Articles and image gallery from the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The National Police of Haiti (PNH) hosted on Thursday, August 11 the Japanese Ambassador, Kentaro Minami, on the premises of the Academy which the ambassador took the opportunity to inaugurate the construction and renovation of new buildings for the police. While providing equipment to forensic science, the representative of the Japanese...
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August 12, 2011 Another huge scandal as Haitian children complain of Uruguayan soldiers who force them to strip naked for video and cell phone pictures and sex. Uruguayan soldiers using drugs and providing these to children. Same MINUSTAH troops are also pouring their shit into the water supply. Those in areas say water smells...
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AFP – Haitian President Michel Martelly has said while on a visit to Chile that he would like the UN peacekeeping mission in his country to be converted into an economic development mission. The 12,000-strong United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) is currently under the command of former Chilean foreign minister Mariano Fernandez....
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August 11, 2011 Sean Penn’s dynamic efforts to help earthquake victims, after the disaster January 12, 2010 killed over 300,000, injured hundreds of thousands more and left millions homeless…won international praise. Penn’s tent camp, on the Petion-Ville golf course was a model for all to see and admire. He created a showcase community with...
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Washington Post: PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Thousands of Haitians living in one of the biggest tent camps created after last year’s earthquake could soon have a new home: the mountains north of Port-au-Prince. City officials plan to relocate the almost 20,000 people living on the 42-acre (17-hectare) Champs de Mars plaza across the street from...
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By COURTNEY HUTCHISON, ABC News Medical Unit Aug. 9, 2011 Where mosquito netting and bug spray fail, European scientists are turning to a unique solution to stem the tide of malaria infection worldwide: they’re breeding boy bugs that shoot blanks. In a study release Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,...
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A For Profit Company ECO NO-BOIS Lumber Yard Receives Red Shield™ Coated Lumber for Local Distribution VISTA, Calif., Aug. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Eco Building™ Products, Inc., (OTCBB: ECOB) announced today the company has commenced unloading of containers with Red Shield coated lumber in our Port Au Prince wholesale lumber distribution facility. The entire...
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08 Aug 2011 12:23 Source: alertnet // Katie Nguyen A woman raises her arms for products as people loot from a destroyed shop after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, January 16, 2010. REUTERS/Carlos Barria By Katie Nguyen LONDON (AlertNet) – Oxfam has suspended a “small number” of staff working in quake-shattered Haiti due to...
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By: Martin Zhuwakinyu Israel, a water-constrained country, is leaving no stone unturned in conserving this precious resource through a range of measures, including recycling, efficient use and desalination. The country currently recycles about 75% of its municipal effluent for irrigation, mostly in the arid south, which receives a measly 100 mm/y of rainfall. An...
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