Category: Earthquake/CHOLERA
Articles and image gallery from the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti
Two Ideas For Haitian Development Whose Time May Have Come
Huff Post: There are as many different ideas to improve the well-being of Haiti as there are Haitians. After talking to more than 700 people…
New Investigation Reaffirms: Clintons Are Poison for Democrats- Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Bill and Hillary Clinton. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images On June 1, Sen. Chuck Grassley wrote a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson initiating a Senate…
Immigration activists and lawyers offer Haitians hope, vowing TPS fight is not over- Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
By Jacqueline Charles jcharles@miamiherald.com For 29 years, Evette Prosper has called the United States home. It’s where she attended school, got married and gave birth…
Haiti fears deportations will mean surge of child servants
In this May 23, 2017 photo, Watson Saint Fleur balances water for sale on his head in the streets of Petion-Ville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince,…
Trump Won’t Pay a Penny For U.N. Cholera Relief Fund in Haiti
The Trump administration will rebuff a recent U.N. appeal to contribute millions of dollars to a cash-short trust fund established last year to provide relief…
A look at the relief work done in Haiti since Hurricane Matthew
FOX News: Lance Plyler has a habit of showing up where the world is in chaos. And, last October, few places were more in need…
Haiti wants use IDB to finance nearly $1 billion of projects
Haiti Libre: Saturday, as part of the visit of the President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in August, Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant, in…
3D printer technology project makes prosthetic limbs for amputees in Haiti
Humanosphere: By Lisa Nikolau on 5 June 2017 0 A child amputee sits up in her hospital bed in Jacmel. She is one of the…
Development expert: ‘Haiti would be better off without international aid’
By Cécile Barbière | EURACTIV.fr | translated by Samuel White May 30, 2017 (updated: May 30, 2017) The 2010 earthquake in Haiti left 5bn cubic…
TOO LITTLE TOO LATE: UN Peacekeepers: How another Haiti child sex ring was whitewashed
AMER AMERICAN CONGRESSMAN BOB BARR WITH URUGUAYAN COMCHIEF ED MARGER WITH JOHNY JEAN’S FATHER By katy daigle and paisley dodds, associated press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka…
For Haitians who came to U.S. after earthquake, another deportation reprieve
A woman carries water through a refugee camp in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Feb. 6, 2010, weeks after a devastating earthquake hit the country. (John Moore/Getty…
Departments of State and Homeland Security have very different views on Haiti
In this Aug. 17, 2012 photo, printers sit on a desk on the roof the earthquake damaged National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. CREDIT: AP Photo/Dieu…
UN wants to shift $40 mln to Haiti cholera fund
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made the proposal to the UN General Assembly to address a major shortfall in the USD 400 million needed to help…
Haitians get six months protection from deportation but told to put affairs in order
By Jacqueline Charles jcharles@miamiherald.com Haitian nationals who have been protected from deportation from the U.S. for more than seven years since an earthquake struck their…
Report: Cash-strapped UN health agency spends about $200 million a year on travel
LONDON — The World Health Organization routinely spends about $200 million a year on travel — far more than what it doles out to fight…
Jonathan Meeks hopes his NFL status can help Haiti
By Bret McCormick bmccormick@heraldonline.com Jonathan Meeks and his fiancee, Anitra, sponsor the support of a Haitian child for $35 a month. But on a recent…
Brazil Assumes Control of Chilean, Uruguayan, and Peruvian Bases in Haiti
Chilean, Uruguayan, and Peruvian service members are leaving MINUSTAH in Haiti. The Brazilian contingent will remain until October. Taciana Moury/Diálogo | 18 May 2017 International…
WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE – NO A DROP TO DRINK
There is no shortage of water in Haiti. Yet, everywhere on the island, Haitians travel for miles to get water, pay dearly for it if…
Former Vikings Jack Brewer, Byron Chamberlain Give Back to Haitian Community
Photos by Karston Tannis Jack Brewer has long-enjoyed spending time giving back in Haiti, but bringing along former Vikings teammate Byron Chamberlain made his most…
AP Exclusive: US Wants Tally of Haitian Immigrants’ Crimes
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS May 9, 2017 WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is taking the unusual step of hunting for evidence of crimes committed by Haitian immigrants as…