English.news.cn 2010-02-02 09:48:46 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) — Schools in Haiti’s capital city re-opened on Monday after the Jan. 12 killer earthquake as President Rene Preval said all elementary schools should re-open in March. UNICEF communication officer Francis Vanni said that children would return to school activities as soon as their schools are ready...
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Haiti faces a massive task helping those who lost homes and livelihoods in the recent earthquake, former US President Bill Clinton has admitted. Named by the UN as international aid co-ordinator, Mr Clinton was visiting Haiti’s damaged capital Port-au-Prince. Protesters gathered as he met the country’s president for talks on how to improve the...
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(CNN) — The two people who died Thursday night when their helicopter crashed into a mountain in the Dominican Republic were friends who had left their homes and family in Florida this week to help deliver aid to the people of Haiti, a son of one of the victims said Friday. The accident occurred...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE (BP)–A Haitian prosecutor Thursday charged 10 members of a Baptist volunteer team with child kidnapping and criminal association for allegedly not following the law in attempting to transport 33 children into the Dominican Republic. Haitian Deputy Prosecutor Jean Ferge Joseph then handed the case to an investigative judge, Reuters news service reported. “That...
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NEW YORK // With billions of dollars already pledged for Haiti, anti-corruption experts have warned UN aid chiefs that unscrupulous officials and businessmen in the earthquake-ravaged Caribbean country could line their pockets with reconstruction cash. Corruption watchdogs say deals involving the UN, Haitian officials and businessmen over acquiring land to build camps around Port-au-Prince...
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By MIKE MELIA and MICHELLE FAUL The Associated Press Friday, February 5, 2010; 9:25 AM PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — An hour before the earthquake struck, 19-year-old Britney Gengel phoned her mother in Massachusetts, bursting with joy: She had found her calling on a college trip to help orphans in Haiti. Now, as recovery crews continue...
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