In the late 1980s, Richard Morse became the hotel’s manager. His band, RAM, played Haitian roots music on Thursday nights ...

Haiti's once-illustrious Grand Hôtel Oloffson, a beloved Gothic gingerbread home that inspired books, hosted parties until ...

Prince, long a haven for artists and writers, poets and presidents, a symbol of Haiti's troubled politics and its storied ...

Haiti’s once-illustrious Grand Hotel Oloffson, a beloved gothic gingerbread home that inspired books, hosted parties until dawn and attracted visitors from Mick Jagger to Haitian presidents, was burnt ...

An iconic, 90-year-old hotel in Haiti that once hosted global stars like Mick Jagger and Marlon Brando was destroyed by flames over the weekend as gangs have almost completely taken over the capital.

Haitian security forces in February. Gangs control much of the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince. Mentor David Lorens/EPA, via Shutterstock ...

Jimmy Chérizier, a former elite police officer known as Barbecue who leads the G9 and Family gang, speaks to journalists in the Delmas 6 neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in July 2024.

Haitians go about their day at a displacement camp Léogâne, Haiti. In June of 2025, the country had nearly 1.3 million people internally displaced by armed gangs, the United Nations said.

Fritz Alphonse Jean, the head of Haiti’s Presidential Transitional Council, confirms that government turns to foreign mercenaries to help in fight against gangs.

More than 5,600 people were killed across Haiti last year, with gang violence leaving more than 1 million homeless in the country of nearly 12 million people, according to the U.N.