Articles and image gallery from the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti
Bernama.comPORT AU PRINCE, March 16 (BERNAMA-NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — The first rains of the rainy season have hit Haiti where about 500,000 victims of the quake of Jan 2010 are still living in fragile canvas tents. Several neighborhoods were flooded and some houses were damaged, as a number of canals overflowed, according to a report...
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Caribbean Journal Above: the area near the Massacre River in the Dominican Republic By the Caribbean Journal staff The Dominican Republic has signed a $54.7 million agreement with the European Union for a programme of bilateral cooperation with Haiti aimed at promoting cross-border trade. The agreement was signed by Ambassador Irene Horejs and Domingo...
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Wednesday, 14 March 2012 06:41 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - ”Haiti is not yet open for business,” said lawyer Bernard Gousse during his speech at the second day of the forum on the General State of Investing in Haiti. According to the former Justice Minister (2004-2006) and Prime Minister-designate of President Michel Martelly, business law in...
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BBC:Two United Nations peacekeepers from Pakistan have been sentenced to a year in prison and sacked from the army for raping a 14-year-old boy in Haiti. The soldiers were found guilty by a Pakistani military tribunal in Haiti and will serve their terms back home. The attack in Gonaives in January was not the...
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Bank robber Willie Sutton said he targeted banks because “that’s where the money is.” While most would disapprove of his ethics, few would argue with his logic. Why, then, do we keep hearing about thieves targeting Haiti? In today’s Wall Street Journal, Mary Anastasia O’Grady informs us of the latest allegations of stealing from...
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BBC: Two United Nations peacekeepers from Pakistan have been sentenced to a year in prison and sacked from the army for raping a 14-year-old boy in Haiti. The soldiers were found guilty by a Pakistani military tribunal in Haiti and will serve their terms back home. The attack in Gonaives in January was not...
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The vaccine — $417,000 worth of it — is stacked high in refrigerated containers to protect it from the Haitian heat. Hundreds of health workers are trained and ready to give the vaccine. They’re armed with programmed smartphones and tablet computers to keep track of who has been vaccinated and who needs a second...
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By Joseph Guyler Delva PORT-AU-PRINCE | Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:40pm EDT (Reuters) – Two U.N. peacekeepers from Pakistan have been sentenced to a year in prison for raping a 14-year-old Haitian boy after being convicted in a Pakistani military trial in Haiti, authorities said on Monday. U.N. spokeswoman Sylvie Van Den Wildenberg said...
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By G. Dunkel Published Mar 11, 2012 10:02 PM Over 10,000 supporters of former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide marched in Port-au-Prince on Feb. 29 from Aristide’s church to the Parliament and the ruins of the National Palace, passing through most of the city’s poor neighborhoods, bastions of his support. Aristide, a former priest elected...
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Haiti (MissionNetworkNews) ― On the other side of the world, another moderate earthquake struck southern Haiti last week, causing some people to relive the terrors of January 2010. Eva DeHart with For Haiti With Love says while the 4.6-magnitude quake caused little physical damage, the real injury was psychological. “It renewed all of the...
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