Month: February 2010
Haitian Garment Workers Should Get at Least $5 a Day
Americans want to help Haiti; Democrats control the U.S. Congress; the Haitian Parliament has passed legislation saying Haitian workers should be paid at least $5…
Haitian official: orphans turned over to US Embassy
By Frank Bajak (CP) – 6 hours ago PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti has handed U.S. officials six orphans its police seized over the weekend as…
WENDY HARMANN FROM THE AMERICAN RED CROSS CLARIFIES DONATION SITUATION AND $175,000,000
This is Wendy Harman from the American Red Cross. Perhaps we have not communicated clearly enough – we have SO FAR spent $80 million of…
Haiti Rocked By Second 4.7 Aftershock In Two Days-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Ayinde O. Chase – AHN Editor Port-au-Prince, Haiti (AHN) – A second aftershock in as many days struck Haiti on Tuesday. The early morning 4.7-magnitude…
FLASH–FLASH–FLASH FEBRUARY 23, 2010 UPDATE – PREVAL’S NEW CUSTOMS CRIMES
Dimitri Vorbe is in control of customs at Haiti’s International Airport. Of course, this is illegal but it would not have become public – international…
FLASH – FLASH – FLASH 22 Fevrier 2010-PREVAL PLANS TO BLOCK ALL QUAKE AID AT CUSTOMS, CREATING DELAYS OF SEVERAL MONTHS
Just when everyone thought that Preval’s criminal daring ways – urged on and focused by his camp-follower Elisabeth Delatour-Preval – had reached its limits, with…
Italian aircraft carrier plays host to Haitian babies
The Cavour arrived off Port-au-Prince on January 31 and has set up hospitals onshore as well as offering its onboard scanners, laboratories and surgical facilities,…
FLASH–FLASH–FLASH 22FEB 10 UPDATE – ON UNACCOUNTED RED CROSS $175,000.000
American Red Cross $175 million in unallocated Haiti donations – update On the matter of the American Red Cross and the $175 million in unallocated…
Haiti death toll could reach 300,000: Preval
PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico (Reuters) – The death toll from last month’s devastating earthquake in Haiti could jump to 300,000 people, including the bodies buried…
Poor Sanitation in Haiti’s Tent Camps Adds to Risk of Disease-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
By SIMON ROMERO PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — As hundreds of thousands of people displaced by last month’s earthquake put down stakes in the squalid tent camps…
FLASH-FLASH–FLASH DAILY REPORT 21 FEB 2010-COCAINE KING Picked by PRESIDENT PREVAL as Coordinator of Reconstruction Funds and Projects
REYNALD BONEFIL – HAYTRAC – PARTNERS WITH ELIZABETH DELATOR AND JUDE CELESTIN IN THEFT OF QUAKE VICTIM’S MONEY Here is a guy who was arrested,…
Mass protests greet Sarkozy visit to Haiti
By Alex Lantier WSWS Saturday, Feb 20, 2010 French President Nicolas Sarkozy traveled for a one-day visit to Haiti on February 17, amid rising popular…
Rain Menaces Haiti’s Homeless-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
By DAVID LUHNOW And IANTHE JEANNE DUGAN PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti— Heavy rains pelted Haiti’s capital this week ahead of the rainy season, giving the hundreds of…
DAILY REPORT FEBRUARY 19, 2010 FLASH-FLASH – FLASH FEBRUARY 17 DEMONSTRATION BACKFIRES ON PREVAL SARKOZY VISIT A DISASTER FOR PRESIDENT PREVAL
French President Sarkozy visited Haiti to offer $400,000,000 towards Haiti’s reconstruction. In return for this offer …. concrete help for the Haitian people, Preval planned…
Haiti’s government in quake camps land grab-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Feb 20 2010 Wales Online The Haitian government will seize land to build temporary camps for earthquake victims in a controversial new move, prime minister…
FLASH-FLASH-FLASH DAILY REPORT FEBRUARY 19, 2010 COCAINE CARTEL THREATENS CANADIANS IN JACMEL
Canadians threatened in Jacmel The Canadians had chosen Jacmel as the focus of their relief efforts. They organized everything in Jacmel…electricity, business …started to build…
Intermediary in Haiti Teleco FCPA Case Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering
By Christopher M. Matthews | February 19, 2010 Jean Fourcand pleaded guilty Friday to laundering money between U.S. telecommunications companies and former Haitian government officials,…
How to Fix Haiti’s Fixers Aid groups in the earthquake-battered country are inefficient and unaccountable. Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
In the outpouring of generosity since Haiti’s earthquake last month, donors, investors, and charities have all made big moves to help. Key countries pledged assistance…
UN Aid Chief “Disappointed” with Haiti Earthquake relief efforts- Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
By Colum Lynch Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, February 18, 2010; A08 UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations’ top humanitarian relief coordinator has scolded his…
Why Unicef Wants to Keep Kids Out of Haiti’s Orphanages-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
By Tim Padgett and Jessica Desvarieux / Port-au-Prince The 10 U.S. missionaries who were arrested in Haiti last month for allegedly abducting children no doubt…