Haiti prepares for new leadership as gunfire erupts and gangs threaten to overthrow government
Haitian police arrest a former senator accused of working with gangs to attack a peaceful community
Thousands have been forced to forgo an annual pilgrimage to a revered waterfall in central Haiti, now in territory held by gangs, where they would splash among sacred waters and rub their bodies with aromatic leaves.
A federal judge in New York has blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary legal status for more than 500,000 Haitians who are already in the United States.
Current and former elected leaders representing the Haitian-American community in Miami-Dade and Broward, along with faith leaders, activists, and lawyers, appealed to all Americans on Monday to rally for their neighbors and colleagues with Temporary Protected Status, or TPS.
Fear and uncertainty are spreading among many Haitians in South Florida as the Trump Administration officially ends their Temporary Protected Status effective Sept. 2.
President Donald Trump’s administration has been issuing warnings to Cubans, Haitians, Venezuelans, and Nicaraguans that their immigration status under a humanitarian program has changed.
Feelings were mixed at Miami International Airport Monday as President Donald Trump’s new ban on travel to the U.S. by citizens from 12 mainly African and Middle Eastern countries took effect.
The U.N. food agency is appealing for $46 million for the next six months to help about 2 million Haitians in dire need of food, including 8,500 at the worst catastrophic level of hunger.
President Donald Trump is again banning people from countries his administration deems dangerous from coming to America.
A federal judge on Friday sentenced the 73-year-old founder of a Haitian orphanage to 210 years in prison after calling him the “worst of the worst” in a devastating child sex abuse case that spanned decades and left victims emotionally shattered across the globe.
A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling affecting Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans has sent shockwaves through South Florida’s immigrant communities and among business owners.
José Andrés says his work with his nonprofit World Central Kitchen flows with his 40 restaurants, his NBC cooking competition show with Martha Stewart “Yes, Chef,” and his new book “Change the Recipe: Because You Can’t Build a Better World Without Breaking Some Eggs” that hit stores last month.
A beloved woman known for opening her heart and home to Haitian migrants in South Florida is being honored this weekend for decades of selfless service.
The U.S. has officially designated a powerful gang coalition in Haiti as a foreign terrorist organization, raising concerns the move could deepen the country’s humanitarian crisis.
The United Nations and human rights activists are warning about an increase in pregnant women being deported from the Dominican Republic to Haiti where they say their lives are being put at risk.
A new report has found that more than half of Haiti’s population is expected to experience severe hunger through June, and another 8,400 people living in makeshift shelters are projected to starve.
Haiti’s government says it has approved what it called a “war budget” of $275,000 aimed at alleviating the country’s crisis as gang violence surges.
A new report by the U.N. political mission in Haiti says more than 260 people were killed during recent gang attacks on two communities in the country's capital.
Doctors Without Borders says that four of its vehicles came under fire while they evacuated staff from a hospital in Haiti’s capital as gang violence surges.
Miami-Dade County Commissioner Marleine Bastien stood with a group of activists Friday to advocate for Haitians in South Florida whose immigration status is going to change.
The Trump administration is throwing out protections for roughly half a million Haitians that had shielded them from deportation.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has halted the processing of certain parole program applications, affecting thousands of immigrants already in the country.
For decades, Project Medishare has maintained a significant presence in Haiti, providing critical care, medicine, trauma services and even operating maternal health centers.
Despite legally migrating to the U.S. under the country’s Temporary Protected Status program, many of the thousands of Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, are fearful President Donald Trump’s promised migration crackdown will soon include them.
Among the major orders from the Trump Administration late last week, the end of the Biden Administration's very specific parole program that could now leave countless people from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela and Nicaragua in limbo or suddenly deportable.
The Family Action Network Movement held a vigil Sunday to commemorate the 15th anniversary of Haiti’s devastating 2010 earthquake, bringing together South Florida leaders and community advocates in Little Haiti.
Haiti’s online media association says two reporters were killed and several were wounded in a gang attack on the reopening of Port-au-Prince’s biggest public hospital.
