Associated Press – June 7, 2010 10:45 AM ET LEBANON, N.H. (AP) – A team of doctors and nurses from New Hampshire’s Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center has canceled its trip to Haiti after hearing that conditions weren’t safe. The crew was seventh team from the hospital being sent to help victims of January’s earthquake. But...
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While covering the Dalai Lama’s recent appearances in New York City, I heard the Nobel Peace laureate twice praise the international response to the horrific January earthquake in Haiti as an example of humanity’s progress. Such a massive show of global assistance and solidarity — one sign of the world’s increased interdependence — would...
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Other than emotionally, the downpours do no have an effect upon me other than to flood the yard and leak through the roof in a few places; For those in the streets and the temporary camps it is much different. For the last five or six nights we have been deluged!! The streets in...
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Sitting alongside a pool of water, the women wash their clothes in oversized-tin basins. But the sound of water sloshing against stone washboards is drowned out by the monstrous dump trucks transporting tons of rubble from the Jan. 12 earthquake. Rivière Grise, stretching from La Viste national park, to the south of Port-au-Prince, to...
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By KRISTEN GELINEAU (AP) – 9 hours ago SYDNEY — The U.N.’s humanitarian chief acknowledged frustration Sunday with the slow progress in providing shelter to the 1.5 million Haitians still homeless because of the Jan. 12 earthquake, and said a large amount of work needs to be done as the hurricane season bears down...
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June 4, 2010 By G. Young Our statement on the protests in Haiti. On May 13, Monsanto announced a donation of conventional corn and vegetable seeds to farmers in Haiti, to help increase food production and aid long-term earthquake recovery. A small group, utilizing online media, protested. At first they claimed Monsanto was donating...
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By RENE BRUEMMER, The GazetteJune 5, 2010 8:41 AM Agricultural officials and aid workers worry that while global efforts to help earthquake victims in Haiti are hitting their stride, the ripple effect in the countryside threatens to stymie home farming and worsen conditions in areas where most people already scrape by on less than...
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Haïti: La compagnie vietnamienne promet de fournir l’Internet à haut débit « dans tous les coins du pays ». elle annonce que l’Internet sera gratuit pour 1 300 écoles publiques principalement rurales et pour les bureaux gouvernementaux, les hôpitaux et les cliniques. Dans cet article de l’Associated Press, Viettel affirme pouvoir construire la plateforme...
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If it looks as though Sean Penn is just another Hollywood star courting headlines with a camera-ready cause, look again. With a midlife milestone looming (Penn turns 50 in August), his marriage to Robin Wright Penn seemingly finished (“She is a ghost to me now,” he observes), and a teenage son, Hopper, having recovered...
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Headed by the President of the Republic of Haiti, René Prevál, and the President of the Dominican Republic, Dr. Leonel Fernández Reyna and the co-chairmen of the Interim Commission for the Reconstruction of Haiti, Their Excellencies William Clinton, former president of the United States and Special Envoy for the United Nations Secretary General and...
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