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Owner of collapsed Haiti school arrested

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Pétionville :: Haiti | updated Sun Nov 09 10:36:57 -0800 2008 | disasters

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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Wyclef Jean to attend Berklee College of Music

Source: Miami Herald

Pétionville :: Haiti | updated Fri Oct 02 14:31:57 -0700 2009 | entertainment-news

Haitian mayors threaten to close schools As search and rescue teams looked for survivors beneath the collapsed rubble of the College La Promesse Evangelique school in Petionville earlier this month, their efforts were hampered by two factors: They had no...

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HAITI: A Year After School Collapse, Parents Seek Justice

Source: Inter Press Service

Pétionville :: Haiti | updated Mon Nov 09 12:00:41 -0800 2009 | political-news

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 Petionville, fell in on itself. Now, a year after the...

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