Gangs attacked a critical trauma center in Port-au-Prince and set it on fire. Local 10 News spoke with an advocate of that hospital about the effects this latest tragedy will have on an already fragile country.
Haiti’s main international airport has reopened one month after it closed for the second time this year because of gang violence.
Local 10 News This Week In South Florida Anchor Glenna Milberg interviews Anthony Rodriguez, the chairman for the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners; U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, the Haitian-American Democrat who represents Florida’s District 20; Christi Fraga, the mayor of the city of Doral; and Randy Deshazo, the deputy director of the South Florida Regional Planning Council.
Local 10 News This Week In South Florida Anchor Glenna Milberg interviews Anthony Rodriguez, the chairman for the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners; U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, the Haitian-American Democrat who represents Florida’s District 20; Christi Fraga, the mayor of the city of Doral; and Randy Deshazo, the deputy director of the South Florida Regional Planning Council.
Local 10 News This Week In South Florida Anchor Glenna Milberg interviews U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, the Haitian-American Democrat who represents Florida's District 20.
A Spirit Airlines flight from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, came under gunfire during its landing attempt Monday, and passengers are now sharing their frightening experiences with Local 10 News.
Officials are blaming illegal firearms for an increase or a record number of killings in a growing number of Caribbean islands this year.
The Federal Aviation Administration put in a temporary ban on all flights from the U.S. to Haiti after a Spirit Airlines jet, flying from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, sustained gunfire while trying to land in Port-au-Prince on Monday, injuring a flight attendant.
A Spirit Airlines flight from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport to Port-au-Prince came under gunfire while trying to land in the Haitian capital, the Haiti National Office of Civil Aviation told ABC News.
A transitionary council created to reestablish democratic order in Haiti has signed a decree firing interim Prime Minister Garry Conille.
A Miami-based professor is warning that heightened deportation efforts under potential Trump administration policies could impact over a million immigrants in Florida alone, with local communities and families facing serious consequences.
U.N. officials say more than 1,740 people were killed or injured in Haiti from July to September, a nearly 30% increase over the previous trimester.
Police in Haiti are clashing with gunmen trying to take over one of the few communities in the capital, Port-au-Prince, that is not controlled by gangs.
Angry whispers have broken the heavy silence that fell over Pont-Sondé just days after a vicious gang attack left more than 70 dead.
Donald Trump has voiced his desire to get rid of the Temporary Protected Status for Haitians so many times that migrants and advocates are worried that he may get reelected this November.
Some Haitians and Haitian Americans in South Florida were still outraged Sunday about former Donald Trump’s assertion that “in Springfield, they’re eating the dogs; they’re eating the cats.”
The Florida secretary of state defended an investigation into petition fraud, as advocates gather signatures to enshrine abortion rights in the state’s constitution through the proposed Amendment 4 — subject to a referendum on the November ballot.
A recent wave of misinformation has sparked significant backlash from South Florida’s Haitian community after Republican Vice President nominee JD Vance propagated a false rumor claiming that a Haitian neighbor was preparing to eat a lost cat.
Local 10 News This Week In South Florida Anchor Glenna Milberg talks to Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava after her re-election. She also hosts a Roundtable with Jesse Scheckner, of Florida Politics; Douglas Hanks, of The Miami Herald; and Anthony Man, of The Sun Sentinel; and she presents Anchor Calvin Hughes’s one-on-one interview with the new prime minister of Haiti.
Local 10 News This Week In South Florida Anchor Glenna Milberg talks to Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava after her re-election. She also hosts a Roundtable with Jesse Scheckner, of Florida Politics; Douglas Hanks, of The Miami Herald; and Anthony Man, of The Sun Sentinel; and she presents Anchor Calvin Hughes’s one-on-one interview with the new prime minister of Haiti.
Local 10 News This Week In South Florida Anchor Glenna Milberg talks to Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava after her re-election. She also hosts a Roundtable with Jesse Scheckner, of Florida Politics; Douglas Hanks, of The Miami Herald; and Anthony Man, of The Sun Sentinel; and she presents Anchor Calvin Hughes’s one-on-one interview with the new prime minister of Haiti.
