West (Haiti)

For Haiti's children, school dinners are the only meal on offer (AFP)

BALAN, Haiti (AFP) - More than 250 students have gathered in the two rooms of a small public school here, some 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the country's capital Port-au-Prince, waiting for a meal prepared by the World Food...

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New Haiti PM inaugurated, promises to keep trying to attract foreign investment, create jobs

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Haiti's new prime minister was inaugurated Wednesday and promised to attract more investment and create jobs, while forging good relations with lawmakers who have ousted two heads of government in as...

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HAITI: Clinton Revives Modest Optimism for Island’s Economy

Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Analysis by Garry Pierre-Pierre* NEW YORK, Nov 10 (IPS) – Since his appointment last spring as United Nations special envoy to Haiti, former U.S. President Bill Clinton has been called,...

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HAITI: A Year After School Collapse, Parents Seek Justice

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Nov 9 (IPS) - On the morning of Nov. 7, 2008 shortly after 10 a.m. as the second period was beginning, College La Promesse Evangelique, a three-storey cinderblock school in the Nerette neighbourhood of...

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Haiti president designates new prime minister

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haitian President Rene Preval on Friday designated Jean Max Bellerive to be prime minister of the Caribbean country, a ruling party senator said. Bellerive, who was Planning and External Cooperation...

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Miami Marine Stadium makes endangered-places list

Supporters of saving the Miami Marine Stadium have scored another coup, landing the iconic but neglected site on the World Monuments Fund's list of endangered places for 2010 -- along with Macchu Picchu and the gingerbread...

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Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Places to Stay in Port-au-Prince Sak pase? You will hear this often on your trip to Port-au-Prince, capital city of the Republic of Haiti. Despite political instability, Port-au-Prince has managed to maintain a tourism industry...

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Haiti: opening of Our World â At War photo exhibition

Vrijdag 9 oktober 2009 | International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) ] Port-au-Prince (ICRC) â The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has teamed up with five of the worldâs top war photographers to put on the...

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Nine dead in U.N. plane crash in Haiti, official says

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Nine people were found dead at the site of a U.N. plane crash in Haiti on Friday, a local government official said. The plane went down on farmland near the village of Pays-Pourri in the district of...

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Clinton tours historic palace in Haiti tourism bid

Girls stand next to an U.N. peacekeepers armored car in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009. Bill Clinton, slathered in suntan lotion, urged Americans to explore the riches of Haitian tourism on Friday as he took a VIP trip...

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