Seasonal rains and hurricanes spell trouble for Haiti in the best of times, but with hundreds of thousands of people living in flimsy makeshift shelters after last month’s earthquake, this year the dangers are much greater. The rainy season begins in earnest in early April and the hurricane season in early June, according to...
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Archive for February 25th, 2010
After the quake Only plastic between Haiti homeless and storms -Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Canadian military begins Haitian pullout Officials continue to try to track missing Canadians
By Juliet O’Neill, Canwest News Service; with files from Citizen News Services // Canadian military forces are starting to withdraw from crisis work in Haiti and the government is nearing a “tipping point” where many of 50 Canadians still missing six weeks after a massive earthquake will be deemed dead. That will boost the...
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First U.S. Paratroopers to Return From Haiti
MIAMI – U.S. Southern Command will begin the redeployment of paratroopers supporting U.S. military relief efforts in Haiti Jan. 25 with the 1st Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division. In response to a request by the government of Haiti, the U.S. government deployed a military contingent to support relief...
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