Originally posted 7/31/2010 By Joseph Guyler Delva NNPA Haiti Correspondent PORT-AU-PRINCE (NNPA) – U.N. officials in Haiti are saying that the response given by the international community to the devastating earthquake disaster was good. But six months after the earthquake that killed as many as 300,000 people, survivors in makeshift tent cities continue to...
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The FINANCIAL — The new World Bank Group Managing Director Sri Mulyani Indrawati and Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean Pamela Cox will visit Haiti next week to review progress made in the country after the earthquake, and meet with Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive and other high-level officials. “This will be Ms....
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President Rene Preval’s official convoy has been blocked at Cap Haitian as Preval was en route to Ouanaminthe, in NE Haiti, for the opening ceremony of a new university. He was to take part in the ceremony with Dominican President Fernandez, who is now standing, waiting for the Haitian leader. The Haitian people have...
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There is a lot of smoke and mirrors as Wyclef gains loads of column inches promoting his possible run for the Presidency of Haiti. I happen to like Wyclef A LOT!! Personally, but is is a disservice to the people of Haiti to suggest that he – and a very unprofessional and weakly qualified...
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By JACQUELINE CHARLES – McClatchy Newspapers PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The filing deadline for Haiti’s presidential elections isn’t until Aug. 7, but many of the potential contenders are playing coy about their plans and speculation about who will run is rampant. The political jockeying for one of the toughest jobs in the hemisphere began well...
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By THE NEW YORK TIMES An independent commission of inquiry into the Jan. 19 killings of a dozen or more inmates at a prison in Les Cayes, Haiti, was formally established by presidential decree this week, officials said Tuesday. The commission was proposed in May after The New York Times published an investigation into...
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When your father is a former U.S. President and your mother is the Secretary of State, having your wedding reception in the local pub isn’t an option. Chelsea Clinton’s big day in a country mansion on Saturday could cost up to £3.2million. No expense will be spared at what will be the American society...
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by Wendell Hutson A coalition of four Black Baptist groups have come together to form a volunteer association whose primary goal is to raise $50 million for Haitian relief. The Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention, National Baptist Convention USA, Progressive National Baptist Convention of America and the National Missionary Baptist Convention of America...
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All the Money donated to Haiti went to Private NGO’s and President Clinton Foundation. None of the Money went to the Haitian Government. The Government has no money…. Anderson Cooper, CNN- Tuesday July 13, 2010 —————————————————— Original is in French- Translation is in Bold List of Private NGO’s (Organizations) who collected help and money...
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By Stephen Smith, Globe Staff Dr. Paul Farmer, the charismatic founder of Boston-based Partners in Health, told Congress today the path to recovery in earthquake-shattered Haiti must be charted by that nation’s government and not by outside aid agencies, no matter how well-intentioned. Farmer, who first began working in rural Haiti nearly three decades...
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