According to the AP, thousands of Haitians living in one of the biggest tent camps created after last year’s earthquake could soon have a new home: the mountains north of Port-au-Prince. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/31292
According to the AP, the U.S. State Department is strongly urging U.S. citizens to carefully consider before visiting Haiti. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_state_of_black_america_news/31191
According to the AP, Tropical Storm Emily brushed past Puerto Rico and set its sights on the Dominican Republic and Haiti, where more than 630,000 people are still without shelter after last year’s earthquake. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/30997
Via CNN.com Brooklyn, New York (VBS.TV) — American soldiers returning from Haiti in the early ’20s and ’30s came home with arresting tales of voodoo potions, black magic, and living-dead zombies. They published their stories in mass-market pulp novels, which in turn inspired horror movies and eventually made their corporeal way to our supermarket aisles […]
Chaos reigned north of Haiti’s capital Friday as hospitals overflowed with people rushing to get help from a fast-moving cholera break that has killed at least 138 people. Terry Snow, Haiti director for the non-profit Youth With a Mission, saw people lined up outside hospitals and clinics, many in stretchers, waiting 24 hours or more […]
We live in such a fast-paced world, it’s hard to get people to think about anything that happened yesterday, let alone seven months ago. Since the horrific earthquake took place in Haiti in January, a lot has happened internationally, nationally, locally and in our own personal lives. Before we left for vacation, I got […]
Haitian election officials have rejected hip-hop singer Wyclef Jean’s bid to run for president of the Caribbean nation. Jean’s name was not on the list of 19 approved candidates released by Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council on Friday night. “I respectfully accept the committee’s final decision, and I urge my supporters to do the same,” Jean […]
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A Colorado man who founded a school for street children in Haiti acknowledged Wednesday that he sexually abused several, wrapping up a case in which prosecutors said he manipulated the boys with promises of food and shelter and threatened to expel them if they refused. Douglas Perlitz, 40, pleaded guilty Wednesday […]
A group of scholars and activists including Cornel West and Noam Chomsky are urging France to pay the billions of dollars of debt that Haiti paid them for Haitian independence. The UK Guardian reports : The open letter to the French president says the debt, now worth more than €17bn (£14bn), would cover the rebuilding […]
From MSNBC LONDON — A mother broke down in tears as she was reunited with her baby girl six months after the earthquake that devastated Haiti. “I had thought Landina was dead and when I heard she was alive I was in shock,” the eight-month-old infant’s mother, Marie Miracle Seignon, told Britain’s Channel 4 News. […]
(By Ivan Watson/CNN) Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) – On January 12, the earth shook here. More than 220,000 people were killed. More than 300,000 people were injured. The city and large stretches of surrounding countryside were devastated. Six months later, not much appears to have changed. It still looks like a bomb just dropped on this […]
