By Lucy Rodgers BBC News The devastating earthquakes that hit China on 12 May 2008, Italy on 6 April 2009 and Haiti one month ago all measured above 6.0 and took many lives. But why was the human cost so much greater for Haiti? When Pete Garratt, Red Cross head of disaster relief, received...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Jun 23, 2014, 11:34 AM ET A team of experts from UNESCO will examine a site off northern Haiti that an explorer believes may be the wreckage of the Santa Maria, the U.N. cultural agency said Monday. UNESCO officials said the technical team will explore the site in the coming months...
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by stmemory on June 23, 2014 I know I’ve said this before, but I think the only way to truly enjoy living in Haiti is to get OUT of Port au Prince every so often. It’s not easy given the state of the roads and cost of air travel. But when you get out...
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HCNN Published on June 23, 2014 by Joe Colas PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (HCNN) – A key suspect in the murder of famous Haitian journalist Jean Dominique, was extradited to Haiti by authorities in Argentina where he was arrested and detained under a criminal investigation been conducted for more than 14 years. Philippe Markington – pointed...
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By Dan Adams | Globe Correspondent June 23, 2014 dina rudick/ globe staff Clarisse Faveus, a former resident of the Haitian city of Jacmel, greeted Cardinal Chibly Langlois of Haiti at the Basilica and Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, also called the Mission Church, in Boston Sunday. When she lived in the...
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FRANCAIS Nous avons le plaisir de vous faire parvenir cette information. On vous invite de nous faire part de vos commentaires. Haïti – AVIS : Nouvelle taxe pour les visiteurs entrant en Haïti 23/06/2014 09:14:01 Haiti Libre Le Ministère du Tourisme et des Industries Créatives (MTIC) informe le public en général et toutes les...
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Haiti Libre Javier Niño Perez, Ambassador of the European Union (EU) in Haiti reiterated this week during a press conference in Petionville, the financial support from the EU amounting to 5 million euros for the next elections “our determination is on a technical and financial point of view It is not part of...
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Haiti : L’immunité parlementaire de Arnel Belizaire , une betise à revoir et à effacer Haiti : Le député Arnel Bélizaire tire à l’arme automatique dans une manifestation anti-gouvernementale ensuite il sacrifie un coq . _____________________________________________________ COMMENT: HAITIAN-TRUTH.ORG And Belizaire is an example of what we are trying to build Democracy upon. No chance...
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BREAKING NEWS : Le fugitif Markington Philippe, un des principaux suspects ( triggerman )dans l’assassinat de Jean Dominique et de son chauffeur JC Louissaint est arrive a Port-au-Prince ce Samedi 21 Juin 2014 et a été livre a la DCPJ pour les suites nécessaires -
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June 21, 2011 IT MUST BE FIRST UNDERSTOOD THAT MARTELLY SHOULD NOT HAVE WON THE ELECTION, HAD THE NOVEMBER BALLOT BEEN TREATED HONESTLY. THE CANDIDATES WITH THE MOST VOTES WERE – IN THIS ORDER – JEAN-HENRY CEANT, CHARLITO BAKER, AND MARTELLY. PREVAL WAS AFRAID OF A CEANT PRESIDENCY AND DERAILED THE PROCESS WHICH EVENTUALLY...
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By Reuters Filed: 6/20/14 at 3:28 PM A child being treated for cholera in Haiti in 2012 Swoan Parker/Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) – Lawyers for victims of a cholera epidemic in Haiti said on Friday they have served United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with a complaint in New York as part of a federal...
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The Prime Minister, Laurent Lamothe, welcomed the installation of 300 conventional streetlights by E-Power electric company in Cité Soleil, in support to the National government program of public lighting and electrification, implemented by the Office of René Jean-Jumeau, Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister, Responsible for Energy Security, through which 7,470 street lights have...
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The rains have come to the Caribbean and hurricane season is upon us. But for the first time in four years, the nearly 60,000 people who sought refuge on the Petionville Club golf course after the earthquake in Haiti are now under solid roofs in safer homes. The J/P Haitian Relief Organization continues to...
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A man walks past an American Airlines sales office in Caracas on June 17, 2014 (AFP Photo/Leo Ramirez) Washington (AFP) – American Airlines, owed some $750 million by Venezuela, said it was sharply reducing flights to the South American nation from July after the two sides failed to read a deal, a spokesman said....
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — First there was West Nile virus. Now health experts are warning about another virus carried by mosquitoes. The chikungunya virus — or “chik-v” — has sickened tens of thousands of people throughout the Caribbean with high fever and severe pain. Now Americans are coming down with it, too, and there’s...
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June 17, 2014 12:00 AM It pained me to see the June 10 editorial “Troubled Haiti,” in which the people of Haiti are depicted as incapable of governing themselves and as dependent on outside aid. Foreign intervention is largely to blame for the state Haiti is in, starting with the brutal injustice of slavery...
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Following its participation in the 8th edition of the program « Gouvènman an Lakay ou » in Anse-à-Veau, the Head of Mission of the Consulate General of Haiti in Miami, Stéphane Gilles, accompanied by the Consul Natalie Fourcand, in order to prepare the 9th edition of the program that will stop soon in Miami...
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Saturday at Lifestyle Holidays Vacation Resort in Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic at the opening ceremony of the “V Cumbre Prensa y Turismo” , an event to which Haiti participated as guest of honor, Stéphanie Balmir Villedrouin, the Minister of Tourism and Creative Industries (MTIC), declared at the opening in...
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By Laurent Dubois Haiti’s national team has only gone to the World Cup once. It lost every game and scored only two goals. But one of them was the most famous and cherished goal in the country’s history, scored by Manno Sanon on a streaking breakaway against Italy. All of Haiti shook, a friend...
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