While the rest of us mail checks, the General Motors Foundation is doing a lot more to help the earthquake victims of Haiti. It i donating 30 GMC trucks to the relief effort. Two of the trucks arrived in Miami yesterday, site of this year’s Super Bowl, and became props for the NFL Little...
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By Eliane Engeler Thursday, February 4, 2010 GENEVA — In an embarrassment to Switzerland’s government, the country’s top court said Wednesday that at least $4.6 million from Swiss bank accounts previously awarded to charities must be returned to the family of former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier. The decision was reached Jan. 12,...
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By: Daniel Erikson After a devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, the aftershock reached China in ways that few observers could have anticipated. After all, the link between the world’s most powerful rising economy and one of its most troubled states is tenuous. China and Haiti are worlds apart in almost...
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Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — Ten Americans who were detained last week while trying to take 33 Haitian children out of the country were charged Thursday with kidnapping children and criminal association, a government official said. Information Minister Marie Laurence Lassegue’s announcement came shortly after the five men and five women left a hearing at...
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By STEVEN VAN ZANDT | 2/2/10 5:02 AM EST As I watched “Meet the Press” host David Gregory recently ask former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush what it’s going to take to restore Haiti to how it was, my heart started paying attention. Gregory was asking the normal questions, and Clinton and...
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February 03, 2010 -Olivia Ward: Haitian President René Préval has been rightly criticized for his refusal to rally the nation after Haiti’s devastating Jan. 12 earthquake. Crisis thrusts greatness on leaders. But it can also be merciless in exposing weakness. Since Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake struck Jan. 12, President René Préval – once welcomed for...
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