By Nelson A. King Published: Saturday, January 2, 2010 5:58 PM EST The world’s largest cruise ship has made Haiti, its first port of call. Officials said Royal Caribbean’s 16-deck, 225,000-ton Oasis of the Seas steamed back to Miami last Friday from the company’s private port in Labadee, northern Haiti, on its maiden voyage....
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VOA News 01 January 2010 Haitian President Rene Preval says the Caribbean country’s upcoming legislative elections will be fair. President Preval made the pledge Friday in the city of Gonaives in a speech marking Haiti’s Independence Day. The first round of voting is scheduled for February 28. Haiti’s electoral council has banned the political...
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BY BRIAN CONCANNON JR. and IRA KURZBAN ira@kkwtlaw.com Late last month, Haiti’s government took the undemocratic and dangerous step of excluding 15 political parties, including Haiti’s most popular party, Fanmi Lavalas, from parliamentary elections scheduled for February and March 2010. The decision threatens not only Haiti’s democracy and stability, but billions in foreign investments...
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Jan 1, 12:02 PM (ET) By SHARON THEIMER WASHINGTON (AP) – Foreign countries including Saudi Arabia and Norway gave millions of dollars to former President Bill Clinton’s charity as Hillary Rodham Clinton served her first year as President Barack Obama’s secretary of state. A donor list released on New Year’s Day by the William...
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