Month: April 2014
China: Firm 3D prints 10 full-sized houses in a day
25 April 2014 Last updated at 07:27 ET By News from Elsewhere… …media reports from around the world, found by BBC Monitoring Other architects are…
Dossier Sonson Lafamilia Pas de protection pour les kidnappeurs…, promet le ministre de la Justice
Le Nouvelliste | Publié le : 24 avril 2014 Accusé par le Réseau national de défense des droits humains (RNDDH) d’être de mèche avec des…
Jean Monard Metellus a croisé le fer avec Joel Danies un représentant du département d’état Américain
La chamber basse a vote la loi électorale, mais le Sénat refuse de voter la loi… Ce qui pousse le Departement d Etat des Etats…
Perfumers promote fair trade for Haiti’s ‘super-crop’
(Reuters) – With the sun barely up, beads of sweat already dot the brow of a barefoot farmer as he hacks at the soil with…
Les réponses d’urgence du gouvernement américain pour faire face à la sécheresse dans le nord-ouest d’Haïti -Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Le gouvernement américain, à travers le bureau «Food For Peace» de l’Agence Américaine pour le Développement International (USAID), a alloué un montant de quatre (4)…
US Threatens to Pull Aid to Haiti Over Late Vote
AP News: The U.S. government has warned Haiti that it risks losing aid if it doesn’t hold elections that are more than two years overdue….
Haiti in the Shadow of Cholera
NY Times Editorial Board: The problem of ending Haiti’s cholera epidemic does not stem from an absence of planning. There is a 10-year plan to…
Some Haitian quake displaced camps growing again
Trenton Daniel Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Many of the camps for Haitians displaced by the 2010 earthquake are growing again, even as the…
Up-to-date data geocoding helps bring success to Haiti recovery
Dina Abdel-Fattah for AidData – WNN Breaking An aerial view of downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti shows the vast devastation that hit the region after the earthquake…
Florida university opens TB lab in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The University of Florida on Wednesday opened a state-of-the-art lab in Haiti to train researchers to better understand and fight tuberculosis….
Haiti’s current drought: An opportunity to build climate change resilience?
April 22, 2014 Posted by Guest Blogger The mayor of Grande-Saline in rural Artibonite, Haiti enlisted support from Oxfam in 2011 to address flood control….
Martelly s’est trompé sur l’application de ‘’l’article 12’’
Le Nouvelliste | Publié le : 22 avril 2014 L’article 12 de l’Accord d’El Rancho ne peut être appliqué sans le consentement des parties qui…
WHEN THE CHIP ARE DOWN – UN PEACEKEEPERS ARE IMPOTENT OR UNWILLING TO KEEP PEACE-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda’s army, backing its neighbour South Sudan against a four-month-old rebellion, said on Wednesday U.N. peacekeepers should have done…
Grievability and the Right to Fight in Haiti
This story begins with the earthquake, but it is not about the earthquake. Marie Ginie was 14 when the earthquake destroyed her home. No one…
Why Haiti’s deadly cholera epidemic ‘could strike again’
Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — In January 2010 a seven-point magnitude earthquake rocked Haiti, killing more than 250,000 people and damaging its infrastructure, including some water…
Haiti turns to Taiwan
Haiti’s President Michel Martelly TAIPEI, Taiwan (CMC) — Haitian President Michel Martelly arrived here yesterday for a four-day state visit. Martelly, accompanied by his wife,…
POT CALLS THE KETTLE BLACK –SENATE PRESIDENT DESRAS ATTACKS MARTELLY OVER ONA FIASCO – SAYS MARTELLY GOVERNMENT DOOMED IF NO ELECTIONS IN OCTOBER
April 21, 2014 Senate President Desras makes statement from Fermath home allegedly purchased with $330,000 bribe as he accuses Martelly government of illegal activity with…
Venezuela unrest: Fresh violence erupts in Caracas
BBC NEWS Tear gas and water cannon were used to disperse the protesters Fresh violence has erupted in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, between police and…
U.N. Struggles to Stem Haiti Cholera Epidemic
By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD and SOMINI SENGUPTA A young Haitian fishing in the Latem River, known to be contaminated. The country is still struggling to…