Haiti

FAIRFIELD (GaeaTimes.com)- Douglas Perlitz a school founder in Haiti hailing from USA was given 20 years imprisonment for sexually abusing a number of school children while pretending to be the savior for them to the outer world.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The crime was horrifying enough - a nightclub owner, hacked to death with a machete, was found buried in pieces.

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - A former adviser for American missionaries accused of taking children out of Haiti has been extradited to the United States in an illegal immigrant smuggling case, officials said Tuesday.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The United Nations mission in Haiti says one of its peacekeepers and a civilian woman have been shot by robbers outside a bank in the capital.

BOISE, Idaho - The leader of an American group detained while trying to take 33 children out of Haiti after the January earthquake defended her actions upon her release, saying she was "wrongly accused and held without just cause." Laura Silsby was freed in May after being convicted of arranging illegal travel and sentenced to time served.