Haiti holds its first presidential debate Saturday, even as President René Préval’s ties to the election commission has observers asking whether the CEP rejected candidates based on politics. By Alice Speri, Correspondent, Hannah Armstrong, Correspondent / Christian Science Monitor September 16, 2010 Port-au-Prince, Haiti As Haiti gears up for its first-ever internationally televised presidential debate Saturday,...
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The 23rd District will become GOP District But we need your help now! Are you concerned about the future of Florida and our nation? I am and that’s why I’m running for Congress to give you a voice in Washington D.C. I want to offer more opportunities to you the people of this Great...
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By Jim Totten • DAILY PRESS & ARGUS • August September 15, 2010 No good deed goes unpunished, even for people trying to help those devastated by the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti. Karen Crouse, president of the Hartland Rotary Club, discovered that as she tracked a 20-foot container of clothing and medical supplies...
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Dallas, TX (PRWEB) September 15, 2010 MediSend International Plans Significant Role in Reconstruction of Haiti’s Healthcare System Haiti is still in desperate need of basic medical and surgical supplies, and biomedical equipment and, perhaps even more important, professionally trained technicians and engineers to repair and maintain the lifesaving diagnostic and treatment equipment. MediSend is...
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United Nations.— Eight months after the terrible earthquake which ravaged Haiti, that Caribbean country has only received 19 percent of the promised international assistance for 2010, said a UN senior official. The total amount of financial aid provided to the devastated Caribbean island slightly exceeds 506 million dollars, an insufficient sum to face reconstruction...
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Huit mois après le séisme qui a ravagé Haïti et malgré les doutes qui persistent quant à la tenue des élections, René Préval assure que la présidentielle se déroulera bien le 28 novembre comme le prévoit la Constitution. Lors d’une entrevue accordée le 12 septembre en sa résidence à RFI, TV5 et au journal...
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1615 HOURS, SEPTEMBER 14, 2010 The reasoning is unknown. However, Preval has ordered the arrest of many young people in areas where Jean-Bertrand Aristide retains popularity. We will keep you up to date on this situation, as it develops. Our information comes from someone who was phoning from within Preval’s operations center. He was...
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No one knows where to relocate more than a million people displaced by the Jan. 12 quake, or how to determine exactly who owns what land. By Joe Mozingo, Los Angeles Times September 15, 2010 Reporting from Port-au-Prince, Haiti The promised reconstruction of this earthquake-crippled nation hangs on the potentially explosive issue underlying a...
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2145 HOURS 13 SEPTEMBER, 2010 Each day President Preval spends from 10:00 AM through 5:00 PM in important business meetings, broken by a one hour siesta. The business leaders, most important to his political and personal survival are the gang-leaders from around Haiti. He spends hours each day, with this criminal element, and has...
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Who benefits when refugees are moved from camps into garment and cell-phone industry “work zones?” — By Siddhartha Mahanta Tue Sep. 14, 2010 3:07 AM PDT Refugee evictions, private land grabs, disaster capitalism—you can’t tell the story of Haiti without all this. Eight months after the earthquake, many of the 1.7 million Haitians living...
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