David Rochkind for The New York Times Maurice Guillome replanted rice after flooding. By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD Published: November 17, 2012 FAUCHÉ, Haiti — A woman who lost just about everything now gives her children coffee for meals because it quiets their stomachs a bit. Another despondent mother relives the awful moment when her...
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NEW YORK, Nov. 16, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — RVPlus, Inc. (OTCQB:RVPL), holding company of ECCO2 Tech has entered a material agreement for $90 million with Le Président de la Commission des Affaires Etrangères au Séna pour La République d’Haïti and La Commission des Affaires Étrangères au Sénat pour La République d’Haïti to supply green...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The rain has tapered off and floodwaters no longer claw at houses, but the situation across much of Haiti remained grim Tuesday following an autumn of punishing rains that have killed scores of people and threaten to cause even more hunger across the impoverished nation. Heavy rains began falling in southern...
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Alexander C. Kaufman Reuters9:49 p.m. CST, November 9, 2012 LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – The documentary “La Source” was originally conceived to be the tale of a single project, the efforts by a Princeton University janitor to bring clean water to a single village in rural Haiti. Now, the film’s exposure has spawned a soccer...
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Credit: Reuters/Adriane Ohanesian By Kate Kelland and Ben Hirschler LONDON | Fri Nov 9, 2012 9:11am EST (Reuters) – The world’s first potential malaria vaccine proved only 30 percent effective in African babies in a crucial trial, calling into question whether it can be a useful weapon in the fight against the deadly disease....
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By Associated Press, Updated: Friday, November 9, 9:02 AM PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A Haitian government official says up to 10 people have died in the northern part of the country following a night of heavy rainfall. Jean Henry Petit of Haiti’s Civil Protection Office said Friday most of the Haitians died in the port city of...
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Gather.com/Enertainment Todd Carmichael of Dangerous Grounds is a coffee expert, thrill seeker and philanthropist. He travels to Haiti to investigate the dangerous world of coffee growers. The world of coffee is a $60B industry second only to oil as a high demand commodity. Over 200 years ago, Haiti was the second largest producer of...
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Bloomberg Business Week: PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — It was a whirlwind tour for World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, who helicoptered from the grounds of the demolished National Palace to his old stomping grounds in central Haiti where he once treated the rural poor as a doctor. Then he flew off to visit a...
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Huffington Post: As Hurricane Sandy tormented the East Coast, bringing damage and distress to many, there’s one thing she didn’t bring — cholera. With practically universal access to clean, chlorinated water and improved sanitation, cholera has been eliminated from the wealthy world for many years. But in Haiti, Sandy’s torrential downpours have flooded rivers...
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Almost three years after an earthquake devastated Haiti, 370,000 people are still living in the tent camps that became their homes. Now, some have lost even that. Haitian officials say that 18,000 families living in tent camps have been rendered homeless by Hurricane Sandy, which has killed 52 there since making landfall last week....
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