PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — After he lost everything in the Haiti earthquake, a lawyers’ group gave attorney Clauvy Robas a tent to sleep in. But, rather than pitch it in one of the camps that have sprouted up around Port-au-Prince , he prefers to sleep in a friend’s car.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — After he lost everything in the Haiti earthquake, a lawyers’ group gave attorney Clauvy Robas a tent to sleep in. But, rather than pitch it in one of the camps that have sprouted up around Port-au-Prince , he prefers to sleep in a friend’s car.
WILMINGTON – Julie Gustafson, Wilmington High School Class of 2010 graduate, has found a unique way to mark the end of one phase of her life and the start of a new one. Although she heads to college at the end of the summer like many of her fellow grads, before she does that, she will be boarding a plane to Haiti next week for what purports to be a life-changing experience.
On Thursday, Jan. 12, a massive earthquake hit Haiti. It lasted for less than one minute and changed the lives of Haitians forever. It killed more than 150,000 people and left 1.7 million homeless. It reduced buildings to crushed cans of concrete.[...]
July brings to mind many historic events, such as Frederick Douglass’ speech at an event July 5, 1852, commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence. “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham …
The inmates at Haiti’s only women’s prison cry out in desperation as warden Marie-Yolaine Mathieu makes her rounds, hoping that she will hear their case and perhaps, help secure their release.
WE REFER to your editorial of June 29 titled CARICOM, Haiti and Rebuilding in which you made reference, inter alia, to the decision of the 13th Meeting of CARICOM’s Council on Trade and Economic Development (COTED) to grant Haiti limited non-reciprocal free trade access to markets of the 14 independent member states of CARICOM.
ONE OF the first things Irish Minister for Overseas Development Peter Power learned on arriving here yesterday was the international relief effort for Haiti can look very different if you’re inside an air-conditioned UN compound or are a homeless Haitian sweltering under a plastic tarpaulin.
On Thursday, Jan. 12, a massive earthquake hit Haiti. It lasted for less than one minute and changed the lives of Haitians forever. It killed more than 150,000 people and left 1.7 million homeless. It reduced buildings to crushed cans of concrete.[...]
The actress hosted the Edeyo Foundation’s Change For Haiti benefit last week in Manhattan, saying that educating Haiti’s children will help the island nation rise up from poverty and overcome the devastation from this year’s earthquake.