Eye on the Caribbean

By Robert Shaw Bogota, Feb. 19, 2013 [AlterPresse] --- Jerry slip-sides deftly under the night sky lighting up the broken walls of Haiti´s (...)

Press release from Amnesty International Transmitted to AlterPresse on February 6, 2013 Former Haitian leader Jean-Claude Duvalier must not (...)

Accused of building their own “palaces” and not speaking “Queen’s English”, women leaders across the Caribbean slowly but surely start to take the (...)

By Robert Shaw P-au-P., 28 jan. 2013 [AlterPresse] --- In the current Martelly-Lamothe administration (2011-2016) from 23 Ministries there are (...)

Now almost 3 years after the earthquake that rocked Haiti’s shores, AlterPresse takes a closer look at life in Venezuela, a country that has (...)

Updated on 12:00 By Robert Shaw Bogota, Nov. 6, 2012 [AlterPresse] --- As voting in the 2012 US election kicks off today (Nov. 6, 2012), US (...)

By Robert Shaw Bogota, 30 oct. 2012 [AlterPresse] --- Human trafficking and migrant smuggling to and from Haiti is a family affair worth (...)

By: Gustavo Villarrubia and Juan Pablo Figueroa Published: 05.10.2012 Translated by : Robert Shaw for AlterPresse If it hadn’t been for the (...)

P-au-P, Oct 8, 2012 [AlterPresse] --- From July 2 until October 1, 2012, several national and international organizations launched an (...)

By Milo Milfort P-au-P, 4 Oct. 2012 [AlterPresse] --- Lake Azuei, also called Brackish Pond, is not only Haiti´s main natural lake covering (...)