Stories written by Jane Regan
Jane Regan is an investigative journalist, communications scholar and documentary filmmaker who has worked in Haiti for most of the past two decades and who now runs a multimedia newsroom in Somerville, Massachusetts. Her work has been featured by The Miami Herald, The Christian Science Monitor, IPS, Associated Press Television News, BBC, the Public Broadcasting System and numerous other outlets. | Web

POLITICS-HAITI: Disbanded For Abuses, Army Rises Again

A dozen ex-soldiers from Haiti's long-disbanded army paraded through the streets of this impoverished port town Monday to the improbable cries of "Long live the Haitian Army!"

LABOUR-HAITI: Workers Fight for Rights in Free Trade Zone

When some 300 workers lost their jobs at factories in northeast Haiti last month, the two sides in the struggle pitting a clothing maker against a young union only dug in deeper.

POLITICS-HAITI: A National Plan Without the People?

Haiti has a new, all-embracing plan aimed at pulling the country out of its economic, social and political rut with new roads and schools, policy changes and millions upon millions of dollars.

ECONOMY-HAITI: International Cash Trickles In

After a slow start, money is starting to trickle into the ministers who recently took over the country classified as the poorest, hungriest, most environmentally degraded, least electrified, sickest, most unemployed and least educated in the Americas.

HAITI: One Murderer Behind Bars – But for How Long?

When alleged death squad leader and rebel commander Louis Jodel Chamblain handed himself over to authorities this week, the number of gun-toting criminals on Haiti's streets and hillsides dropped by one.

HAITI: One Murderer Behind Bars – But for How Long?

When alleged death squad leader and rebel commander Louis Jodel Chamblain handed himself over to authorities this week, the number of gun-toting criminals on Haiti's streets and hillsides dropped by one.

HAITI: Everyday Life, Doubts Return

The flies hovering over the stinking, shining green open sewers here do not appear to notice any change. Nor do the naked children, their distended bellies and orange hair sure signs of malnutrition, worms or worse.

HAITI: Political Process Moving Forward Amid Disorder

At an inauguration ceremony guarded by U.S. Marines, Haiti's interim president on Monday called for "reconciliation" and "peace", but as shooting, looting, threats of a resurgent rebel army and political squabbling continue against a backdrop of foreign troops, these simple goals might remain illusive.

HAITI: U.S. Soldiers’ Boots Follow Footprints From the Past

For the fourth time in the past 100 years, U.S. army boots are marching on Haitian soil.
     Humvee armoured cars rumble down the main boulevards of the capital and camouflaged tanks train their long cannons towards the pedestrians and drivers who pass the proud gleaming white National Palace and stately prime minister's office.

HAITI: U.S. Soldiers’ Boots Follow Footprints From the Past

For the fourth time in the past 100 years, U.S. army boots are marching on Haitian soil.

/UPDATE*/HAITI: Possible Coup Only One Piece of Puzzle

As the world waited Friday for a decisive move that would herald yet another extreme political change in this plagued nation, Haiti and the Haitian people find themselves in an almost impossible Chinese puzzle.

HAITI: Possible Coup Only One Piece of Puzzle

As the world waited Friday for a decisive move that would herald yet another extreme political change in this plagued nation, Haiti and the Haitian people find themselves in an almost impossible Chinese puzzle.

HAITI: Possible Coup Only One Piece of Puzzle

As the world waited Friday for a decisive move that would herald yet another extreme political change in this plagued nation, Haiti and the Haitian people find themselves in an almost impossible Chinese puzzle.

HAITI: Violence Feeds Hunger in Countryside

Even with death all around him, the hammers and saws at Marc Antoine's coffin-making workshop lay still. In a city under siege, business is slow.

HAITI: Caribbean Leaders Try to Crack Impasse

Caribbean leaders will try their hand where others have failed when they sit down with Haitian opposition leaders in Bahamas this week, but observers here remain very sceptical of any positive outcome.

HAITI: Student Opposition Bodes Ill for Government

When over 15,000 people marched through the streets of Haiti's capital Monday, psychology student Vladimir Jean Charles was in the lead.

/ARTS WEEKLY/MUSIC: Haitian Big Band Fires Up U.S. East Coast

"People are heating up. Festival season is here!"

CULTURE: Haiti’s First Language Still Running Second

"All Haitians are united by a common language: Creole."

POLITICS-HAITI: Burning Slum Signals Gang Rule

"Down with Aristide! Down with Aristide! We don't want him any more!'' screamed the street vendor as she hurried through the black billows of smoke rising from a pile of flaming tires, her tattered sandals crunching on the broken glass and twisted metal of the freshly built barricade.

CARIBBEAN: People’s Meeting Slams Neoliberalism, Calls for Justice

In the tropical forest not far from here 212 years ago, runaway African slaves gathered for a secret meeting and Vodou ceremony where they vowed to abolish slavery and French rule over their island nation, launching the 13-year revolutionary struggle that gave birth to the world's first black republic Jan. 1, 1804.

HEALTH: Innovation Triumphs in Haiti’s AIDS Fight – but for Poverty

''My mother and my godmother helped deliver him right there,'' said Marie-Michelle, 27, smiling as she balanced the chubby six-month-old on one hip and pointed to the unmade bed.

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