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.

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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.

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CARACAS – President Hugo Chavez Friday announced Venezuela would donate 100 million dollars to help Haiti rebuild itself from last month’s devastating earthquake.

“We’ve approved $100 million for Haiti,” Chavez said in a televised speech.

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PRAGUE — An official says two European aid workers kidnapped in Haiti and later released were from the Czech Republic and Belgium.

Lucia Duricova of the Czech office of Doctors Without Borders confirmed the nationalities Friday. She said the two women are fine but declined to give any further details.

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Doctors Without Borders says kidnappers have released two European aid workers snatched off the streets of Port-au-Prince and held for five days.

It is the first reported kidnapping since Haiti suffered a magnitude-7 earthquake with catastrophic damage on Jan. 12. More than 5,000 prisoners fled jails that collapsed or were damaged in the temblor. About 200 have been captured.

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Edmond Mulet, head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) described as extraordinary the work of Cuban doctors in that Caribbean country hit by an earthquake last January 12.

“These professionals work in every corner of Haiti, in an extraordinary manner, with dedication and love, often in difficult conditions, really terrible ones,” the UN official said in statements made to Prensa Latina news agency at the UN headquarters.

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By EDITH M. LEDERER

UNITED NATIONS — An emotional Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon paid tribute Tuesday to “the 101 heroes” working for the United Nations who were killed in the Haiti earthquake, the single greatest loss for the world body in its 64-year history.

Hundreds of U.N. staff joined relatives of those who died at the ceremony, listening as Ban pledged: “We will never forget you. We will carry on your work.”

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Haitians who escaped to Chile after earthquake now sleep outdoors following second tremor

The Desarmes family not only survived the earthquake in their native Haiti, they managed to get out. Their new home: Chile, where they have just survived their second earthquake in two months, the BBC reports.

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The 6.4-magnitude Taiwan earthquake that hit on Thursday – on the heels of quakes in Haiti and Chile – raised concern of an accelerating trend. But the statistics say otherwise.

By Jonathan Adams

Taiwan Earthquake: A local Taiwanese resident inspects the damage to his home after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake jolted the island, Thursday, in Kaohsiung county, southern Taiwan.

Taipei, Taiwan – The 6.4-magnitude Taiwan earthquake that hit Thursday on the heels of massive quakes in Haiti and Chile, has some worrying about a spike in seismic activity.

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