Month: January 2013
Cuba Fights Cholera Outbreak, as Haiti Tries to Eliminate The Disease
Havana restaurant closed down As Haiti tries to push the United Nations to accept responsibility for a cholera outbreak that so far has killed 8,000…
U.S. intercepts unsafe sailboat, repatriates 164 Haitians
The Coast Guard in Miami released this photo Jan. 11, 2013 of a “grossly overloaded” 40-foot sail freighter that was intercepted southwest of Long Island,…
World Bank: Haiti’s Economy to Grow 6 Percent, Lead Caribbean in 2013-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Caribbean Journal.com: Above: Haiti (Photo: MT Haiti) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti will lead the Caribbean in economic growth in 2013, according to a…
Is outside help making things worse in Haiti?
Is outside help making things worse in Haiti? Traci G. Lee, @traciglee 11:45 am on 01/15/2013 The three-year anniversary of the devastating 7.0 earthquake that left…
Irish cellphone entrepreneur banks on a smarter Haiti
Reuters/Reuters – Digicel Chairman Denis O’Brien attends an interview with Reuters at the company’s headquarters in Port-au-Prince, in this picture taken December 18, 2012. REUTERS/Swoan…
World Bank “Success” Came at High Cost in Haiti
This is the first of a two-part series on the PRODEP community development project in Haiti. One of the boats built with the PRODEP money….
A Celebration of Haitian Art
The spirit of the Haitian people is on display at the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette. WBAA’s Mike Loizzo has a preview of a new…
Can planting trees make a difference in Haiti 3 years after the quake?-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
In this handout image provided by the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), Grave diggers take a break under a group of trees while…
MP Fantino sets record straight on Haiti
International Co-operation Minister Julian Fantino wants to set the record straight on Canada’s role in Haiti: existing programs will continue and the department he is…
Prébendes, commissions ou pots de vin à l’OAVCT ? Des compagnies de construction de la Rep Dominican dom toujours a la affiche
Par Léo Joseph SOURCES COMBINÉES, 8 janvier — Décidément, le destin des deux républiques, qui partagent la souveraineté de l’île d’Haïti, sont montés sur les…
ARISTIDE/LAVALAS TERRORIZE PARTS OF HAITI
January 15, 2013 Aristide/Lavalas terrorists maintain their hold on Grande Goave, in an effort to cut main access road to Haiti. Local deputy’s house burned…
Kita Nago accueilli à Port-au-Prince
Le Nouvelliste | Publié le : 2013-01-14 Dumas Maçon A Port-au-Prince, la rencontre de Kita Nago et du Nègre marron Jean Marc Herve Abellard voir la vidéo…
Haiti’s earthquake generated a $9bn response – where did the money go?
Show of metal … In offering tangible evidence of how donor money has been spent, the rebuilt Iron Market in Port-au-Prince is unusual. Photograph: View Pictures/Alamy…
U.S. Government Investments in Haiti’s Rebuilding and Renewal
Fact Sheet Office of the Haiti Special Coordinator January 11, 2013 In early 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made Haiti a foreign policy…
Where Demolition and Exploitation Pass for Reconstruction and Development
By Dady Chery NEWS JUNKIE POST Jan 11, 2013 at 9:13 pm How does one drag a people with a sense of enough into the…
For Haiti’s rice farmers, much depends on the free flow of water
In the rice-growing Artibonite Valley, Oxfam and partners are helping restore a lifeline: irrigation. December 28th, 2012 | by Elizabeth Stevens 131 0 9 When a massive…
Venezuela’s ailing Chavez unable to attend swearing-in, officials say
Raul Arboleda / AFP – Getty Images Two men paint a mural portraying Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez with the slogan “We shall overcome” on the…
HAITIANS WOKE UP THIS MORNING – MONDAY – EXPECTING BIG PROBLEMS WHEN THE MARTELLY/LAMOTHE TEAM APPEARED BEFORE PARLIAMENT, BUT SOME DETAILS REVEAL THE PRI – BELIZAIRE – ARISTIDE/LAVALAS AGITATION IS REALLY AN EFFORT TO DEFLECT REVELATION OF CRIMINALITY – OR INCOMPETENCE
January 14, 2012 Deputy Arnel Belizaire faces a lifting of immunity, and imminent arrest, if he goes ahead with plans for paid Aristide/Lavalas agitators to…
ARISTIDE/LAVALAS GROUP PLANS TO DISRUPT MARTELLY/LAMOTHE APPEARANCE AT PARLIMENT TOMORROW
UPDATED- 5 ARISTIDE/LAVALAS DEPUTIES – INCLUDING ARNEL BELIZAIRE, PATRICK JOSEPH, MARIE GUERDA, AND SADRAC DIEUDONNE MET WITH GROUP OF ARISTIDE TERRORISTS AT ARISTIDE FOUNDATION, TABARRE,…
Haiti President Martelly criticises aid on quake anniversary
Reconstruction has been slow in Haiti, where more than 2 million people lost their homes Haiti’s President Michel Martelly has said international aid to help…