JACMEL, HAITI–The bustling streets of this coastal city were brought to a halt Tuesday as native daughter Michaëlle Jean returned for a visit to her ancestral hometown. Jean wound up her ...

Jacmel, Haiti – We awoke this morning to the incredible view of Jacmel from the sea. I'd read so much in preparation for getting here that I had a storybook view of the city in my mind, with its ...

Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean paid an emotional visit to her family's hometown in Gov. Jacmel, Haiti, on Tuesday.

Steve Krause writes: I first went to Jacmel in April of 2003, while working as a missionary in Haiti. I spent 6 months there that first time before heading back to Port-au-Prince for a year.

The last week has been one long and agonizing wait for the 40,000 residents of Jacmel, who had to battle for the world’s attention with Haiti’s hard-hit capital, Port-au-Prince.

Central to Jacmel’s burgeoning recovery has been a sense of pride long associated with the city. Jacmelians, as residents call themselves, view themselves independent of Haiti.

Canada's disaster response team in Haiti will focus its aid efforts for the earthquake-ravaged Caribbean country on the port town of Jacmel, Brig.-Gen. Guy Laroche says.

And Haiti does what it will to encourage her — two unofficially adopted daughters Rosalinda and Danaelle, the 62 healthy babies delivered at her birthing clinic in Jacmel in 2013, the prospect ...