Category Archives: Haitian News

When the ground shook Haiti on a Caribbean winter afternoon a year ago, toppling homes like cards and killing around 250,000 people, world leaders promised quick action to ease the human tragedy and rebuild the country.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Jan. 9 (UPI) — One year after Haiti’s devastating earthquake, there are still 810,000 people living in camps across the Caribbean island nation, officials say.

How did such a huge outpouring of foreign assistance — donor countries have pledged some $11 billion — manage to accomplish so little?

Akashic Books is publishing a new anthology on the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti as part of its “Noir” series focused on specific locales.

Jenny-Carls Joseph dreams of going home. But home is a nightmare of broken concrete and twisted steel that, a year after Haiti’s Jan. 12 earthquake, has yet to give up his father’s body.

UN relief agencies defended their role in the much criticised aid effort after Haiti’s devastating earthquake nearly a year ago, saying they had faced “apocalyptic” scenes.

The silhouetted bodies moved in waves through the night, climbing out of crumbled homes and across mounds of rubble. Hundreds of thousands of people made their way to the center of the shattered…

Improvements have been made since the months right after the earthquake, but the country continues to struggle with recovery.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (AP) – The silhouetted bodies moved in waves through the night, climbing out of crumbled homes and across mounds of rubble. Hundreds of thousands of people made their way to the center of the shattered city by the … Continue reading →

ATLANTA, Jan. 5 (UPI) — Haiti could safely and economically recycle damaged concrete and rubble from the 2010 earthquake into strong new construction material, U.S. researchers say.