luxury resort helps Haiti cling on to tourist trade

Paradise and razor wire

Labadee greets cruise ship passengers with unique panache: a cocktail, an empty beach, high walls topped with razor wire, guards with shotguns, and the suggestion that whatever the atlas says, this is

Haiti

Eyeing tourism, Haiti battles its violent reputation

Port Au Prince, Haiti - Kidnappings, gang violence, drug trafficking, corrupt police, flaming road blockades.

The reports out of the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere are enough to keep the most adventurous traveler away.

Climate Change

Caribbean to pay a heavy price because of its failure to take action on climate change

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada (eTN) - The costs of inaction will reach an astonishing 75 percent or more of Gross Domestic Product by 2100 in Dominica, Grenada, Haiti, St. Kitts & Nevis and Turks & Caicos, a latest report on climate change and its overall impact on the Caribbean has revealed.

Haiti

Haiti's tourism dreams deferred by riots

MILOT, Haiti - The tour guides were waiting with bony, undersized horses to carry travelers to Haiti's historic Citadelle Laferriere, one of the most impressive mountaintop fortresses in the world.

The tourism minister was waiting, bound proposals in hand, for an international donors conference to secure money to turn the impoverished ... read more

Food Crisis

Is climate change causing global food crisis?

(eTN) - The cost of agricultural commodities has leaped to record highs and supply of daily foodstuffs such as rice, wheat, cereals, meat, eggs and dairy products has become scare, begging the question: Is climate change, droughts and floods in the Asian region to blame for the growing tensions over shortages of food?

Haiti

Haiti bounces back

(eTN) - Though the second largest Caribbean island, second only to Cuba, the Republic of Haiti, located on the western side of the island of Hispaniola, is struggling to revive tourism.