This Week In South Florida: Exclusive interview with Haiti’s new prime minister has message for diaspora
After arriving at Haiti’s National Palace this week, Local 10 News witnessed a significant change in the Caribbean nation: dozens of members of its newly reformed military, marking the first time since the 1990s that Haiti has had an army.
Dramatic scenes unfolded on the streets of Port-au-Prince Monday morning, highlighting the ongoing struggle for control in Haiti’s capital.
Local 10′s Calvin Hughes arrived in Port-au-Prince on Monday, bringing viewers a firsthand look at Haiti’s challenges and efforts to rebuild a country that was once hailed as the crown jewel of the Caribbean.
Local 10 News This Week In South Florida Anchor Glenna Milberg interviews Torey Alson, a Broward School Board member; Rodney Jacobs and Chad Klitzman, both Democrats running for the Florida State Senate; and Scott Galvin, a North Miami councilman. Local 10 News Anchor Calvin Hughes talks about his coverage of Haiti.
Amid an ongoing anti-gang crackdown involving a United Nations-backed law enforcement mission, Haitian authorities reported a prison break turned deadly in Saint-Marc, a coastal city north of Port-au-Prince.
Ernesto continued to strengthen on Thursday morning as it churned northward into the Atlantic about 250 miles northeast of the Turks and Caicos and the southeastern Bahamas.
The office of Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille says security officers had to fire shots to cover leader’s exit from a hospital in Port-au-Prince.
Officials in Haiti say at least three people have died and up to 40 remain missing after a boat in the waters off northern Haiti caught fire with up to 80 Haitians on board trying to escape to the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Local 10 News This Week In South Florida Anchor Glenna Milberg interviews Fort Lauderdale Commissioner John Herbst, Florida Rep. Hillary Cassel, Miami-Dade Commissioner Oliver Gilbert, and U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick.
A new report from the U.N. migration agency says that surging violence in Haiti from clashes with armed gangs has displaced nearly 580,000 people since March.
Haiti's government says the country's newly selected prime minister has been hospitalized in the capital of Port-au-Prince.
Border Patrol agents are investigating after they say five individuals from both Haiti and the Dominican Republic were apprehended following a “migrant landing” on Hillsboro Beach Sunday night.
With thousands of people in Haiti driven from their homes by gang violence, some children find distraction from their harsh lives in arts classes.
President Joe Biden has offered his deep appreciation to Kenyan President William Ruto for the coming deployment of 1,000 Kenyan police forces to help quell gang violence in Haiti.
President Joe Biden has welcomed Kenyan President William Ruto to the White House to kick off a three-day state visit.
Haiti’s main international airport has reopened nearly three months after gang violence forced authorities to close it.
Frantz Fabien is among the Haitians in South Florida who are worried about the possibility of the expiration of the Temporary Protected Status in August.
A man appeared in Fort Lauderdale federal court Monday after federal authorities busted him smuggling nearly three dozen migrants on his boat off the coast of South Florida, according to a criminal complaint.
Haiti’s National Police says it has recovered a hijacked cargo ship laden with rice following a gunbattle with gangs that lasted more than five hours.
A Florida Division of Emergency Management flight from Haiti landed early Sunday morning at Orlando International Airport with 21 Floridians rescued from the crisis. Hundreds more want to leave.
The second flight chartered by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis transporting U.S. citizens out of Haiti landed at Miami International Airport on Thursday.
As chaos continued in Haiti, Gov. Ron DeSantis worried about a mass migration and deployed members of the Florida National Guard to help enforce immigration law at sea.
Miriam Cinotti, a Florida missionary, was one of 13 U.S. citizens who were evacuated from Haiti over the weekend after gang violence sent the country into chaos.
The airport in Port-au-Prince remains closed as gangs control the area, leading to the first official evacuation flight bringing 30 Americans to Miami on Sunday.
There is an ongoing scramble to staunch the street violence in Haiti's cities and neighborhoods and help the people whose families are watching from South Florida, helpless and bracing for the possibility of a Florida-bound mass exodus.
A number of government and aid agencies in Haiti have reported their facilities and aid supplies have been looted as Haiti spirals into another wave of gang violence.
