Showing posts with label Haiti quake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Haiti quake. Show all posts
Friday, April 23, 2010

Up to 300,000 people killed in Haiti quake, says UN

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) -- Haiti's devastating January 12 earthquake killed between 250,000 and 300,000 people, the head of the Unit...
Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Haiti warned to brace for another big quake

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By Mica Rosenberg: PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) -- Haiti should be preparing for another major earthquake that could be triggered by the...
Sunday, January 31, 2010

Haiti must learn to live with earthquakes, experts say

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By Jordi Zamora: PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) -- It will be difficult to convince Haitians to spend extra money and rebuild their quake-rava...
Monday, January 25, 2010

Traumatised Haitians struggle to comprehend grim fate

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By Dave Clark: PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) -- It's not immediately clear where the crowd gathered in prayer ends and where the refugee ...
Sunday, January 24, 2010

Help Haiti out of Haiti

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Jamaicaobserver Editorial: Centuries ago, the colonial powers of the western world executed a monstrous plan to transport millions of Africa...
Saturday, January 23, 2010

The Haiti debacle

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By Lloyd B Smith: WONDER what is going through the minds of Jean-Claude Duvalier and Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the two exiled top honchos of H...

Turning Guantanamo Bay into a point of light

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By Jean H Charles: The American base at Guantanamo in Cuba, refitted to receive the enemy combatant prisoners and the terrorists of Iraq, A...
Friday, January 22, 2010

Jamaica shares same earthquake faultline as Haiti

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KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) -- Jamaica shares the same faultline (a crack or break in the earth's surface) with Haiti, which suffered a deva...

CARICOM strengthens response to Haiti

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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CDEMA) -- CARICOM efforts to provide relief to Haiti after the 7.0 magnitude earthquake on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 a...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Haiti's Preval, a survivor in a turbulent land

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By Joseph Guyler Delva: PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) -- When a team of Reuters reporters landed in Haiti the morning after its catastrop...
Monday, January 18, 2010

The earthquake in Haiti requires the world's human response

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By Wellington C Ramos: Ever since the black people of this Caribbean country fought and defeated the French to gain their independence in 1...
Sunday, January 17, 2010

Chavez says US 'occupying Haiti' in name of aid

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CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) -- Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez on Sunday accused the United States of using the earthquake in Haiti a...

Caricom blocked from landing in Haiti

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BY RICKEY SINGH Observer Caribbean correspondent: BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- The Caribbean Community's emergency aid mission to Haiti, comp...
Saturday, January 16, 2010

Haiti's fault rupture boosts long-term risk of Jamaica quake

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By Tom Randall and Meg Tirrell: NEW YORK, USA (Bloomberg) -- The magnitude 7 earthquake that killed as many as 100,000 people in Haiti this...
Friday, January 15, 2010

Bahamas: Evacuated Bahamians tell of Haiti's horror

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By KRYSTEL ROLLE ~ Guardian Staff Reporter ~ krystel@nasguard.com: Amid the death and despair that clouds Haiti, comes a miraculous story o...
Thursday, January 14, 2010

Haiti quake was nightmare waiting to happen say scientists

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By Richard Ingham: PARIS, France (AFP) -- The quake that hit Haiti on Tuesday was a killer that had massed its forces for a century and a ha...