By Manuel Roig-Franzia Wednesday, April 7, 2010; 1:59 PM PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — Early one morning this month, in the buzz saw that is downtown Port-au-Prince, three men approached a police checkpoint, firing automatic weapons. When the shooting finally stopped, a seven-year veteran of the Haitian National Police force lay dead, his body riddled with...
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Joel R Deeb April 24, 2010 His real name is Jean Baptiste Jean Philippe, a name few Haitians recognize. Under his “nom de guerre” Samba Boukman, he has name recognition that is national in scope. Boukman relishes the reputation of being the most brutal killer who has ever walked political gutters of Haiti. Naïve...
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Fri, Apr 16 2010 By Joseph Guyler Delva PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti’s parliament has approved the creation of a commission that will allow foreign donors to participate in deciding how to rebuild the poor Caribbean nation after its devastating January 12 earthquake. The bill approving the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission, which was set up...
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