BY LESLEY CLARK (lclark@MiamiHerald.com)
Haiti has lost huge chunks of its artistic culture, with the destruction and damage of historic paintings and murals, along with the deaths of art collectors.
PORT-AU-PRINCE – The vibrant murals that once adorned the walls of the Cathedrale of Sainte Trinite — created in the 1950s by some of the giants of Haitian art — are now largely dust, part of the gray rubble that covers most everything in Port-au-Prince.
The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) has paid the Government of Haiti US $7,753,579 following the Magnitude 7.0 earthquake which struck close to Port-au-Prince on January 12, causing damage of catastrophic proportions.
The payment is the “full amount due to the country based on its catastrophe insurance policy for earthquakes for the 2009/10 policy year, and which forms part of the country’s disaster risk management strategy,” said the announcement. “This value represents approximately 20 times the premium of US$385,500.”
By William E. Gibson – Sun Sentinel
Federal officials try to prevent earthquake victims from risking dangerous voyages
WASHINGTON (MCT) – U.S. officials are talking about allowing more Haitian immigrants to come to this country because of the devastation in their homeland, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton indicated on Monday.
By Betsy Mason
NASA is sending a radar-equipped jet to Haiti to make 3-D maps of the deformation caused by the magnitude 7 earthquake on Jan. 21 and multiple aftershocks that continue to occur.
SAN DIEGO — As the cleanup continues in Haiti following a massive earthquake, a new crisis is emerging. According to UNICEF, 15 children have been kidnapped from a hospital in Haiti and there is concern the number could grow.
Haiti was already on the U.S. State Department’s special-case list for serious human trafficking problems. Its latest annual “Trafficking in Persons Report” noted a sharp increase in the number of Haitian children trafficked for sex and labor in 2008.
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