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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By Steven Edwards, Canwest News Service UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations on Wednesday named Bill Clinton as chief aid and reconstruction co-ordinator for earthquake-ravaged Haiti, a task that puts the former U.S. president at the helm of what is likely to be the world body’s biggest ever nation-rebuilding project. The appointment by UN...
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By PAISLEY DODDS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – The aid flooding into Haiti by plane and boat is not reaching earthquake victims quickly enough to stem growing unrest because of transportation bottlenecks and isolated violence. Many foreign aid workers and Haitians say ample donations are arriving, but express frustration at the slow pace of distribution...
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LONDON – A star-studded British single to raise money for victims of the earthquake in Haiti has had its first radio airplay. The cover of R.E.M.’s 1993 ballad “Everybody Hurts” made its debut on breakfast-time broadcasts Tuesday. Susan Boyle, Rod Stewart, Leona Lewis, Kylie Minogue and Robbie Williams are all featured on the track,...
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TITANYEN, FEBRUARY 1, 2020 Yesterday, I took part in a memorial service for over 50,000 of my Haitian friends, buried in a mass grave at Titanyan, a lonely, desolate spot, located on the road between Port-au-Prince and St Marc. I will never be the same. It was an arid stretch of hillside, with not...
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By Peter Slevin Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, February 2, 2010; 1:39 PM PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Children are increasingly suffering health problems from the hardships of Port-au-Prince’s crowded encampments, according to international medical workers who predict the situation will worsen as Haiti continues to reel from the Jan. 12 earthquake. Food is scarce, the...
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Haiti’s voodoo high priest has claimed believers have been discriminated against by evangelical Christians who are monopolizing aid sent to the earthquake-stricken country. Max Beauvoir, Haiti’s “supreme master” of voodoo, alleged his faith’s opponents had deliberately prevented much-needed help from reaching followers of the religion, which blends the traditional beliefs of West African slaves...
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