Articles and image gallery from the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE (BP)–A Haitian prosecutor Thursday charged 10 members of a Baptist volunteer team with child kidnapping and criminal association for allegedly not following the law in attempting to transport 33 children into the Dominican Republic. Haitian Deputy Prosecutor Jean Ferge Joseph then handed the case to an investigative judge, Reuters news service reported. “That...
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NEW YORK // With billions of dollars already pledged for Haiti, anti-corruption experts have warned UN aid chiefs that unscrupulous officials and businessmen in the earthquake-ravaged Caribbean country could line their pockets with reconstruction cash. Corruption watchdogs say deals involving the UN, Haitian officials and businessmen over acquiring land to build camps around Port-au-Prince...
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By MIKE MELIA and MICHELLE FAUL The Associated Press Friday, February 5, 2010; 9:25 AM PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — An hour before the earthquake struck, 19-year-old Britney Gengel phoned her mother in Massachusetts, bursting with joy: She had found her calling on a college trip to help orphans in Haiti. Now, as recovery crews continue...
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While the rest of us mail checks, the General Motors Foundation is doing a lot more to help the earthquake victims of Haiti. It i donating 30 GMC trucks to the relief effort. Two of the trucks arrived in Miami yesterday, site of this year’s Super Bowl, and became props for the NFL Little...
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By Eliane Engeler Thursday, February 4, 2010 GENEVA — In an embarrassment to Switzerland’s government, the country’s top court said Wednesday that at least $4.6 million from Swiss bank accounts previously awarded to charities must be returned to the family of former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier. The decision was reached Jan. 12,...
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By: Daniel Erikson After a devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, the aftershock reached China in ways that few observers could have anticipated. After all, the link between the world’s most powerful rising economy and one of its most troubled states is tenuous. China and Haiti are worlds apart in almost...
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Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — Ten Americans who were detained last week while trying to take 33 Haitian children out of the country were charged Thursday with kidnapping children and criminal association, a government official said. Information Minister Marie Laurence Lassegue’s announcement came shortly after the five men and five women left a hearing at...
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By STEVEN VAN ZANDT | 2/2/10 5:02 AM EST As I watched “Meet the Press” host David Gregory recently ask former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush what it’s going to take to restore Haiti to how it was, my heart started paying attention. Gregory was asking the normal questions, and Clinton and...
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February 03, 2010 -Olivia Ward: Haitian President René Préval has been rightly criticized for his refusal to rally the nation after Haiti’s devastating Jan. 12 earthquake. Crisis thrusts greatness on leaders. But it can also be merciless in exposing weakness. Since Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake struck Jan. 12, President René Préval – once welcomed for...
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By Steven Edwards, Canwest News Service UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations on Wednesday named Bill Clinton as chief aid and reconstruction co-ordinator for earthquake-ravaged Haiti, a task that puts the former U.S. president at the helm of what is likely to be the world body’s biggest ever nation-rebuilding project. The appointment by UN...
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