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• Investors plan soccer stadium for Haiti shantytown

  and smaller clubs play their home games at the only official stadium in Haiti's capital, the Stade Sylvio Castor in downtown Port-au-Prince. Its parking lot was used as a makeshift settlement for several hundred people displaced by the earthquake until city   Read more »

• Haiti police, UN crack down on would-be soldiers

  They were then taken to a police station.The effort aims to discourage an illegal group of armed men from parading around Port-au-Prince in military uniforms as if they were on patrol. The lightly armed men have been seen directing traffic and even sweeping   Read more »

• New hotels arise amid ruins in Haitian capital

  officials hope will become a growing market for tourists willing to overlook the capital and its troubles."Haiti is not Port-au-Prince," the tourism minister said. "Haiti is not the earthquake."Even before the catastrophe, only a handful of hotels met international   Read more »

• Hundreds pack meals for Haitian children

  as a United Nations Peace Officer, Andrew Grene, 44, was found dead in the rubble at the UN headquarters in Port-au-Prince.He fell in love with Haiti and even extended his two-year stay to three years, said his twin brother Gregory Grene, of Manhattan. As   Read more »

• Rumors roil Haiti amid political uncertainty

  to the Aristide camp. It likely galvanized several thousand Aristide supporters to rally two days later on his behalf in Port-au-Prince in the biggest anti-Martelly protest since he took office last May. It was also the biggest pro-Aristide demonstration since   Read more »

Around the web

• A Key to Rebuilding Haiti: Better Journalists

  meets the press in front of the national palace at a ceremony on the one-year anniversary of his time in office, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, May 14, 2012. But under his watch, the Haitian media has struggled to develop. If there was one feel-good moment   from Time Magazine Read more »

• Global Health Action Celebrates 40-Year Fight Against Disease

  took almost 10 weeks for the letter sent on Nov. 24, 1986, from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to reach Robin Davis, the executive director of Global Health Action, in Atlanta on Feb. 4, 1987. When she received it, she headed Global Health Action’s predecessor the   from Global Atlanta Read more »

• Barberton man remains in Haitian prison

  High School in 1991. Soon he was volunteering at an orphanage. In 1999, he met Aslyne. Their son Moses was born in Port-au-Prince in September 2000. They have another son, Spartacus. By spring 2001, the family had settled in Barberton. Since the 2010 earthquake,   from Akron Beacon Journal Read more »

• Haiti: Haiti: Humanitarian Snapshot (as of May 2012) (EN/FR) - updated 23 May 2012

  the death of 22 people, flooding and landslides, and the loss of crops and livestocks in six departments: Ouest, including Port-au-Prince metropolitan area, Nord, Nord-Ouest, Sud, Nippes and Grande Anse. Close to 20,000 people, a majority of them living in   from Humanitarian News Read more »

• Haiti to pay benefits via mobile

  programme, called Ti Manman Cheri, or Dear Little Mother, aims to benefit initially a 100,000 families in the capital, Port-au-Prince. Venezuela is providing $15m (£9.5m) for the first phase of the programme. Other Latin American countries, such as Brazil   from BBC News Read more »