PORT-AU-PRINCE: Haiti unveiled the first draft Tuesday of a grand reconstruction plan, saying US$11.5 billion would be needed to help the country rebuild after January’s devastating earthquake.
Prepared by the government with the help of the international community, the Preliminary Damage and Needs Assessment (PDNA) will be the framework for discussions at a major donors
By Glenda Pardo / redaccion@ahora.cu
Haitians know that rains can begin any day and are worried about it consequences.The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is also worries about the damages than rains could cause and diseases it could bring.
The earthquake that shook many Haitians cities caused 300,000 deaths, the same figure of those wounded and almost two million homeless people. So far, the international aid has not guaranteed a place for each Haitian to shelter and much less
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (BP)–Laura Silsby, the last of 10 Baptist missions volunteers detained in Haiti on suspicion of kidnapping, now faces a new charge.
Silsby, who led the team, now is accused of attempting to take 40 children out of Haiti without proper paperwork on Jan. 26, three days before the 10-member team was prevented from crossing the border into the Dominican Republic with 33 children.
PJ Pattersons says Haiti has never been forgiven by its former colonial masters.
Most people know that Haiti has a long record of being the poorest country in the western hemisphere, but most don’t know that Haiti was the second country in the hemisphere to free itself from colonialism and the first to abolish slavery. Most people think of voodoo and superstition when they think of Haiti, ignorant of the invaluable wealth that country has brought to Caribbean history, culture and its earliest politics of liberation.
Policeman are silhouetted in the headlights of a truck as a fire burns in Port-au-Prince in January
WASHINGTON — Four American nationals have been murdered in the Haitian capital since the January 12 quake, the United States said Monday, stepping up its travel warning after a high-profile kidnapping.
Updating its advice to travelers after it emerged last week that kidnappers had abducted and later freed two European aid workers, the State Department added a special section on crime-related threats.
Port Anotnio Court House
The teenage Haitian boy held by the police in Portland more than a month ago is to appear in the Port Antonio Resident Magistrate’s Court on April 12.
Sixteen-year-old Jean-Saint Homme of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince is to answer to the charge of illegal entry.
By Kenneth Kidd
St. Pierre Catholic Church in Petionville, Haiti, is closed for repairs after the earthquake. Services are now conducted in a smaller, adjacent chapel, leaving congregants to spill into one of two church courtyards.
PETIONVILLE, HAITI–The iron gates that lead from the small chapel to the main church have been chained shut.
Paper signs in Creole and French plead for help with rebuilding.
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By JENNIFER KAY (AP)
MIAMI — E-mails obtained by The Associated Press show that Florida and the federal government squabbled over where to send injured earthquake survivors while a humanitarian crisis unfolded in Haiti.
Hundreds of injured survivors of the Jan. 12 earthquake were brought to Florida hospitals. State officials say they were not getting enough notice or basic information about some of the patients.
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