MONTREAL — Haitian-born governor general Michaelle Jean will mark International Women’s Day on Monday in Haiti, as the impoverished nation struggles to rebuild two months after a crippling earthquake. “We know that the island is experiencing terrible suffering, not only because of the earthquake, but also because of the poverty, which was already endemic...
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By BEN FOX and JENNIFER KAY (AP) PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — U.S. troops are withdrawing from the shattered capital, leaving many Haitians anxious that the most visible portion of international is ending even as the city is still mired in misery and vulnerable to unrest. As troops packed their duffels and began to fly home...
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By Joel Rubin March 7, 2010 Reporting from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti The line of patients at this city’s battered General Hospital forms early. The sick come to be seen by “the good doctors.” At 10 on a recent morning, Jean Fenisto Joseph, 58, and his 28-year-old daughter, Roselord, were two of the several hundred Haitians...
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