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Published: Feb 9, 2010 by admin
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The United Nations has temporarily closed
Monday its distribution sites for food in Port-au-Prince, after finding
counterfeit food coupons, has announced a program manager. Stopping the distribution of rice on a
site of Petion-Ville, a suburb of the Haitian capital, was decided for
the day after the discovery of these counterfeit coupons in circulation.
The suspension affects some 10,000
people, said David Orr, the World Food Program (WFP). WFP has set up 16 distribution points for food
in the greater Port-au-Prince, which has about one million homeless in
the aftermath of the earthquake of January 12. It distributes bags of rice of 25 kg,
corresponding to the needs of a family for about two weeks. Distributions are expected to resume
tomorrow.
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Published: Feb 8, 2010 by admin
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The International Fund
for Agricultural Development (IFAD, the UN agency) announced Monday a
donation of $ 5.66 million to Haiti to improve agricultural production
in some poor areas of northern countries devastated by the January 12
earthquake.
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Published: Jan 30, 2010 by admin
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This morning was the funeral of the
writer Georges Anglade and his wife Mireille died in the Haiti earthquake,
celebrated at the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Montreal.
- On July 18,
1944 was born in Port-au-Prince Georges Anglade, a man who was a
scientist, a politician and a gifted writer.
1962: Studies in Port-au-Prince at
the Ecole Normale
1965: Law degree and a
Diploma of Social Science, Faculty of Law in Port-au-Prince
1965-1969: Ph.D. Graduate Center of Applied Geography of
Strasbourg
1968-1969: Professor at the Institute of Demography,
Strasbourg
September 1969: Installation in Montreal, Canada / Professor in Social
Geography, University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM)
1999: He
received an honorable mention at the José Martí Prize, UNESCO
Georges Anglade left Haiti forever with
his wife Mireille January 12, 2010, leaving behind a literary work of
his life, a little more than a dozen books including "Space and Freedom
in Haiti" or "Chronicle a
hope. " It was
in Port-au-Prince to attend the festival Amazing Travelers who was to
run from January 14 to 17.
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Published: Jan 30, 2010 by admin
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They are
quiet, solemn, write their texts on a piece of paper, or repeated words
they scrawled on their way to the clip and the song A move to Haiti. The recipes in this title, recorded
this weekend and will be available on the download sites pay tomorrow,
will be donated to the Red Cross and orphanages in Port-au-Prince.
During two days, sixty artists and
personalities paraded in a studio recording of the twentieth
arrondissement of Paris, answering the call of the cable channel Trace
TV, the stresses of rappers Passi and Neg'Marrons and host RFI Claudy Siar. The latter opened his address
book: Michel Drucker, Lilian Thuram, Harry Roselmack, Anthony Kavanagh
... "It would be ten, twenty at the beginning, said Passi, who set up
the project with his accomplices. And then we got so many calls that day
has doubled the studio. "
Reconstruction.
So after Charles Aznavour and Grand
Corps Malade Friday, a last batch of artists on Saturday for a
ten-minute piece to be cut into several versions. Behind the
soundboard, lance Zazie Passi: "We'll make another decision." It takes
two steps: "Should we wait until the earth trembles, the earth begins to
open our hearts too to Haiti? "" That's the
question I posed to me first, "says the singer, and all of us. It's good that cares so much the
better, but the gesture is done today is also the Haiti of tomorrow. "
Lilian
Thuram added his slogan in Creole: "Tchimbé raid pa moli moli c ki
raid" (hold on, is when you let go it gets hard). Haitian
born in Canada, Anthony Kavanagh said: "When people ask me if I go to
Haiti, I reply that it is useless. They do
not need a comedian on the spot, they need rescue. What I am doing
is more important. "The rapper Kery James French, born in Haiti, has
also cut short a trip to the studio to write a song, Sorry, where he
will invite Christophe Maé, Youssou N'Dour, Diam's and Oxmo Puccino. There will
be live acoustic February 14th at the Bataclan, all proceeds will go to
the Foundation of France to help rebuild Haiti.
Donations by SMS. Organize concerts, is also the option of Canadian artists of
Haitian origin who succeed all week in Quebec to raise funds. Wyclef Jean, Haitian musician most
popular American culture was the most reactive. After
Tuesday night soon developed a device for sending donations via SMS for
Yele.org his organization, the Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations
made a return trip to Port-au-Prince on Thursday to return Friday visibly affected. It will hold a telethon with George Clooney on
Thursday and participated yesterday in a collection of essential
commodities in Miami on behalf of his organization.
Meanwhile,
the American stars make public the amount of checks they sign: For
Madonna, $ 250 000 (175 000), 1 million (700 000) for Sandra Bullock or
couple Angelina Jolie-Brad Pitt, 1, 5 million for the top model Gisele Bundchen
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Published: Jan 30, 2010 by admin
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Hardly had the excitement
subsided, the question of cost has risen quickly. The governor of Florida,
Republican Charlie Crist had the misfortune of writing last Wednesday in
the federal government to ask who would pay for hundreds of Haitian
evacuated wounded and hospitalized in the state in recent weeks. The effect was immediate:
the theft of military evacuation of wounded Haitians to Florida or
other U.S. states have been halted, reported Saturday the New York
Times. Before stopping these
flights, more than 500 victims of the earthquake of Haiti had been
evacuated and are being treated in hospitals in Florida. An undetermined number of
flights were still scheduled. In his letter to
Secretary of State for Health, Kathleen Sebelius, Governor of Florida
expressed concern: "Recently we heard of plans to evacuate 30 to 50
patients in critical condition a day for an indefinite period. Florida does not have the
capabilities to support such an operation.
As is customary among
governments, the Secretariat of Health referred to the blame on the
army, which alone made the decision to suspend the evacuation flights,
according to a spokesman in Washington. The military confirmed
the arrest of theft and blamed on civilians ... "From what I understand,
some states do not want to accept evacuations for monitoring patients,
said by Captain Kevin Aandahl, A spokesman for the army.
We can not fly any person
if there is no hospital willing to accept them at the other end.
This dispute is not
really a surprise, the United States which could not even treat their
own patients certainly could not accommodate all the wounded of the
continent. But the admission of its
limitations is sometimes unpleasant ... especially after Barack Obama
has sent considerable resources in Haiti and promised to do an operation
model of "leadership" U.S..
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