Articles and image gallery from the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti
AHMAD BY JANE CHONG AND MUNEER I. AHMAD Muneer.ahmad@yale.edu Two years after Haiti’s deadly 2010 earthquake, a second humanitarian crisis continues to claim Haitian lives. Whereas the first crisis was a natural disaster, the second — a massive outbreak of cholera — was man-made. Worse still, although the United Nations unwittingly caused the epidemic,...
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Washington Post: (Ramon Espinosa/ Associated Press ) – In this Thursday, April 26, 2012 photo, a street vendor walks in front of the building in construction of Best Western Hotel in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. This city is undergoing the largest hotel building boom in its history, raising expectations that investors will soon fill those air-conditioned...
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Posted By: Bryan Chan Posted On: 6:29 p.m. | December 13, 2010 By Carolyn Cole, Los Angeles Times High in Haiti’s Saint Nicolas Mountains, six hours north of Port-au-Prince, the sky is a brilliant blue, and residents in the village of Bwaneufe live off the land with food to spare. There is no TV,...
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You could hardly argue that things have been going well lately for Haiti. Quite apart from being cruelly ravaged more than two years ago now by an earthquake from which it is still struggling to recover, more recently the Caribbean country’s president was struck down by a pulmonary embolism, while a rogue band of paramilitaries stormed parliament in his...
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A noter que cette video a ete mise en ligne ce mois-ci, il s’agit donc d’une situation qui prevaut encore plus de deux ans apres le seisme. HAMSCO (Your Multi-Services Agency celebrating three decades of excellence) Travel Services, with HAMSCO TRAVEL Established since 1981 Income Tax, Immigration, Documents Translation, etc. 204 Taylor Street, Suite...
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BY JULIAN RICHARDSON Assistant Business co-ordinator richardsonj@jamaicaobserver.com Wednesday, April 25, 2012 Jamaica Observer: A leading businessman from Haiti has downplayed the recent closure of the Haitian embassy in Jamaica and any adverse impact that may have on trade relations between the two countries. Haiti withdrew its diplomatic agents three weeks ago, leading to suspicion...
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April 24, 2012 It is 11 P.M. and torrential rain is sweeping the Port-au-Prince area. Already street are flowing with deep water that washes large boulders with it as it rushes down the hillsides. Cars and trucks plow through this fast-moving sea of water. Many have been trapped as their engines drowned. Low lying...
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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – Health officials in the Dominican Republic say six people have died after contracting cholera in a northern village hit by a new outbreak of the disease. Authorities in the Caribbean nation announced last week that they were investigating a new cholera outbreak in the area after rains damaged sewer...
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By Ezra Fieser / Santo Domingo When Haitian President Michel Martelly visited the Dominican Republic last month, he was awarded the country’s highest honor for a foreign head of state, in large part for his efforts to lure reconstruction investment to Haiti after its catastrophic 2010 earthquake, which killed more than 200,000 people. In...
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MIAMI HERALD OPINION: Haiti’s government and its supporters must act quickly to end threat By The Miami Herald Editorial HeraldEd@MiamiHerald.com With the beginning of hurricane season only 40 days off, Haitians should be worried about protection from the annual onslaught of stormy weather, but instead another crisis is shaking the Caribbean’s perennially troubled country:...
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