My absolute favorite place was a tiny casino in the Royal Haitian Hotel in Port Au Prince, Haiti. |
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After weeks of heavy rains, a downpour pounded the Dominican and Haitian island of Hispaniola. |
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A large Haitian community, meanwhile, does the dirty jobs that Bahamians prefer to avoid. |
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The song is something of a social commentary, dealing with the issue of Haitian identity in the diaspora. |
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These Haitian descendants were cultured, educated, and economically prosperous as musicians, artists, teachers, writers, and doctors. |
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They insisted we speak Creole at home, join the local Haitian church and become active in our community to stay close to our Haitian roots. |
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Some Creole is spoken near the Haitian border and in the sugarcane villages, where many Haitian workers live. |
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Haitian human rights organizations have repeatedly requested that Constant be forcibly returned to Haiti. |
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He's the last survivor of the second generation of that miraculous florescence called the Haitian Renaissance. |
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Crying poorness of country in being unable to handle the Haitian problem is not a solution. |
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I hadn't stepped foot on Haitian soil since I left in 1986 and immigrated to California. |
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Any Haitian or Bahamian who harbours, employs, abets, or succors illegals, gets a fine and jail. |
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The exhibition provided a stellar chance to feature the work of five female artists from and for the Haitian art community. |
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They are inscribed with slogans in Haitian kweyol, the hardest baked of the Caribbean Creoles. |
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Her linguistic abilities include Italian, French, Spanish, Haitian Creole and Vietnamese. |
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In between chants and speeches in Spanish, English, and Haitian Creole, the truck alternately blared hip-hop and various Latino jams. |
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They stab it with a dagger and roll their eyes back to their sockets chanting a spell in Haitian. |
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In addition to vocabulary in English, the teachers requested comparable terms in Haitian Creole and Spanish. |
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While Haitian Creole has a French word base, the two languages are distinct. |
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The city's 1.1 million students speak more than 40 languages, including Polish, Bangladeshi, and Haitian Creole. |
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In 1983 the constitution declared both Haitian Creole and French to be Haiti's national languages, with French serving as the official language. |
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It will also operate in four languages, English, French, Spanish and Haitian Creole. |
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He is pleased the works are available to Haitians living here but agrees their use in Haitian schools is the most important accomplishment. |
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Even worse conditions exist in the sugar-cane plantations that employ Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent. |
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People here all have negative ideas about Haiti, but Haitian culture has a positive side. |
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But it also plays with core elements of the Haitian voodoo tradition, of Caribbean magic, and of African rituals as well. |
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Although vastly undercounted by the U.S. Census, the Haitian population in South Florida has been estimated to be approximately half a million. |
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Restaurants serving conch and goat meat and record shops blaring Haitian meringue music sprang up on 54th Street and Northeast Second Avenue. |
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I don't know if this is orthodox Haitian Vodoo belief, but I heard it from a Haitian mambo who says some of her people believe it. |
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Combette's music is hard to describe concisely, but there's Haitian compas, zouk, folk, jazz, bossa nova, soca and reggae in the mix. |
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Haitian sensation Black Parents will also be performing, bringing some zouk and kompas with the holiday vibes. |
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Haitian craftspeople are particularly skilled in woodcarving, weaving, and embroidery. |
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A rollcall of Afrocentrists in the African Diaspora, since the 18th century, would include the inspirer of the Haitian liberation struggle. |
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In December, the Haitian police, acting on their own information, sought to arrest him at his home. |
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He was the illegitimate son of a French sea captain and his Haitian chambermaid. |
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Even today, Haitian occupation is portrayed as cruel and barbarous. |
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Haitian language and culture are preserved at home, which makes it possible for Haitian immigrants to separate themselves from the Afro-American culture around them. |
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But the State Department said the United States and its international partners do not recognize the rebel leader as head of the Haitian armed forces. |
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This Haitian Vodou praise exclamation was immediately picked up and repeated by all of the Beninese participants as if it had already become part of Benin's Vodun liturgy. |
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Jovan Rameau, a Haitian immigrant, graduated from the Institute of Advanced Theater Training at Harvard. |
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In the short term, however, the Haitian Revolution actually slowed the official antislavery campaign. |
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A child disappears from a Haitian village, showcasing how the island connects with grief in startling ways. |
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Haitian neighbors helping one another carried out the vast majority of rescues, ad hoc. |
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They feel it when they walk by her mango tree or when they admire the colorful Haitian art she loved and used to decorate all of the hospital's buildings. |
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And the incongruously bright, cheerful Haitian sky surely is a winning backdrop. |
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However, we have actually served a more diverse ethnic group patronizing these barbershops, including men of African, West Indian, Bahamian, Haitian, and Jamaican heritages. |
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Rather than following the Afro-Atlantic Haitian religion more properly termed vodun, she had, in fact, been a devotee of the related Cuban religion Santeria. |
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Haitian parents, children, and potential adoptive parents deserve more than a quick fix. |
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I first had to learn the language and find a way into Haitian society. |
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Montreal's Haitian community is particularly strong, and on Wednesday, Sept.21, the line-up for a series of events celebrating Haitian culture was unveiled. |
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But a storm on Monday forced the Solie River to burst its banks, sweeping away a neighbourhood of wooden shacks built by Haitian migrants working in Jimani. |
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When the federal pest management group put out a temporary don't eat-the-pigeons alert two years ago, they made sure it got out there in Haitian Creole and Italian. |
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The two main languages of Haiti are Haitian Creole and French. |
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If you've attended a black spoken word performance in Montreal lately, you may have been treated to Parisian French, Haitian Creole, Jamaican patois and American hip hop. |
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So then I launched into some singsong nonsense that was kinda like a newborn with Tourettes and something in its throat trying to yodel in Haitian. |
