Month: January 2010
BUTCHERS!!! PR to investigate MDs for Haiti Facebook pics
`By DANICA COTO The Associated Press Saturday, January 30, 2010; 3:59 PM SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rican medical doctors who appeared on Facebook…
US to resume shortly Haiti medical evacuation flights
The United States will resume within hours emergency evacuation flights for critically injured Haitian quake victims, the White House has said. The airlifts stopped last…
Haiti arrests US nationals suspected of child smuggling
Haitian police have arrested 10 US nationals on suspicion of trying to illegally take 33 children abroad. They say the Americans were held on the…
U.S. Seeks Options for Airlifting Haitian Patients
By SHAILA DEWAN and LIZ ROBBINS MIAMI — Days after the United States military suspended medical evacuations of critically injured earthquake victims from Haiti, officials…
US Military Center Assesses Haitian Needs
The U.S. Army has set up a data collection center in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to assess the needs of residents in the aftermath of the massive…
UK to ship corrugated iron to build shelters in Haiti
The government has purchased all of the UK’s available corrugated iron sheets to provide shelters for victims of the Haiti earthquake. Gordon Brown announced the…
Haitian Earthquake Photo Gallery loaded to site Jan 30th
They say, “A Picture is worth a Thousand Words”, but there are no words for this. Be prepared at home and discuss the scenarios with…
Turks and Caicos patrol picks up Haiti migrant boat
More than 100 Haitians have been picked up off the Turks and Caicos Islands by marine police after trying to flee quake-stricken Haiti in a…
UN: Crucial to House Homeless in Haiti Before Rains Begin
UN: Crucial to House Homeless in Haiti Before Rains Begin The International Organization for Migration estimates more than one million earthquake victims in Haiti are…
DAILY REPORT SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 2010
Yesterday: Major demonstration against the Preval government’s incompetence was held in the town of Leogane, close to the epicenter of our recent quake. Thousands of…
Push to Send FEMA Trailers to Haiti Stirs Backlash Industry push to send leftover FEMA trailers to Haiti stirs backlash, called ‘self-serving’
The trailer industry and lawmakers are pressing the government to send Haiti thousands of potentially formaldehyde-laced trailers left over from Hurricane Katrina — an idea…
Diddy, Queen Latifah to host BET concert for Haiti
NEW YORK – Sean “Diddy” Combs, Queen Latifah and Pharrell are set to host a two-hour concert and telethon to benefit Haiti on Feb. 5….
Haiti must learn to live with earthquakes: experts say
By Jordi Zamora (AFP) – 5 hours ago PORT-AU-PRINCE — It will be difficult to convince Haitians to spend extra money and rebuild their quake-ravaged…
Haiti Aid Efforts Go Awry in the ‘Convoy to Nowhere’
By CHRISTOPHER RHOADS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—Scott Lewis hoped to deliver more than one million meals to Haitians on Wednesday via a 15-truck convoy brimming with beans…
Daily report January 28, 2010- Direct from Haiti
PREVAL COULD MAKE $20,000,000 WITH THE 200,000 TENTS. If President Rene Preval is not greedy, and leaves some room for others to profit, he can…
Catastrophe in the Caribbean One of the world’s most vulnerable countries is devastated by a murderous earthquake
IF THERE is one country in the Americas that cannot afford to suffer a natural disaster, it is dirt-poor and politically fragile Haiti. In 2008…
Workers flock to clothing factories as industrial park reopens
In a sign that this battered nation is slowly beginning its long road back from the quake’s devastation, factories at the Sonapi Industrial Park have…
Haitian government defends actions in response to earthquake
BY JACQUELINE CHARLES jcharles@MiamiHerald.com PORT-AU-PRINCE — Haiti’s prime minister defended his government’s performance, Bill Clinton stumped for aid in Switzerland and the Rev. Jesse Jackson…
A day in the life of a Haiti tent city -The Daihatsu camp in Port-au-Prince arose on its own and still awaits adequate aid. ‘You have to have faith,’ one resident says.
By Mitchell Landsberg Reporting from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti – Morning arrives with the melody of the Haitian streets. A rooster crows, and two street preachers stand…
Haiti aid tracked by BBC in use by quake survivors
By Rajesh Mirchandani BBC News, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Fifty tonnes of aid supplies tracked by the BBC from Oxfordshire in the UK are nearing the…