Category: Earthquake/CHOLERA
Articles and image gallery from the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti
Cargill expands support of Notre Dame Haiti Program
The Notre Dame Haiti Program and Cargill have renewed their partnership to eliminate lymphatic filariasis (LF) in Haiti. LF, also known as elephantiasis, is a…
Growth Rate insufficient (2011-2012)
07/12/2012 10:02:02 Following a mission of the the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Haiti, on the macroeconomic situation of the country from 28 November to…
Clinton, Bush fund that has helped Haiti businesses since earthquake closing at year’s end-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Published December 07, 2012 Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – A pro-business fund that was created by former U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush…
How Haiti Highlights the Failures of U.S. Immigration Policy
U.S. immigration reform will help Haiti much more than U.S. foreign aid. Tate Watkins | December 6, 2012 Marie Therese was one of a handful…
The new Haiti is emerging-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Wednesday, the Government presented the progress of the major priority projects, their costs and funding sources. Today we note that the major projects of reconstructions…
BEWARE UN PEACEKEEPERS!! France’s ex-soldiers in Ivory Coast admit Mahe killing
French troops are now helping to rebuild the Ivorian army Four ex-French peacekeepers have admitted their role in the killing of a suspected gang leader…
Exploited orphan girl ‘restaveks’ can face years of sex-trafficking-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
A Notre Dame orphanage girl walks by a doll laying on the ground in Port-au-Prince, Haiti February 2010 as UNICEF Executive Director Ann Veneman arrives…
Gene-altered mosquitoes could be used vs. dengue
Enlarge PhotoAssociated Press/Wilfredo Lee – In this Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012 photo, Brittany Mariscal, an entomological technician with the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District, sorts…
Smartphones to be pocket seismometers
By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News, San Francisco A range of phones are hooked up to the Berkeley Seismological Lab’s shake table The smartphones…
Interview with UNESCO Special Envoy for Haiti Michaëlle Jean
Above: Former Canadian Governor General and UNESCO Special Envoy to Haiti Michaelle Jean (UN Photo/Mark Garten) By Alexander Britell CURRENT UNESCO SPECIAL ENVOY FOR HAITI…
Trying to Close Orphanages Where Many Aren’t Orphans at All
Ben Depp for The New York Times An orphanage north of Port-au-Prince that is part of Mission of Hope Haiti. By EMILY BRENNAN Published: December…
Galway entrepreneur invests €1m in Haiti
Galway Independant: Galway entrepreneur and adventurer Enda O’Coineen has announced a €1 million investment in a mixed-use Irish village complex in Haiti. Kilcullen Kapital Partners,…
Trade balance, a deficit of about 140 billion gourdes !
The first day of the seminar on “Trade Preferences and Free Zones in Haiti” which runs from December 3 to 7, 2012 in the premises…
One Killed in Infrastructure Protest
Submitted by Weekly News Update… on Tue, 12/04/2012 – 01:53 A series of demonstrations that started in the city of Jérémie in the southwestern Haitian…
Haiti Recognizes Cuban Support in Education
Havana, Dec 3 (Prensa Latina) Haitian professionals educated in Cuba on Monday appreciated the opportunity afforded by the island to thousands of his countrymen to…
UNAIDS encourages Haiti to eliminate HIV in children
Haiti President Michel Martelly (left) and UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé at the Ministry of Planning in Port-au-Prince. Credit: UNAIDS The President of Haiti ushered…
Haiti Not Ready for Return of Big Business, says Human Rights Expert
Defend HT UN Ind. Expert on Human Rights in Haiti, Michel Forst PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) – The independent expert of the United Nations on the…
St. Mary’s raises half a million pennies for Water in Haiti
SPARTA independant — On Nov. 18, St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Sparta presented a $5000 check to Rachael Paulson of HOW Global for a clean…
Film, discussion will focus on Haitian cholera epidemic
Brandeis-Haiti Initiative striving to raise awareness of UN role Brian Concannon Jr. By Sejun LeeDec. 1, 2012 Share on facebookFacebookShare on twitterTwitterShare on printPrintShare on…
CARICOM’s HAITIAN INITIATIVE
CARICOM’s HAITIAN INITIATIVE Press release 480/2011 (14 December 2011) CARICOM CHOLERA-RESPONSE PROJECT UNDERWAY IN HAITI (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM)…






