Month: March 2010
UN envoy says Haiti should hold presidential elections despite earthquake’s ravages-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
06:35 PM Mar 05, 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – The top U.N. official in Haiti says the country must proceed with presidential elections. The acting…
LULA A KEY TO HAITIAN STABILITY AND THAT OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE By Scott Sullivan-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
During the Yalta Summit in World War II, Churchill and Roosevelt once pressed Stalin for his candid assessment of Hitler’s qualities as a wartime leader….
Dancer who lost her leg in Haiti earthquake: ‘I want to dance again’
He had spent all day asking questions in Creole and turning the answers into English. They were mostly the same questions: How did you lose…
Doctors want Comfort to stay in Haiti; U.S. considers ending mission
By Robert Little Baltimore Sun reporter The Navy hospital ship Comfort discharged its last remaining patient last weekend and is anchored in Port-au-Prince harbor, empty…
THE McGILL TRIBUNE RIGHT MINDED: Haiti’s real problem
Brendan Steven | Published: 3/2/10 On February 9, Max Silverman wrote an article that viewed the aid effort in Haiti through the prism of Naomi…
NON-EVENT :PHONY INTERVIEW WITH COLLIN POWELL Les Milliards de dollars d’Haïti – Une exclusive interview de Colin Powell-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Collin Powell se passe de présentation. « De sensibilité plutôt démocrate, le général Powell reste fidèle au parti de Ronald Reagan (républicain), entraînant avec lui…
Relief agencies keep principal focus on Haiti Chile called better able to cope with its earthquake
By Don Markus | don.markus@baltsun.comLocally based relief agencies are weighing what they might do to help victims of the earthquake in Chile, but said Monday…
Haiti’s Futile Race Against the Rain-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
By LAWRENCE DOWNES There were floods on Saturday in Les Cayes, in southwestern Haiti. It rained in Port-au-Prince on Thursday, and again on Saturday and…
FLASH–FLASH–FLASH March 01 PREVAL ORDER KIDNAPS
Even before President Rene Garcia Preval met with the Obama team in Washington, his own team was getting to work in Haiti. Preval wants to…
Looking for lessons in Haiti’s epic tragedy-Added COMMENTARY BY Haitian-Truth
WASHINGTON POST By CHARLES J. HANLEY The Associated Press Monday, March 1, 2010; 12:01 AM — Tons of rice and beans tell how the world…