesistema, because the international community has not done enough to help Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.
"The UK has already cancelled all debts owed to it by Haiti and I strongly welcome today's G7 commitment to forgive Haiti's remaining multilateral debt, " he added.
One year after an earthquake devastated Haiti, the Mobile Giving Foundation has a message for the public: you can still donate money to Haiti via your cellphone.
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Hurricane watches were up for the north coast of Haiti and the northwestern Bahamas, while tropical storm warnings were in effect for much of the rest of the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
They were in touch with an orphanage in Haiti, and, Michel, just kind of to nuance that introduction a little bit, it was not our purpose to try to adopt children out of Haiti.
The charity is the youth outreach division of Artists for Peach and Justice, which has the goal of building schools in Haiti the first, the Academy for Peace and Justice in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, opened in 2010.
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Second, if then we have the international force through the United Nations, or CARICOM or the U.S. in Haiti increasing the number of the international police already in Haiti, it will make the huge difference.
They later returned to Haiti to offer aid during a cholera outbreak, and then in May, the group left Haiti for Bocos del Toro, Panama, where they have been working for the last nine months.
"Since my forced arrival in the mother continent six-and-a-half years ago, the people of Haiti have never stopped calling for my return to Haiti, " he said in a statement sent to the AFP news agency.
Such a policy would enable the design of specific laws, programmes and activities to reinvigorate Haiti's culture sector for the coming decades, ensuring that contemporary creation and cultural industries are central to Haiti's reconstruction efforts.
Former US President Bill Clinton, who now serves as the UN Special Envoy to Haiti, also attended the launch of the park in the impoverished north of Haiti, some 160km (100 miles) from the capital, Port-au-Prince.
Haiti: The thousands of U.S. troops with responsibility for maintaining Jean-Bertrande Aristide in power were understandably angry at discovering that their military colleagues sent to deter Saddam well after operations began in Haiti would be repatriated first.
"The earthquake in Haiti was a catastrophic setback to the Haitian people who are now facing tremendous emergency humanitarian and reconstruction needs, and meeting Haiti's financing needs will require a massive multilateral effort, " said Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
This underscores the point that I made to the President this morning: The entire world stands with the government and the people of Haiti, for in Haiti's devastation, we all see the common humanity that we share.
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But is the President at all thinking still about going to Haiti, and is the President getting any kind of still a daily update on progress reports in Haiti and also the fact that military units are leaving Haiti?
We are monitoring the storm -- FEMA is and NOAA -- and are very mindful of the suffering that Haiti has endured because of the earthquake, and will I'm sure be prepared to assist Haiti if it does suffer under this hurricane.
Flooding and rains from Ike's outer bands have been blamed for 70 deaths in Haiti, bringing that country's death toll from four recent major storms -- including Fay, Gustav and Hanna -- to 341, said Abel Nazaire, deputy head of Haiti's Civil Protection Service.
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