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A hard day’s labor for $4.76: The offshore assembly industry in Haiti

A detailed drawing of the slave ship Brookes, showing how 482 people were to be packed onto the decks. The detailed plans and cross sectional…

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Despite Track Record, U.S. Hires DynCorp to Provide Troops to U.N. Haiti Mission

Source: Haiti: Relief and Reconstruction Watch In an April 10 press release, DynCorp International announced that the U.S. Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics…

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Taiwan Launches Disaster Mitigation Project in Haiti, Dominican Republic

Above: Port-au-Prince (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Taiwan is launching a disaster mitigation project in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, in partnership with…

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Training Program of IFC for Haitian bankers

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, organized in Port-au-Prince from 22 to 26 April 2013, a 5-days training program,…

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Haitian groups seek more accountability from UN workers-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

Canadian police officer fled Haiti following alleged sexual assault Human rights groups in Haiti are demanding the United Nations be held more accountable after a…

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Manhattan Concierge Runs a Foundation to Help Haiti

Librado Romero/The New York Times DOUBLE LIFE Yves Deshommes’s home in Brooklyn is full of Haitian art that he sells to raise money for charity….

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Stencil Street Artist C215 Explores Haiti in Full Color

Parisian street artist C215 has been traveling again, this time to Port Au Prince in Haiti, where he drew many curious audiences during the week-long…

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This is Haiti – for better or worse

A Haitian tap tap MichelleWalz under a CC Licence Port au Prince saps energy: the heat, the noise and the people. At the market it’s…

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Tens of thousands of families stuck in Haiti camps – IOM

Source: alertnet // Anastasia Moloney Haitians living in a camp for people displaced by the January 2010 earthquake look on after tents were vandalised in…

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Another Study Points to Nepal Origin For Cholera Outbreak

Above: a cholera treatment centre in Haiti (UN Photo/Marco Dormino) By the Caribbean Journal staff Another new study is pointing to Nepal as the likely…

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Superstorm Sandy Shook the Earth

Wavemaker. As Hurricane Sandy churned off the East Coast last 28 October, waves at the ocean’s surface triggered seismic waves in Earth’s crust that were…

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Haiti, FIFA to Establish Task Force on Football Development

Above: Haiti President Michel Martelly and FIFA President By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti’s government and FIFA have agreed to establish a task force to…

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Construction of a new hotel «Monte-Cristo Hôtel & Suites»

The project « Monte-Cristo Hôtel & Suites » has received the approval of the Interministerial Commission of Investments (CII). Consequently, this project will benefit of…

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Connecting with Haiti: Local prof uses old BlackBerrys to help Haitian principals

WATERLOO — Wondering what to do with your old BlackBerry? Steve Sider has a plan for it. The assistant professor in the faculty of education…

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Michaëlle Jean in Washington

Haiti Libre Thursday, April 18, Michaëlle Jean, the UNESCO Special Envoy for Haiti, will take part in Washington, at ministerial meetings of the World Bank…

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Brazil issues work permits for Haitian migrants to Acre

Acre, in the Amazon region, has asked for additional funding to cope with the influx. More than 900 Haitian immigrants to the Brazilian state of…

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US aid to Haiti: Top implementing partners-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

As Haiti rebuilds, questions continue to hound the country’s government and its donors about how aid money is being spent. When it comes to U.S….

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Haiti Still in Need Following Hurricane Sandy

An HI representative gives a ShelterBox kit demonstration to a group of aid recipients, Haiti 2013. We were forced to live under a tarp for…

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Haiti news: The Silence after the Quake

Haiti’s earthquake that buried her father alive, has left Darline an orphan and her country completely in ruins. Director: Tessa Boerman “We all lost someone…

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Haiti – Warning : Ban on «Tyno» in Haiti

Dr. Marie Guirlaine R. Charité, Director General of the Ministry of Public Health and Population (MSPP), advises health professionals, importers and distributors of pharmaceutical products…