After a successful production last year, Funkshion Fashion Week Miami Beach has teamed up once again with H-Media Management
to bring you:
Haiti A la MODE!
This year’s show promises to be BIGGER and BETTER than the last! Featuring the best of the culture’s artists, designers and entertainers, Haiti A la MODE! will propel Haiti’s fashion renaissance unto a world stage, like never before. Guests and fashion lovers will be treated to a front-row showcase of Haiti’s fashion rebirth through the fresh new lines and distinguished sense of style of top Haitian designers.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — An enormous U.S. Navy hospital ship will suspend operations off the coast of Haiti's capital in advance of Tropical Storm Irene. A Sunday statement from the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince said Navy commanders have directed the Baltimore-based crew of the USNS Comfort to seek safe haven until the storm has passed. Irene is forecasted to strengthen into a hurricane by Monday as it nears the southern coast of the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti.
1. MINUSTAH continually harasses and humiliates Haitians. MINUSTAH’s favorite activities include pepper spraying Haitians and capriciously confiscating drivers’ licenses and computers.
2. Common criminals in MINUSTAH enjoy immunity from prosecution. Though over 100 troops have been expelled from Haiti for child prostitution and related charges, MINUSTAH soldiers have enjoyed immunity for most of their crimes, including numerous rapes and the suffocation in August 2010 of a Haitian teenager working on a Nepalese MINUSTAH base.
Meat giant Cargill is recalling 36 million pounds of turkey after a government hunt for the source of a salmonella outbreak that has killed one person in California and sickened dozens more. Cargill is recalling fresh and frozen ground turkey products produced at the company's Springdale, Ark., plant from Feb. 20 through Aug. 2 due to possible contamination from the strain of salmonella linked to 76 illnesses and the one death.
16 out of 30 senators voted against former justice minister Bernard Gousse on Tuesday August 02, 2011. After a stormy debate the other senators refused to take part in the vote. Haiti’s Senate has blocked the President Michel Martelly's nomination for prime minister for the second time since May 2011 election.
A Haitian teen who came to the United States two years ago for hip surgery has drowned during a church outing at Fort De Soto Park. Authorities say 19-year-old Nikenson Cenatus was at the park with a group from Sanctification Haitian Baptist Church Saturday when he waded into the water.
Why is it when you want to do something you put many obstacles in your way? Oh I don't have a babysitter - when you know grandma lives down the street. But I feel tired -- when you been home all day. --- danm it! Just do it. Move something -- make it happen --- put away the: but this, but that, this that this. FORWARD MARCH.
