Haiti suffers from a lack of investment, partly because of limited infrastructure and a lack of security.

One of the incidents which led to the creation of the Basel Convention was the Khian Sea waste disposal incident, in which a ship carrying incinerator ash from the city of Philadelphia in the United States after having dumped half of its load on a beach in Haiti, was forced away where it sailed for many months, changing its name several times.

This has led CUIC to address issues of racism in the public sphere, including the killing of Trayvon Martin and the recovery from the 2010 Haiti Earthquake.

The maximum length, east to west, is 390 km from Punta de Agua to Las Lajas, on the border with Haiti.

This long valley stretches from North Haiti, where is called Plaine du Nord, to Samaná Bay.

They also are active in efforts to control contraband and illegal immigration from Haiti to the Dominican Republic and from the Dominican Republic to the United States ( via illegal transportation of Dominicans to Puerto Rico ).

Growing immigration from and political instability in Haiti have forced the Dominican Republic to take a closer look at relations with its neighbor both country-to-country and in international fora.

Haiti again became an empire from 1849 to 1859 under Faustin Soulouque.

* 2004 – Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.

* 1844 – The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.

* National Day, celebrates the first independence of Dominican Republic from Haiti in 1844.

Fedon was clearly influenced by the ideas emerging from the French Revolution especially the Convention's abolition of slavery in 1794-he stated that he intended to make Grenada a " Black Republic just like Haiti ".

Victims from 2010 Haiti earthquake are unloaded at U. S. Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

It is from this point in 1660 that unbroken French rule in Haiti begins.

Although Haiti actively assisted the independence movements of many Latin American countries – and secured a promise from the great liberator, Simón Bolívar, that he would free their slaves after winning independence from Spain – the nation of former slaves was excluded from the hemisphere's first regional meeting of independent nations, held in Panama in 1826.

Furthermore, owing to entrenched opposition from Southern slave states, Haiti did not receive U. S. diplomatic recognition until 1862 ( after those states had seceded from the Union ) – largely through the efforts of anti-slavery senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts.

All citizens of Haiti, regardless of skin color, to be known as " Black " ( this was an attempt to eliminate the multi-tiered racial hierarchy that had developed in Haiti, with full or near full-blooded Europeans at the top, various levels of light to brown skin in the middle, and dark skinned " Kongo " from Africa at the bottom ).

In this period, the eastern part of the island rose against the new powers following general Juan Sánchez Ramírez's claims of independence from France, which broke the Treaties of Bâle attacking Spain and prohibited commerce with Haiti.

In 1915 the United States, responding to complaints to President Woodrow Wilson from American banks to which Haiti was deeply in debt, occupied the country.

When Haiti announced that its first direct elections ( all men twenty-one or over were allowed to vote ) would be held on October 8, 1950, Magloire resigned from the junta and declared himself a candidate for president.

At the request of Michèle, Papa Doc's widow Simone was expelled from Haiti.

The University of Haiti ( French: l ' université d ' Etat d ' haiti or UEH ) is one of Haiti's most important institutions of higher education.

Dahomey resembled Haiti in many ways, both geographically and culturally, and it was safer to film there than in Haiti.

All Latin American and Caribbean countries except Cuba and Venezuela enjoyed much more economic freedom than Haiti on the Index of Economic Freedom of 2006.

In the early years of the United States, immigration was fewer than 8, 000 people a year, including French refugees from the slave revolt in Haiti.

After sending more than 20, 000 troops to try to regain the colony in 1802, France withdrew its 7, 000 surviving troops in late 1803, shortly before Haiti declared independence.

* Hurricane Georges made landfall in at least seven different countries ( Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba and the United States ) and Puerto Rico, a Commonwealth of the United States – more than any other hurricane since Hurricane Inez of the 1966 season.

** An overcrowded ferry sinks off the coast of Irois, Haiti, killing more than 200 people.

" The New York Times commented: " Latin America has witnessed many fraudulent elections throughout its history but none has been more outrageous than the one which has just taken place in Haiti.

In Cambodia, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Honduras, the average wage paid by a firm accused of being a sweatshop is more than double the average income in that country's economy.

Henry preferred trading with English and American merchants rather than the French and Spanish, who did not recognize Haiti an as independent country.

Some ( usually less than one percent of collected shards in most of the Bahamas, about ten percent in the Caicos Islands ) sand-tempered pottery was imported from Cuba and / or Haiti.

It occupies an area of 27, 767 km², being slightly larger than Haiti.

The slaves, led eventually by Toussaint Louverture and then, following his capture by the French in 1801, by Jean-Jacques Dessalines, held their own against French, Spanish, and British opponents, and ultimately achieved independence as Empire of Haiti in 1804 ( Haiti became the first black republic in the world, much earlier than any of the future African nations although it was not until the 19th century that Europeans began establishing colonies in Africa ).

Today COGIC has more than 3, 000 churches, and several schools, missions, and medical clinics in nearly sixty nations on five continents including Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, Mexico, Belize, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Liberia, Nigeria, Germany, Pakistan, India, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Panama, Rwanda, Uganda, and Australia.

In a November 27, 2011 New York Post article entitled " Questions Dog Wyclef's Haiti Fund ", the Post asserted that less than one third of the over $ 16 million raised after the Haiti earthquake in January 2010 has been spent effectively for the victims of the catastrophe.

Haiti is much poorer than the Dominican Republic.

The CARICOM Visa was applicable to the nationals of all countries except CARICOM member states ( other than Haiti ) and associate member states, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and the overseas countries, territories or departments of these countries.

The administration took office less than two years after the fall of the Soviet Union, and the administration's foreign policy addressed conflicts in Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Haiti through militarism and economic exploitation.

It is 68 per cent francophone and is the largest majority-francophone city in North America outside of Quebec or Haiti, recently achieving a greater population than Edmundston, New Brunswick.

This enabled the Kingdom of Haiti to maintain a stronger economic structure than the Republic of Haiti based in Port-au-Prince in the South under Petion which had a system of agrarian reform distributing land to the laborers.

The hurricane made landfall in at least seven different countries ( Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba and the United States ) and Puerto Rico, a Commonwealth of the United States — more than any other hurricane since Hurricane Inez of the 1966 season.