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The 32 photographs in this show ranged from images of participants in the Haitian Carnival to priests, priestesses, and religious fetishes and shrines in Brazil and Nigeria. |
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It was encouraging to see that 90 percent of the Haitian electors had registered, and that 60 percent of those electors have voted in the first round of the elections. |
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In 1838 a small group of Spanish-speaking Dominican intellectuals from Santo Domingo organized a secret society called La Trinitaria to overthrow the Haitian rule. |
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Frequent subjects in Haitian art include big, delectable foods, lush landscapes, market activities, jungle animals, rituals, dances, and gods. |
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Haitian Creole is the second most spoken language in Cuba, and is spoken by Haitian immigrants and their descendants. |
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For example, a rooster often represents Aristide and the red and blue colors of the Haitian flag often represent his Lavalas party. |
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Let's not give in to chromophobia, or a fear of the profusion of diverse color evident in the first Haitian Constitution. |
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Haitian art is distinctive, particularly through its paintings and sculptures, known for its various artistic expressions. |
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Haitian Creole is related to the other French creoles, but most closely to the Antillean Creole and Louisiana Creole variants. |
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Due to the racial caste system instituted in colonial Haiti, Haitian mulattoes became the nation's social elite and racially privileged. |
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There are also smaller Haitian communities in many other countries, including Chile, Switzerland, Japan and Australia. |
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Foreign and Haitian NGOs play an important role in the sector, especially in rural and urban slum areas. |
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The Haitian Carnival has been one of the most popular carnivals in the Caribbean. |
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Such statistical estimations could be viewed with skepticism because the average Haitian and Haitian family spends more than that daily. |
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Many Haitians as well as observers of the Haitian society believe that this monopolized power could have given way to a corrupt police force. |
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If this hypothesis is untrue, the creole with the largest number of speakers is Haitian Creole, with almost ten million native speakers. |
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The Haitian government's inability to provide safe drinking water after the 2010 earthquake led to an increase in cholera cases as well. |
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The second official language is the recently standardized Haitian Creole, which virtually the entire population of Haiti speaks. |
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Haitian Creole is closely related to Louisiana Creole and the creole from the Lesser Antilles. |
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Some of the many plants used in Haitian dishes include tomato, oregano, cabbage, avocado, bell peppers. |
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The former Haitian Armed Forces were demobilized in 1995, however, efforts to reconstitute it are currently underway. |
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However, since the eighteenth century there has been a sustained effort to write in Haitian Creole. |
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Wednesday at 7 p.m., Haitian konpa music by the group CaRiMi, in Brower Park, Brooklyn and St. Marks Avenues, Crown Heights, Brooklyn. |
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Haitian music combines a wide range of influences drawn from the many people who have settled on this Caribbean island. |
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As a result of a deep history and strong African ties, symbols take on great meaning within Haitian society. |
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In 1805, Haitian troops of General Henri Christophe tried to conquer all of Hispaniola. |
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S dollars for Haitian gourdes in order to provide local currency loans to clients. |
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Melissa Nau, 38, who suffers from learning and physical disabilities, sold four of her five children for 50 Haitian gourdes each. |
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The disabled and vulnerable 38-year-old woman got just 50 Haitian gourdes for each child. |
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The real engine for the growth of Cuba's commerce in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century was the Haitian Revolution. |
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Haitian Creole, which has recently undergone a standardization, is spoken by virtually the entire population of Haiti. |
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In the years after the Haitian Revolution, ideals of liberty and freedom had spread to even Brazil. |
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The Haitian Coast Guard is an operational unit of the Haitian National Police. |
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Creole languages other than Haitian Creole are also spoken in parts of Latin America. |
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Haitian Creole is dominant in the nation of Haiti, where French is also spoken. |
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This square reflects Dominicans' paranoia and fears that the Dominican Republic would be denationalized through the massive influx of Haitian immigrants. |
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In parts of the Caribbean, such as Haiti, French has official status, but most people speak creoles such as Haitian Creole as their native language. |
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Customers are charged a low monthly fee of 250 Haitian Gourdes and pay for the service through Digicel's proprietary Mon Cash mobile banking platform. |
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Students also learned of the different kinds of Haitian music, compas or konpa and racine or rasin, just by going to the music stores in the area. |
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The current defense force for Haiti is the Haitian National Police, which has a highly trained SWAT team, and works alongside the Haitian Coast Guard. |
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Charity organizations, including Food for the Poor and Haitian Health Foundation, are building schools for children and providing necessary school supplies. |
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Most people have no transportation or access to Haitian hospitals. |
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The lengthy Haitian Revolution by its slaves and free people of color established Haiti as a free republic in 1804 ruled by blacks, the first of its kind. |
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Both of these problems kept the Haitian economy and society isolated. |
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The Haitian president would have had little choice as the country, unknowingly to him, would have been blockaded by French ships if the exchange did not go the French way. |
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In Haitian prisons, deportees have suffered from a lack of basic hygiene, nutrition and health care, and from outbreaks of diseases like beriberi and cholera. |
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The two official languages of Haiti are French and Haitian Creole. |
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The country has tales that are part of the Haitian Vodou tradition. |
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The exact number of deaths due to the Haitian Revolution is unknown. |
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Later in the revolution, the US provided support to black Haitian military forces, with the goal of reducing French influence in North America and the Caribbean. |
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Two yellow Labradors were Tafia, a low-grade Haitian rum, and Rye Whiskey. |
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In 1975, Franketienne was the first to break with the French tradition in fiction with the publication of Dezafi, the first novel written entirely in Haitian Creole. |
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