Mon. October 06, 2008
Haiti:
In These Times
October 6, 2008
By Susan Maas
engineering students at the University of
Minnesota are helping
Haitians create
solar reflectors with hot oil and plastic. ...
The student engineers are exploring a way to recycle thousands of used plastic water sachets littering the streets and beaches of Haiti, a culturally rich ...
radiojamaica.com
October 5, 2008
He also spoke about the clean-up efforts that are currently underway in the northern city of Gonaïïves and other heavily impacted areas.
... Haiti's newly-appointed Health Minister, OAS Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdin welcomed plans by the Haitian government to rebuild medical and ...
Caribbean Net News
October 5, 2008
"The OAS is trying to mobilize everything we can," added Ramdin, who pointed out the importance of also lending the new
Haitian government political ...
Ramdin praised the Haitian decision as he received Alex Larsen, the newly appointed Haitian Health Minister for a visit to the Organization's headquarters ...
Central Plains Herald Leader
October 6, 2008
In her twelve years as a
Christian missionary in
Haiti, Jenny Reitz has helped hundreds of young
children weather coups d'etat, famines and
hurricanes. ...
Latin Business Chronicle
October 6, 2008
Three other countries have also had 20 or more
constitutions throughout their history, all of them in Latin America:
Venezuela (26),
Haiti (24) and
Ecuador ...
The Open Press (press release)
October 6, 2008
Miami, FL (OPENPRESS) October 6, 2008 -- Back-to-back storms ravaged through
Haiti, destroyed its agricultural sector, and set the country ten steps ...
ReliefWeb (press release)
October 6, 2008
Gonaïves,
Haiti, October 6 - Cleanup begins today in schools that are still swamped with mud and debris more than a month after
floods devastated this city ...
Local10.com
October 6, 2008
MIAMI -- On Friday, Local 10's Calvin Hughes spoke with
Haitian President
Rene Preval about
Haiti's recovery plans and struggles after it was ravaged by ...
PR-CANADA.net (press release)
October 6, 2008
In keeping with GCA's theme "Help For Haiti", the fourth annual golf tournament will raise funds to support their efforts in Haiti. ...
MarketWatch
October 6, 2008
"This has been a harrowing year for
Haiti, and AmeriCares is committed to providing important medical aid to communities affected by the
hurricanes and ...
radiojamaica.com
October 5, 2008
Naples Daily News
October 5, 2008
By KATHERINE LEWIS (Contact) NAPLES - When Joseph Vanes Datus saw the devastation in Haiti, he knew he couldn't just sit by and watch. ...
Houston Chronicle
October 5, 2008
By JACQUELINE CHARLES Immacula Jean, 70, a medicine woman, displays a Jatropha plant near her home in Haiti. She opposes using the plant as a source of fuel ...
Caribbean Net News
October 5, 2008
WASHINGTON,
USA: The OAS has reaffirmed its pledge of ongoing assistance to
Haiti's emergency disaster relief efforts, with
Assistant Secretary General ...
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
October 5, 2008
This afternoon two more
New Zealand Red Cross humanitarian aid
workers, both IT and Telecommunications specialists, will depart for
Haiti where they will ...
PR-CANADA.net (press release)
October 5, 2008
205 years ago, Napoléon Bonaparte suffered his first major defeat when he lost to the Haitian revolutionary forces at the battle of Vertieres. ...
DeSoto Appeal
October 5, 2008
The event -- which also included an auction, dinner and breakfast -- supports a clinic in impoverished Haiti through Haiti Medical Missions of Memphis. ...
Medical News Today (press release)
October 5, 2008
MSNBC
October 5, 2008
By Mara Schiavocampo, NBC Nightly News digital correspondent Last week I was in Haiti covering the aftermath of four fierce storms that slammed the island ...
Houston Chronicle
October 5, 2008
MIAMI -
Haitian President
Rene Preval on Friday said his storm-ravaged country will no longer be able to accept US deportees and - for the first time ...
