Monday, May 17, 10:45 MASSIVE DEMONSTRATION AGAINST PREVAL Large demonstration called for 11:00 today was already filling the streets by 10:00 and looks to exceed the estimated 12,000 that protested last week. Each week will see more people gathering.. until Preval finally accepts reality and departs. He is still in negotiating for a suitable...
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Archive for May 18th, 2010
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Elections in Haiti OUR OPINION: Haiti’s leaders must pull together in time of crisis
With Haiti still reeling from last January’s earthquake, its leaders should be pulling together in the country’s best interests. Unfortunately, the expiration of parliament’s mandate last week has prompted another predictable but tiresome round of political bickering. Haiti’s parliament went out of business last Monday because the earthquake forced the cancellation of legislative elections...
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Expected Haitian presidential candidate dies of heart attack-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
By JACQUELINE CHARLES Jcharles@miamiherald.com Gabriel Bien-Aimé, former Haitian minister of education and presumed presidential candidate has died, Haitian government officials confirmed.Bien-Aimé died of a heart attack Saturday. He was said to be preparing to run in Haiti’s yet-to-be announced presidential elections later this year. He was a member of OPL, considered Haiti’s most organized...
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Haiti Relief : Dean’s Report from Haiti A LOOK BACK AT HOW IT WAS – Dean’s Report from Haiti
Dear Friends, Our doctors, nurses and staff are doing God’s work in Haiti and at home! One week after the devastating earthquake that wrecked the capital city of Port-Au-Prince, our team has established an invaluable urgent care center where hundreds of patients have found refuge, help and life-saving care. Lying on stretchers, the patients...
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Foreign-Led Commission Now Governs Haiti
Staff Sgt. Junior Florestal gives Haitian local Sonia Catilius a drink of water at a medic station in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on January 18, 2010.(Photo: The U.S. Army) On April 15, the Haitian Parliament ratified a law extending by 18 months the state of emergency that President René Préval declared after the earthquake of January...
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Relief flight to Haiti crashes after takeoff in Clearwater; all survive
CLEARWATER — As the plane was falling from the sky onto the house at 305 Patricia Ave. on Sunday morning, Katherine Swartz was getting down to breakfast inside, unaware that each strip of bacon, each sip of coffee could be her family’s last. Seconds earlier, Dennis Roper, a pilot working on his own plane...
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