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A $3 million agreement between Japan and the Organization of American States will help Haiti expand biometric identification services, issue 350,000 new identification cards and update the electoral registry. The agreement was signed Tuesday during OAS Secretary General Albert Ramdin’s visit to the country, where a high-level Inter-American delegation met with Haitian authorities, security officials and international partners to discuss election readiness, humanitarian needs and long-term development.

The identification initiative is significant beyond the electoral process. A national identification card can determine whether Haitians can establish their legal identity, access government and social services and participate in elections. For Haitians displaced by violence or living in remote areas, expanding mobile registration could make it easier to obtain identification and participate in the electoral process. More than 1.4 million people have been displaced nationwide, according to figures cited by international officials.

https://haitiantimes.com/2026/08/19/haiti-gets-3m-oas-japan-deal-to-expand-id-system-ahead-of-elections/

Tyson Foods in Virginia, which has a large Haitian workforce, assisted ICE by tricking an out-of-status employee into coming in. As a result, even the legal Haitian workers turned in their badges and quit on the spot. L’union fait la force.

🤣🤣ion blame em. Got me bent too if you think I’m already here after walking hundreds of miles just to self deport🤣🤣

This is in west park in Broward. What’s wild is he had no ID on him yet somehow the agents determined his status and took him into custody. How? How can they determine someone’s status without running ID or checking any databases? They also left his property on the scene smh this is some DR shit

Also, for those currently out of status, refrain from riding bikes or walking in Florida. Hell, move elsewhere.

August 14, 1791 — The Ceremony of Bwa Kayiman (Bois Caïman) is the sacred, historic site in northern Haiti where a secret Vodou ceremony and political meeting took place on August 14, 1791, sparking the Haitian Revolution

The meeting was organized and led by Dutty Boukman, a charismatic maroon leader and Vodou houngan (priest), alongside Cécile Fatiman, a powerful Vodou mambo (priestess).

Around 200 to 300 enslaved Africans, including plantation commanders, coachmen, and maroons from across the Northern Plain, gathered secretly in a heavily forested area near Okap. To seal their pact, a black pig was sacrificed, and attendees drank its blood to swear an oath of absolute loyalty to the cause of liberation and the destruction of the colonial slave system.

Yverick Delerme Cyril, Haiti’s consul general in Miami, said the Haitian government should not be expected to organize special arrangements for Haitian nationals who previously held Temporary Protected Status (TPS) in the United States and now wish to return home.

Speaking in an interview with journalist Luckson St-Vil, Delerme Cyril questioned the expectation that authorities would treat returning citizens as if they were arriving for a state-organized event. He framed the issue as people simply returning to their own country, not as a situation requiring dedicated government preparations.

Last week, gang leader Lanmò San Jou posted a video showing off his luxury watches, such as Rolexes and Patek Philippes. After Haitian online personalities called them fake, he uploaded what he claims is $1 million USD. 🤷🏿‍♂️

This man doesn’t only have all kinds of weapons at that WELL-KNOWN house in Croix-des-Bouquets, but he also has millions of dollars in cash? Hmm, m sezi.

Roughly $46K will be used for the city’s festivities. Cap-Haïtien (Okap) celebrates its 355th anniversary on August 15, 2026. The city was founded in 1671.

Props to the city for making the donation public instead of pocketing it

According to Wadley’s account, given in several videos circulating on social media, he had purchased a ticket from Cap-Haïtien to Fort Lauderdale, where he was booked on a connecting flight to New York. When he arrived at the airport, he says, he was told the flight’s destination had been changed: instead of Fort Lauderdale, the plane would land in Miami.

A crew member, he says, informed passengers there was not enough water on the aircraft for everyone. Frustrated that the airline could not meet what he considered a basic standard of service, Wadley acknowledges he made a comment that was not appreciated by the airline employees.
It was at that point, he says, that Sunrise representatives called the police. Officers boarded the aircraft and removed him. In the videos, other passengers can be heard defending him, saying he had done nothing to warrant such treatment.

