Victims of a Haiti cholera epidemic widely blamed on UN peacekeepers gave the United Nations 60 days Wednesday to clinch a compensation deal or face a lawsuit demand for billions of dollars. The US-based Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti said it is now representing 8,000 victims and families of the more than 8,100 dead from the epidemic that erupted in October 2010. IJDH director ...
Class-action US lawsuit threatens if UN wont own up to Haitis cholera outbreak
A Boston-based human rights group said Wednesday it will sue the United Nations in 60 days if the world body does not agree to compensate Haitian cholera victims, apologize to the Caribbean nation for introducing the disease through its peacekeeping force, and launch a major effort to improve sanitation. Lawyers for the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti said they hoped to be able to ...
Lawyers Haiti cholera lawsuit threatened at UN
UNITED NATIONS -; A Boston-based human rights group said Wednesday it will sue the United Nations in 60 days if the world body does not agree to compensate Haitian cholera victims, apologize to the Caribbean nation for introducing the disease through its peacekeeping force, and launch a major effort to improve ...
Thousands follow ex-Haiti president after court
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide made a rare public appearance Wednesday and thousands of supporters shadowed the ex-leader's motorcade following a court hearing.The two-time president showed up at a courthouse in downtown Port-au-Prince with a delegation of longtime allies to testify before a judge investigating the slaying of one of the Caribbean ...
Model dating Haiti PM
Model dating Haiti PM Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe is going Hollywood. The entrepreneur turned politician confirmed that he is in a relationship with Czech model Petra Nemcova to Ticket magazine, a supplement of Le Nouvelliste ...
Thousands follow ex-Haitian President Aristide after he makes rare public appearance
Flanked by body guards, former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, center, greets supporters as leaves the courthouse in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Wednesday May 8, 2013. Aristide greeted a small group of onlookers after testifying before a judge investigating the slaying of one of the country's most prominent journalists. The judge is questioning Aristide about the killing in April 2000 ...
Creating Caribbean Music in London Anthony Joseph and the Spasm Band
Mirissa Neff is a journalist, art director and producer. Through her work for PBS's "Sound Tracks: Music Without Borders" and "Quick Hits," she tells stories about our world through the music we ...
Prison for 3 in killing of US couple in Caribbean
FILE - This Sept. 25, 2012 file photo shows an undated picture of Michael and Thelma King of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, that hangs inside Topper's Restaurant in Simpson Bay, St. Maarten. On Wednesday, May 8, 2013, a judge in St. Maarten convicted three men and issued prison sentences in the killing of the South Carolina couple who owned a home in the Caribbean country. Lead defendant ...
Cuba and Venezuela Develop Sports in Dominican-Haitian Border
Santo Domingo, May 8 (Prensa Latina) Nine Cuban and one Venezuelan coaches are planning actions to develop sports in border areas of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, as requested by the governments of these countries. The technicians, who work in the Dominican provinces of Dajabn, Elas Pia, Independencia and Pedernales, have a visa to cross the line dividing the two nations that occupy the ...
Aristide gives evidence in murder case to Haitian judge
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide appeared in public for the first time since returning from exile more than two years ago, testifying in court on Wednesday about the assassination more than a decade ago of a popular radio journalist and human rights ...
Haiti cholera victims may sue the UN
Victims of Haiti's cholera epidemic have given the United Nations a 60-day deadline to start talks about billions of dollars worth of compensation or face legal action. The UN is accused of negligently allowing peacekeeping soldiers to pollute Haiti's water with cholera. A UN cholera expert agrees that this is "most likely" to be true. The UN rejected an earlier call for ...
How Haitis Future Depends on American Markets
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pose with workers at the grand opening ceremony of the new Caracol Industrial Park in Caracol, Haiti, on October 22, 2012. (Larry Downing/Reuters) CARACOL, HAITI--Along the highway that parallels Haiti's north coast, not far from the bay where Christopher Columbus's Santa Maria is believed to have ...
The Haiti Connection - Nursing foundation seeks support.
posted 5/8/2013 Dick Gordon, host of NPR's "The Story," is based in Chapel Hill, but his path to Ann Arbor this month passed through Haiti. Last year, for a follow-up story on the deadly 2010 earthquake, Gordon went to the town of Leogane. One of the few institutions still functioning after the quake was the Faculte des Sciences Infirmieres de l'Universite Episcopale ...
Haiti the Last Latin American Country for Maternity
Port au Prince, May 8 (Prensa Latina) Haiti is today the worst nation in Latin America for a woman to be a mother, according to a study by the international organization Save the Children, dedicated to defend the rights of children. According to the list, published in London and known here, this Caribbean nation is ranked 164, while his closest followers are Guatemala (128) Paraguay (114). On ...
Haiti The Silence after the Quake
We all lost someone children, family members, friends, lovers. Haiti is the first black country that fought for liberty and justice. This is a big achievement. We didn't die because we survived 300 years of slavery. We are ...
Ex-Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in court
Haiti?s reclusive former president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, made a rare public appearance Wednesday, showing up at about 8:15 a.m. at the main Port-au-Prince courthouse to answer an investigative judge?s summons.With hundreds of sympathizers, including elected parliamentarians in tow, he stepped out of his police-escorted vehicle just minutes before 9 a.m. and walked into the ...
Former Haiti president emerges to testify in court - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois Missouri News Sports
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is making a rare public appearance as he testifies before a judge investigating the slaying of 1 of the country's most prominent journalists. Aristide waved to a small group of onlookers outside court before heading in to the closed session before an investigative magistrate. The judge is questioning Aristide ...
A $300 million development project?and Haiti?s future?depend on America?s open markets
CARACOL, HAITI--Along the highway that parallels Haiti's north coast, not far from the bay where Christopher Columbus's Santa Maria is believed to have shipwrecked on Christmas Day in 1492, giant billboards with smiling faces dot the landscape of alternating crop fields and scrub acacia. The billboards carry the country's new mantra: "Haiti is open for ...
Former Jamaican prime minister witnessed Canadian Forces? embarrassing Caribbean gaffe
Canadian military aircraft and naval vessels like the Goose Bay, right, have been increasingly active in the Caribbean and East Pacific as part of U.S.-led anti-drug trafficking ...
Kaneland senior offers a helping hand in Haiti
Elburn resident Madeline Cole, 18, went to Haiti with LaFox-based Lord of Life Church to work with children from Mama Yole's orphanage and school, which is home to girls ages 3 to 18. (Photo ...
Haiti trip makes lasting impression
When Pam Bertleson stepped off the plane, she was moved to tears. The people of Ouanaminthe, Haiti, had almost absolutely nothing."The first thing you noticed was the smell of garbage piled everywhere, animals roaming everywhere, animal waste, human waste, and the dirty water of the river," Ms. Bertleson explained.Haiti is located 60 miles southeast of Cuba in the Caribbean Sea. Haiti ...
Haiti still plagued by cholera
Five months after U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon promised to "use every opportunity" to push for funding to eliminate cholera from Haiti and the neighboring Dominican Republic, government officials in both nations are still waiting on donors to open their ...
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