Category: Earthquake/CHOLERA
Articles and image gallery from the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti
US company in Haiti blames Cuba for loss of barge
nBy TRENTON DANIEL Associated Press (AP:PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti) A U.S. housing company is blaming Cuba for the loss of a barge loaded with supplies to build…
Haitian Reprieve The U.S. needs to help Martelly push back against defeatist forces-Added COMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
OPINION – WALL STREET JOURNAL April 10, 2011 Haiti’s electoral council announced this week that Michel “Sweet Micky” Martelly won the presidential runoff last month…
READ THIS AND REMEMBER!! Survival tools in Haiti: Truth and deception
Editor’s note: CNN’s Moni Basu and Jim Spellman traveled to Haiti in December, to report on the one-year anniversary of the earthquake there. Among the…
A GOOD ARTICLE ON HAITEL HAITI’S FIRST CELL PHONE COMPANY
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – I seem to have fallen into the Haitian time warp, where everything seems to have gone by so fast at such a slow…
UN: Aid hasn’t reached Haiti yet-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Hank Flynn, Press TV, New York Haitian president Rene Preval called for more improvements to his shattered country at the UN in New York —…
Some 20,000 jobs to be created at new industrial park in Haiti-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
U.S. Haiti team up with Korean garment firm to create 20,000 jobs and country’s first fabric mill. By Jacqueline Charles jcharles@MiamiHerald.com CARACOL, Haiti — Standing…
Haitian prime minister says thousands of foreign charities must register with gov’t
By Trenton Daniel, The Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Too many foreign charities are working in Haiti without supervision and need to provide more information…
Haiti grassroots groups say they’re being shut out of rebuilding funds-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
As the Haiti recovery commission absorbs international criticism that it’s not moving fast enough, grassroots organizations wonder why they’re not being called on. By Jacqueline…
Fresh outbreak of cholera in Haiti after heavy rains
A woman washes her feet from a makeshift public tap in Port au Prince March 16, 2011. REUTERS/Kena Betancur CHOLERA outbreaks are on the rise…
Former singer Michel ‘Sweet Micky’ Martelly is expected to be the next president of Haiti, observers say, defeating former first lady Mirlande Manigat.
By Jacqueline Charles jcharles@MiamiHerald.com PORT-AU-PRINCE — A carnival singer who reinvented himself into a polished political outsider is poised to become Haiti’s new president, according…
Arrival of Task Force BON VOIZEN in Haiti
The Embassy of the United States of America in Haiti announces the recent arrival of the first soldiers of Task Force Bon Voizen, deployed as…
THE HAITIAN DAISY CHAIN –
MINUSTAH’S MULET DATING MARIE THERESE BOULOS– REGINALD BOULOS’ SISTER, AS REGINALD BOULOS – CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PRESIDENT – CREATES FRAUDULENT BRIDE POLLS THAT GIVE MANIGAT …
Opportunités !-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
smalljournal34251 LE MATIN: Arrêter un voleur en Haïti, ce n’est point combattre le crime que constitue le vol. Ces arrestations concernent rarement ces grands voleurs…
States of Exception—Haiti’s IDP Camps-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian Truth
Valerie Kaussen According to the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, camps—for example, concentration camps, refugee camps, and internally displaced persons (IDP) camps—risk replacing nation-states as the…
Haitians mired in misery as world moves on
“I don’t know that things will get better” Haitian camp dweller Josiane Beauvoix PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI — Under a blue tarp strung up to…
MARTELLY WINS!!!-Updated
MARTELLY WINS!!! MODESTLY CLAIMS A 69% SHARE WHEN REALITY IS MORE LIKE 80%!! PREVAL STILL PLOTS A FIX CEP Wanted to Give Martelly 51%-Finally Suggests…
U.N. Admits at Least $600G Lost on Overpriced Boat That Housed Peacekeepers-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
By George Russell Published March 31, 2011 | FoxNews.com The United Nations has admitted that it lost at least $600,000 after it cancelled its controversial…
Shakira donates $400,000 to rebuild Haiti school
(AFP) – PORT-AU-PRINCE — Colombian pop star Shakira has donated $400,000 to rebuild a school that was severely damaged in the January 2010 quake that…
Canada feared popular uprising in Haiti after quake-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
The Canadian Press Updated: Thu. Mar. 31 2011 6:42 AM ET MONTREAL — In the chaotic days following the Haitian earthquake, the Canadian government feared…
NH Group Helps Haitian Amputee Dance Again
MANCHESTER, N.H. — A professional dancer from Haiti who lost her leg in that country’s recent earthquake will soon be dancing again, thanks to a…