Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Doing Theology from the Caribbean republishes an essay written by a Haitian-Bahamian tenth grader who, after watching The Diary of Anne Frank, notices parallels between the Jews and Haitians.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
“One of the remarkable consequences of blogging is that people of like minds can join together to raise the global consciousness about a particular issue”: Jamaican Geoffrey Philp uses his blogging powers to draw attention to the poverty in Haiti.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
New York - Some 7,500 Haitians have been given jobs under programmes carried out by the UN Development Programme since the country was devastated by four consecutive hurricanes in recent months, UNDP said Wednesday. Haiti, the poorest country in the ...
Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | yesterday
The United Nations' Security Council has extended the stay of the UN's Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) for another year.
Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot (Free subscription) | yesterday
One of the remarkable consequences of blogging is that people of like minds can join together to raise the global consciousness about a particular issue. Today is Blog Action Day and my focus is on the poverty in Haiti. This is not to say that Jamaica, my homeland, does not suffer from the effects of poverty. But the conditions in Haiti, the nation that led the way for freedom in the Americas, is...
Relief Web (Free subscription) | yesterday
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
The UN Security Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to extend the mandate of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) for another year. As mandated by the resolution, MINUSTAH will continue its operation until October 15, 2009 while maintaining its current force of 7,060 troops and 2,091 police. In the resolution, the Security Council welcomed the recent formation of the government of Prime...
USA Today (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
The U.N. Security Council has voted unanimously to renew its peacekeeping mission in Haiti for another year.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
Plush mansions and concrete shacks perch precariously on the hillside of this steep green mountaintop retreat, miles from the storm-ravaged cities of Cabaret and Gonaives.
Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
Deforestation and haphazard farming techniques have turned Haiti into an ecological disaster responsible for many storm-related deaths, officials say.Crumbling hillsides lacking trees to keep the soil in place have made Haiti especially vulnerable to flash floods and lethal landslides, greatly contributing to the deaths of more than 800 people in a series of four powerful storms during the last 30...
Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
The African and African Diaspora Studies program at Florida International University in collaboration with Poetry for the Environment and the People (PEP), and the Mapou Cultural Center have organized a quick response poetry benefit fundraiser. They have partnered with Food for the Poor to get much needed funds and food to the victims of the recent hurricanes in Haiti. The event will feature poetry...
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
Citizens are being asked to participate in a national drive being launched by the local arm of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) to assist hurricane-devastated Haiti. Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, is suffering the most after three hurricanes-Gustav, Hanna and Ike-and three storms- Josephine, Kyle and Laura-swept through the Caribbean...
bunnyhugs (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
An ominous darkness descends on Port-au-Prince Deciding to visit Haiti When I picked the Dominican Republic for a holiday I figured one of the benefits would be hopping across the border to Haiti, making it a sort of two-for-one Caribbean travel destination. Haiti has always interested me. Haiti was the setting for “The Comedians”, one of my [...]
Poverty News Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The organization Jubilee USA issued a statement yesterday that called on the international community to help Haiti and Liberia. The group says that delays in granting debt relief to the two countries have gone on long enough. Jubilee USA asks the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to act quickly, just as they did to help the banks with the credit crisis. Here are some quotes from leaders...
Boston Gal's Open Wallet (Free subscription) | yesterday
This Greater Boston story: Sending goods to Haiti from East Boston (video). Interesting story of how immigrants here are sending old junkers stuffed with goods back home. On the one hand, you are... [Head on over to Boston Gal's Open Wallet to read the rest!]
The last article published by a user on Haiti :
petercasier | 09/28/2008
Take the case of Haiti: Rice is the staple food of Haiti and up until the 1980s Haiti was self-sufficient in its production. In the mid-1980s Haiti's domestic rice production decreased rapidly. By the 1990s rice imports outpaced domestic rice production. This displaced many Haitian farmers, traders, and millers whose employment opportunities are extremely limited.
