Articles and image gallery from the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti
Game on: gearing up for life’s big game. That’s the theme of Southside Church’s Vacation Bible School in Brownwood June 17-21. It’s a sports theme, and VBS week at the church will be introduced by a unique event: the presence of an amputee soccer team from Haiti. Eighteen team members, who range in age...
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Bynancy moya, associated press TIJUANA, Mexico — Jun 11, 2018, 12:40 AM ETThe Associated Press In this May 9, 2018 photo, a resident of Little Haiti leaves a house built by a pastor and volunteers in Tijuana, Mexico. Plans by a local church to build a residential community for Haitians hit a roadblock when...
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MIAMI — As President Trump travels north to Canadato attend the G7 summit, Canadian officials have been heading south to try to stem a wave of undocumented immigrants headed their way. In what has become an increasingly regular mission, Canadian representatives visited the U.S this week to warn immigrants fearful over President Trump’s immigration crackdown...
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Taipei, May 31 (CNA) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) announced Thursday that Taiwan will assist Haiti secure a NT$4.5 billion (US$150 million) loan from banks involved in the Republic of China’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) program, refuting rumors that the country is reverting to checkbook diplomacy. MOFA spokesman Andrew Lee (李憲章) told reporters...
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Printed by Vulcans on planet Earth By Tamara Warren@tamaratam Mar 12, 2018, 8:39am EDT Share Photo: ICON Food, water, and shelter are basic human needs, but 1.2 billion people in the world live without adequate housing, according to a report by the World Resources Institute’s Ross Center for Sustainable Cities. Today at SXSW, an...
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Hobbled by foreign interventions, political instability, and natural disasters, the former French colony has long suffered from underdevelopment. Backgrounder by Rocio Cara Labrador Introduction Few countries have struggled with development like Haiti. Since breaking free from French colonial rule over two centuries ago, the Caribbean state has weathered multiple foreign interventions, chronic political instability,...
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Haiti Libre: Friday a high-level delegation led by President Jovenel Moïse and the Ambassador of the European Union (EU) Vincent Degert, composed of Fritz Caillot, the Minister of Public Works, Charles Jean-Jacques the National Authorizing Officer of the European Fund of Development (EDF), of Anna Lipchitz the Director of the French Development Agency (AFD)...
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John A. Carroll, MD www.haitianhearts.org MUST SEE VIDEO ON UN VIOLENCE IN HAITI: “It Stays With You–Use of Force by UN Peacekeepers in Haiti” Mar 8 2018 The United Nations brought death, destruction, cholera, brothels, child molestation, and disrespect to Haiti. The billions of dollars, spent on this criminal organization, would have been better...
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Editorial Note: Sponsored article Microlending Could Help Bail Out Personal Debts in Haiti With more than 80 percent of households in Haiti’s capital living below the poverty line and 94% in the rural areas in debt, helping people to break out from the cycle of perpetual indebtedness is a gargantuan challenge. The average amount...
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A couple finds a surprising destination while delivering storm aid By Scott Neuman 10 hours ago Fishermen in Île à Vache, a tiny island off the southern coast of Haiti, are in desperate need of old sails. Scott Neuman Approaching Haiti’s southwest coast felt a bit like sailing through a time machine: Patched and...
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After recalling its ambassador to the United Nations, the Haitian government skipped out on a UN retreat on cholera that recently took place in New York. This comes after a comment by Susan D. Page, the special representative and head of the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH), applauding an investigation...
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Former Prime Minister of Haiti, the Hon. Laurent Lamothe, will participate as a speaker in the Berlin Economic Forum to be held in the German capital on March 6th–11th, 2018. MIAMI (PRWEB) March 05, 2018 Former Prime Minister of Haiti, the Hon. Laurent Lamothe, will participate as a speaker in the Berlin Economic Forum...
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Friday March 2, 2018 Caribbean 360.com – The Government of Barbados has expressed concern that citizens of Haiti have to obtain visas in order to travel to some CARICOM member states, although it is a member of the regional integration movement. “Barbados has always thought that this was a little inequitable and...
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PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) — A day after recalling its United Nations ambassador for consultations in protest over a UN official’s remarks about oil-loan corruption allegations, the Haitian government has cancelled its participation in a high-level UN retreat on cholera in New York. Hosted by UN Secretary-General António Guterres and his Special Envoy...
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This Monday morning, Jean-Douby Florville, 13, can take all his time to eat and review his homework before going to school. The eldest son in a family of four children, Jean-Douby crosses the eight kilometers that link the village of Labadie to downtown Cap Haïtien, where his mother’s hardware store and the good schools...
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By Jacqueline Charles jcharles@miamiherald.comMarch 01, 2018 07:00 Am Updated March 01, 2018 09:55 AM Para leer esta historia en español, haga clic aquí. SANTIAGO, CHILE — A day’s work. That’s all Benissont Joseph needed. As he stood by the side of a dusty road in a country more that 3,500 miles from home, clutching...
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By Jacqueline Charles February 28, 2018 08:54 PM A day after recalling its United Nations ambassador for consultations in a protest over a U.N. official’s remarks about oil-loan corruption allegations, the Haitian government on Wednesday canceled its participation in a high-level U.N. retreat on cholera in New York. Hosted by U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres...
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Les révélations de cas d’infractions sexuelles ne cessent de surgir dans les rangs des organisations humanitaires depuis le scandale Oxfam en Haïti. Les dernières nouvelles concernent la Croix-Rouge. Au fait, il est rapporté que des membres du personnel de cette organisation ont été licenciés et d’autres ont démissionné pour inconduite sexuelle. J’ai demandé à...
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By Martin Thomas Sydney Morning Herald The revelations of sexual misconduct by British Oxfam staff in Haiti have rocked the aid sector, including in Australia. Donors to several Australian agencies cancelled their financial support in wake of the news that Oxfam workers helping survivors after the 2010 earthquake had paid some of them for...
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Zoe DrewettSunday 18 Feb 2018 9:00 am Feb 18, 2018 EDITOR: One must view any situation within the elements involved. People have pride and would refuse most suggestions. However, if you were the ladies in these two photograhps, what would you do if offered food/shelter, even for a night, in return for sex? You...
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