Category: Earthquake/CHOLERA
Articles and image gallery from the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti
U.S. post-earthquake aid ‘disappointingly’ delayed and ‘drastically’ scaled back in Haiti
USAid criticised in ‘alarming’ report that finds delays, poor leadership and mismanagement after Haiti earthquake Some of the key US-funded projects to help Haiti recover…
Report Finds Lapses in United States Aid Efforts in Haiti-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
NY times: By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD MEXICO CITY — The agency managing some of the United States’ signature projects to rebuild Haiti after the 2010…
Solar Suitcase for Health Care
The technology end of portable solar power for health care is now in Haiti for the first time. The use of a WE CARE Solar…
Haiti as a leisure destination? Not so fast, study says.
A young girl jumps rope inside the Jean-Marie Vincent camp for people displaced by the 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, April 22. Since the 2010…
Haiti Defense Minister says army reinstatement in due time
Minister of Defense Jean Rodolphe Joazile [file] PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) – The Minister of Defense declared with firm conviction that Haiti will soon form its…
Hidden Haiti: The perfect destination for tourists?
Back in the 1970s, Haiti was a tourist destination for the jet set, welcoming visitors like Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. But political violence, instability…
GAO slams USAID’s Haiti rebuilding efforts
By Ali Watkins McClatchy Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — U.S. efforts to help rebuild Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake have been plagued by poor planning,…
THE OAS, PNUD, MINUSTAH PLAN TO STEAL HAITIAN ELECTORAL FUNDS
June 25, 2013 Prime Minister Lamothe met with electoral chief Manno Menard to learn a few realities about the ongoing criminality of some friends of…
Haiti to Get Inter-American Development Bank Water-Service Grant
Haiti, the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country with about 80 percent of the population living on less than $2 a day, will get an Inter-American Development…
Haiti Gets $35.5M Grant to Improve Water Services
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti June 25, 2013 (AP) Haiti is receiving $35.5 million from the Inter-American Development Bank to improve drinking water services in the Caribbean nation’s…
Dancing for Haiti One artist’s quest to help preserve the country’s culture and promote healing.
Essdras M Suarez/ Globe Staff Dancers with Jean Appolon’s Expressions recently performed at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School. Growing up in a strict, middle-class family…
PRESIDENT MARTELLY PROMISED AN EDUCATION FOR ALL HAITIAN CHILDREN – UNFORTUNATELY HE INHERITED AN ONGOING EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM, TOTALLY CORRUPTED BY THE GOVERNMENTS OF ARISTIDE AND PREVAL… PRIOR TO 1986 LITERACY RATE WAS IMPROVING…. FROM 1986 TILL TODAY, IT HAS PLUMMETED
June 23, 2013. President Michel Martelly realized the key to Haiti’s future is to be found in its young people. They hold the potential for…
Doctors From The Mayo Clinic in Phoenix Travel To Haiti
Haiti seems to possess a pull that lures social workers, doctors, adoption agents and others to return again and again. Mayo Clinic Hospital’s Mitchell Humphreys…
PRIME MINISTER LAMOTHE URGES ELECTIONS BEFORE END OF YEAR
The Head of the Haitian Government, Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe said he had identified, after two encounters on Saturday and Wednesday with the provisional electoral…
Reconstruction of Haiti Slum to Cost Hundreds of Millions of Dollars
This article is the first in a two-part series on the development of and controversy over Corail-Cesselesse camp. A typical Canaan hillside, with many houses…
Deployment of blue helmets to Haiti about diplomacy, not peacekeeping: Defence Minister Peter MacKay
OTTAWA — The Conservative government has no plans to re-embrace peacekeeping despite sending 34 soldiers to serve alongside Brazilian blue helmets in Haiti, Defence…
Gangs of Cairo? Egyptian minister fights culture war Drought, poor harvest to worsen Haiti food crisis – WFP
A boy from a family made homeless by the 2010 earthquake stands inside one of 385 informal tent cities in the Delmas suburb of Port-au-Prince,…
U.S. lawmakers unhappy with UN response to Haiti cholera epidemic
By Saeed Shabazz -Staff Writer- | Last updated: Jun 18, 2013 – 7:28:57 AM UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) – This world body continues to deny any liability…
Quebec wants Haiti earthquake victims to stay in Canada
Government moratorium on deportations could be lifted CBC News Posted: Jun 18, 2013 9:36 PM ET Last Updated: Jun 18, 2013 10:04 PM ET The…
Canada to send peacekeeping troops to Haiti
Deployment of an infantry platoon was approved in October 2012 The Canadian Press Posted: Jun 18, 2013 7:26 PM ET A Canadian soldier carries supplies…