Month: January 2011
Images Of Haiti Days After The Earthquake, And Now
NPR photographer David Gilkey revisits a few key locations in Haiti, one year after a massive earthquake devastated the capital, Port-au-Prince. The quake killed more…
Haitians turn out for one-year anniversary of quake
The trauma remains fresh for survivors of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake. Nearly a million remain in tents and other temporary housing By Tracy Wilkinson, Los…
Industrial park project will create 20,000 new jobs in Haiti
Port-Au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — Haiti’s economy is getting a boost thanks to a venture with one of Korea’s largest companies that promises to bring 20,000…
SOA Watch and others ask you to get UN focused oin development in Haiti in January 2011
By Kevin Anthony Stoda: opednews.com Haiti : One Year Later Click here to send a fax to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations to…
Haitians recall 2010 quake “hell” as death toll upped-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
By Allyn Gaestel and Tom Brown PORT-AU-PRINCE | Wed Jan 12, 2011 (Reuters) – Haiti mourned more than 300,000 victims of its devastating 2010 earthquake…
Does International Aid Keep Haiti Poor?
Criticism has plagued the United Nations ever since it sent a peacekeeping force to Haiti in 2004. Past scandals include accusations of child sex abuse…
Pope appoints new Haiti archbishop one year after quake
Jan 12, 2011 by Francis X. Rocca VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI marked the first anniversary of the Haiti earthquake on Wednesday (Jan. 12)…
One Year after Haiti Earthquake, Corporations Profit While People Suffer
by Jordan Flaherty align=”right”> One year after an earthquake devastated Haiti, much of the promised relief and reconstruction aid has not reached those most in…
Haiti still mired in post-quake problems
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles TimesJanuary 12, 2011 Reporting from Port-au-Prince, Haiti — Gray ribbons of fresh concrete streak the side of Clarisse Brisson’s broken…
Haiti earthquake one year on: The squalid tent cities where rape gangs and disease run rife
By Liz Hazelton Last updated at 1:32 PM on 12th January 2011 Haiti remembers its dead with two day memorial 1.2m still trapped in squalid…
MINUSTAH FIXED THE PREVAL ELECTION IN 2005 – NOW OAS WANTS TO FIX 2010 VOTE!!! OAS Plan to Alter Haiti Vote Fails Bush v. Gore Standard of Equal Protection-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Robert Naiman Policy Director, Just Foreign Policy January 12, 2011 The Organization of American States’ “Expert Verification Mission” is pushing to alter the preliminary results…
Haiti Mourns Earthquake Victims-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
More than 100 members of the U.N. mission were killed, including the mission chief, Hedi Annabi, and his deputy, Luiz Carlos da Costa. UN statement…
PAPAL MESSAGE FOR FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF HAITI EARTHQUAKE
VATICAN CITY, 12 JAN 2011 (VIS) – The Holy Father has written the following Message to mark today’s first anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti….
A government for Haiti-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
washingtonpost.com Wednesday, January 12, 2011 GIVEN HAITI’S ARRAY of problems – first and foremost, rebuilding from the earthquake that broke the country’s back a year…
Dial Red for Recovery
Two cell-phone companies in Haiti have outshone the government, the NGOs, and the international community in reconstructing post-earthquake Haiti. How — and why — did…
12 Janvier 2011: Trêve générale Pour commémorer le 12 Janvier dans la Paix et la Dignité
Au nom de tous les morts, Au nom de toutes les victimes du 12 Janvier 2010. Au nom de toutes les familles de tous les…
Le dernier carnet
Les invités de Préval, en l’occurrence les membres de l’OEA, ont déposé sur son bureau ce lundi midi, 10 janvier 2011, le fameux document tant…
Think Tank Report: Haiti’s Election “Fatally Flawed”
by Georgianne Nienaber Today, Sunday January 9,The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) has released a report of its independent recount of vote tally…
A year later, Haiti’s recovery gridlocked Haiti remains a bleak moonscape, its recovery slowed by political paralysis and a lack of dollars.
BY JIM WYSS AND JACQUELINE CHARLES jwyss@MiamiHerald.com PORT-AU-PRINCE — Jenny-Carls Joseph dreams of going home. But home is a nightmare of broken concrete and twisted…
‘Massive irregularities’ detected in Haiti presidential vote
PORT-AU-PRINCE— From Monday’s Globe and Mail Published Sunday, Jan. 09, An independent review of Haiti’s controversial presidential vote suggests the results should not be salvaged…