Edwyn Coq, Haiti lawyer of the ten American Baptists charged with child abduction and held in Port-au-Prince, has resigned, accused of attempting to bribe the judge to release his client, he said to AFP Sunday. Read more
Tag Haiti Earthquake
Preval calls for patience
Haitian President René Préval has called yesterday the population affected by the earthquake of January 12 to show solidarity, “patience” and “discipline” to face delays in distributing food and tents. Read more
Bill Clintion will coordinate the activities of UN agencies
Bill Clintion who accepted the burden it acquired in collaboration with the Haitian government to “reach to implement the vision that (the Haitian leaders) have for their country.” Read more
Haiti adoption: a bilateral commission
France proposes to the Haitian authorities to create a bilateral commission to review cases of adoption of children for whom no decision had been made before the earthquake of January 12, or has been produced following the disaster, said Friday the Quai d’Orsay. Read more
Those memories that haunt Haiti rescuers
At the other end, one suspects, Chief Warrant Officer Eric Dubois just swallow a sob. “I think the hardest part, now are the memories of the orphanage …” Failing to know it, we imagine this sergeant of the squadron of gendarmerie mobile Antibes strapping broke the rigors of maintaining order. Read more
Call for the “for the international haitian community,” by Nesly Manigat
In the first hours after the disaster of January 12, I already crossed the Dominicans border Jimani-Malpasse with several doctors who did not ask any question but to be present and find the first hospital in Port-au-Prince to be useful. Then there are added American volunteers, French, Colombian, Slovak, Cuban, Russian, Venezuelan, Chinese, Indian, who made the trip to the airport from the Dominican Republic to be in Haiti. Read more
In Haiti, voodoo is still standing
The story of a makeshift tent next to the others on the Champ de Mars, the main square in Port-au-Prince turned into refugees camp. At night in the darkness of the camp devoid of electricity, a werewolf just suck the blood of survivors sleeping. The rumor is not surprising in a country where imagination wander. Read more
The Haitian Prime Minister wants to change the government structure
The Haitian Prime Minister Jean Max Bellerive discussed Tuesday the possibility of changing the government structure to better cope with crisis born of earthquake January 12, 2010. Read more
Supermodel Poses Nude for Haiti
The Supermodel NATICO help raise money by dropping her clothes.
Picture courtesy of Kompamagazine
480,000 evacuated from the capital
At least 482,000 people have left the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince to the rural areas of Haiti since the earthquake that struck the country January 12, announced today the United Nations. Read more
25 French dead
Twenty-five French died in the earthquake in Haiti, and nine missing, according to a new provisional toll announced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The previous record of 25 January stood at 24 dead and 10 missing. Read more
A song for the victims in Haiti
A song to benefit victims of the earthquake that struck Haiti has been broadcast for the first time today in the United Kingdom, with the voices of Kylie Minogue, Rod Stewart, Robbie Williams and Susan Boyle particular. Read more
Trafficker of children most likely to be trial in the U.S.
The ten members of an American Christian group arrested yesterday in Haiti for “stolen” according to Port-au-Prince, 33 children, could be tried in the United States, said the Haitian government. Read more
92 deaths, 7 still missing in UN
Ninety-two UN employees were killed by the earthquake in Haiti and 7 are still missing nearly three weeks after the disaster, said today the head of UN operations there, Edmond Mulet. Read more
So far 170,000 dead in the Haiti Earthquake
Haitian President René Préval announced today that the bodies of “nearly 170,000″ victims of the earthquake of January 12 have already been collected, a figure higher than the latest estimates of the authorities advanced the figure of 150,000 dead.
Ambassador to Haiti invited by Obama to the State of the Union
The Ambassador of Haiti to the United States has been invited by the White House to attend his State of the Union Barack Obama Wednesday night in Congress, it was learned from the presidency two weeks after earthquake that ravaged the Caribbean country. Read more
Several American fundamentalist Christian groups have flocked to Haiti
On the tarmac at the airport in Port-au-Prince, Rose looks on a folding chair. This sprightly pensioner from Florida landed in Haiti a week ago to help because “the Lord told us to show compassion towards the poor.” Read more
Haitians Welcome To Sturdy
A key Democratic leaders of Congress said today that he supported a measure to “short term” to refugees from Haiti to stay in the United States. Read more
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