L’Initiative Citoyenne (IC), une des organisations signataires de la proposition promouvant la formation d’un CEP crédible et équilibré, prend acte du mépris affiché par le président Préval face à cette initiative de la société civile. L’IC déplore le maintien par le président Préval des membres de ce CEP décrié et contesté par tous les...
Read more »
By Alice Speri (AFP) – Jun 17, 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE — The commission set up to oversee the five billion dollars in quake aid money pledged to Haiti by the international community has held its first working session. Co-chaired by former US president Bill Clinton and Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive, the meeting came as...
Read more »
Story and photos by Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times A day after the devastating Jan. 12 quake, Rose Marguie Normil, 40, who had been buried under rubble, pleads for help outside a hospital in Port-au-Prince. Doctors said they couldn’t do anything for her since they had no X-ray machines. Reporting from Grand Goave,...
Read more »
Orlando le 2 juillet, 2010 Actualités Politiques : Grandes Lignes Avant de se rendre au sommet du G20 réuni au Canada, réagissant d’une part aux pressions de l’Internationale, Préval a voulu lâcher un ballon d’essai pour manifester ostensiblement et sans équivoque, à la fois son intention de respecter le calendrier constitutionnel, et d’autre part sa décision...
Read more »
BY JACQUELINE CHARLES jcharles@MiamiHerald.com PORT-AU-PRINCE — Cendra Guillaume walks into the dusty depot of manly machines, passes fellow female workers, and steps into the front office with a familiar look of determination. Not one to sit around and wait, the wife, mother and heavy equipment operator gets right to the point: “Where to today?”...
Read more »
Blood and black magic flow through Haiti’s history – as photographer Leah Gordon discovered when she went to Mardi Gras in the port town of Jacmel… Leafing through Leah Gordon’s book of bewildering, disturbing and thrilling black-and-white photos, one stands out. Two boys stand before the camera, each wearing rough eyemasks, their naked upper...
Read more »
VHeadline News Editor Patrick J. O’Donoghue reports: Haitian President Rene Preval is on a tour of Cuba, Jamaica and Venezuela in an attempt to muster more support for his reconstruction efforts in the country devastated by an earthquake in January. During his visit to Venezuela and Cuba, Preval said he will be reviewing cooperation...
Read more »
01.07.2010 “Haïti: la reconstruction au point mort”- Michèle Striffler (PPE, F), Rapporteur Permanent du Parlement européen pour l’aide humanitaire Michèle STRIFFLER, Rapporteur Permanent pour l’Aide Humanitaire, de retour de mission en Haïti pour faire le point sur l’aide d’urgence, la reconstruction et sur l’utilisation des fonds européens, a exprimé son inquiétude face à l’”apparente...
Read more »
BY JACQUELINE CHARLES jcharles@MiamiHerald.com PORT-AU-PRINCE — Haitian President René Préval said Wednesday that suggestions by a ranking Republican on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee that he negotiate with the international community to revamp Haiti’s nine-member elections council are “unacceptable.” Préval’s terse retort was his first public comments in response to Indiana Sen. Richard...
Read more »
Port-au-Prince- A raucous crowd surges from between two rows of tightly packed tents in Camp Dadadou, and from the middle of it, a young woman stumbles, struggling to regain her balance and escape the chanting mob. Haitians of all ages jeer and push, some laughing, as the mass of sweating bodies moves along the...
Read more »