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HAITI in the NEWS
Below are links to recent articles in the News Media about Haiti that Healing Art Missions believes are informative about the realities in that country. They are presented here to continue the dialogue about the poorest country in our hemisphere, a short one-hour flight from Miami.
The point of view in these articles do necessarily represent those of Healing Art Missions.
April 4, 2012
UN in Haiti sees jump in cholera cases
The Associated Press
By TRENTON DANIEL, AP – 1 minute ago PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti
is seeing a jump in the number of cholera cases as the Caribbean nation
heads into the annual rainy season, a United Nations humanitarian
agency said Tuesday.
March 31, 2012
By Deborah Sontag in the New York Times
MIREBALAIS, Haiti — Jean Salgadeau Pelette, handsome when medicated and
groomed, often roamed this central Haitian town in a disheveled state,
wild-eyed and naked...
Haiti new government takes office
BBC News
Haiti's
new prime minister and his cabinet have taken office after months of
delay in forming a government. Prime Minister Garry Conille's 17-member
team and programme were endorsed by parliament over the weekend. The
cabinet faces a widespread cholera ...
October 20, 2011
A Haitian protester in Port-au-Prince last month spray-paints a wall,
equating the UN mission in Haiti (abbreviated here as MINISTA) with
cholera. A Haitian protester in Port-au-Prince last month spray-paints a
wall, equating the UN ...
August 18, 2011
August 8, 2011
How the World Failed Haiti
A year and a half after the island was reduced to rubble by an
earthquake, the world's unprecedented effort to rebuild it has turned
into a disaster of good intentions
June 24, 2011
Haiti cholera cases on rise: WHO
Xinhua
GENEVA, June 24 (Xinhua) -- Haiti
has seen an increase in cholera cases since May, due to a lack of
access to clean water and sanitation, and the beginning of the rainy
season and flooding, the Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO)
said Friday. ...
June 24, 2011
June 23, 2011
June 21, 2011
June 19, 2011
Arcade Fire in Haiti: "So much joy..."
The Guardian
For Régine Chassagne of Arcade Fire, Haiti's
struggle to cope with last year's earthquake has been poignant – her
parents fled the island under Baby Doc's regime. So when the band
returned to play a unique show in a remote mountain town, she was swept ...
June 17, 2011
June 16, 2011 (first published in The Nation on June 1st)
Leaked documents provide an extraordinary glimpse of US maneuvering
in Haiti from before the 2004 coup through the devastating 2010
earthquake.
June 13, 2011
June 9, 2011
June 8, 2011
Death toll rises to 23 as heavy rain lashes Haiti
MiamiHerald.com
Still reeling from last year's catastrophic earthquake, an unlucky Haiti
is slammed by deadly rain, underscoring how unprepared the country is
for the hurricane season. BY JACQUELINE CHARLES PORT-AU-PRINCE -- In a
deadly start to the Atlantic hurricane ...
June 3, 2011
Huffington Post (blog)
In the far-flung town of Thiotte, located in the sliver of rainforest still left in Haiti,
women in pastel-colored kerchiefs sit at outdoor tables piled high with
pale dried Arabica coffee beans. Their hands move rapidly, picking out
the blighted or ...
May 30, 2011
Agencies try to keep cholera from Haiti capital
Caribbean360.com
The United Nations and its partners are responding to rising cholera cases in Haiti's Ouest province in an attempt to contain it. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Monday May 30, 2011 – The United Nations says health partners in Haiti are responding promptly to ...
May 30, 2011 (Note: HAM's Dumay Clinic is located in the Ouest province, just northeast of Port-au-Prince)
Agencies try to keep cholera from Haiti capital
Caribbean360.com
The United Nations and its partners are responding to rising cholera cases in Haiti's Ouest province in an attempt to contain it. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Monday May 30, 2011 – The United Nations says health partners in Haiti are responding promptly to ...
May 27, 2011
May 27, 2011
MiamiHerald.com - Jacqueline Charles - May 27, 2011
Haitians living in squalid camps on public land are being evicted ahead
of the upcoming hurricane season and more than a week into the new
president's term. By Jacqueline Charles DELMAS, Haiti -- Police and
security agents wielding machetes and knives ...
May 16, 2011
Haiti Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive resigns
MiamiHerald.com
Haiti Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive turns in his resignation allowing new President Michel Martelly to choose his own government leader. By Jacqueline Charles PORT-AU-PRINCE -- Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive has resigned from his post to allow... |
May 15, 2011
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - My dear compatriots, by assigning me by your vote on 20 March, the destiny of the Republic of Haiti, you made me the first servant...
May 13, 2011
The Associated Press - May 12, 2011
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Exiled former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide returned in March to a movie star's welcome, arriving by private jet to a crowd of adoring fans and fevered speculation about what the twice-ousted leader would do back home. ...
May 11, 2011
Haitian diaspora allowed to vote
AFP
PORT-AU-PRINCE — Haitian
lawmakers have granted the diaspora the right to vote for the first
time, a major political shift for the Caribbean nation as it seeks to
recover from a catastrophic 2010 earthquake. In an amendment to the 1987
constitution ...
May 6, 2011
May 4, 2011
Haiti again feels pinch of rising food prices
Jamaica Observer
AP PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti
— Marie Bolivar, a gray-haired woman with a raspy voice, crushes
peanuts into paste for sandwiches which she sells by the roadside for 12
cents apiece. These days the paste is thinner, because the price of
peanuts has jumped ...
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