Potential rise in cholera cases as lack of funding reduces services in Haiti
Wed, 16 Nov 2011 03:32:33 -0800

Just over a year since the outbreak of cholera first struck Haiti , the leading response organisation tackling the disease is warning that reduced services risk a significant rise in cases. This echoes an earlier expression of concern about the ...

Coming Sunday: Operation Blessing in Haiti
Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:19:15 -0800

We traveled to Haiti with Operation Blessing to give you a close look at what has become the country's sixth-largest international charity. Check online for a video presentation as well. comments advisory: Users are solely responsible for opinions they ...

Haitian Ministers out of Danger following Emergency Landing of Helicopter
Mon, 14 Nov 2011 05:23:09 -0800

by The Ministry of Foreign and Religious Affairs PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - Saturday, November 12, 2011. After a successful day's work with the Cabinet of Ministers held in retirement at Club Indigo, Prime Minister Garry Conille accompanied by ...

Haiti receives helps from local Habitat
Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:23:37 -0800

LEOGANE, HAITI (WSVN) -- Former President Jimmy Carter and local volunteers are helping to rebuild parts of Haiti , two years after the devastating earthquake. For hundreds of families in Haiti , this is a model of their new life. ...

5000 Christians to March for Jesus at Bayfront Park, Miami
Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:15:25 -0800

by Jonel Juste PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - On December 10th a "March for Jesus" at Bayfront Park (Biscayne Blvd, Miami) will be held by various churches of South Florida, including the Tabernacle of Glory of Pastor Gregory Toussaint in North ...

Haitian -Americans pitch in
Thu, 10 Nov 2011 02:16:40 -0800

By Erin Grace LEOGANE, Haiti When a translator walked up to Houses 305 and 306, New Yorker Marsha Palmer shooed him away. "Honey," she said to the young Haitian man, "we've got THREE!" Four, actually: A New York mechanical engineer, ...

$100M awarded in sex-abuse suit against priest
Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:57:54 -0800

By laura figueroa and perry stein a runaway teen in search of guidance, Andres Susana spent his days hanging around Little Haiti's Keystone Trailer Park, growing to trust the Catholic priest who cruised the area offering advice and free meals. ...

Haitian spokesperson says Tavares a 'zero'
Mon, 14 Nov 2011 01:02:12 -0800

Antigua & Barbuda Molvin James watches as a ball comes off his upright during the team's clash with Haiti at Sir Vivian Richards Cricket Grounds on Friday. (Photo by Thaddeus Price) ST JOHN'S, Antigua Head coach of the Haiti national football team, ...

Haiti - Fooball : End of the Haitian dream to Saint John's
Sat, 12 Nov 2011 07:27:58 -0800

Haiti has failed to pass the second round of qualifiers for the World Cup. Although the Grenadiers had previously defeated the Virgin Islands (4-0 and 6-0), our team was not able to defeat the team of Antigua and Barbuda... Yesterday at St. John's, ...

Haiti - Environment : Binational Project for the rehabilitation of the ...
Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:24:12 -0800

The binational steering committee, established by the Haitian and Dominican authorities, as part of binational project of rehabilitation of the Artibonite River watershed (PROBINA), held its first meeting last Thursday. ...

Haiti - Training : 69 new police officers graduates
Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:04:11 -0800

During a ceremony last Thursday in the presence of Didier Le Bret, Ambassador of France in Haiti , the Prefect Jean Dussours, representing the French Ministry of the Interior in Haiti and Jean Lionel Trecil, Chief of Staff of Director General of the ...

International colors: French Club sends money, books to Haitian kids
Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:53:02 -0800

The club made more than 200 books that later this month will be sent to children in Haiti . By Chris Beattie, When an earthquake struck Haiti nearly two years ago, the nation crumbled deeper into poverty and desperation. ...

Get Off the Couch: Local woman heads back to Haiti to volunteer
Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:36:50 -0800

By Rachel M. Collins Ann Grinnell was walking with a friend more than a year ago when she first learned about the need for volunteer help in Haiti . "I said, 'I'm going,'" she said. "Just like that." For those interested in learning more about donating ...

Church volunteers pack 25000 meals for Haiti
Tue, 15 Nov 2011 01:33:40 -0800

CHILDREN, teens and adults of a variety of races, languages and physical abilities packed more than a quarter million meals for Haiti in the parking lot of The Crossing Church. The volunteers stood in more than a dozen pre-stocked assembly lines Nov. ...

Cutter Escanaba Returns From Haiti
Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:28:23 -0800

13 after a 62-day patrol in the Straights of Florida and Windward Passage near Haiti . Throughout the 9732-mile patrol, crewmembers interdicted and processed more than 100 Cuban migrants, had three high speed Go-Fast drug smuggling chases, ...

Slain sisters eyed 'dream'
Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:01:24 -0800

By O'Ryan Johnson and Natalie Sherman Two hardworking sisters, who moved to the Hub eight years ago from Haiti to create better lives for themselves, were gunned down in a Dorchester apartment they had only recently rented to strike out on their own, ...

US deportees to Haiti face horrific conditions
Sun, 13 Nov 2011 03:00:51 -0800

Haiti - When longtime Los Angeles resident Wilberle Vereus arrived in Haiti after being deported from the United States, he was taken to the Petionville jail above Port-au-Prince and placed in a 20-by-10-foot cell along with three other deportees and a ...

Haiti's artisans getting lots of attention and new buyers
Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:55:10 -0800

Far from the couture runways of New York's Fifth Avenue, Karan was in earthquake-battered Haiti in August, picking up the last samples for an exhibit in Berlin, Germany that was to showcase Haiti's artisans. It is the craftspeoples' skill and talent ...

In Haiti , an ending, a beginning
Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:59:09 -0800

And though the houses were not big and larger questions about what this effort would actually do to help Haiti hung in the air, this was a time to take measure and say farewell. "We pray, Lord, that you bless this hard work, that you make this a good ...

Haiti's Leogane receives Caritas help
Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:51:26 -0800

In Somalia, drought and ongoing conflict have reached crisis levels and affect over half of thepopulation. More than 25000 Somalis have fled their country in 2011 alone. The mass movementof rural Somalis across the border to Kenya has put significant ...