Category: Earthquake/CHOLERA
Articles and image gallery from the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti
UN: Crucial to House Homeless in Haiti Before Rains Begin
UN: Crucial to House Homeless in Haiti Before Rains Begin The International Organization for Migration estimates more than one million earthquake victims in Haiti are…
Push to Send FEMA Trailers to Haiti Stirs Backlash Industry push to send leftover FEMA trailers to Haiti stirs backlash, called ‘self-serving’
The trailer industry and lawmakers are pressing the government to send Haiti thousands of potentially formaldehyde-laced trailers left over from Hurricane Katrina — an idea…
Diddy, Queen Latifah to host BET concert for Haiti
NEW YORK – Sean “Diddy” Combs, Queen Latifah and Pharrell are set to host a two-hour concert and telethon to benefit Haiti on Feb. 5….
Haiti must learn to live with earthquakes: experts say
By Jordi Zamora (AFP) – 5 hours ago PORT-AU-PRINCE — It will be difficult to convince Haitians to spend extra money and rebuild their quake-ravaged…
Haiti Aid Efforts Go Awry in the ‘Convoy to Nowhere’
By CHRISTOPHER RHOADS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—Scott Lewis hoped to deliver more than one million meals to Haitians on Wednesday via a 15-truck convoy brimming with beans…
Daily report January 28, 2010- Direct from Haiti
PREVAL COULD MAKE $20,000,000 WITH THE 200,000 TENTS. If President Rene Preval is not greedy, and leaves some room for others to profit, he can…
Catastrophe in the Caribbean One of the world’s most vulnerable countries is devastated by a murderous earthquake
IF THERE is one country in the Americas that cannot afford to suffer a natural disaster, it is dirt-poor and politically fragile Haiti. In 2008…
Workers flock to clothing factories as industrial park reopens
In a sign that this battered nation is slowly beginning its long road back from the quake’s devastation, factories at the Sonapi Industrial Park have…
Haitian government defends actions in response to earthquake
BY JACQUELINE CHARLES jcharles@MiamiHerald.com PORT-AU-PRINCE — Haiti’s prime minister defended his government’s performance, Bill Clinton stumped for aid in Switzerland and the Rev. Jesse Jackson…
A day in the life of a Haiti tent city -The Daihatsu camp in Port-au-Prince arose on its own and still awaits adequate aid. ‘You have to have faith,’ one resident says.
By Mitchell Landsberg Reporting from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti – Morning arrives with the melody of the Haitian streets. A rooster crows, and two street preachers stand…
Haiti aid tracked by BBC in use by quake survivors
By Rajesh Mirchandani BBC News, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Fifty tonnes of aid supplies tracked by the BBC from Oxfordshire in the UK are nearing the…
Clinton: More immigrants from Haiti may be allowed
Federal officials try to prevent earthquake victims from risking dangerous voyages William E. Gibson – Sun Sentinel WASHINGTON (MCT) – U.S. officials are talking about…
Paul Shirley Haiti Advice: “Maybe Use A Condom Once In A While”
NEW YORK (CBS) Former professional NBA player Paul Shirley has some choice advice for the victims of the 7.0 earthquake that rocked Haiti: “use a…
Montreal hosts Haiti aid talks
Activists decry militarization, profiteering, and political exclusion By Niko Block and Michael Lee-Murphy Published: 6:26 am On Monday, Montreal hosted the Ministerial Preparatory Conference on the…
Engineer: Construction crux of Haiti earthquake tragedy
BY DOUG OAKLEY Contra Costa Times WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Haiti’s construction industry is to blame for hundreds of thousands of deaths in a tragedy…
Haitian girl saved from rubble after 15 days
By Charlie Onians and Alex Ogle (AFP) – PORT-AU-PRINCE — Rescuers Wednesday dragged a Haitian girl alive from the rubble 15 days after a devastating…
Daily Report-WEDNESDAY JANUARY 27, 2010
5 more aftershocks!! More buildings collapse. Drove past our office location for the first time and saw the pile of rubble that was once a…
FLASH FLASH FLASH PREVAL PLAN TO MAINTAIN POWER
Doesn’t matter that a lot of people will starve because of this!! Preval, with MINUSTAH support, planned to control all relief supplies, channeling them exclusively…
Haiti’s orphans: Why they remain in limbo
By Jessica Ravitz(CNN) — There’s nothing like images of infants and children in distress to make outsiders yearn to help, which is why the unfolding…
NASA to inspect Haitian quake fault lines
PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 27 (UPI) — NASA says it has added several science overflights of earthquake faults in Haiti and the Dominican Republic to a…



















