Month: April 2010
Resolution would recognize GA effort in Haiti relief
By AOPA ePublishing staff Co-chairs of the House and Senate General Aviation Caucuses, Reps. Vernon Ehlers (R-Mich.) and Allen Boyd (D-Fla.) and Sens. Mark Begich…
Haiti to Football Heaven: Vladimir Ducasse’s Journey Begins
The drive down from Stamford, Conn., to the Jets‘ Florham, Park, N.J., facility took about an hour and a half on Thursday. With a driver…
Coast Guard: Haiti migration not rising from quake
By SARAH LARIMER Associated Press Writer The Coast Guard has yet to see a noticeable change in migration trends from Haiti following a deadly earthquake…
FLASH-FLASH-FLASH PREVAL NEGOTIATING DEAL WITH WASHINGTON TO STEP DOWN
President Rene Preval is – at this very moment – involved with a convoluted series of negotiations that he hopes will see him…
Food Aid Hurts Haiti’s Farmers Helping in a crisis can pose dilemma for local farmers and merchants-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Food Aid Hurts Haiti’s Farmers Helping in a crisis can pose dilemma for local farmers and merchants Steve Baragona | Artibonite Valley, Haiti29 April 2010…
Clarksville dentist detours to jail on way to aid Haiti
Dr. Jeannie Beauchamp, left, performs dental work on a patient during her visit to Haiti last week. The doctor faces three to six years in…
Tensions rise over Haiti tent camps Three months after the earthquake, schools and businesses want their land back-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
By Ken Ellingwood, Los Angeles Times April 29, 2010 Reporting from Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti Displaced and homeless, the 10,000 earthquake victims crowding the school grounds of…
PREVAL INITIATES THE CHARADE Haiti: Int’l aid needed to hold elections-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
BRASILIA, Brazil — Haiti’s leader on Monday called for an influx of international aid to organize elections this year as the impoverished Caribbean country rebuilds…
New law to ease return of illicit funds-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
The government has moved a step closer to making it easier to return illicitly acquired funds deposited in Switzerland to their country of origin. A…
NGOs assail Haiti relief effort
By Henry Brier Editor April 29, 2010, 12 a.m. – The U.S.-led relief effort in earthquake-torn Haiti fell under sharp criticism Wednesday eve as two…
The Haitian Dilemma
BY RICHARD MORSE Manager Hotel Oloffson, Port-au-Prince, Haiti Huffingtonpost.com I don’t mean to dwell on certain issues but until there’s some solid change in Haiti,…
Bush Pilot Haiti pilots recognized by U.S. senators
ALASKA DISPATCH Joshua Saul Apr 27, 2010 After the country of Haiti was smashed apart by a mighty earthquake in January, general aviation pilots swooped…
Preval Instigated Fire rips through major Haitian market
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 » 08:43pm A large incendiary fire has ripped through the main public market in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince. The blaze engulfed hundreds…
Judge drops kidnapping charge against U.S. missionary-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
ON A MISSION Laura Silsby’s Shady Past Business in shambles, home foreclosed. The Wall Street Journal April 26, 2010 CNN: American missionary Laura Silsby will…
Many of Haiti’s most-wanted on the loose after earthquake-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
By Manuel Roig-Franzia Wednesday, April 7, 2010; 1:59 PM PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — Early one morning this month, in the buzz saw that is downtown Port-au-Prince,…
HAITI: Meet Another One of President René Préval’s Friends-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Joel R Deeb April 24, 2010 His real name is Jean Baptiste Jean Philippe, a name few Haitians recognize. Under his “nom de guerre” Samba…
Haiti’s unconstitutional Parliament approves key post-quake reconstruction body-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Fri, Apr 16 2010 By Joseph Guyler Delva PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti’s parliament has approved the creation of a commission that will allow foreign donors…
Recycled trash to fuel Haiti
Before the recent earthquake, Haiti was no stranger to natural disasters. In recent years, thousands of people have been killed by floods and landslides. To…
Haiti Wants Food Aid to Stop? Government Says Generous Public Outpouring Is Interfering with Economy, Drawing Non-Victims to Camps and Enticing Corruption
(CBS) Of all the things you’ve heard about earthquake aid to Haiti, here’s something you probably didn’t know: Haiti’s government wants large-scale food assistance and…
UN launches website to track Haiti aid use
PORT-AU-PRINCE — The United Nations has launched a new website to track the estimated 9.9 billion dollars in aid pledged to Haiti by the international…