Jan
23
2010
PETIT GOAVE, Haiti — Little basic aid — food, water, and shelter— is reaching the rural towns just an hour outside Port-au-Prince , including the town at the epicenter of Thursday’s 6.0 aftershock. “Food and water haven’t shown up yet,” he said …
Jan
23
2010
When I went down to Haiti for the first time in 1986, it was for no good reason. It’s true I had a sneaking suspicion that there was a political crisis there, that the dictator-President Baby Doc Duvalier – was being forced out of power.
Jan
22
2010
Reporting from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti – In the smoke and dust along Rue La Saline, at the edge of a rubble-strewn dump, a little man with missing front teeth hammered away at a shattered pillar of concrete.
Jan
21
2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — In the smoke and dust along Rue La Saline, at the edge of a rubble-strewn dump, a little man with missing front teeth hammered away at a shattered pillar of concrete. Jean Robert Lemer , 45, had been laboring for hours to …
Jan
21
2010
Reporting from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti – In the smoke and dust along Rue La Saline, at the edge of a rubble-strewn dump, a little man with missing front teeth hammered away at a shattered pillar of concrete.
Jan
20
2010
IT STARTED with a strange noise that I mistook for machinery, perhaps an electrical generator. At 6am yesterday, Haiti was rocked by the worst aftershock since the earthquake that killed up to 200,000 souls and displaced 1.5 million people on January …
Jan
18
2010
In the aftermath of the 7.0 Haiti earthquake, it’s difficult to imagine the future of travel and tourism in the battered country. Prior to the January 12th earthquake, Haiti had been eyed as a potential tourism hotspot, with several projects …
Jan
17
2010
On Friday, 6-year-old Madeline from Lone Tree chose to do something a little different with her tooth- fairy money, and 4-year-old Max from Wheat Ridge decided it was time to cash in his savings for a greater cause.
Jan
16
2010
Tuesday evening, minutes after the first reports that a massive earthquake had levelled Haiti’s capital, and still trying to convince myself it couldn’t be that bad, I sat down at my computer and called up a file entitled Haitiphones. The list of …
Jan
15
2010
LONDON, 15 Jan: Amid Haiti’s death and devastation, one small but significant piece of good news has emerged. The staff and guests at the country’s most historic hotel survived, the building apparently not having suffered extensive damage.