DAILY REPORTS, Direct From Haiti
April 12, 2012 Even as Martelly maneuvered to install a new Prime Minister in the form of Laurent Lamothe, Aristide sat back and watched the game. He watched as the Martelly team passed out money to Senators – $75,000 US a pop, without comment. Then, when the Senate approved Laurent Lamothe’s candidacy, Aristide’s people...
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Avril 11, 2012 A sad, but realistic situation, that sees Laurent Lamothe seen to be paying for his acceptance as Prime Minister. We hope he has enough left in his pocket to handle the criminals of the Chamber since we believe Lamothe has a lot to offer. Especially with the possibility that Martelly may...
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Kate Lord/The Wall Street JournalHaitian band Orchestre Septentrional performs in Brooklyn last week Deep in Brooklyn one recent night, hundreds of Haitian-Americans got a taste of their homeland as they shuffled to the blaring Latin rhythms of an iconic band and sipped the island’s famed Rhum Barbancourt. Onstage were 18 gray-suited musicians with an...
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Avril 9, 2012 Four of the senators, on the commission to decide acceptance or rejection of Laurent Lamothe’s candidacy for Prime Minister, are playing games. The game is a simple one. They are waiting for the terms of Senators Latortue, Lambert and Bastien to run out of May 10… so they can control all...
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A twice-overlooked passenger has local ties. Joseph Laroche and family in Paris. He was of the only black passengers on the Titanic. (Family photo / April 8, 2012) Dawn Turner TriceApril 9, 2012 In preparing his 1997 movie “Titanic” for 3-D, James Cameron reportedly reshot a scene because an astronomer told him that the...
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March 13, 2012 Haiti was hit by a devastating earthquake in 2010. Since that time, has struggled to recover from this disaster that killed some 367,000 people, injured countless others and destroyed many buildings. The International Community stepped in, pledging billions of dollars in assistance to revive, and reconstruct this tiny Caribbean nation. Over...
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Easter Sunday. 2012 MINUSTAH has a huge camp on the international airport in Haiti. The walls of their enclosure host dozens, and dozens of signs promising that those who violate their borders will be molested. See for yourself.
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The number of Haitian merchants who died in a truck accident outside the Caribbean nation’s capital climbed to 26, the government said Sunday. President Michel Martelly’s office said in a statement that the passengers died when their truck flipped on National Highway 2 near the western town of Petit Goave. Thirty people were wounded,...
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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 doesn’t include specific details on the problem. But the 50-year-old Martelly had surgery on his left shoulder in November to relieve pain that he said had bothered him for...
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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 President Hugo Chavez has returned to Venezuela after undergoing a further session of cancer treatment in Cuba. Mr Chavez, who is running for re-election this year, said his second...
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