La faille d’Enriquillo se réactiverait-elle ? Une secousse de magnitude 4.0 à quelques hectomètres de Léogâne, suivie d’une de magnitude 4.4, dans le Golfe de Gonâve. Un séisme de magnitude 4.0 à 4.9, bien que soient notables les secousses d’objets à l’intérieur des maisons et les bruits d’entrechoquement, doit être considéré comme léger et...
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Archive for May 24th, 2010
La faille d’Enriquillo se réactiverait-elle ? Une secousse de magnitude 4.0 à quelques hectomètres de Léogâne, suivie d’une de magnitude 4.4, dans le Golfe de Gonâve.
Signs of cover-up after killings in Haiti prison
-By DEBORAH SONTAG and WALT BOGDANICH New York Times inquiry indicates authorities shot unarmed inmates updated 6:40 p.m. MT, Sat., May 22, 2010 LES CAYES, Haiti – When the earth shook violently on Jan. 12, the inmates in this southern city’s squalid prison clamored to be released, screaming: “Help! We’re going to die in...
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UN: Outbreak of Diphtheria In The Capital, Port-au-Prince
18 May 2010 ” United Nations agencies are helping health authorities in Haiti carry out an emergency vaccination campaign after an outbreak of diphtheria in the capital, Port-au-Prince, a spokesperson with the world body said today. Cases of the disease were first reported on Saturday in Camp Batimat in Cité Soleil district, one of...
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Sean Penn urges help for hospitals in post-quake Haiti
By ANN SANNER (AP) – 4 days ago WASHINGTON — Actor Sean Penn said Wednesday the biggest challenge facing post-quake Haiti is getting hospitals staffed and supplied during its current rainy season and ahead of the upcoming hurricane season. Penn, who co-founded the J/P Haitian Relief Organization shortly after the earthquake and is now...
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Haiti’s elderly earthquake victims struggle to survive with little help
BY LAURA FIGUEROA lfigueroa@MiamiHerald.com PORT-AU-PRINCE — Flies swarmed around Christiane Carystil’s inflamed leg, yet despite her moans for help, there wasn’t much the 87-year-old could do to get anyone’s attention. Even outside the crumbled remains of the Asile Communale — the city’s main senior nursing home — personal attention is hard to come by...
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Monsanto’s Poison Pills for Haiti-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Monsanto, Haiti’s “New Earthquake” “A new earthquake” is what Haitian peasant farmer leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called the news that Monsanto will be dumping 60,000 seed sacks (475 tons) of hybrid corn seeds and vegetable seeds on Haiti, seeds doused with highly toxic fungicides such as thiram, known...
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