Food prices: World Bank warns millions face poverty: IN HAITI THOUSANDS WILL DIE OF STARVATION
Prices of foodstuffs such as wheat have been hit by unrest in North Africa The World Bank has warned that rising food prices, driven partly…
The Power of Music to Ignite Hope in Haiti
Dave Farrell/Peter Yeo: Port Au Prince, Haiti — As Haiti welcomes a new president, who also happens to be a musician, we started to think…
Arcade Fire Blogs About Experiences in Haiti, Raising Money for Charity
Posted by Chad Webb on 04.13.2011 The Arcade Fire guitarist blogs about their time in Haiti… Arcade Fire’s guitarist Will Butler posted some blogs about…
Un autre gouvernement avant le 14 mai
La Nouvelliste: Un nouveau cabinet ministériel devrait être connu et opérationnel avant le 14 mai, date à laquelle le président sortant René Préval laissera sa…
Construction underway at Mirebalais hospital in Haiti
The hospital is being built in cooperation with Boston-based aid organisation Partners in Health (PIH). The 320-bed hospital will replace an old hospital which is…
Telecoms billionaire Denis O’Brien’s rules for success
Investors in places like Ivory Coast and Libya need thick skins and level heads, for when conflict rages and governments fall, they run the risk…
Le palais national en voie de restauration
Des techniciens du Centre national des Equipements (CNE) sont à pied d’oeuvre au palais national dans des travaux de démolition des parties jugées « irrécupérables…
RSF demande la réintégration rapide des trois journalistes révoqués à la TNH
La Nouvelliste: Trois journalistes révoqués de la Télévision Nationale d’Haïti sont poursuivis en justice par le directeur général de la chaîne d’Etat. Reporters sans frontières…
Le choléra rebondit dans l’arrière-pays
Haïti: Alors que les autorités sanitaires annonçaient une nette régression de l’épidémie du choléra, 70 personnes ont été infectées en seulement huit jours à la…
En attendant l’arrêt de la cour d’appel…
La Nouvelliste Haïti: Les avocats des parties au procès ont développé leurs moyens oraux, le mercredi 6 avril à la cour d’appel de Port-au-Prince. Me…
Our View: Sweet Micky takes the stage in hard-hit Haiti-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
The following editorial appeared in The Washington Post Among Haiti s curses in recent decades is the roster of scoundrels, tyrants, charlatans, opportunists and blowhards…
Haiti cholera epidemic could have been blunted with use of mobile stockpile of oral vaccine
SEATTLE – Had a large stockpile of oral cholera vaccine been available and deployed to inoculate the majority of Haitians most at risk after the…
LETTRE DE YVON NEPTUNE A JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE
Pétion Ville, le 29 mars 2011 Monsieur Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Représentant National Organisation Fanmi Lavalas En ses bureaux Monsieur le Représentant National Votre retour en Haiti…
US company in Haiti blames Cuba for loss of barge
nBy TRENTON DANIEL Associated Press (AP:PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti) A U.S. housing company is blaming Cuba for the loss of a barge loaded with supplies to build…
Will Haiti Get the Rule of Law? Maybe a pop star is not such a bad choice.
By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY A 50-year-old pop star with a penchant for provocative stage antics seems, at first, just what Haiti doesn’t need as its…
Martelly ferme et ouvert promet un changement de direction
Haïti: Celui qui prêtera serment le 14 mai prochain comme le 56e Président de la République d’Haiti, Michel Martelly, a annoncé cette semaine une chaine…
Haitian Reprieve The U.S. needs to help Martelly push back against defeatist forces-Added COMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
OPINION – WALL STREET JOURNAL April 10, 2011 Haiti’s electoral council announced this week that Michel “Sweet Micky” Martelly won the presidential runoff last month…
MARTELLY MOVES TO CONSOLIDATE HOLD ON EX-LAVALAS VOTERS ARISTIDE POWER BASE SHRINKS
April 9, 2011 President Michel Martelly moved to consolidate his hold on disaffected ex-Lavalas supporters as he visits various elements of Haiti’s society. In a…
READ THIS AND REMEMBER!! Survival tools in Haiti: Truth and deception
Editor’s note: CNN’s Moni Basu and Jim Spellman traveled to Haiti in December, to report on the one-year anniversary of the earthquake there. Among the…
A GOOD ARTICLE ON HAITEL HAITI’S FIRST CELL PHONE COMPANY
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – I seem to have fallen into the Haitian time warp, where everything seems to have gone by so fast at such a slow…