Month: May 2010
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…
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…
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…
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…
Bud Mahurin, Fighter Pilot in 2 Wars, Dies at 91-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Walker Mahurin, one of the leading American fighter pilots of World War II, who downed enemy planes in Europe and the Pacific, and, later, in…
Real hope for Haiti — if donors follow through
By JACKIE BUENO SOUSA jsousa@MiamiHerald.com There was much to celebrate after last week’s United Nations Donors’ Conference on Haiti. Some 130 donors pledged almost $10…
FHP trooper killed in fiery crash on Florida’s Turnpike
By LUISA YANEZ AND NIALA BOODHOO nboodhoo@MiamiHerald.com The Florida Highway Patrol early Sunday identified Patrick Ambroise, 35, as the trooper who was killed Saturday night…
Une personne dont les funerailles ont été chantées ce mercredi 5 Mai 2010 a été retrouvée vivante quelques heures après.
Adelin SEIDE (Zombi) La ville de Fort-Liberté est réveillée ce matin troublée par les rumeurs d’un phénomène zombi. Un certain Adelin SEIDE (hougan) âgé de…
$2 billion sought to overhaul ruined Haiti schools
AP) – 10 hours ago PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The Inter-American Development Bank is seeking $2 billion to expand access to Haitian schools. President Rene Preval…
Haitian relief worker found dead after abduction by Preval’s gang members-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
By JONATHAN M. KATZ (AP) – 11 hours ago PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A Haitian man kidnapped while working with a U.S.-based development foundation was found…
$1.1-Billion Donated for Haiti Relief: Updated Tally (May 11
Nearly four months after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, donors have contributed more than $1.1-billion to support relief efforts. Donors gave approximately $66-million of that…
Quatre Mois Apres: Les Details Sur le Don de 1.1 Milliard pour Haiti par Stanley Lucas
Apres quatre mois les donations individuelles des citoyens americains et du monde s’evaluent a plus de 1.1 milliard pour supporter les efforts humanitaires en Haiti….
The Miami Herald Posted on Wed, May. 12, 2010 Haiti’s neighbors pull back welcome mat
PHOTO BY EVERARD OWEN Port Antonio: 33 Haitians were sent back to Haiti Sunday afternoon on the Jamaica Defence Force Coast Guard Cornwall. The group…
Monsanto Donates $4 Million of Seeds to Haiti-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
U.S. agriculture giant Monsanto is donating $4 million worth of seeds to earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Monsanto said Friday the Haitian Ministry of Agriculture has approved the…
Former Children’s Hospital surgeon depicts Haiti’s horror
Within a matter of hours on Jan. 12, Dr. Henri Ford understood why “he was put on this earth.” The former chief of pediatric surgery…
May 14, 2010 Still Homeless in Haiti- Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Of the more than 1.5 million Haitians left homeless by the Jan. 12 earthquake, about 7,500 have been moved from the most dangerous areas of…
FLASH – AGAIN!!! TWO MINUSTAH PEOPLE KIDNAPPED AS RESULT OF PREVAL’S EARLIER ST STRATEGY MEETINGS.
May 14, 2010 -0900 As a result of Preval’s meeting with Mulet and his secret meeting, the day before, two MINUSTAH members were kidnapped by…
The brigadier who saved Sierra Leone
In 2002, Sierra Leone emerged from a decade-long civil war and as Allan Little discovers, much of it was thanks to a little-known British brigadier….
Haiti Stakes Recovery on Clothiers -Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
By IANTHE JEANNE DUGAN And DAVID LUHNOW CARREFOUR, Haiti—Strolling the floor of the T-shirt factory he manages, Alexandre Petion stopped at the sewing table of…
Eight U.S. Troops Will Remain in Haiti, Down From 20,000+
Within days of the January 12 earthquake in Haiti, the U.S. military had staged an impressive surge: By the end of January, around 20,000 troops…