Holland’s (The Netherlands) surprise 2-1 upset over World Cup powerhouse team Brazil today in a quarterfinals match is being felt all over the world, for good and ill. But tragically, the loss and elimination of Brazil so greatly distressed an 18-year-old fan of the team in Haiti that he leaped in front of a...
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Six months on, the government has yet to secure adequate shelter for many of the 2.1 million people made homeless by the Haiti earthquake. Some landowners are now trying to evict the refugee camps By Alice Speri, Contributor / July 2, 2010 Port-au-Prince, Haiti Tens of thousands of Haitians risk becoming homeless for a...
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In sea ports the world over, a small bribe paid to a local official allows “white collar pirates” to seize ships from their legitimate owners. To recover the multimillion-dollar vessels, aggrieved ship owners call on Max Hardberger, a maritime lawyer turned high-seas repossession man. In his memoir Seized, which came out in the U.S....
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By: Ashley Yarchin KSDK — It shook the island nation of Haiti and today ripples of that devastating earthquake are still being felt worldwide, especially in St. Louis’s Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center. Two months ago, Marck Jonis was born in a refugee camp in Haiti to a mother who, because of hardships after...
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Chers Collègues du Congrès et du Sénat Américain, La Constitution Haïtienne en vigueur, en ayant consacré le principe de la séparation des pouvoirs systématisé par Montesquieu dès l’année 1748, impose à l’Etat, à ses agents et aux gouvernants le respect de règles de droit. Monsieur René Préval, devenu Président de la République, a juré...
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With so much else on his plate, President Obama can be forgiven for not giving Haiti the same attention it received after a devastating earthquake six months ago. However, there is a step he should have taken before now that would go a long way toward relieving some of the additional economic stress that...
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By The Associated Press The Associated Press Friday, July 2, 2010; 10:27 AM – An enormous amount of money has been sent to Haiti to help the country recover from its devastating earthquake. So why has so little changed in Haiti – from piles of rubble to tent cities – since right after the...
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BY JACQUELINE CHARLES jcharles@MiamiHerald.com PORT-AU-PRINCE — After he lost everything in the Haiti earthquake, a lawyers’ group gave attorney Clauvy Robas a tent to sleep in. But, rather than pitch it in one of the camps that have sprouted up around Port-au-Prince, he prefers to sleep in a friend’s car. “I am not supposed...
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Le chef de l’Etat confirme la tenue des élections présidentielles et législatives le 28 novembre et prend la défense de l’institution électorale qui serait “injustement diabolisée” ; faisant très peu de cas des revendications de l’opposition et de la montée de la contestation contre son régime Préval s’en prend à un rapport américain et...
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