Chicago architect designs a beacon for health care in Haiti - Chicago Tribune
25 May 2012, 11:21 pm
Clark hadn't heard about it. She called the charity's headquarters and offered to host the event in her family's 3,100-square-foot Skokie home, which she had designed. In September 2008, about 130 people, including Farmer, mingled in Clark's ...

Haiti earthquake: children sold by traffickers for as little as 76 pence each - Daily Telegraph
25 May 2012, 10:59 pm
Some youngsters are ending up in the care of well meaning but ignorant European families, while others are being forced into prostitution. People posing as NGO officials, pretending to be relatives or unscrupulous Haitians from abroad are targeting tens of ...

Haiti’s unconventional new president shows off his moves - Daily Telegraph
25 May 2012, 10:59 pm
The shaven-headed performer, who has no previous political experience, was chosen as the anti-establishment outsider to put an end to the decades of corruption in the country. Mr Martelly, 50, an iconoclastic entertainer who has admitted occasionally ...

Helping Haiti - Akron Beacon Journal
25 May 2012, 9:55 pm
Dr. Jeff Kempf, director of the Office of Pediatric Global Health at Akron Children’s Hospital, is organizing a fundraiser to benefit St. Damien Hospital, the only pediatric hospital in Haiti. The event will take place 6:30 p.m. Oct. 12 at St. Nicholas ...

Haitian student wins hearts at Athletic Awards breakfast with tale of courage - Miami Herald
25 May 2012, 7:17 pm
But tragedy was not far away. Last summer, his brother, Harold Jean-Pierre, 30, returned to Haiti to visit family. He was shot and killed during an outbreak of violence in the streets of their hometown. Now, Pierre-Louis had lost the only close ...

Gold! Haiti hopes ore find will spur mining boom - Yahoo Finance
25 May 2012, 6:20 pm
TROU DU NORD, Haiti (AP) -- Its capital is blighted with earthquake rubble. Its countryside is shorn of trees, chopped down for fuel. And yet, Haiti's land may hold the key to relieving centuries of poverty, disaster and disease: There is gold ...

Investors plan soccer stadium for Haiti shantytown - Businessweek
25 May 2012, 2:02 pm
A local sports hero, a New York real estate developer and a well-known architect are teaming up to build a soccer stadium in Haiti's notorious Cite Soleil, hoping to revive the seaside shantytown known throughout the hemisphere for its extreme ...

Spending three months in Haiti gives priest a new perspective - NewHampshire.com (blog)
24 May 2012, 6:43 pm
The Rev. Joseph Gosselin, a Manchester native, poses with a group of school children during his three-month stay in Haiti earlier this year. MANCHESTER — The Rev. Joseph Gosselin spent three months living in a Haitian rectory with no air ...

Ex-Haiti telecom official sent to prison for nine years in Miami bribery case - TMCnet
22 May 2012, 3:15 am
May 22, 2012 (The Miami Herald - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- A federal judge Monday sentenced a former top official for Haiti's state-owned telephone company to nine years in prison -- after describing as "ludicrous ...

Ex-Haiti telecom official sent to prison for nine years in Miami bribery case [The Miami Herald] - TMCnet
22 May 2012, 1:42 am
(Miami Herald (FL) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) May 22--A federal judge Monday sentenced a former top official for Haiti's state-owned telephone company to nine years in prison -- after describing as "ludicrous" his testimony that the bribes he ...