BY JACQUELINE CHARLES and DAVID OVALLE jcharles@MiamiHerald.com PORT-AU-PRINCE — One family has used a Haitian flag to pitch its tent at Mais Gate, a shantytown for the homeless near Port-au-Prince airport. Another fashioned its tent from a five-by-five cloth adorned with an image of Jesus. Residents say only about a dozen of nearly 1,000...
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By DAMIEN CAVE Published: January 26, 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Thousands of Haitians lined up at money transfer offices here on Tuesday, crowding windows and arguing with the police as they waited as long as 10 hours to collect small cash infusions wired from relatives abroad. Enlarge This Image Damon Winter/The New York Times...
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John Travolta landed a plane in Haiti on Monday to personally deliver supplies to survivors in the earthquake-ravaged nation. The “Pulp Fiction” star touched down in the Boeing commercial jet with his actress wife, Kelly Preston, a number of relief volunteers and 80 medics. The plane was also stocked with food and medical supplies....
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Many eyes on Haiti show More than 83 million people tuned in Friday night for at least a portion of the Hope for Haiti Now telethon, which aired commercial-free on dozens of networks. The fund raising effort, spearheaded by actor George Clooney and MTV Networks, had an average audience of more than 24 million...
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The Associated Press Tuesday, January 26, 2010; 2:22 PM WASHINGTON — The State Department says the number of U.S. fatalities in the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti is nearing 100. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters Tuesday that confirmed U.S. deaths now number 60, and another 37 Americans were killed but their identities...
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26 Jan 2010 15:15:42 GMT Source: Reuters WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (Reuters) – The U.S. military could begin scaling back its involvement in Haiti within three to six months as other international organizations assume larger roles providing security and disaster relief, senior Pentagon officials said on Tuesday. Vice Admiral Alan Thompson, director of the Defense...
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BY JIM POLSON Bloomberg News The earthquake in Haiti this month may have left clues to petroleum reservoirs that could aid economic recovery in the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation, a geologist said. The Jan. 12 earthquake was on a fault line that passes near potential gas reserves, said Stephen Pierce, a geologist who worked...
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By John J. Kruzel American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 26, 2010 – U.S. and international relief workers in Haiti are developing a 5,000-bed hospital in the capital of Port-au-Prince to increase medical capacity as the country struggles to recover two weeks after a devastating earthquake struck. Among other facilities, the hospital will accept...
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The last international disaster on the scale of the January earthquake in Haiti was the tsunami that devastated coastlines across Asia in 2004. The death toll in the territory of Aceh in Indonesia was similar to that in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. The BBC’s International Development Correspondent David Loyn, who reported from both towns,...
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* Doctors worry unsanitary camps could spread disease * Infections also a growing concern 12 days after quake By Patricia Zengerle PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jan 24 (Reuters) – Outbreaks of infectious diseases feared after Haiti’s devastating earthquake have not yet materialized, but illness and infections are still a threat to survivors, health officials said on Sunday....
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