Month: January 2011
Sean Penn’s yearlong project turns Haiti golf course into camp for 55,000
By STEPHEN GALLOWAY Jan 9, 2011 02:38AM PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—Actor Senn Penn’s mud-splattered SUV lurches through a hilly slum here, ironically named Bel Air. Half-naked children…
Critics question funds raised for Haiti
BY FRANCES ROBLES frobles@MiamiHerald.com Second of three parts. Read part one: Haiti’s recovery gridlocked PORT-AU-PRINCE — Wearing orange rubber gloves and a straw hat, Marie…
12 Janvier 2011: Trêve générale Pour commémorer le 12 Janvier dans la Paix
Au nom de tous les morts, Au nom de toutes les victimes du 12 Janvier 2010. Au nom de toutes les familles de tous les…
US may support throwing out disputed Haitian vote
By BRADLEY KLAPPER The Associated Press Friday, January 7, 2011; 4:36 PM WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Friday it could support throwing out the…
Haiti earthquake one year on: the lost generation
In the dim late afternoon light, seeping through an upstairs window, the scars of ant bites are clearly visible on the back of a small…
Haiti’s year of living dangerously
Haiti’s earthquake was one of the deadliest natural disasters suffered by mankind in modern times Haitian journalist Andy Limontas looks back on a year in…
Haiti-Elections: Send this mission packing
The failure of the OAS-Caricom mission… Wednesday 5 January 2011 By James Morrell * Submitted to AlterPresse The electoral crisis that has now prompted the…
Haiti to get cholera vaccination
THE World Health Organization will start vaccinating in April to help stem the cholera epidemic in Haiti, which has killed over 3300. The vaccine hasn’t…
Dying inmate released from Broward prison to hospice
Betsie Gallardo. Photo courtesy of the family. BY DANIEL CHANG dchang@MiamiHerald.com A 27-year-old Haitian-born woman dying of cancer in a Broward state prison will be…
Haïti. Ripailles de ripoux
Liberation.fr/ Mercredi 05 janvier 2011 Haïti. Ripailles de ripoux grand angle En 2008, à Port-de-Paix, des policiers et des magistrats tombent sur le magot d’un…
CHOLERA: AN EPIDEMIC – OR GENOCIDE? INTERNATIONAL INDIFFERENCE AND INCOMPETENCE WILL KILL OVER 100,000
January 12 marks the first anniversary of Haiti’s great earthquake, and the end of the worst year in the country’s history, which is saying something….
First calls made over Natcom mobile network
Vietnamese telco Viettel has revealed in a press release that its subsidiary in Haiti, National Telecom (Natcom, formerly Teleco), successfully completed its first international voice…
Protests mark Haiti Independence anniversary
In his Independence message, President Préval warned that the political impasse, the earthquake that hit a year ago, and the ongoing cholera outbreak have put…
HAPPY NEW YEAR: PREVAL AND WIFE RUN FOR THEIR CAR
January 1, 2011 President Rene Preval, and his wife attended the annual Independence Day celebration in Gonaives. Those watching the event, on National Television, wondered…
Haiti is the proof of the failure of the international assistance
By Le Temps interviews Ricardo Seitenfus. Translated for Axis of Logic by Dady Chery. Axis of Logic Monday, Jan 3, 2011 Soldiers of the heavily…
A Rarity, an Honest Diplomat in Haiti to be dismissed for criticizing OAS, NGOs
Ricardo Seitenfus claims coup against Préval was suggested By Fabrícia Peixoto The representative of the Organization of American States in Haiti for two years, Brazilian…
Cholera in Haiti: An Epidemic Waiting to Happen
By Myron Echenberg Myron Echenberg is Professor Emeritus of History at McGill University and the author of “Africa in the Time of Cholera: A History…
CHAPITRE II – CRIMES ET DÉLITS CONTRE LA CONSTITUTION SECTION I – DES CRIMES ET DÉLITS RELATIFS À L’EXERCICE DES DROITS POLITIQUES
Art. 81.- Lorsque, par attroupement, voies de fait ou menaces, on aura empêché un ou plusieurs citoyens d’exercer leurs droits politiques, chacun des coupables sera…
L’imposture des Nations unies en Haïti
LEMONDE.FR | 31.12.10 | 09h29 Il y a près d’un an, le tremblement de terre du mardi 12 janvier détruisait la capitale haïtienne et plusieurs…