January 16, 2014
Categories: Economy, Farming, Haiti, Natural Disaster, United States
Tags: 2010 earthquake, Usaid
See on Scoop.it – 501c3 The United States spent $2.8 billion to help Haiti rebuild, but the results have been a disaster of a different kind. See on www.globalpost.com
January 16, 2014
Categories: Economy, Haiti, Natural Disaster, United States
Tags: 2010 earthquake, farming, food program, Usaid
See on Scoop.it – 501c3 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The idea that the delivery of American food aid needs an overhaul goes almost without question here in the capital of a nation still recovering from the devastating earthquake of four years ago. Alex Lizzappi‘s insight: The turning point in the debate over U.S. food aid …
December 14, 2010
Categories: Elections, Haiti, Politics
Tags: conflict, council, elections, haiti
Haiti’s leading candidate speaks against council: “Supporters of one of her competitors in Haiti’s presidential election set barricades on fire and threw rubble at cars when initial results put him third. The No. 2 finisher urged his partisans to mobilize and his staff warned they could start a war.”
December 13, 2010
Categories: Haiti, Infrastructure, Medicine and Health, Natural Disaster, NGOs
Georgianne Nienaber: New Haiti Cholera Warning, Vaccine Questions, and “Squatters” Vulnerable: “ While all eyes were on Sarah Palin’s visit to Haiti this weekend, Dr. Jocelyne Pierre Louis, Director of Haiti’s Department of Public Health and Population (MSPP) predicted a new outbreak of the cholera epidemic, particularly in Port-au-Prince and the Metropolitan Region due to …