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By Ben Terrall
Online Journal Guest Writer
Aug 29, 2008, 00:18
As I flew from JFK to Port-au-Prince Airport on August 11, a fellow journalist handed me the front section of that day’s New York Times with a laugh. My friend pointed to a passage in ...(More)
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By Georgia East | South Florida Sun-Sentinel
August 29, 2008
As local Jamaican expatriates warily watched Gustav's advance on their birthplace on Thursday, South Florida's relief agencies mobilized efforts to send food, money and school supplies to ...(More)
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Residents and tourists alike fled Jamaica as a strengthening tropical storm Gustav lurched toward the island late Thursday after triggering floods and landslides that killed at least 67 people in Haiti and the Dominican Republic on the island of Hisp ...(More)
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ROME, Italy, August 13, 2008 - As nearly one billion poor people worldwide struggle to survive the unrelenting global high food and fuel price crisis, WFP announced the roll-out of a US$214 million package directed at 16 hunger hotspots, including Ha ...(More)
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BY JACQUELINE CHARLES
jcharles@MiamiHerald.com
The political fate of Haiti's newly ratified prime minister, Michèle Duvivier Pierre-Louis, was put on hold Tuesday after the president of the lower house of parliament was forced to postpone Phase 2 of ...(More)
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After years of empowering Haiti's rural poor, the newly ratified prime minister seeks to empower a nation.
BY JACQUELINE CHARLES
jcharles@MiamiHerald.com
If there is a metaphor that describes the challenges facing Haiti's newly ratified Prime Mini ...(More)
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Haiti bus overturns in Fay-flooded river
By EVENS SANON
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — An overloaded bus overturned while trying to drive across a river surging with rain from Tropical Storm Fay, sweeping passengers into the water, officials said. ...(More)
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By REUTERS
Published: August 18, 2008
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) — About 50 people died on Sunday when a bus tried to cross a river in Haiti that was swollen with rain from a tropical storm and was swept away, witnesses said.
Two dozen survi ...(More)
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: August 1, 2008
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian lawmakers ratified Michèle Pierre-Louis on Thursday to be the impoverished country’s prime minister, ending more than three months of political bickering and ...(More)
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Haiti's Senate has approved the nomination of Michele Pierre-Louis as the country's new prime minister.
Ms Pierre-Louis received the approval of the lower house of parliament two weeks ago but final confirmation will require another vote by both ho ...(More)
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