Palm Beach Daily News
October 4, 2008
By DAVID ROGERS Time and again this storm season, the impoverished
Caribbean nation of
Haiti has borne the brunt of destructive
Tropical storms and ...
Dissident Voice
October 4, 2008
The UN must end its military presence of
Haiti through its occupation
army (MINUSTAH), action contrary to the very founding principles of the organization. ...
ReliefWeb (press release)
October 4, 2008
WFP has received $US15 million of the $US54 million it asked for in the UN Haiti Hurricane Flash Appeal for emergency food, transport, telecommunications ...
PR.com (press release)
October 4, 2008
In keeping with GCA's theme "Help For Haiti", the fourth annual golf tournament will raise funds to support their efforts in Haiti. ...
PR.com (press release)
October 4, 2008
Haitians in the Bay Area Celebrate 205 Years of Liberation from Slavery; Afro-
Caribbean Band Kalbass Kreyol Headlines
Haitian
cultural Extravaganza at ...
Radio Netherlands
October 4, 2008
A month after the last of four
hurricanes pounded
Haiti relief group Médecins Sans Frontières has found 2400 people who had remained cut off from the ...
CNN International
October 4, 2008
(CNN) -- The death toll from a string of
hurricanes and
Tropical storms in
Haiti has risen to nearly 800 people, an official with the
Haitian Red Cross says ...
MiamiHerald.com
October 4, 2008
An aide to Haiti's prime minister met with community members to talk about what the island is doing to cope with hurricane destruction. ...
UNICEF (press release)
October 4, 2008
By Elizabeth Kiem
Gonaives, Haiti, 3 October 2008 - Venette and her sister arrived at their school around mid-morning. They were handed a shovel. ...
ReliefWeb (press release)
October 4, 2008
Water Hygiene and Sanitation: A draft WASH strategy for
Haiti covering the next 6 months has been elaborated with
UNICEF WES, government, and
NGO partners. ...
Sun-Sentinel.com
October 4, 2008
MiamiHerald.com
October 4, 2008
Four
Tropical storms this summer have left
Haiti unable to accept US deportees, President René Préval says. BY JACQUELINE CHARLES AND TRENTON DANIEL
Haitian ...
BBC News
October 4, 2008
Nearly 800 people in Haiti were killed in four major storms which devastated the country in August and September, officials have said. ...
International Herald Tribune
October 3, 2008
AP
Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Authorities in
Haiti say the death toll from four storms that ravaged the
Caribbean nation this summer has nearly doubled to about ...
www.worldbulletin.net
October 3, 2008
Turkey's IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation extended relief materials to the
Caribbean country
Haiti. The foundation undertook providing fast-breaking meals ...
IT Examiner
October 3, 2008
By Nick Farrell @ Friday, October 03, 2008 10:09 AM A magical plant used by Voodoo practitioners in rural Haiti is being tapped as an alternative source of ...
Medecins Sans Frontieres
October 3, 2008
Although international attention has largely moved on from the emergency in Haiti, the example of the town of Mamont shows that emergency assistance remains ...
Heat.com
October 3, 2008
This summer,
hurricanes Fay, Gustav, Hanna, and Ike struck the nation of
Haiti, leaving vast areas of the country under water and destroyed homes, crops, ...
Carman Valley Leader
October 3, 2008
By Gene Still Rook and Wanders will travel to Haiti Oct. 22 and remain there until Oct. 31 as part of a volunteer mission trip to help the people of the ...
Special Broadcasting Service
October 3, 2008
Without saying anything to me, he pulled a golden Haitian dollar out of his pocket, and bought the white walking stick. Then he handed it to me, smiled, ...
TropIKA
October 2, 2008
CARIBWORLDNEWS.COM
October 2, 2008
Oct. 3, 2008:
Haitian-born hip hop star and ambassador, Wyclef Jean, is pitching in to help Democratic Presidential hopeful,
Barack Obama. ...
CPJ Press Freedom Online
October 2, 2008
By Maria Salazar/
Americas Senior Research Associate
Haiti 's best known press freedom activist, Guyler Delva, sent out a frantic call for help yesterday ...
