by Laura Flynn “We are living in the mud. We are wet and we are hungry. Those in charge have left us without hope. If they have a plan we do not know it. We are asking about the future. And we want our voices to be heard, ” Suzette Janvier a resident of...
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“We want our voices to be heard”: Democracy in Haiti’s Earthquake Zone
Mild tremor shakes Haiti but no damage reported
Associated Press 2010-05-04 04:16 AM People ran screaming from buildings Monday as a mild tremor rattled a Haitian capital still traumatized by the deadly Jan. 12 earthquake. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries from the latest tremor. Preliminary data from the U.S. Geological Survey show the magnitude-4.4 earthquake struck in the...
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News from Latin America and the Caribbean Haitians reunite with families in Mexico
April 27, 2010 | 1:21 pm A group of 20 men, women and children arrived on Mexican shores over the weekend from earthquake-torn Haiti, bringing to 324 the total of Haitian citizens who have relocated to Mexico since the Jan. 12 disaster. Sunday’s arrivals from Port-au-Prince traveled to the port of Veracruz on the...
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DDT can stymie malaria-carrying mosquitoes in Haiti
BY HENRY I. MILLER henry.miller@stanford.edu On top of the almost unimaginable devastation caused by January’s earthquake in Haiti, the nation is bracing for the ravages of the rainy season. Torrential downpours have already flooded homes and turned tent cities into muddy misery. Ominously, the number of cases of malaria, which is spread by the...
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Haiti restores some international mail services with UN support
3 May 2010 – Haiti announced today that it was partially resuming international mail services for the first time since the January earthquake ravaged much of the country’s national institutions, including the post office, with support from the United Nations postal union. The Universal Postal Union (UPU), one of the UN’s specialized agencies, said...
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GOVERNMENT REPORTS: Inside Haiti’s makeshift hospitals Monday LEGS/ARMS REMOVED WITH RIP SAWS – NO ANESTHETIC
May 03, 2010 Chris Van Gorder, president and chief executive officer of Scripps Health, a nonprofit community-based health care delivery network in San Diego, visited Haiti three times to help provide medical care to the victims of the earthquake. Gorder spoke to Government Health IT about the technology tools that were useful to his...
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WHICH LEADER IN THE OAS IS TAKING BRIBES FROM PREVAL??
3 May 2010 Albert Ramdin, the number two at OAS – Organization of American States, visited Haiti and met with leaders of the nation’s political parties. Without exception that all said they were in favor of elections but would not participate with the existing CEP Provisional Electoral Council. Without exception, the political leaders believe...
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Rainy season threatens earthquake-battered Haiti With many displaced people still living in tent camps, floodwaters could wash away what the temblor didn’t destroy.-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
The first group of residents from the Petionville Club camp were bused to the dust-blown Corail Cesselesse campsite northwest of Port-au-Prince on April 10. (Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Time) Joe Mozingo April 18, 2010 Reporting from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti Every afternoon the clouds pile up on the high ridges above this collapsed city...
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Adopting Haitian children can mean a long wait: Silverhill family enjoyed fast push through ‘tiny window of opportunity’
By Press-Register Correspondent May 02, 2010, 8:01AM Bill Starling, Press-Register Staff Photographer—Chris and Natalie Lewis sit in February for a portrait with their 10 children at their home in Stapleton. The children are, from left, front row, Benjamin, Anna Belle, Aden; second row, Joshua, Jasmina, Samuel; and back row, Jorana, Isaac, Hopsanna and Lydia....
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING!!! Haiti to be innundated from above
1715 Hours May 2, 2010 and a few drop of rain spotted the dusty glass table on our patio. The droplets increased, forcing us to go inside. 1730 the rain has accelerated rapidly intermittent bolts of lightning with a FLASH – BANG interval of second, or less, telling me the strikes are very close....
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