Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Haiti on the island of Hispaniola






Haiti is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, to the east of Cuba and Jamaica and south of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island which it shares with the Dominican Republic.

The Capital and largest city Port-au-Prince. The official language are French and Haitian Creole.

Ethnic groups are 95% black, and 5% mixed and white.

The current president is Jovenel Moïse, and the Prime Minister is Joseph Jouthe .

The Country profile , the CIA Factbook.

The 2017 CIA Factbook reported that around 54.7% of Haitians profess to being Catholics, while Protestants made up about 28.5% of the population (Baptist 15.4%, Pentecostal 7.9%, Seventh-day Adventist 3%, Methodist 1.5%, other 0.7%).

January 12, 2010 earthquake had a 7.0 magnitude.

January 13, 2010: Pat Robertson says Haiti paying for 'pact to the devil.'