By ELIANE ENGELER

Relatives of Haiti‘s ex-dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier have appealed a decision by Switzerland to keep frozen at least $4.6 million claimed by the family, a court said Wednesday.

The appeal challenges an emergency government decree to keep the money blocked in a Swiss bank until a new law can be passed allowing it to be donated to aid groups working in Haiti,

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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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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.

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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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