Day: February 14, 2010
Haiti’s elite sees business opportunities emerging from reconstruction- With Added COMMENTARY From Haitian-Truth
By Juan Forero Washington Post Foreign service Monday, February 15, 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — Last month’s earthquake battered Reginald Boulos’s small empire, destroying one of…
U.S. brags Haiti response is a ‘model’ while more than a million remain homeless in Haiti
Over a month after the earthquake, hundreds of thousands of Haitians are still living in “sheet cities,” their only shelter made of bedsheets tied to…
Why did so many people die in Haiti’s quake?
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…
Leogane: Haiti’s ‘neglected’ quake-hit town
By Christian Fraser BBC News, Leogane, Haiti The mountain of rock that dominates the main square in Leogane was once a cathedral. It surrounds an…
Adoption `lawyer’ tied to child sex case in El Salvador
BY PATRICIA MAZZEI, MICHAEL SALLAH AND GERARDO REYES pmazzei@MiamiHerald.com SANTO DOMINGO — The man providing legal advice to American church workers charged with trying to…
US reduces troop numbers in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE — The US military has reduced its number of troops in Haiti to 13,000 from a post-quake high of some 20,000 because the need…
Detained Americans seek distance from adviser
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A man who provided legal assistance to 10 jailed U.S. missionaries and who may be wanted for human trafficking in El Salvador…
Race to the Rainy Season in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE–(ENEWSPF)– One month after the catastrophic quake that leveled most of Port-au-Prince, CARE and other aid agencies are in a race against time to get…
Haiti Faces Major Food Crisis as Planting Season Nears, UN Says
February 12, 2010, 03:50 PM EST By Bill Varner Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) — Haiti faces a major food crisis due to a lack of support…
Education Was Also Leveled by Quake in Haiti
By MARC LACEY Published: February 13, 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Christina Julme was scribbling notes in the back of a linguistics class at the State…
A Haitian-Free Rebuilding Plan?
A Haitian-Free Rebuilding Plan? For OpEdNews: Stanley Lucas – Writer Over the past 25 years, rampant political violence and an almost totally corrupt business and…