BY DOUG OAKLEY Contra Costa Times WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Haiti’s construction industry is to blame for hundreds of thousands of deaths in a tragedy that will repeat itself unless their building practices change, a Berkeley, Calif., engineer said Tuesday. In one of the first technical reports on this month’s earthquake, Eduardo Fierro, president...
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By Charlie Onians and Alex Ogle (AFP) – PORT-AU-PRINCE — Rescuers Wednesday dragged a Haitian girl alive from the rubble 15 days after a devastating quake, in a rare moment of joy for a country where victims still face a desperate shortage of aid. A French search team saved the 16-year-old after neighbors heard...
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OTTAWA—Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is calling on developed countries to forgive Haiti’s debt so the country can concentrate on climbing out from under the rubble and not a mountain of debt. Flaherty said Wednesday that when G7 finance ministers meet in Iqaluit on Feb. 5 and 6, he will also be urging the ministers...
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By VIVIAN SEQUERA and BEN FOX, Associated Press Writers PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Street vendors openly sell U.S.-donated rice by the cupful from bags marked “not for resale.” At a homeless camp, a young woman told of thieves who tried to sell her own food back to her. As she spoke, a gang of youths...
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5 more aftershocks!! More buildings collapse. Drove past our office location for the first time and saw the pile of rubble that was once a three story building. There is no recognizable structure. Just a pile of debris in small component pieces. 32 MINUSTAH people were laid to rest beneath this impenetrable mass, to...
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Doesn’t matter that a lot of people will starve because of this!! Preval, with MINUSTAH support, planned to control all relief supplies, channeling them exclusively through the hands of his UNITE party’s candidates. This would guarantee their win in this year’s elections. The people would see them as Saviors. This was too obvious a...
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By Jessica Ravitz(CNN) — There’s nothing like images of infants and children in distress to make outsiders yearn to help, which is why the unfolding story of Haiti’s orphans — the most helpless of earthquake victims — has kept people riveted. But what can be done and what should be the focus of attention...
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By Steve Sternberg, USA TODAY ABOARD THE USNS COMFORT — Yvelot Brianville, 24, lies quietly on a steel hospital gurney, a boyish naval officer in blue combat fatigues standing by his side. The officer, Lt. Cmdr. Mill Etienne, 34, is Haitian, fluent in Creole. He is also a neurologist, called to the intensive-care ward...
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PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 27 (UPI) — NASA says it has added several science overflights of earthquake faults in Haiti and the Dominican Republic to a previously scheduled airborne radar project. The space agency’s Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar, or UAVSAR, left NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in California Monday aboard a modified NASA...
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By MARTHA MENDOZA The Associated Press Wednesday, January 27, 2010; 11:22 AM – Only 1 cent of each dollar the U.S. is spending on earthquake relief in Haiti is going in the form of cash to the Haitian government, according to an Associated Press review of relief efforts. Less than two weeks after President...
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