By Pascal Fletcher Pascal Fletcher 2 hrs 15 mins ago PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Dressed in white, shaking decorated gourd rattles and singing praises to “Olorum Papa” (God the Father), thousands of practitioners of Haiti’s voodoo religion held a public ceremony on Sunday to honor those killed in the January 12 earthquake. While several Christian ceremonies have been held...
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New quake hits Haiti- Updates soon to follow- ————————————————————————————————————-
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Reporting from Damadola, Pakistan – On the same day Pakistani generals declared victory over the Taliban here in the badlands along the Afghan border, a girl crouched by a brackish pond and filled large metal pots with her family’s drinking water. Farther down a dirt road pocked with gaping potholes, severed power lines snaked...
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I don’t mean to dwell on certain issues but until there’s some solid change in Haiti, things are going to remain: Poorest Country in the Western Hemisphere. I was reading this Reuters article http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62P2EU20100326 and if i didn’t know better, I would think that Haiti was so incapable of producing it’s own food that...
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By Joel R Deeb CEO March 28, 2010 Political and Security Consultant on Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean Omega Consultants & World News– deebjr@omegaworldnews.com– –site under construction– deebjr@aol.com To this day, former U.S. President Bill Clinton remains one of the most respected if not revered politician of his home country. His personal charm...
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