VOA Creole Service

VOA’s Creole Service began broadcasting to Haiti in 1986 after the fall of the Duvalier regime. The service has nine full-time employees plus a contractor.

Veteran journalist Jacques Jean-Baptiste was well known in Haiti even before joining the Creole Service. He rose to fame after his role in a popular Haitian radio drama, Roye, les Voila!

Marie-Luce Pierre is a veteran broadcaster who joined VOA Creole in December 1991. Before that, she worked for the evangelical radio station, Radio Lumière, one of VOA Creole’s affiliates in Haiti. Marie-Luce hosts a weekly feature on health.

Creole Service editor Serge Michel is based in Miami and reports on the Haitian communities in South Florida. Before joining VOA, Serge worked as a journalist for the Haitian government-funded radio station in Port-au-Prince.

In addition to being an announcer on VOA Creole, Serge Rodriguez also hosts a weekly music program on VOA Creole and an Americana segment about American artists and life in the United States.

Creole Service Editor and Radio Broadcaster, Lyonel Desmarattes, rose to fame as a journalist during his years at the state-funded Radio Nacional. However, since the establishment of VOA's Creole Service in 1986, Desmarattes has been provided accurate, un

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Jacquelin Belizaire is one of the co-anchors of the Creole Service’s weekly call-in show and hosts a weekly segment on young people that features young Haitians who make a difference in their society.

Jean-Pierre Leroy joined the VOA Creole Service in 2008. In addition to his journalistic work, he is a published writer with several books, including Under the Rubble. He plays the Saxophone and the piano.

VOA reporter Jean Robert Philippe is pictured here interviewing a survivor of the 2010 earthquake. Many local radio stations were damaged by the quake and unable to broadcast, but VOA Creole’s broadcasts were uninterrupted and a vital source of news and

Haitian President Michel Martelly visited VOA headquarters in February 2014 and was interviewed by service Chief Ronald Cesar.

In 2008 the Creole Service began offering journalism training sessions in Haiti and the U.S. to Haitian journalists.