Haiti’s supreme voodoo leader has vowed to wage “war” after Evangelicals attacked a ceremony organized by his religion honoring those killed in last month’s massive earthquake. The attack on Tuesday in the capital’s sprawling Cite Soleil slum came amid rising religious tensions, as Protestant Evangelicals and other denominations recruit followers in the wake of the earthquake that killed more than 200,000. Some of the fresh converts have said they did so because they believed God caused the earthquake.
“It will be war – open war,” Max Beauvoir, supreme head of Haitian voodoo, told AFP in an interview at his home and temple outside the capital. “It’s unfortunate that at this moment where everybody’s suffering, that they have to go into war. But if that is what they need, I think that is what they’ll get.” Read more
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
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
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.
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.
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
Another earthquake has rocked the devastated island of Haiti. Port-au-Prince has been hit by a strong earthquake measuring 6.1 on the moment magnitude scale, eight days after the Haitian capital was razed by a 7.0 tremor. ABC News Australia
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake hit at 6:03 a.m. about 35 miles west of the capital, near the town of Petit Goave. It struck at a depth of 13.7 miles but was located too far inland to generate any tidal waves in the Caribbean. – MiamiHerald
CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the 40-year-old medical correspondent and practicing neurosurgeon, who turned down the position of U.S. surgeon general in 2009, has stepped in to the fill the very void he was sent to Haiti to cover as a journalist. – cnn.com
Dr. Gupta arrived in Haiti on Wednesday, a day after the 7.0 earthquake that shocked the crowded city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The following day Dr. Gupta examined a 15-day-old Haitian baby girl with a head injury whose mother had died in the quake. After placing the child on a wooden plank serving as a makeshift exam table, Dr. Gupta gently probed the baby’s skull for signs of a fracture. He concluded that she didn’t appear to have a fracture, and then he and a producer wrapped the infants head in gauze.
We are looking for 3 of the sisters of the charity of Bourdon in PAP. Les soeur de la charite a Bourdon. Soeur Marcell, Soeur Angele et Soeur Marie Francoise Labady. We haven’t any word of them. They are my dad’s aunts. Please feel free to contact me as soon as you hear anything. (941)524-7301
Fox News reported that many earthquake survivors are leaving the City of Port au Prince by foot and heading to the countrysides. Many Haitians in the city fear for their safety. This brings about another problem for Aid agencies and the U.S military as their efforts will have to span to a wider area since most of the people leaving Port au Prince aren’t taking any supplies with them.
We live in South Florida and we’re looking for my cousin Jeardine Augustine. She’s between 20-25 years old and was living in Port-au-Prince in order to attend University Lumiere for Nursing. We are dying to know what happen to her. If you see her, tell her to please call Florida.
*update – As of 1 a.m EST January 14, 2010, Jeardine Augustine was located in Gonaives, Haiti. Just a few hours before the quake, Jeardine and her roommate had to collect a transfer at Western Union in Port au Prince. When she got back to her apartment, it was destroyed. Everyone or about 17 residents living in the apartment building perish except her and her roommate. She then boarded a bus back to mother’s home in Gonaives.
Reyina is from the Laboule Port-au-Prince area of Haiti. She’s 2 years old and should have been picked up by her mother after school at around 5 pm. We are in Pompano Beach, FL and desperately need your help locating her.
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