June 2010 Archives

The founder of the U.S. cable TV company Black Entertainment Television has announced a project for factories that will build construction materials in Haiti.

An open door to Port-au-Prince's deaf community has given Florida Baptist relief workers a vision to seek out clusters of forgotten people left stranded by the Jan. 12 earthquake.

Members of Haiti's deaf community in Port-au-Prince wait to receive food and medical treatment at the Florida Baptist Mission House.

A Baptist church in northern Haiti has made an unprecedented gift of 20,000 gourdes ($506) to aid in the recovery from the Jan. 12 earthquake.

The gift, though small by some standards, is the equivalent of about two years' wages in the Haitian economy.

The 22-year-old woman, wearing a gauzy blue dress that she had changed into after her release, spoke in a whispery voice. Perhaps the worst part of the whole ordeal, she said, was the place where her kidnappers had chosen to imprison her. That they abducted her was terrifying. That they raped her, repeatedly, was too horrendous to absorb just yet.

Haitians will be going to the polls this November to select a new president and legislative leaders.

The weekend visit by the goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was not announced to keep it low-profile. However, UN officials have confirmed the visit.

Alongside the billions of pounds worth of aid being pumped into rebuilding Haiti, a new project aims to give Haitians control over their own cash. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has created a $10m (£7m) fund for mobile banking services in the country.

With their homeland ravaged by an earthquake, more than 50,000 Haitians have applied to legally stay and work in the U.S. and immigration advocates are urging others not to miss their chance.

Pictured: Manouse Jean, of Haiti, talks to a reporter in Miami, Thursday, June 10, 2010. Jean of Miami says temporary protected status will be a relief from years of frequent relocations to elude immigration authorities after her appeal for asylum was denied. She fled Haiti's political instability in 1999.

The Security Council on Friday approved the sending of an additional 680 police officers to join the peacekeeping mission in Haiti to help maintain order during the effort to recover from the earthquake in January. 

It's only been four months, but Haiti has already been forgotten by the news media. Unfortunately, the needs abound in that nation struck by a devastating earthquake in January, leaving thousands dead and millions homeless. Emergency relief has given way to redevelopment, which includes rebuilding schools.

Bill Clinton returned to Haiti on a new mission Tuesday to invigorate recovery from January's devastating earthquake and help millions end lives of poverty and danger.

Pictured: Former U.S. president Bill Clinton leaves the coastal town of Leogane after a meeting with community leaders in Haiti.

It has been five months since the earthquake struck the island nation and some Haitians have been growing impatient with the lack of progress.

The Haitian government has released an incredible video taken from the closed-circuit security cameras in the Presidential Palace in Port-au-Prince.

The gray Toyota Corolla edged closer to the center of the intersection, trying to sneak past the man with a limp, directing traffic in Jordanian Army fatigues, with a whistle and purple plastic wand.

Levy Azor, better known as Du Du, directing traffic in May at Borgela and Sans-Fil Streets. He works on his own, motivated by the need for order near his home.