Moise, Celestin to Face Off in Haiti Presidential Runoff

A banana plantation owner and the former head of Haiti's government construction agency will face off against each other in Haiti's presidential runoff next month. Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council announced late Thursday that 37-year-old banana entrepreneur Jovenel Moise of the ruling Haitian Party of Bald Heads - named in honor of the outgoing president - received 32.8 percent of the vote in the October poll, while 53-year-old Jude Celestin of the Alternative League for...

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