By FRANK BAJAK (AP) – 8 hours ago PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Six Haitian children cling to Lt. Ben Stollerman’s hands, sleeves and fatigue pants as the U.S. Navy engineer negotiates one of Haiti’s biggest camps for earthquake refugees. “I feel like the Pied Piper,” he says, grinning as he takes a break from pointing...
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Archive for May, 2010
US military draws down deeply in Haiti
Volunteer in Haiti backs use of domes
JOSHUA WOLFSON Casper Star-Tribune | Posted: Friday, May 7, 2010 12:00 am CASPER — A Casper man whose geodesic dome design was used for a Haitian field hospital wants to use the same concept to develop housing for earthquake refugees. “They really have a hunger to be able to do this on their own,”...
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FLASH-FLASH-FLASH FRIDAY, MAY 7 2010 INTERDICTION ORDER AGAINST EX-JUSTICE MINISTER JEAN JOSEPH EXUME -JACQUES ALEXIS ALSO HAS BIG PROBLEMS
Radio reports that President Preval has placed an Interdiction Order against EX-Justice Minister Exume. He could be arrested at any moment. Only yesterday, Preval insiders said he wanted to arrest former Prime Minister Jacques Alexis but was afraid of the backlash. Seems as though Preval’s dossier, against Alexis, could be countered by Alexis’ dossier...
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EDMOND MULET SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF UN SECRETARY GENERAL DUMPS HAITI’S CONSTITUTION: SAYS PREVAL CAN STAY IN PRESIDENCY FOR AS LONG AS PREVAL WANTS
May 7, 2010, 1300 hours To the uninitiated, this might seem like a simple case of naive foreign interference in a nation’s sovereignty. In case you have just tuned in, Edmond Mullet was head of the MINUSTAH in 2006, as Preval was finally installed in May, after a long, criminal charade in which votes...
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The plantation called Haiti: Feudal pillage masking as humanitarian aid-Added COMMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Posted By mary On May 6, 2010 @ 9:25 pm In Haiti and Latin America | No Comments by Marguerite ‘Ezili Danto’ Laurent “For whose entertainment shall we sing our agony? In what hopes? That the destroyers, aspiring to extinguish us, will suffer conciliatory remorse at the sight of their own fantastic success?” –...
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President Obama Signs Debt Relief Bill for Haiti-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Pres. Barack Obama WASHINGTON (NNPA) – President Obama has signed into law a bill calling for the United States to take the lead in forgiving debt owed to international lenders by earthquake-ravaged Haiti. The bill, signed April 26, urges major multinational institutions to cancel all debt owed to them by Haiti and recommends that...
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PREVAL’S PARLIAMENT – BOUGHT AND PAID FOR – RUBBER STAMPS PLAN FOR DICTATORSHIP Haiti prez to extend term if election not held-Added COMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
By JONATHAN M. KATZ PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitian President Rene Preval said Wednesday he will stay in office up to three months past the end of his term if his earthquake-ravaged nation does not hold a presidential election as scheduled. His aide said the extension is needed to avoid chaos in case a ballot...
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PAID PEDOPHILES FOR PRESIDENT PREVAL
Sounds like a new social organization with a political flavor. There must be something about pedophiles that appeals to President Rene Garcia Preval. He has one - Bellerive – for his Prime Minister. Now, he has another well known racketeer – Richard Coles – to make a public statement to the effect that President...
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In Haiti, a desperate plea for jobs may be answered-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
BY JACQUELINE CHARLES jcharles@MiamiHerald.com They line up well before the break of dawn, as early as 3 a.m. next to a collapsed hospital in this quake-ravaged capital. With yellow envelopes in hand, and a color photo attached to their hand-printed applications, they wait — holding out hope and a prayer they will be among...
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President Obama Signs Debt Relief Bill for Haiti -Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – President Obama has signed into law a bill calling for the United States to take the lead in forgiving debt owed to international lenders by earthquakeravaged Haiti. The bill, signed April 26, urges major multinational institutions to cancel all debt owed to them by Haiti and recommends that all aid to...
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