Under the direction of the Director General, Mr. Erol Josué, the technical team of the National Bureau of Ethnology (BNE) — nicknamed the "laboratory of people's science" (laboratwa syans pèp la) — ...

Photos and videos from the opening day of Haiti Carnival 2026 feature dancers, bands and traditional masks in Cap-Haïtien, Jacmel and more.

Sitting at the Hotel Cyvadier's best open-air table, Joel Khawly is staring poker-faced at the darkened Bay of Jacmel when his phone rings. Mr. Khawly does not take calls after 6 p.m., so his wife, ...

For weeks, online and in the pages of The Globe, this project has offered a unique window into the lives and challenges facing this historic Haitian city as it struggles to recover from January's ...

There had been a big rainstorm the night before Michael Magers’ first Kanaval. The annual February festivities are a long-held tradition in Jacmel, an artisan community in Haiti famous for elevating ...

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 ...

JACMEL, Haiti — The quaint, two-story villas with filigreed verandas may need a lick of paint, and the relentless din of motorbikes and dump trucks along the main thoroughfare is hardly conducive to a ...