By Associated Press, Updated: Monday, January 9, 6:02 PM PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitians still have much to do to recover from the 2010 earthquake, President Michel Martelly said Monday, and he conceded to having made political blunders. His remarks came as he presented his first government report since taking office in May and took on the...
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Two years after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, many complain that they haven’t seen where billions in donations were spent. By Frances Robles frobles@MiamiHerald.com Half the money world governments pledged to Haiti never showed up. Half the money American private donors raised for Haiti hasn’t been spent. And many millions went to things like...
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By MATTHEW MOSK, BRIAN ROSS (@brianross) and ANSEL HERZ Jan. 9, 2012 The case against five United Nations peacekeepers caught on tape in an alleged sexual assault on a Haitian teenager has apparently stalled and the accused soldiers have been freed, a UN official has confirmed. The men were sent back to Uruguay last...
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Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, a fact which an op/ed in today’s New York Times notes is an inevitable catchphrase in any article about the hapless country occupying the western third of Hispaniola. The op/ed, Haiti Can Be Rich Again, by Laurent Dubois and Deborah Jensen, both researchers at Duke...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) – On Tuesday, the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Jocelerme Privert (Nippes/Inite), said that millions of dollars collected for education through President Michel Martelly’s tax on international calls and money transfers to Haiti were unaccounted for. Senator Privert said that the National Fund for Education, a program established by President...
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Gizmodo reader Xian Min Zhang just sent me this impressive timelapse video from his company’s latest project: a 30-story tall, 183,000-square-foot hotel built in just 360 hours. Just 15 days! I kept watching it in disbelief. It was erected near the Dongting lake, in the Hunan Province, China, by Broad Group, a Chinese construction...
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09 Jan 2012 15:25 Source: member // Malteser International – Germany When many people live cramped in a camp, safe drinking water and proper hygienic behaviour are crucial. Foto: Tobias Kann Malteser International experiences financial gap between transition and development aid Cologne/Port-au-Prince. „In Cité Soleil, an urban slum in Port-au-Prince, we are facing another...
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A return to Haiti two years after earthquake stranded children in adoption limbo Mon Jan 9, 2012 10:31 AM EST By Ron Allen NBC News correspondent It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes a chance encounter can lead to a story that continues for a couple of years. I hadn’t been on the ground in...
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U. of C. professor of medicine helping launch residency program in Haiti, marking 2nd anniversary of quake. Dr. Evan Lyon, of the University of Chicago, has returned to Haiti to help launch a residency program and mark the second anniversary of the earthquake that devastated the nation. (Nancy Stone, Chicago Tribune / March 9,...
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By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. Published: January 9, 2012` The first Haitian to get cholera at the onset of the 2010 epidemic was almost undoubtedly a 28-year-old mentally disturbed man from the town of Mirebalais, researchers reported Monday. The man, whose name was not revealed in the report, in The American Journal of Tropical...
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