Jacqueline Charles | Miami Herald

He led Haiti’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic after cutting its death rate from waterborne cholera by more than 50%. Now, Dr. Jean William “Bill” Pape has become a victim of his country’s vicious cycle of gang violence and kidnappings.

The U.S. Coast Guard said the migrants were believed to be from Haiti.

In an interview on Colombian radio station La FM, Edwin Blanquicet Rodríguez breaks his silence on the slaying with fresh details that raise more questions in the slow-moving investigation into the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.

Visiting a hougan, a Vodou priest, before any clandestine voyage is as important as finding the right boat and outfitting it with the essentials, mariners, locals and the priests themselves say. During the visits, boat captains and operators seek spiritual protection and guidance to help them arrive safely — and put the evil eye on the Coast Guard.

Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio is urging the Biden administration to make Haiti’s ongoing crisis a focus during next month’s Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles.

A senior Haitian government official has confirmed that a diplomat assigned to the Dominican Republic’s Port-au-Prince embassy has been kidnapped.

A massive spending bill signed by President Biden to fund the federal government also includes language on accountability on Haiti and modification to U.S. policy toward the crisis-wracked Caribbean nation.

U.S. Coast Guard aircrews and emergency personnel search for possible migrants in the water after a makeshift boat capsized about 75 yards off Shacks Beach in Puerto Rico.

A convicted Haitian drug trafficker who voluntarily flew to Miami to face new charges in the assassination of Haiti’s president agreed to be detained and appears to be cooperating with U.S. investigators.

Six months after Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was killed, a second suspect was detained in the Dominican Republic, then arrested by federal agents in Miami.

A Haiti gang has released all 12 hostages two months to the day that they were kidnapped in Haiti’s capital, Haiti National Police Spokesman Garry Desrosiers confirmed to the Miami Herald.

At least 50 people are dead in Haiti’s second largest city after an explosion involving a fuel tanker, a deputy mayor of Cap-Haitien confirmed to the Miami Herald.