In 325 A.D., Constantine’s Nicene Council decreed a date for commemorating Jesus’ rise and declared that during its lead-up, no meat should pass the faithful’s lips. Constantine wasn’t issuing an ...

Jacmel, Haiti, Feb 9 (EFE).Jacmel, Haiti, Feb 9 (EFE). — Haiti is celebrating its carnival this year amidst heightened political tension with a call for a general strike on Monday and Tuesday to ...

Jacmel is a port town on Haiti's south peninsula, an hour and a half from the capital, Port au Prince. Jacmel's reputation as a resort for artists goes back to the '50s. , the art dealer who brought ...

Michael Harris is a regular contributor to Book Review. Haiti is “a country where people are poor in money perhaps, but rich in culture,” a festival organizer in Jacmel, a southern coastal city, tells ...

Michel Joseph Martelly, or “Sweet Micky,” is the former president of Haiti (2011- 2016). Here he is seen during a performance after leaving the Haitian presidency at Cafe Iguana Pines in Pembroke ...

The Dominican Republic draws lots of tourists to its many all-inclusive resorts. Haiti, which shares the island of Hispaniola with the DR, traditionally has had a dearth of luxe lodging and hasn’t ...

Haitians don’t like President Trump’s recent comment about their country. And now they won’t take similar insults from their former president, either. Two Haitian cities have banned singer Sweet Micky ...

JACMEL, Haiti — The quaint, two-story villas with filigreed verandas may need a lick of paint, and the relentless din of motorbikes and dump trucks along the main thoroughfare is hardly conducive to a ...

JACMEL, HAITI -- Behind the peeling facades and louvered shutters of its faded mansions and crumbling warehouses, this little beach town was a happening place before the earthquake -- and if Haiti is ...