Category: Earthquake/CHOLERA
Articles and image gallery from the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti
Haiti Bills Itself As The Next Caribbean Vacation Hotspot
by Reena Ganga on Jan 30th 2013 at 5:00PM The Caribbean nation of Haiti is launching an ambitious campaign to market the country as a…
World Bank and IMF Forecasts Follow Predictable Pattern for Haiti, Venezuela
By Arthur Phillips and Stephan Lefebvre- CEPR, January 30th 2013 The World Bank has joined the “doom and gloom” chorus on Venezuela’s economy. And in…
A New Look in Haiti’s Cap-Haitien
Above: the inauguration ceremony (Photo: MT Haiti) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti has inaugurated a tourism project aimed at restoring the facades of a…
Author Amy Wilentz and the Lure of Haiti
PAULA GOLDMAN Amy Wilentz is known as a writer’s writer, creative and courageous in her work for the New Yorker and in The Nation and in her…
Haiti’s prime minister touts untapped gold mines, beaches in pitch for country’s future
DAVOS, Switzerland – Haiti’s young prime minister made a whirlwind visit to the World Economic Forum in Davos to try to drum up support…
Why New Jersey should care about Haiti
Three years after Haiti was devastated by a massive earthquake, hundreds of thousands of homeless people are still at risk from crime, disease and the…
Spotlight thrown on opportunities in Haiti
Doing business with Haiti can generate big returns for Irish business, as well as helping the Caribbean nation’s efforts to develop by attracting foreign direct…
Haiti’s road to reconstruction blocked by land tenure disputes
By Susana Ferreira JEREMIE, Haiti | Sat Jan 26, 2013 9:21am EST (Reuters) – The smooth black asphalt of National Road No. 7 stretches for…
USAID Office of Inspector General and La Fondation Heritage pour Haiti Launch Anti-Corruption Hotline
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2013 — /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The U.S. Agency for International Development, Office of Inspector General (USAID OIG) and La Fondation Heritage pour Haiti…
Haiti’s Lamothe Arrives in Davos for World Economic Forum
Above: Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe (Photo: OPM Haiti) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe arrived in Davos, Switzerland Thursday to…
Laurent Lamothe at the 43rd World Economic Forum of Davos
The Prime Minister, Laurent Lamothe, left the country on Wednesday to take part on 25 and 26 January, in the 43rd World Economic Forum of…
Haiti: Rebuilding education
According to the UN, the earthquake in Haiti killed around 230,000 people, made a million people homeless and leveled many schools. The response to one…
Haiti Opens Centre for Rural Sustainable Development in Kenscoff
Above: the new Kenscoff Centre for Rural Sustainable Development By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti has officially opened the new Centre for Rural Sustainable Development…
The President Martelly in 2nd Summit of CELAC (Chile)
President Michel Martelly, left the country Tuesday, January 22, to Florida where he will, first undergo, a complete medical check, before going to Chile tomorrow,…
Haiti’s Best Western Premier Targets March 15 Opening
Caribbean Journal.com Above: a rendering of Haiti’s Best Western Premier By Alexander Britell PARADISE ISLAND — The Best Western Premier Haiti will open its doors…
More than 600,000 cholera infections recorded in Haiti since 2010 outbreak: DOESN’T MEAN THAT MANY MORE HAVE BEEN RECORDED AS “SEVERE DIARRHEA” TO AVOID LOOKING TOO BAD!!!-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Barzilay E. N Engl J Med. 2013;doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1204927 January 21, 2013 During the 2010 cholera epidemic in Haiti, all 10 administrative departments of the country had…
LAURENT LAMOTHE Haiti’s PM: We will rise again – but for now we need your help
LAURENT LAMOTHE The Globe and Mail Published Monday, Jan. 21 2013, 6:00 AM EST Last updated Monday, Jan. 21 2013, 8:57 AM EST It has…
GLOBAL VOICES: Education in Haiti: A tale of two schools
Workers clean up Grande College Auguste in Petionville, Haiti. The school’s director is paying workers to clean up his school and plans to open classes…
What will help Haiti recover from 2010 earthquake
Seattle times OP Ed Some of the large-scale top-down aid projects have failed in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, but there are signs of hope…
A journalist ventures back to a troubled, seductive Haiti
Michael Deibert Author, ‘Democratic Republic of Congo: Between Hope and Despair’ In 1996, freshly graduated from university, I went into a local bookstore in Pennsylvania…








