On Monday, January 5th, Mayor Loudie César of Jacmel and the 2026 Carnival Committee informed the residents of Jacmel, ...

Michel Joseph Martelly, or “Sweet Micky,” is the former president of Haiti (2011- 2016). Here he is seen during a performance after leaving the Haitian presidency at Cafe Iguana Pines in Pembroke ...

Music, dancing and costumes filled the streets of the southern Haitian city of Jacmel at the weekend, as tourists and residents celebrated carnival. The festival got under way two years after plans ...

Jacmel, Haiti, Feb 9 (EFE).Jacmel, Haiti, Feb 9 (EFE). — Haiti is celebrating its carnival this year amidst heightened political tension with a call for a general strike on Monday and Tuesday to ...

Jacmel is a port town on Haiti's south peninsula, an hour and a half from the capital, Port au Prince. Jacmel's reputation as a resort for artists goes back to the '50s. , the art dealer who brought ...

The past few weeks have been the season of carnivals in the Americas, but when it comes to street celebrations there's over-the-top, and then there's Haiti. In the southern town of Jacmel, for example ...

In 325 A.D., Constantine’s Nicene Council decreed a date for commemorating Jesus’ rise and declared that during its lead-up, no meat should pass the faithful’s lips. Constantine wasn’t issuing an ...

Waving their arms in the air, marching in sync and singing in chorus, hundreds of revellers flooded the dusty, rubble strewn streets of downtown Jacmel during the last hours of afternoon sun. Instead ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Leafing through Leah Gordon's book of bewildering, disturbing and thrilling black-and-white photos, one stands out. Two boys stand ...

Michael Harris is a regular contributor to Book Review. Haiti is “a country where people are poor in money perhaps, but rich in culture,” a festival organizer in Jacmel, a southern coastal city, tells ...

Under the warm midday sun that lit the city of Jacmel on Sunday, a colorful procession of spectacular masks and costumes took over the streets of the Haiti's arts capital. The coastal city turned into ...

The papier-mâché artisans who helped define Jacmel's cultural richness are the success story of the year. The earthquake struck down many of their shops and erased all possibility of Carnival taking ...