Category: Earthquake/CHOLERA
Articles and image gallery from the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti
Haiti Tourism Ministry, Royal Caribbean Hold Working Meeting
Above: Labadee By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti’s Tourism Ministry held a working meeting Tuesday with officials from Royal Caribbean about the operation of the…
World Bank Group : A New World Bank Special Envoy in Haiti to Focus on Inclusive Growth
Port-au-Prince, July 25, 2013 – Mary A. Barton-Dock, who started her career 25 years ago in Bolivia, became the second World bank Special Envoy to…
Tropical Storm DORIAN
Coastal Watches/Warnings and 5-Day Forecast Cone for Storm Center Click image to zoom in – Download GIS data Other images: 5-Day track on – 3-Day…
Tropical Storm Dorian to Approach Leewards Sunday
Dorian could bring tropical storm conditions to the Leeward Islands Sunday and may approach the southeastern U.S. late next week. A tropical system that moved…
Trinidad and Tobago diplomat appointed head of UN mission in Haiti
NEW YORK, USA — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed career diplomat Sandra Honoré of Trinidad and Tobago as the new head of the United Nations…
Visite du Président à Plaisance
le Président Martelly à son arrivée à Plaisance en compagnie des ministres des Affaires Sociales, M. Charles Jean-Jacques et et de l’Intérieur, M.David Bazile Des…
Leaders from United Nations, Caricom, discuss Haiti, development, drugs at meeting
By AARON MORRISON Special to the Miami Herald UNITED NATIONS — Officials from the United Nations and the Caribbean said at a biannual meeting on…
Haiti sees big money reviving flagging tourism
By TRENTON DANIEL Associated Press MONTROUIS, Haiti — The Club Indigo beach resort north of the Haiti capital was crowded with U.N. peacekeepers, aid workers,…
AFP Haiti photographer Thony Belizaire dead at 54
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) – Thony Belizaire, who won numerous awards while working as Agence France-Presse’s photographer in his native Haiti for more than 25 years, died…
20,000 people in Haiti camps given £7m lifeline from Britain
At risk: children at a camp in Haiti. Up to £4.7 million will be spent relocating 17,500 of the most vulnerable to rented accommodation Joseph Watts:…
Towards a concession in the 1,900 Mhz band
According to the National Council of Telecommunications (CONATEL), the market of mobile cellular communications has changed significantly in recent years. From a competitive environment dominated…
NY food stamp recipients are shipping welfare-funded groceries to relatives in Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Haiti
By KATE BRIQUELET and ISABEL VINCENT Last Updated: 11:35 AM, July 21, 2013 Posted: 12:34 AM, July 21, 2013 J.C. Rice BIN OVER THEIR HEADS:…
A MESSAGE FROM BISHOP WALLACE TURNBULL AND THE BAPTIST MISSION
Dear Friend, Lynchburg , July 11, 2013 Proverbs 25:25 says “Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.”…
Conatel launches an auction for a third mobile licence-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Haiti’s telecoms regulator Conseil National des Telecommunications (Conatel) has announced the launch of a tender for a licence to operate a 3G/4G mobile network in…
Cholera in Haiti The UN strain
The Economist.com Jul 15th 2013, 11:36 by P.B. | NEW YORK ON JULY 5th the United Nations refused, again, to countenance the claims of 5,000…
Our shortcuts help keep Haiti poor
Posted: Sunday, July 14, 2013 12:00 am | Updated: 11:57 pm, Sun Jul 14, 2013. Zachary Reid Two centuries of supposed independence, long periods of…
From slums to soccer fields; Team Haiti arrives in Blaine
BLAINE, Minn. – A team from Haiti is kicking off an opportunity of a lifetime in Blaine at the Schwan’s USA Cup. “Haiti is the…
No One Knows Exactly Why the Canadian Military Is in Haiti-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Canadian infantry on a military exercise. Image via Perhaps understandably, the Canadian media has been having a hard time covering any news that doesn’t have…
Cholera in Haiti: Action incumbent on us all-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
The cholera epidemic that has claimed so many lives in Haiti remains a public health crisis, and it demands action ̶ from all of us….
Made in Haiti, Dumped in Haiti: Slave Labor and the Garment Industry
PORT-AU-PRINCE—In Haiti, people wear T-shirts bearing unlikely English messages: “We’re the 2% who don’t care,” says one; a respectable-looking grandmother dons a T-shirt emblazoned with…