Word: haitian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officer was beaming like an expectant father getting ready to pass out cigars. Maybe even Cuban cigars. "In the next 48 hours we will have the first migrant Haitian born in Guantanamo, which we are all kind of looking forward to," announced Brigadier General George H. Walls of the Marines last week. Right on schedule came the new arrival: a baby boy (6 lbs. 8 oz.) born to a 20-year-old Haitian woman. The infant raises a ticklish diplomatic issue: Are the children of Haitian refugees born on the Guantanamo ("Gitmo") Bay Naval Base entitled to U.S. citizenship? Absolutely...
Dancing and waving signs, hundreds of Haitian immigrants took to the streets of Miami to celebrate a victory for their countrymen last week. Rejecting the government's argument that it should be allowed to ship back to Haiti the refugees who have tried to reach Florida in sailboats in the past three months, U.S. District Judge C. Clyde Atkins extended his ban on forcible repatriation of the boat people. Since September, when the military ousted Haiti's first democratically elected President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the U.S. Coast Guard has intercepted 6,442 Haitians. Most are now living in camps...
...Celebration of Haitian Culture--a performance by poet-playwright Jean-Claude Martineau and the Hibiscus Company including poetry, songs and stories in Creole and English and drumming by a master drummer. In Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave., in the Remis Auditorium. Sunday, Dec. 15, at 3 p.m. For information call...
...name tag is as inviting as he is. "How are you today?" asks the man whose tag curiously reads, 'Wernher P.' And for about the thousandth time, his thick, French/Creole accent betraying his Haitian heritage, he inquires, "What would you like...
After spending three months learning English at Northeastern University, he was admitted to study electronics at the Wentworth Institute of Technology in Roxbury. Even though he had been exposed to the best Haitian schools offered, Wernher found American education different, and more difficult...