| Obama to distribute 1.4-million-dollar Nobel Peace Prize money among charities US President Barack Obama has decided to distribute his Nobel Peace Prize money, 1.4 million dollars, among a variety of charities, including Bill Clinton's Haiti earthquake relief... | |
| Un: Funding For Haiti Aid 'stagnated' Geneva - Incoming donations for the United Nations' aid and recovery operations in Haiti have slowed to a trickle, a spokeswoman said Friday. "The contributions have stagnated," said Elizabeth Byrs,... |
| Fernandez, Unesco Chief Discuss Haiti Reconstruction Santo Domingo.- President Leonel Fernandez met yesterday with the head of the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO), Irina Bokova, to coordinate aid and cooperation... |
| Dominican Republic Congress Approves Us$1.0b In Bonds Santo Domingo.- The deputies yesterday approved the placement of US$1.0 billion in bonds in the international money markets, an initiative passed with the majority vote of the ruling PLD party and... |
| Lynn U. Holding Memorial For Students, Faculty Who Died In Haiti Quake Haiti . Classes will be canceled so students can attend a public memorial for Britney Gengel, 19, of Rutland, Mass.; Stephanie Crispinelli, 19, of Katonah, N.Y.; Courtney Hayes, 23, of Douglas,... |
| Un: Funding For Haiti Aid "stagnated" Geneva - Incoming donations for the United Nations' aid and recovery operations in Haiti have slowed to a trickle, a spokeswoman said... |
| Released Aid Workers In Haiti Are Czech, Belgian Lucia Duricova of the Czech office of Doctors Without Borders confirmed the nationalities Friday. She said the two women are fine but declined to give any further details.Initial reports suggested... |
| [03/12] Released Aid Workers In Haiti Are Czech, Belgian PRAGUE (AP) - An official says two European aid workers kidnapped in Haiti and later released were from the Czech Republic and Belgium. Lucia Duricova of the Czech office of Doctors Without Borders... |
| Rain Halts First Round At Puerto Rico Six inches of rain had saturated an already-waterlogged layout at Trump International Golf Club by 2pm local time and organisers decided to resume play at 7.15am local on Friday. Only a handful of... |
| Major League Baseball’s Money Vs. Dominican Republic’s Corruption Santo Domingo.- The economic boon of Major League Baseball (MLB) teams’ currently spending of around US$70 million per year to run their academies and to sign young players, in addition to creating... |
| Lula Criticised For Cuba Comment Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been criticised for comments in which he appeared to compare Cuban dissidents to common criminals.He told the AP news agency that hunger strikes,... |
| Official: 2 European Aid Workers Freed By Kidnappers In Haiti Are From Czech Republic, Belgium Czech Republic and Belgium. Lucia Duricova of the Czech office of Doctors Without Borders confirmed the nationalities Friday. She said the two women are fine but declined to give any further details.... |
| Obama To Give Nobel Money To Veterans, Haiti, Students President Obama, shown receiving the Nobel in December, said yesterday of his donations, “These organizations do extraordinary work in the United States and abroad.’’ (John... |
| Concern Over Haiti Rebuilding Plan Rene Preval, Haiti's president, is drafting a plan for rebuilding the country devastated by its largest earthquake ever. The plan will be presented at a donors' conference in the US state of New... |
| Haiti: Don't Forget The Elderly PORT-AU-PRINCE, 12 March 2010 (IRIN) - Elderly people need more attention in the response to January's earthquake in Haiti and more appreciation of the role they can play in the relief effort, say... |
| Caribbean Unpackaged Newsletter March 2010 - European Accommodation And Interline Travel LONDON, ENGLAND, March 12, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Taking advantage of good contacts we have with the Portuguese villa rentals market we decided to offer our clients the chance to holiday in... |
| Haiti Quake Response Largely A Success Reporting from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti - The numbers were apocalyptic: More than 220,000 people killed and 300,000 injured. Over 1 million people displaced from homes. About 280,000 houses either... |
| Joy, Sorrow Mingle On Trek To Native Haiti Clovis Baptiste, speaking in February at the store he manages in Lodi, just returned from a trip to his native Haiti, where he went fully expecting to find his family had died in January’s... |
| Costa Cruises Cuts 105 South Florida Jobs As It Shifts Toward Europe, Away From Caribbean Costa Cruises recently laid off most of the line's South Florida employees and reduced the number of Caribbean cruises it will offer to focus operations in Europe. Company officials said they can... |
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| Us Slams Government's Approach To Corruption THE United States Department of State was blunt in its criticism of the Jamaican Government yesterday when it accused the administration of being lacklustre in relation to the fight against... |
