Category: Earthquake/CHOLERA
Articles and image gallery from the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti
Hospital ship USNS Comfort sailing home from Haiti
By Steve Sternberg, USA TODAY The U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort pulled up anchor Tuesday in Port-au-Prince and began the long trip home to Baltimore,…
Voodoo practitioners shrug off blame for Haitian quake
In a whirl of limbs and with eyes bulging, the woman is helped to a squat in the ramshackle shed and starts cackling maniacally like…
BOSTON GLOBE Give Haiti control over its recovery-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
By Monika Kalra Varma and Loune Viaud | March 8, 2010 SINCE JANUARY’S devastating earthquake in Haiti, well-meaning experts have proposed an abundance of short-term…
OBITUARY 0345 HOURS 8 MAR 2010
I am sleeping on a 2 inch foam pad, spread on the floor of my office. The others are sleeping outside on the terrace. No…
Agencies give shelter to half of Haiti’s homeless-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Aid agencies say they have delivered emergency shelter to half of the 1.3 million people in need following the Jan. 12 earthquake…
LOS ANGELES TIMES Haiti, after ‘the event’ A TRULY CHARMING SERIES OF COMMENTS – HAITIAN-TRUTH.ORG
Susan Silk is a Detroit-area psychologist in private practice. But for years, she has had another life as well. As Michigan coordinator of the American…
Governor general to mark women’s day in Haiti
MONTREAL — Haitian-born governor general Michaelle Jean will mark International Women’s Day on Monday in Haiti, as the impoverished nation struggles to rebuild two months…
US troops withdrawing en masse from Haiti
By BEN FOX and JENNIFER KAY (AP) PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — U.S. troops are withdrawing from the shattered capital, leaving many Haitians anxious that the most…
What happens to Haiti when ‘the good doctors’ leave? TENS OF THOUSANDS WILL DIE BECAUSE OF PREVAL’S CALCULATED INDIFFERENCE-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
By Joel Rubin March 7, 2010 Reporting from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti The line of patients at this city’s battered General Hospital forms early. The sick come…
FLASH- FLASH – PREVAL UPDATE March 6, 2010 PREVAL WILL FACE AN ANGRY OBAMA WEDNESDAY
Congresswoman Maxine Waters headed mission to Haiti this week. The American team included President Clinton’s man, responsible for reconstruction of Haiti. These visitors accompanied by…
FLASH–FLASH–FLASH March 5 2010-PREVAL ORDERED TO WASHINGTON 10 MARCH. CALLED BY OBAMA AFTER EXPLOSIVE FIASCO WITH ADMIRAL MULLEN AND STATE DEPARTMENT REPRESENTATIVE REGARDING HIS (PREVAL’S) LACK OF INTEGRITY.
Government representative voiced shock at President Rene Garcia Preval’s uncontrolled outburst during a meeting with Admiral Mullen, Commander SOUTHCOM, and Hillary Clinton’s personal representative. Preval…
UN envoy says Haiti should hold presidential elections despite earthquake’s ravages-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
06:35 PM Mar 05, 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – The top U.N. official in Haiti says the country must proceed with presidential elections. The acting…
Dancer who lost her leg in Haiti earthquake: ‘I want to dance again’
He had spent all day asking questions in Creole and turning the answers into English. They were mostly the same questions: How did you lose…
THE McGILL TRIBUNE RIGHT MINDED: Haiti’s real problem
Brendan Steven | Published: 3/2/10 On February 9, Max Silverman wrote an article that viewed the aid effort in Haiti through the prism of Naomi…
NON-EVENT :PHONY INTERVIEW WITH COLLIN POWELL Les Milliards de dollars d’Haïti – Une exclusive interview de Colin Powell-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Collin Powell se passe de présentation. « De sensibilité plutôt démocrate, le général Powell reste fidèle au parti de Ronald Reagan (républicain), entraînant avec lui…
Relief agencies keep principal focus on Haiti Chile called better able to cope with its earthquake
By Don Markus | don.markus@baltsun.comLocally based relief agencies are weighing what they might do to help victims of the earthquake in Chile, but said Monday…
Haiti’s Futile Race Against the Rain-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
By LAWRENCE DOWNES There were floods on Saturday in Les Cayes, in southwestern Haiti. It rained in Port-au-Prince on Thursday, and again on Saturday and…
FLASH–FLASH–FLASH March 01 PREVAL ORDER KIDNAPS
Even before President Rene Garcia Preval met with the Obama team in Washington, his own team was getting to work in Haiti. Preval wants to…
Looking for lessons in Haiti’s epic tragedy-Added COMMENTARY BY Haitian-Truth
WASHINGTON POST By CHARLES J. HANLEY The Associated Press Monday, March 1, 2010; 12:01 AM — Tons of rice and beans tell how the world…
The Rainy Season is upon us
Feb 27, 2010 Haiti’s rainy season has begun. Last night torrential rain turned tent cities into misery for half a million homeless earthquake victims. This…