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Colombia's next president visits Haiti quake camp
Colombian President-elect Juan Manuel Santos is pledging his country's support to Haiti on a brief visit with earthquake survivors.Santos' Friday tour included a tent camp home to thousands who lost...


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IICA and FAO link up to prepare binational proposal for Haiti and the Dominican Republic
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (IICA) -- The representatives of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) based in Haiti...
Caribbean Development Bank disbursed US124.5 million in first half of 2010
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) disbursed the equivalent of USD124.5 million to its Borrowing Member Countries (BMCs) in the first half of 2010. This is up from the...
Haiti Orphan to Stay in Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS - A little orphan from Haiti has secured six more months in the United States as doctors in Minnesota try to treat a potentially deadly heart...
Niche Airlines Meet Demand For Inter-Island Travel In The Caribbean
As I write this I am returning from a two-day trip to the Caribbean. Our company works with small airlines leasing aircraft, providing maintenance support services, parts support and training. We do...
Wyclef Jean mulling Haiti presidential run against politician uncle
Wyclef Jean released a statement Friday saying he will make a public announcement next week on whether he will run for president of Haiti. Meanwhile, his uncle has resigned his post as Haiti's...
International Narcotics and Law Officer Travels to Haiti
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Office of the Spokesman July 30, 2010 MEDIA NOTE International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Assistant Secretary Johnson Travels to Haiti Assistant Secretary of...
Haiti Orphan Gets New Chance at Life in U.S.
A little orphan from Haiti has secured six more months in the United States as doctors in Minnesota try to treat a potentially deadly heart condition. The girl, Rose Nacheca, was brought to the...
Salesian ministries in Haiti recovering, but much remains to be done
Salesian Father Mark Hyde has visited Haiti several times since the Jan. 12 earthquake, taking stock of the work that needs to be done to rebuild and restart Salesian educational programs in the...
UN ambassador Nicole Kidman spotlights needs of women in post-quake Haiti
Actress Nicole Kidman, wrapping up a visit to Haiti today in her role as United Nations Goodwill Ambassador, stressed the need to tackle gender-based violence and support initiatives that advance...
Official says agenda for Haitian, Dominican leaders’ meeting is ready
Santo Domingo.- The agenda for the meeting of the Haiti - Dominican Republic Mixed Bilateral Commission, to be officially reactivated Saturday morning in Wanament (Haiti northeast), has already been...
Real-Life Stories of Haitian Children Help a YMCA Chapter Raise Money
Vanessa Vellard, 14, will spend a few weeks at a YMCA camp in New York this summer thanks to a fund-raising campaign that told her story and those of other Haitian youths like...
Our children’s import to Haiti was fun
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Perhaps it was the wide grin on Charles’s face as he greeted us at Toussaint Louverture International Airport. Or the way Sister Claudette lovingly served my...
US: Haiti's total debt to international groups cancelled
Haiti owed international institutions at the time of a devastating January earthquake has now been cancelled, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Friday.Geithner said the final piece was put...
Couple return from another mission trip to Haiti
JLea@News-Herald.com In Haiti, you learn to appreciate the small victories.The Rev. Gerard P. Mirbel and his wife, Jacqueline, recently returned from their second mission trip to Haiti since an...
Treasury: Donors Have Eliminated Haiti's Debt To International Financial Institutions
toward an international agreement to get rid of the poverty-stricken country's debt owed to various multilateral lending institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the Inter-American...
Today's Opinions: Haiti's Lesson For The U.S.; Ending 'Pay For Delay;' Getting The CLASS Act Off The Ground
The New York Times In February, a month after Haiti's earthquake, I went down to Port-au-Prince as part of a team that was helping to reactivate cardiac care in the city's public hospital. For...
Bridging the gulf between Dominican Republic and the English speaking Caribbean
By David Jessop Despite the Dominican Republic having a strong and growing economy, its companies looking outwards for new investment opportunities, and a government that is playing an ever more...
Officials says agenda for Haitian, Dominican leaders’ meeting is ready
Santo Domingo.- The agenda for the meeting of the Haiti - Dominican Republic Mixed Bilateral Commission, to be officially reactivated Saturday morning in Wanament (Haiti northeast), has already been...
BBC Caribbean News in Brief
Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Director General Len Ishmael says heavily indebted Caribbean states need help from the international community to ease the debt burden weighing them...
Report: Dominican Republic Police Chief has close ties with drug trafficker
SANTO DOMINGO.- National Police chief Rafael Guzmán has been identified by Ruth Sanchez Vargas, the fiancée of the son of Arturo del Tiempo Marques, as a friend and associate of the Spaniard being...
Haitian struggles continue six months after Earthquake
Pastor Ronald Lefranc and his family visited the Chester Township home of Carol Hawthorne last week. She is the founder of Dayspring Ministries, which has been providing aid to Lefranc through his...
- Deaths of two boys highlight dangerous conditions in Haiti
AP, PORT-AU-PRINCE Friday, Jul 30, 2010, Page 7 Distraught parents mourned the loss of two children in a camp for Haitian earthquake survivors on Wednesday, a day after rains caused a wall to...
Drive-by shooting in Little Haiti kills girl, injures teen
Police are investigating a drive-by shooting Thursday night that left one teen dead and another wounded in Little Haiti, police said.A gunman killed a 17-year-old girl who was walking home at...
Cuba to go on supporting Haiti's reconstruction
Cuba will go on supporting the reconstruction in Haiti, which was devastated by a major earthquake on Jan. 12, Ramon Pez Ferro, president of the International Relations Committee of the National...