| 'i Uphold The Law' "Delroy is my personal friend, but he made a sham of the situation," Warmington told The Gleaner yesterday. "Him take the House to make a joke. I should ask for him to be censured."On Wednesday,... |
| Jlp Could Reprimand Sw St Catherine Mp STUNNED BY Everald Warmington's decision to break ranks during Wednesday's sitting of the House of Representatives, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has hinted the member could be strongly reprimanded... |
| Hutton's Students To Sit Cxc Exams Nine hundred and eighty students of Hutton's Education Unit who were at risk of not participating in the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) tests in May and June have been given the go-ahead to sit... |
| There Is Much Good Out There A young rape victim had to flee her home in the country in fear of her attacker. Not long after taking up residence with a close female relative in another parish, she became a victim of another type... |
| Top Tennis Players To Raise Funds For Haiti INDIAN WELLS, California (Reuters) - Roger Federer and former tennis greats Pete Sampras, Martina Navratilova and Steffi Graf will play in exhibition matches on Friday to raise money for victims of... |
| Counterpunch: Chomsky On Haiti By KEANE BHATT (for Counterpunch) For decades, Noam Chomsky has been an analyst and activist working in support of the Haitian people. In addition to his revolutionary linguistics career at MIT,... |
| Unesco Highlights Culture Protection In Haiti Reconstruction PARIS, March 11 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Thursday highlighted the importance of salvage of culture heritages in Haiti's... |
| Unesco Chief, Dominican President Discuss Haiti Reconstruction SANTO DOMINGO, March 11 (Xinhua) -- UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova met with President of the Dominican Republic Leonel Fernandez here on Thursday to discuss cooperation on reconstruction of... |
| European Parliament Highly Critical Of Cuba The European Parliament voted Thursday to condemn Cuba by a crushing margin over a hunger striker's death, and Spain's ruling Socialists later hinted they might trim back their bid to improve... |
| Editorial: Haiti, Two Months Later With every day that passes in the mud and rubble of Haiti, the failures of the relief effort are heartbreaking. There are four main strands to the campaign to make sure 1.2 million homeless people... |
| Red Cross Anticipates Being In Haiti For Years Friday marks two months since Haiti was rocked by one of the deadliest earthquakes of all time. And as the quake fades from the headlines the fear is that Americans will grow tired of giving. The... |
| Japanese Engineers Start Quake-resistance Checks In Haiti+ TOKYO, March 12 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Three Defense Ministry engineers dispatched to quake-hit Haiti alongside Self-Defense Force personnel for U.N. peacekeeping operations began Thursday examining... |
| Earthquake’s Burdens Weigh Heavily On Haiti’s Elderly the earthquake , she is a rare repository of this country’s history and culture, but she said she considered her memories as much a painful burden as a proud legacy. No strangers to hardship,... |
| Bahamas Removed From International Tax Haven List NASSAU, Bahamas -- The Bahamas has been removed from an international list of uncooperative tax havens by signing information exchange pacts with several Nordic nations. Pascal Saint-Amans is a... |
| Obama Gives $1.4m Nobel Prize Away To Vet Families, Haiti Survivors, Students Washington (AP) - President Barack Obama plans to donate the $1.4 milllion from his Nobel Peace Prize to helping students, veterans' families and survivors of Haiti's earthquake, among others,... |
| The Undermining Of Haitian Health Care: Setting The Stage For Disaster by Kevin Edmonds (originally posted at NACLA.org) In December 2003, the dedication ceremony of Haiti’s first and only public medical school, a project jointly supported by the governments of... |
| The Canadian Princes Of Bel Air by Joe Emersberger Andrew Chung's lengthy article about the impoverished Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Bel Air ("Princes of Bel Air", Toronto Star March 7, 2010) makes three key claims about... |
| Kidnapping Raises Risks For Aid Workers In Haiti The first kidnappings of aid workers in Haiti jolted the thousands-strong foreign relief operation in the quake-torn nation, adding to the staggering challenges it faces two months after the... |
| Haiti: Kidnappers Release 2 European Aid Workers Haiti 's capital and held for five days, officials said Thursday.It is the first reported kidnapping since Haiti suffered a magnitude-7 earthquake with catastrophic damage on Jan. 12. More than 5,000... |
| Rain Suspends Play At Puerto Rico Open Filed at 9:31 p.m. ET RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Heavy rain forced the suspension of first-round play Thursday in the PGA Tour's Puerto Rico Open. Before play was suspended at 7:19 a.m., Skip... |
| World Briefing | The Americas: Cuba: Europe Condemns Striker’s Death Cuba for the “avoidable and cruel” death of a dissident hunger striker. The dissident, Orlando Zapata Tamayo, died last month after an... |
