Category: Earthquake/CHOLERA
Articles and image gallery from the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti
World Bank head Jim Yong Kim calls for renewed urgency in Haiti’s cholera fight
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim Hassene Dridi / AP By jacqueline charles jcharles@MiamiHerald.com The head of the World Bank is calling for a renewed…
Director Raoul Peck shoots new quake film in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s most respected filmmaker began production on a new film in Haiti this week, making perhaps the first feature to dramatize…
PRESIDENT MARTELLY DISTRIBUTES SOCCER BALLS
April 11, 2014 President Martelly visited Pilate to distribute One World Futbols to the soccer community there. These indestructible soccer balls are the basis of…
Hilton Worldwide to build hotel in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hilton Worldwide says it will build a new hotel in Haiti. The company announced Thursday that the 152-room hotel will be…
Northern Haiti port to be expanded after U.S. fails to get investors for new facility
After failing to get takers for a new port, the U.S. government will now expand an existing port in northern Haiti. By Jacqueline Charles jcharles@MiamiHerald.com…
Le Général John Kelly dit noter du progrès considérable dans divers domaines et applaudit les efforts du Président Martelly visant à améliorer les conditions de vie de la population haïtienne
Le Président de la République, S.E.M. Michel Joseph Martelly, a accueilli, le mercredi 9 Avril 2014, à l’Aéroport international Toussaint Louverture, le Commandant Général du…
Haiti’s homeless earthquake victims drop significantly, but worry continues
The number of people internally displaced by Haiti’s January 2010 earthquake and living in squalid camps has dropped by 91 percent. By jacqueline charles jcharles@MiamiHerald.com…
The pathogen detectives: sourcing the post-earthquake cholera outbreak in Haiti-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Scinetificamerican.com By S.E. Gould Natural disasters such as earthquakes can have far-reaching effects beyond the damage caused on the day they occur. The 2010 earthquake…
Neglected islanders resist plan for Haiti tourism revival-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
(Reuters) – For decades the mostly dirt-poor residents of the small island of Ile-à-Vache off Haiti’s south coast lived in anonymity, virtually ignored by the…
Treaty’s tighter adoption rules kick in for Haiti
By TRENTON DANIEL PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Foreigners seeking to adopt a child from Haiti will now have better assurances the new family member wasn’t…
Drought worsens food crisis in poverty-stricken Haiti
By Agence France-Presse Friday, April 4, 2014 17:07 EDT The World Food Program sounded an alarm Friday over arid conditions in northwest Haiti that have…
Haiti and Hurricane Katrina inspire revolutionary new disaster shelter
The Guardian.uk Cheap, portable, reusable Exo shelters aim to improve how governments come to the aid of victims of natural disasters • The shelters redefining…
Haiti cholera plan drags as rain begins
By jacqueline charles jcharles@MiamiHerald.com When Haiti’s health ministry reported it had only registered 2,228 cases of cholera at the end of a two-month period this…
Senior UN official urges donor community to ramp up efforts to tackle cholera
The cholera outbreak which has affected Haiti since October 2010 appears to have abated but is still considered the largest in the Western Hemisphere. Photo…
Celebrity traveler Hanging out in Haiti with Madison Smartt Bell-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
March 29, 2014|By Stephanie Citron, For The Baltimore Sun It’s practically impossible for Americans to learn much about the country of Haiti without running into…
IMF approves funds for Haiti
WASHINGTON (CMC) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is providing US$2.5 million to Haiti as it praised the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country for its…
Haitian Cholera Outbreak Highlights Need for Infrastructure, Not Blame-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
A cholera epidemic has infected more than 700,000 people and killed over 8,000 in Haiti over the last few years, a country of just over…
FAMINE THREATENS NORTHWEST AS UN DISTRIBUTES FOOD… MANY PEASANTS HAVE ALREADY EATEN THEIR SEED STOCKS AND HAVE NOTHING TO PLANT… GOVERNMENT CANNOT FIND CORN SEEDS TO REPLACE THOSE ALREADY LOST-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
By TRENTON DANIEL Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Aid workers in Haiti have begun distributing food to help some of the Caribbean nation’s poorest people…
Haiti’s Fate Is Decided In Washington: How International Organizations Are Carrying The Poorest Nation In The Americas
By Patricia Rey Mallén on March 24 2014 9:37 AM A UN military vehicle patrols the slum area of Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Reuters/Swoan…
Pastor Wallace Turnbull decorated by the President Martelly
Haiti Libre: Friday at the National Palace, President Michel Martelly, decorated Pastor Wallace Turnbull (American origin, born in 1925), founder of the Conservative Baptist Mission…