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As I mentioned mentioned in my previous post, this month is two years since I traveled with my mother-in-law to spend a week in Haiti with Rhett and Claudia. Words cannot describe the pain the night we took the kids back to the orphanage. The other children at the orphanage were already sleeping...
The current spike in world rice prices could be devastating, even if it only lasts for a few months, and will leave African nations vulnerable to unrest, a top expert said today. Rice prices have tripled over the past year as stocks dwindle and major exporters curb shipments to keep domestic...
An op-ed I wrote for this newspaper in September 2006 titled "The ethanol boondoggle" elicited two spirited responses. From 1995 to 2004, taxpayer-financed subsidies to corn growers totaled $41.9 billion, with Missouri farmers receiving $1.3 billion. In Missouri, more than 50 percent of the total...
Nikki Beach Hotels&Resorts has announced that the Caribbean island of Roatan is the latest location chosen to become home to an ultra-exclusive Nikki Beach Resort &Spa. Scheduled to open in fall 2010, Nikki Beach Resort&Spa Roatan, located in Honduras' stunning Bay Islands, will deliver...
MONTREAL, May 13 /CNW Telbec/ - An official Haitian investigation has officially blamed the foreign interposition force present in Haiti after the ouster of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on 29 February 2004 for the murder of Ricardo Ortega of the privately-owned Spanish TV channel Antena 3....
LES CAYES, Haiti (Reuters) - The demonstrators who ignited last month's violent protests against rising food prices in Haiti have accepted U.S.-sponsored jobs rather than follow through on a threat to launch new riots in the impoverished Caribbean country.
Haitian legislators on Monday rejected President Rene Preval's pick for prime minister, extending a monthlong period without a functioning government for the troubled nation. ... Spokesmen in the lower house of Parliament said international banker Ericq Pierre lost a...
By David I. McKeeby Staff Writer Washington -- Through the Merida Initiative, the United States, Mexico and several Central American countries are confronting the shared threat of transnational organized crime, says a top U.S. diplomat. “The United States has a compelling strategic interest in moving...
U.S. Coast Guard|by CPO Dana Warr MIAMI - The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Dauntless repatriated 193 Haitian migrants to Cap-Haiten, Haiti, Monday. The Haitian migrants were located aboard two over-crowded sailboats Friday while the 210-foot cutter patrolled the waters off...
Did you know that Mexican farmers who lost everything in floods last year are being forced to grow African oil palms for biodiesel? I was in southern Mexico covering another story, and found flood victims being offered loans and grants by the Mexican government to resume their farming activities,...
