Released information from Haitian-Truth.org 4:01 PM January 22 2010 On January 12, 2010, the night of the earthquake disaster, Haitian Prime Minister Bellerive was arrested at the Dominican/Haitian border as he tried to flee Haiti. He had a case with $8,000,000.00 American dollars in it. This was returned to the Haitian government but, since...
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BELLEVUE, WA — January 21 – Trilogy International Partners and Voilà, its Haitian wireless network, continue to provide critical communications capabilities essential to emergency and relief needs from the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday, January 12. Immediately following the earthquake, Voilà’s management team implemented a maintenance and disaster recovery plan. Voilà’s...
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Haiti: Coping with the aftermath Hi-res images from Los Angeles Times photographers Carolyn Cole, Rick Loomis and Brian Vander Brug. WARNING: GALLERY CONTAINS GRAPHIC CONTENT PLEA: A banner calling for help in the Delmas 36 neighborhood in Port-au-Prince. U.S. officials said they are using three additional airfields to...
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By JONATHAN M. KATZ The Associated Press Tuesday, January 19, 2010; 10:01 PM PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — When Haitians realized their National Palace was destroyed, many feared President Rene Preval was dead. Turns out it was a very near miss. First Lady Elisabeth Debrosse Preval recounted the first public details of the couple’s post-earthquake ordeal...
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By ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU and MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press Writers Alfred De Montesquiou And Michelle Faul, Associated Press Writers – PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haitians are fleeing their quake-ravaged capital by the hundreds of thousands, aid officials said Friday, as their government promised to help nearly a half-million more move from squalid camps on curbsides...
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By PAUL HAVEN The Associated Press Wednesday, January 20, 2010; 7:11 PM TITANYEN, Haiti — They stick out at all angles from the tall mounds of chalky dirt, the limbs of men, women and children frozen together in poses of death. Tens of thousands more killed in Haiti’s catastrophic quake lie beneath the earth...
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By MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—The Haitian government prepared Friday to call off the search for survivors of last week’s killer earthquake. The Haitians were expected to make the announcement at midday, Joe Knerr, of the Fairfax County, Va., Search and Rescue Team, told his unit during their morning briefing at the U.S. Embassy....
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By Jocelyn Vena: Leonardo DiCaprio has donated $1 million to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund. The actor, who will be on hand Friday night (January 22) for MTV’s “Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief” telethon, is the latest Hollywood A-lister to donate a large amount to help Haiti’s recovery after...
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Aftershocks continue to rattle Haiti. Already weakened structures continue to collapse with each new tremor more casualties result. BIG AFTERSHOCK AT 0754 EST AS I TRANSMIT THIS REPORT – PANIC!!! IT IS A LONG ONE AND IS STILL SHAKING AFTER 30 SECONDS! CNN TELLS REPORTERS TO OMIT COVERAGE ON HAITIAN GOVERNMENT Preval’s crimes should...
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