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No One Knows Exactly Why the Canadian Military Is in Haiti-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

Canadian infantry on a military exercise. Image via Perhaps understandably, the Canadian media has been having a hard time covering any news that doesn’t have…

Posted in Earthquake/CHOLERA Govt Incompentece

Cholera in Haiti: Action incumbent on us all-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

The cholera epidemic that has claimed so many lives in Haiti remains a public health crisis, and it demands action  ̶  from all of us….

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Made in Haiti, Dumped in Haiti: Slave Labor and the Garment Industry

PORT-AU-PRINCE—In Haiti, people wear T-shirts bearing unlikely English messages: “We’re the 2% who don’t care,” says one; a respectable-looking grandmother dons a T-shirt emblazoned with…

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Chantal breaks up, but remnants threaten heavy rain in vulnerable Haiti

By Tom Brown and Kevin Gray, Reuters MIAMI — Tropical Storm Chantal dissipated over the Caribbean on Wednesday, but its remnants threatened to bring heavy…

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CHOLERA SWEEPING COUNTRYSIDE AS UN FAILS TO ACT – SECRETARY GENERAL LIES AGAIN – MASSAIDE HOSPITAL HAS 40 CHOLERA VICTIMS AND NO SPACE FOR MANY MORE WHO ARE INFECTED. 4 OF 40 DIE – WHO KNOWS HOW MANY MORE DIE IN THEIR HOMES… NO WATER – NO INSTRUCTIONS – NO HELP – NO HOPE!! 80,000 HAVE PROBABLY DIED, NOT THE 8000 STATED BY BAN KI MOON SINCE THE NEPALLESE WERE FILMED DUMPING THEIR CHOLERA INFECTED POO INTO THE ARTIBONITE RIVER.

July 10, 2013 UN Secretary General Ban ki Moon told the American Congress that the UN would solve the Haitian cholera problem. Unfortunately, the Americans…

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Tropical Storm Chantal forms in Atlantic

The storm’s winds early Monday are near 40 mph. (Photo: National Hurricane Center) Story Highlights A tropical storm warning is in effect for Barbados, Dominica,…

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CONCACAF Gold Cup: Honduras v Haiti

Tomorrow night it begins here at Red Bull Arena, when El Salvador begins the evening with a match against  Trinidad and Tobago, then, after the…

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Urban oasis offers hope to Haiti’s poorest

Going Green is a series of special programs that air on CNN International reporting on some of the world’s most pressing environmental issues. In July…

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DNA study links Nepal’s cholera bug to Haitian epidemic

The United Nations sent Nepalese peacekeeping troops to bring relief to Haiti after it was devastated by an earthquake in 2010. A new study concludes…

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Impoverished Haiti hopes $160 million to develop high-end tourism industry pays off

MONTROUIS, Haiti –  The only leisure tourist among the U.N. peacekeepers, aid workers, embassy personnel and missionaries on this beach north of the Haitian capital…

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Haiti, through my lens

When I’m in Haiti, I carry a camera. I document. I record what I find captivating and haunting. Mostly it’s my way of processing and…

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Aspen know-how completes Haiti school

Richard de Campo courtesy photo A crew in Haiti works in scaffolding erected for roof beam framework at a new school earlier this year. A…

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Earthquakes Fast Facts

(CNN) — Here’s what you need to know about earthquakes worldwide. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, “an earthquake is the ground shaking caused by…

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Haiti’s quake homeless sees big drop

By Jacqueline Charles jcharles@MiamiHerald.com More than three years after Haiti’s devastating earthquake, there are 279,000 people still living in squalid encampments, an 82 percent drop,…

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MORE LIES FROM THE UN UN Chief Tells US It Will Combat Cholera in Haiti-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS July 6, 2013 (AP) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told members of the U.S. Congress Friday that the United…

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Golf outing to raise funds to help orphans in Haiti

Chris and Kelli Wilson visit orphans in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, in May 2011. YORKVILLE – When Chris and Kelli Wilson first saw the devastating plight of…

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Genomes of Cholera Bacteria from Haiti Confirm Epidemic Originated from Single Source

July 2, 2013 — The strain of cholera that has sickened thousands in Haiti came from a single source and was not repeatedly introduced to…

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Haiti tries to boost its tourism industry

By Laura Trevelyan BBC News, Jacmel Can Haiti’s sparkling beaches lure back tourists amid political instability and crushing poverty? Haiti may not be the first…

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From Haitian Roots, a Rebellious Opera Springs

Work by Haitian Artist Edouard Duval-Carrié Inspires the Opera ‘Makandal’ By PIA CATTON Jason Andrew for The Wall Street Journal A rehearsal for ‘Makandal’ at…

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Squad of small planes set to ferry medicine, musical instruments to Haiti

COPA (Cirrus Owners and Pilots Association) loaded several hundred pounds of medical supplies at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport that are destined for St. Luke Family…