Friday, 06 April 2012 19:57 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) – Less than a week after its sequestration by the Haitian government, the mobile phone company HAITEL…

Thursday, 05 April 2012 18:52 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) – The Senate Committee studying the Prime Minister-designate Laurent Lamothe’s eligibility for ratification submitted its report on…

By Associated Press, Published: April 5 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The office of Haiti’s President Michel Martelly says the leader has completed surgery on his right shoulder…

Brazilian media is reporting that ailing Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez will make an emergency trip to Brazil after allegedly suffering intestinal burns during his radiation…

Kevin Edmonds The Other Side of Paradise With the release of two separate investigations this week, it is becoming increasingly clear why the reconstruction has…

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez attended Mass with family Thursday after returning from his latest round of radiation therapy treatment in Cuba,…

By Matt McGrath Science reporter, BBC World Service Malaria is spread by mosquitoes Scientists have found new evidence that resistance to the front-line treatments for…

5 April 2012 Last updated at 08:15 ET BBC Hosepipe bans affecting about 20 million customers have been introduced by seven water authorities in parts…

NY times: 210 11th Avenue, at 25th Street, Chelsea Through April 14 It is not news that extraordinary paintings were made in Haiti during much…

NY times: To the Editor: “Global Failures on a Haitian Epidemic” (front page, April 1) draws long-overdue attention to the health crisis in Haiti. Eradicating…

NY times:PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitian President Michel Martelly has gone to Miami for an operation on his right shoulder. The presidential office’s announcement Wednesday night…

scienceblogs.com-Deborah Sontag’s New York Times piece “Haiti’s Cholera Outraced the Experts and Tainted the UN” is a reminder that while public attention to the earthquake-ravaged…

5 April 2012 Last updated at 02:57 ET BBC Mr Chavez has said he will be going back and forth to Cuba for treatment Venezuelan…

April 4, 2012 Who cares if Martelly took some cash from a Dominican senator? What has been reported is peanuts, compared with the cash gobbled…

Santo Domingo. Efforts to eliminate two mosquito-borne diseases –malaria and lymphatic filariasis– in Haiti and the Dominican Republic are ongoing, with the first of four…

By STEPHEN DI BENEDETTO The Register-Mail GALESBURG — The numerous aid groups that clamored to rebuild Haiti following a destructive earthquake two years ago have…

Même s’il a toujours supporté publiquement le mouvement des « civils armés », l’homme fort du département de la Grand ‘Anse nie toute implication dans…

LeNouvelliste: Haïti: Au coeur d’une affaire de corruption présumée dont les soubresauts sont suivis des deux côtés de l’île, le sénateur Felix Bautista a nié…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, April 4, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — At the invitation of hundreds of Haiti’s churches, the Luis Palau Association joined with local company…

MIAMI — The 2012 Atlantic hurricane season will be “below average” with 10 tropical storms, four of which will strengthen into hurricanes, Colorado State University…