Articles and image gallery from the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti
Jayne Clark, USA TODAY Three years after the earthquake that ravaged Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince and beyond, the country’s prime minister announced the island is angling for affluent tourists as a way to become more self-sufficient. A luxury lodging opened in December, one of 11 hotel projects underway. A tourist corridor in Cap Haitien...
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Amnesty.org.uk Nearly 700 families have been forcibly evicted from two make-shift camps by the Haitian authorities in the last two weeks, reported Amnesty International. The families, all victims of the earthquake over three years ago, were not given enough time to gather their belongings before their shelters were destroyed. Police officers violently evicted 84...
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The Antoine-Simon Airport expansion project is part of the government’s efforts to ramp up infrastructure development in Haiti’s South department. The expanded airport will feature new 3,000-metre runway strip and a new terminal. The airport project is estimated to cost $26.6 million, and will span over a period of two years. Dominican firm Estrella...
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Michel Presume, directeur de la Division Batiment Public at Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Photo: Michelle Loubon Presidential Palace, Supreme Court to be built Michelle Loubon Guardian Media For the first time, Haiti will establish a Supreme Court at its capital Port-au-Prince. Michel Presume, directeur de la Division Batiment Public, explained it will be among six buildings...
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday appointed a seasoned humanitarian worker to serve as his Acting Special Representative in Haiti to oversee the world body’s peacekeeping mission in the Caribbean nation. Nigel Fisher, a Canadian, replaces outgoing U.N. envoy Mariano Fernandez, who is leaving the job after 20 months. Fernandez has said he may...
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Jean-Claude Mukadi, directeur national de World Vision Haïti et l’ambassadeur de Taïwan en Haïti, Bang-Zhy Liu procédant à la signature de l’accord de partenariat. À la suite du cyclone Sandy, plus de 31 000 personnes ont perdu leur maison en Haïti. Les infrastructures en adduction d’eau et en assainissement, de même que des écoles,...
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The Prime Minister, Laurent Lamothe will proceed officially on Friday 1 February 2013, at the laying of the first stone of the international airport of Les Cayes. The ceremony, which will take place at the airport Antoine Simon of Les Cayes, is part of efforts made by the Government to build new infrastructure in...
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Dr. James Macdonald, here with a young patient in Haiti, runs a health clinic in Port-au-Prince that focuses on wound care (CNN) — Three years after Haiti’s devastating earthquake, more than a third of the country’s hospitals are still not functional. A cholera outbreak has killed more than 7,000 people and overwhelmed the already-reeling health care...
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Haiti Libre: Wednesday, the Prime Minister, Laurent Lamothe visibly satisfied of his mission, returned to the country after participated to he 43rd World Economic Forum in Davos (Switzerland), which brought together nearly 2,500 participants, 50 Heads of State and leaders of nearly 200 companies, among the largest in the world. During his stay in...
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By Susana Ferreira | January 30, 2013 When Hurricane Sandy struck Haiti late last year, the home Guerda Pierre shares with her three children and mother in Cabaret, north of Port-au-Prince, was flooded – and so was the merchandise she sold to make a living. “The books, the food, everything was wet after Sandy,”...
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