What Wadley says happened next is the most serious part of his account, and CTN was not able to independently verify it: he says he was taken to a police station and held in handcuffs for more than an hour. He alleges he was not released until after the plane had departed, and that this was done on the instructions of a Sunrise manager.

He was ultimately able to travel onward to the Dominican Republic only after a content creator, Sheila Guilloux, organized a GoFundMe campaign on his behalf.

Bullin47 x Afriken "Leo Leo" BTS

NGL all the dishes looked real good🇭🇹🇭🇹Props to the chef

Oh lord they bout to turn St Croix rogue🤣

Several hundred soldiers who are part of the GSF mission have just entered the Artibonite Department aboard several combat helicopters and armored vehicles on Thursday, August 6, 2026.

The soldiers established their base in the city of Gonaïves, according to the vice-delegate of the Gros-Morne arrondissement, Raphaël Clavanet Marado, who did not want to provide too many details.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel have been instructed to delay taking enforcement actions against Haitian nationals with expired Temporary Protected Status (TPS). According to an internal agency directive confirmed by Newsweek, ICE agents are currently told not to arrest or deport former Haitian TPS holders while the government evaluates the transition.

The temporary directive instructs field agents to hold off on routine enforcement against most former TPS holders. Haitians who already hold final judicial orders of removal are not protected by this pause and remain subject to standard enforcement operations.

Internal sources note it is still unknown how long this pause will last or whether it is being applied uniformly nationwide. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) declined to comment on ongoing or upcoming field operations.

https://www.newsweek.com/ice-agents-told-delay-arresting-haitians-expired-tps-12294186

Just days after the mayor and street vendors at Rue 3 Market reached an agreement that will benefit both parties, the city has already cleared all the trash, and heavy machinery is now preparing the site for what the mayor says will be a multi-story market similar to those found in China.

111 years since the invasion. The stolen fortunes were never returned.

The United States occupation of Haiti began on July 28, 1915, when 330 U.S. Marines landed at Port-au-Prince under orders from President Woodrow Wilson, and officially ended on August 15, 1934. Spanning 19 years, this military intervention sought to protect American corporate and financial interests—specifically those of the National City Bank of New York—and prevent German political influence in the Caribbean during World War I.

National City Bank (now Citibank) heavily lobbied the Wilson administration to intervene to protect its investments and secure control over Haiti's custom houses. In December 1914, U.S. Marines had already entered the National Bank of Haiti and physically removed $500,000 worth of gold, transferring it to Wall Street vaults.

The immediate pretext for the invasion was the assassination of Haitian President Vilbrun Guillaume Sam by an angry mob, capping off years of intense socioeconomic and political unrest. The U.S. government worried that Germany might exploit Haiti's instability to establish a military base in the Western Hemisphere.

In 1917, the U.S. forced a new constitution upon Haiti (partially drafted by then-Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt). It dissolved the Haitian legislature and stripped away a historic 1804 constitutional ban that blocked foreigners from owning land.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani declared that “there’s a new sheriff in town” on Monday as Edwin Raymond was sworn in to lead New York City’s Sheriff’s Office.

The well-worn line carried unusual weight at the Brooklyn College ceremony, as Raymond, the son of Haitian immigrants, took office on the same day Temporary Protected Status expired for more than 300,000 Haitians living in the United States. 

He also inherits an agency whose former leader, Anthony Miranda, was fired by Mamdani earlier this year and is now under federal investigation for corruption within the office.

Mamdani and other officials pointed to Raymond being the first Haitian New Yorker to lead the Sheriff’s Office as both a milestone for the city’s Haitian community and the beginning of a new chapter for an agency emerging from a period of apparent turmoil.

“Anyone who thinks that they can push Haitian New Yorkers out of this city, out of this country — ask me where Haitian New Yorkers are going to go,” Mamdani said. “I tell them the only answer is up.”

https://politicsny.com/2026/07/27/new-sheriff-in-town-nycs-first-haitian-sheriff-takes-office-as-tps-expires/