Category: Earthquake/CHOLERA
Articles and image gallery from the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti
Virtual hookup connects grieving Haitian father to Miami family
A Haitian man tried and acquitted on terrorism charge is denied admittance into the United States to attend the funeral of his teenage son struck…
‘Biodigester’ turns human waste into fuel
Agence France-Presse April 18, 2011 Desperately poor Haiti is finding a cheap source of fuel in recycling human excrement, a move that could help put…
World Bank president: ‘One shock away from crisis’
The president of the World Bank has warned that the world is “one shock away from a full-blown crisis”. Robert Zoellick cited rising food prices…
Coachella 2011: Arcade Fire brings Haiti cause to Coachella
By Kimberly Pierceall on April 16, 2011 4:22 PM Arcade Fire, which will bring Saturday to a close late tonight on Coachella’s main stage, has…
SAD!!!BUSINESS AS USUAL – MARTELLY ALREADY ON SLIPPERY SLIDE TO FAILURE IF TONIGHT’S TV APPEARANCE WITH PREVAL IS ANY INDICATION …WHEN ASKED ABOUT PREVAL GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION MARTELLY SAYS, BASICALLY, THERE WAS NONE…SUGGESTS IT WAS ALL RUMOUR AND PREVAL IS CLEAN!!
April 16, 2011 Well, it would seem as though the gloss is off and Martelly has not even been sworn in as President. Immediately after…
Documentary Shows Haitian And Dominican Racial Tension
HAITI-A new documentary by Harvard Professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates examines the relationship between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, neighbors who share the same Island…
THIS IS REALLY SO MUCH GARBAGE THAT IT REQUIRES A BIT BY BIT RETORT AS WE GO: THIS TYPE OF ARTICLE IS WHY THE WORLD’S VIEW OF HAITI IS IMPOSSIBLY FLAWED!!! Joyous victory in a bitter time: Haiti before and after Aristide’s return
April 15, 2011 by Robert Roth The thousands of Haitians who had run alongside President Aristide’s car the three miles from the airport to his…
Louisiana National Guard to lead training exercise in Haiti
PINEVILLE, La. — The Louisiana National Guard will lead a U.S. Southern Command New Horizons training exercise in Haiti comprised of National Guard, Reserve and…
CRUSH SYNDROME-Experience in Haiti guides treatment for future disasters
By Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles TimesApril 15, 2011, 6:00 a.m. Natural disasters – such as the earthquake and tsunami in Japan – are horrible events…
Constant: Haiti’s Fiercest Flag Bearer
Photo by Katherine SmithMyrlande Constant is undoubtedly Haiti’s fiercest flag bearer. A (drapo Vodou) Vodou flag maker who has been refining her craft in the…
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Uncovers Latin America’s African Roots in New Four-Part Series, Black in Latin America, Premiering Tuesday, April 19 at 8 p.m. on PBS
Black in Latin America is the 11th documentary from Professor Gates whose previous PBS projects include African American Lives 1 and 2, Oprah’s Roots, Looking…
Food prices: World Bank warns millions face poverty: IN HAITI THOUSANDS WILL DIE OF STARVATION
Prices of foodstuffs such as wheat have been hit by unrest in North Africa The World Bank has warned that rising food prices, driven partly…
The Power of Music to Ignite Hope in Haiti
Dave Farrell/Peter Yeo: Port Au Prince, Haiti — As Haiti welcomes a new president, who also happens to be a musician, we started to think…
Arcade Fire Blogs About Experiences in Haiti, Raising Money for Charity
Posted by Chad Webb on 04.13.2011 The Arcade Fire guitarist blogs about their time in Haiti… Arcade Fire’s guitarist Will Butler posted some blogs about…
Un autre gouvernement avant le 14 mai
La Nouvelliste: Un nouveau cabinet ministériel devrait être connu et opérationnel avant le 14 mai, date à laquelle le président sortant René Préval laissera sa…
Construction underway at Mirebalais hospital in Haiti
The hospital is being built in cooperation with Boston-based aid organisation Partners in Health (PIH). The 320-bed hospital will replace an old hospital which is…
Telecoms billionaire Denis O’Brien’s rules for success
Investors in places like Ivory Coast and Libya need thick skins and level heads, for when conflict rages and governments fall, they run the risk…
Le palais national en voie de restauration
Des techniciens du Centre national des Equipements (CNE) sont à pied d’oeuvre au palais national dans des travaux de démolition des parties jugées « irrécupérables…
Le choléra rebondit dans l’arrière-pays
Haïti: Alors que les autorités sanitaires annonçaient une nette régression de l’épidémie du choléra, 70 personnes ont été infectées en seulement huit jours à la…
Haiti cholera epidemic could have been blunted with use of mobile stockpile of oral vaccine
SEATTLE – Had a large stockpile of oral cholera vaccine been available and deployed to inoculate the majority of Haitians most at risk after the…