Category: Earthquake/CHOLERA
Articles and image gallery from the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti
Coronavirus: Raspberry Pi-powered ventilator to be tested in Colombia
A team in Colombia is to test a ventilator made with a Raspberry Pi computer and easy-to-source parts. The design and computer code were posted…
Coronavirus may infect up to 70% of world’s population, expert warns
Boston — The coronavirus death toll now tops 3,000 worldwide, with nearly 90,000 cases. But even those numbers are nothing compared to what could happen in…
Escaping Pandora’s Box — Another Novel Coronavirus
David M. Morens, M.D., Peter Daszak, Ph.D., and Jeffery K. Taubenberger, M.D., Ph.D. The 1918 influenza pandemic was the deadliest event in human history…
MICHEL MARTELLY REMEMBERS
January 12, 2020 I received this video from Sophia Martelly and have just completed watching it. I have tears in my eyes, and memories in…
Voices of Hope for Haiti’s Future
As this Sunday’s anniversary of the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti drew closer, I was annoyed to see reporting that focused exclusively on how bad…
Supreme Court could hear groundbreaking case that challenges UN immunity
As world leaders descend on New York for this year’s U.N. General Assembly, the immunity enjoyed by the organization is being challenged at the U.S….
Long scorned in the Bahamas, Haitians living there fear what comes next after Dorian
MARSH HARBOUR, THE BAHAMAS Hurricane Dorian, the most catastrophic storm to hit the Bahamas, has upended everyday routines. On Sunday, the St. Francis Catholic Church,…
China Wants Diplomatic Relations with Haiti
Although Haiti’s imports from the People’s Republic of China reached $700 million [USD] in 2018, there is still no diplomatic relationship between the two…
Canada Opens its Borders to Some — But Not All — Immigrants Facing Uncertainty In The U.S.
In Sept. 2017, Daniel Gault drove past the Nantucket house where his friend Isidro Lemus had lived for more than a decade. Lemus was no…
Without Venezuela’s oil, Haiti struggles to keep lights on- Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
When her daughter was 4 years old, Jennifer Jean started a small catering business in Bourdon, a lower middle-class district of the Haitian capital. …
Library for All app brings books to world’s poorest children
A Queensland woman, who hopes to help 20 million of the world’s poorest children learn to read, has won a prestigious award recognising the work…
At the Fair, see how an Iowa company turns grain bins into disaster housing
When an earthquake devastated Haiti in 2010, the safety director at an Iowa farm equipment maker emailed his boss with an 11-word pitch for a…
Ottawa gives Quebec $250M to cover costs related to asylum seeker influx
The Canadian Press Published Friday, August 30, 2019 7:34AM EDT QUEBEC – The federal government is giving Quebec $250 million in compensation for costs the…
Tropical Storm Dorian update: Track toward Florida still uncertain; hurricane watch in Puerto Rico
As Tropical Storm Dorian churns on a northwest path through the Caribbean and potentially toward Florida, it looks like the conditions that help storms strengthen…
Cuba Begins 10-Year Project to Repair, Expand Water Networks in Cap-Haitien
A group of experts and hydraulic engineers from Cuba came into Haiti last Monday to begin analysis on a 3-phase project to repair and extend…
Top 10 Countries With Highest Inflation Rates In The World
The annual inflation rate in the United States hovers at around 2%. For the uninitiated, inflation is the annual percentage change in consumer prices compared…
European Union Donating Food Funds for Haiti
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – The European Union has released €9 million ($10m) in humanitarian aid in response to the deteriorating food and nutrition…
Old Fore River Bridge finds new home in Haiti
A familiar stretch of steel from the South Shore has a new life in rural Haiti. An 80-foot section of the temporary Fore River Bridge,…
“No Haitians Need Apply” – Meet The Nurse Who Took Down a Staffing Agency For Racist Ad- Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
By Jacob Uitti Above all else, nurse Berthilde Dufrene asks one thing of people: to look past each other’s differences and focus on what makes…
Trump administration cutting perk for Haitian families and Filipino vets waiting for green cards
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced on Friday it would be ending two parole programs: the Haitian Family Reunification Parole Program and the Filipino…