Bill Clinton has promised to get tough with countries which pledged billions of dollars in aid to earthquake-ravaged Haiti but have yet to deliver the money they promised. Six months after the disaster that killed 220,000 people and left more than 1.5 million homeless, only $506m of $5.3bn raised at an international donors’ conference...
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By JONATHAN M. KATZ (AP) – 15 hours ago SAUT D’EAU, Haiti — Pilgrims, partiers and profit-seekers flocked to a sacred Haitian waterfall Friday where Voodoo and Christian faithful prayed for a better life after six grueling months of post-earthquake trouble. The annual pilgrimage to Saut d’Eau venerates the site where believers say the...
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To the Editor: “Finishing Haiti’s Unfinished Work,” by Jean-Max Bellerive, the prime minister of Haiti, and former President Bill Clinton (Op-Ed, July 12), makes clear that success in Haiti will be measured in tangible results that improve the lives of the Haitian people. Of the $5.3 billion pledged in New York at the end...
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By NATHANIAL GRONEWOLD of Greenwire Published: July 12, 2010 UNITED NATIONS — Aid workers are still scrambling to provide shelter to millions of Haitians made homeless by the earthquake that leveled the capital city Port-au-Prince and other towns six months ago today as hurricane trackers predict an active storm season. U.N. officials and dozens...
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After a powerful earthquake struck Haiti in January, boosting agricultural production was seen as one of the keys to the nation’s recovery. Six months later, the U.N. Food and Agriculture organization (FAO) says only half the funding pledged for agriculture has been delivered. Experts say short-changing food production is a common problem in many...
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(NECN/CNN: Port-au-Prince, Haiti) – In the main harbor of Port-au-Prince, where life-saving supplies are shipped in from around the world, there is a hold put on many pieces of aid sent to help in the relief effort. Relief agencies claim the cargo is purposely being delayed from reaching its targeted relief area, but the...
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Saturday, July 17, 2010 IT HAS BEEN half a year since an earthquake nearly flattened Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, killing 250,000 people and leaving 1.5 million homeless. Any critique of the relief and reconstruction efforts must begin with the magnitude of the catastrophe. Indonesia took five years to replace 139,000 houses destroyed by...
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By ROBERT MACKEY Published: July 16, 2010 A group calling itself the Committee for the Reimbursement of the Indemnity Money Extorted From Haiti took responsibility on Friday for an elaborate hoax this week in which an actor posing as a French government spokesman announced that France would reimburse Haiti money it had been forced...
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