By THE NEW YORK TIMES An independent commission of inquiry into the Jan. 19 killings of a dozen or more inmates at a prison in Les Cayes, Haiti, was formally established by presidential decree this week, officials said Tuesday. The commission was proposed in May after The New York Times published an investigation into...
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When your father is a former U.S. President and your mother is the Secretary of State, having your wedding reception in the local pub isn’t an option. Chelsea Clinton’s big day in a country mansion on Saturday could cost up to £3.2million. No expense...
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by Wendell Hutson A coalition of four Black Baptist groups have come together to form a volunteer association whose primary goal is to raise $50 million for Haitian relief. The Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention, National Baptist Convention USA, Progressive National Baptist Convention...
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All the Money donated to Haiti went to Private NGO’s and President Clinton Foundation. None of the Money went to the Haitian Government. The Government has no money…. Anderson Cooper, CNN- Tuesday July 13, 2010 —————————————————— Original is in French- Translation is in Bold...
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By Stephen Smith, Globe Staff Dr. Paul Farmer, the charismatic founder of Boston-based Partners in Health, told Congress today the path to recovery in earthquake-shattered Haiti must be charted by that nation’s government and not by outside aid agencies, no matter how well-intentioned. Farmer,...
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27 July 2010 – The United Nations and its partners are aiming to reach an additional 500,000 Haitian children during a second round of emergency immunizations in the Caribbean nation that was struck by a devastating earthquake just over six months ago. The second...
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Wyclef Jean is rumored to be running for president of Haiti. The Haiti Constitution gives six clear requirements for becoming president, however, and Wyclef may not meet them all. By Stephen Kurczy, Staff writer / July 27, 2010 Wyclef Jean has casually hinted that he...
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When Weyerhaeuser Company announced it would donate building materials to help rebuild Haiti after January’s devastating earthquake, the company didn’t realize that the generosity of trucking companies would help stretch the donation even further. But when six local trucking companies stepped forward to help, Weyerhaeuser...
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Prior to the earthquake of January 12th 2010, Haiti had experienced the highest TB notification rate in the Latin America and Caribbean region. In a forthcoming editorial in Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine, Kevin Schwartzman and colleagues from the McGill University Health Centre (Montreal,...
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July 25, 2010 The gloves are off. No more subterfuge. Preval has held a secret meeting with 30 major Haitian businessmen. He told them that there would be no presidential elections this coming November 28. Instead he will hold elections for the Senate and...
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Projet qu’il aurait exposé à des hommes d’affaires, selon son ancien ministre de la justice, Camille Leblanc samedi 24 juillet 2010, Radio Kiskeya L’ancien ministre de la justice sous le premier mandat de René Préval (1996-2001) et président du mouvement sociopolitique Aimer Haïti ,...
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As Christopher ‘Dudus‘ Coke Eludes Capture, 30 Reported Dead In Spreading Violence By RICHARD ESPOSITO, MARK SCHONE and LUIS MARTINEZ May 25, 2010 As official reports surface of accused drug lord Christopher Coke’s escape from his barricaded Kingston, Jamaica neighborhood, where Jamaican authorities have...
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Chronique d’une catastrophe annoncée Une vieille pratique adoptée par la quasi-totalité de nos dirigeants politiques, à part le courageux Nissage Saget, veut que, pour des raisons diverses les unes plus fallacieuses que les autres, la pérennité du pouvoir soit assurée par tous les moyens....
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By: The Canadian Press 24/07/2010 4:04 PM | Comments: 0 MONTREAL – A spokeswoman for Wyclef Jean isn’t saying whether the hip hop star has plans to run for the Haitian presidency. Adrienne Jacoby was responding to a report in an Ottawa-based newspaper that...
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By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE Yana Paskova for The New York Times Charles Rangel at Friday’s news conference. In his first news conference since learning his fellow lawmakers would put up him on trial for ethics violations, Representative Charles B. Rangel urged his constituents and the...
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Reporting from Port-au-Prince, Haiti — If it weren’t hard enough looking after 2,000 earthquake victims crammed into a sweltering schoolyard, Jean Robert Charles now has to worry about rapists. Charles is the de facto mayor of a tent settlement that fills a school and...
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BY JACQUELINE CHARLES jcharles@MiamiHerald.com PORT-AU-PRINCE — Deep in the ravine amid the narrow corridors and chaotic construction, workers in T-shirts push wheelbarrows up and down a newly carved dirt path as rubble-filled buckets are passed in a human chain. At the top of the...
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COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS JOHN F. KERRY, Massachusetts, Chairman CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, Connecticut RUSSELL D. FEINGOLD, Wisconsin BARBARA BOXER, California ROBERT MENENDEZ, New Jersey BENJAMIN L. CARDIN, Maryland ROBERT P. CASEY, JR., Pennsylvania JIM WEBB, Virginia JEANNE SHAHEEN, New Hampshire EDWARD E. KAUFMAN, Delaware...
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The hottest ticket in the world right now is an invitation to the July 31st wedding of Chelsea Clinton. Reports are now that the Clinton wedding price tag is well over $2 Million dollars! Compared to Jenna Bush’s wedding costing only $100,000. One has...
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JOHN HEILPRIN | 07/22/10 06:24 PM | UNITED NATIONS — A portrait of Ban Ki- moon as a secrecy-obsessed U.N. chief seeking to wrest control of internal investigations emerges from a blistering 50-page confidential memo by his former oversight chief. One of the foremost...
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