At the head of an administration with no intact ministries, infrastructure or army, where vital meetings take place under a mango tree and a coconut palm, a defiant President Préval told The Times yesterday that he is taking back control of Haiti. “We have suffered a catastrophe that would have been terrible in any...
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By Alastair Jamieson
Published: 3:30PM GMT 23 Jan 2010 Dean Harris and Rudy Parkes from West Midlands Fire Brigade with two year old Mia whom they rescued after three days trapped in rubble Photo: PA Sixty-two experts were scrambled to help with the biggest natural disaster since the 2004 Indonesian tsunami, pulled four alive from...
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By MARC LACEY PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The only sound inside Haiti’s National Palace comes from the crunch underneath one’s soles. Its ornate reception rooms are strewn with rubble. The stench of decaying bodies, a week and a half after the earthquake, still wafts in the air. Usually a bustling place full of officials and...
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Haitians in Mass Exodus from Capital Port-au-Prince Jeff Swicord | Port-au-Prince 23 January 2010 Photo: VOA Photo J. Swicord Port-au-Prince residents board a bus to leave the capital city for safer rural areas in Haiti With Haiti still in a state of emergency after last week’s terrible earthquake, many residents of Port-au-Prince are leaving...
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