Information About Haiti

The inmates at Haiti’s only women’s prison cry out in desperation as warden Marie-Yolaine Mathieu makes her rounds, hoping that she will hear their case and perhaps, help secure their release.

WE REFER to your editorial of June 29 titled CARICOM, Haiti and Rebuilding in which you made reference, inter alia, to the decision of the 13th Meeting of CARICOM’s Council on Trade and Economic Development (COTED) to grant Haiti limited non-reciprocal free trade access to markets of the 14 independent member states of CARICOM.

ONE OF the first things Irish Minister for Overseas Development Peter Power learned on arriving here yesterday was the international relief effort for Haiti can look very different if you’re inside an air-conditioned UN compound or are a homeless Haitian sweltering under a plastic tarpaulin.

On Thursday, Jan. 12, a massive earthquake hit Haiti. It lasted for less than one minute and changed the lives of Haitians forever. It killed more than 150,000 people and left 1.7 million homeless. It reduced buildings to crushed cans of concrete.[...]

The actress hosted the Edeyo Foundation’s Change For Haiti benefit last week in Manhattan, saying that educating Haiti’s children will help the island nation rise up from poverty and overcome the devastation from this year’s earthquake.

Help Haiti and redecorate all at once. Haiti – Caribbean – Organizations – Business and Economy – Earthquake

Wyclef Jean was in town recently collaborating with Berklee student musicians, arrangers and producers on tracks for his upcoming album, “The Haitian Experience.”

WILMINGTON – Julie Gustafson, Wilmington High School Class of 2010 graduate, has found a unique way to mark the end of one phase of her life and the start of a new one. Although she heads to college at the end of the summer like many of her fellow grads, before she does that, she will be boarding a plane to Haiti next week for what purports to be a life-changing experience.

Leafing through Leah Gordon’s book of bewildering, disturbing and thrilling black-and-white photos, one stands out. Two boys stand before the camera, each wearing rough eyemasks, their naked upper bodies smeared with something grim-looking, large horns bound to their heads and rope in their hands. They look, to be frank, terrifying.

An Urban Regional Extension specialist at Alabama A&M University, Spencer specializes in small animals and food safety. He’s made three trips to Haiti over the past four years for what he describes as “working vacations.”