After the ruins of Leogane, the epicenter of the earthquake, the road leaves the coast to climb switchbacks up the mountain. The debris forced to zigzag across a landscape of Apocalypse. Then at the end of a pass is the Bay of Jacmel. The lower city, which concentrates around the Orange River’s historical riches, is gutted. If casualties are limited (350 dead), Read more
Tag Haitian Relief
Preval at a summit in Quito
Haitian President René Préval has left Port-au-Prince yesterday evening to Quito (Ecuador), where he must now attend a special summit of South American countries to coordinate regional aid for Haiti. Read more
Child stealing case in Haiti: Lawyer resigns
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
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
Gridlock in helping Haiti
Efforts were continuing on Saturday to resolve the “gridlock”, accepted by Bill Clinton in the distribution of international aid in Haiti while 10 Americans accused Baptists of child abduction would be transferred to prison. Read more
Europe will spend 400 million Euros in rebuilding Haiti
The ambassadors of the European Union (EU) in Haiti announced Saturday that the 27 alliance would contribute up to 400 million to the program of reconstruction of Haiti devastated by a January 12 earthquake. 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
No release of Americans in Haiti
The request for provisional release filed by ten American Baptists continue in Haiti for abduction was released yesterday, said their lawyer Edwin Coq. 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
To rebuild Haiti, get rid of the debt burden already
The devastating earthquake that struck Haiti has led to a massive flow of international aid. The first priority was to save lives, deliver water, food, shelter, medicines and other essential supplies to victims. 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 organization of Reporters Without Borders reports U.S. censorship
The organization of Reporters Without Borders today denounced the confiscation by the U.S. military of an apparatus of photographic from a photographer of The Daily Local Nouvelliste while covering a demonstration outside the Embassy of the United States to Port-au-Prince. 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
Ten billion dollars to rebuild Haiti
Participants at the first international meeting on the reconstruction of the island believe that Haiti needs 10 billion dollars over five years to recover. Read more
Reconstruction of Haiti; the puzzle of corruption
Invest tens of billions of dollars in a country ranked among the least favorable business place and the most corrupt in the world is one of the puzzles that should resolve the international community to rebuild Haiti after the earthquake of January 12, that killed at least 170 000 deaths. Read more
Elections postponed
The legislative and senatorial elections in Haiti under the February 28 and March 3 will be postponed “to a later date, unspecified, due to the earthquake, said the official body responsible for organizing the elections.
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
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