Haiti News
50 children die in Haiti as a school building collapse
Port-au-Prince :: Haiti | 26 days ago | Conflict & Tragedy
Posted by
hardtalk 
A hillside school in Haiti, where 500 students crowded into several floors, collapsed during classes on Friday, killing at least 50 people and injuring many more. More children were believed buried in the rubble of the concrete building, and the...
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Children found alive in Haiti school rubble
Port-au-Prince :: Haiti | 26 days ago | Political News
Posted by
kalex
Rescue workers pulled two uninjured children from the rubble of a school that collapsed the day before, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross said Saturday. The children have been reunited with their families, Rob Drouen said....
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Haiti school collapse toll rises
Pétionville :: Haiti | 27 days ago | Conflict & Tragedy
Source: BBC
President Preval later told the Associated Press news agency that he believed poor construction methods, including a failure to use reinforced steel, had been to blame for the building's collapse. Other buildings throughout Haiti were at a similar risk because...
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Owner of collapsed Haiti school arrested
Pétionville :: Haiti | 25 days ago | Conflict & Tragedy
Posted by
kalex
Haitian police say they have arrested the owner of a school that collapsed and killed at least 88. Police spokesman Garry Desrosier says Fortin Augustin, the preacher who owns and built College La Promesse, was arrested Saturday and charged with...
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Haiti school collapse toll rises
Pétionville :: Haiti | 26 days ago | No category
Source: Al Jazeera
The number of people killed in the collapse of a school near Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, has risen to 84, officals say. Rescuers uncovered a classroom full of dead students on Saturday, after searching through the night to find survivors in the...
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Crews search at collapsed Haiti school
Pétionville :: Haiti | 25 days ago | No category
Source: CNN
Three days after a school collapse killed at least 89 people, rescuers continued their search Monday for survivors in the rubble. No one has been found alive since early Saturday at the College La Promesse Evangelique, a three-story concrete building...
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Haiti storm damage 'eye-popping'
Port-au-Prince :: Haiti | about 1 month ago | Business News
Source: BBC
Mr Zoellik, who was in Haiti to see for himself the scale of the destruction, said it "makes your eyes pop". He also said Haiti was on course to have all its World Bank debts cancelled by mid-2009 once it...
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Dominican boatpeople resorted to cannibalism to stay alive
Port-au-Prince :: Haiti | about 1 month ago | Technology News
Source: Dominican Today
01 AM From: United States This is a DAM Shame! At least the RD Gov has their priorities straight as Prez LF is out of the country being a statesman during a major power failure. I guess, Fannin is hosting...
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Owner of Haiti School arrested--88 dead, by Donna Auguste for Biodun ...
Pétionville :: Haiti | 26 days ago | Conflict & Tragedy
Posted by
BiodunIginla
y Donna Auguste AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa by Donna Auguste for Biodun Iginla and Emily Straton of BBC News in Minneapolis and Hong Kong ____________________
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World Bank president in Haiti after killer storms
Gonaïves :: Haiti | about 1 month ago | Political News
Source: The Boston Globe
Haiti— World Bank President Robert Zoellick toured storm-damaged Haiti on Tuesday and urged donors to support the Caribbean nation as it battles a devastating hunger crisis. Zoellick flew over the mud-covered city of Gonaives and met with members of the...
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