Five years on – reminder of Haiti’s deadly earthquake
Haiti’s magnitude 7.0 earthquake happened five years ago, on Jan. 12, 2010. This graphic by Ramon..
15 JanuaryTag: haiti
Diversification, Haitian Style
The confirmation that senior Haitian officials hold foreign nationality lends growing credence to a leading senators charge that Haitian President Michel Martelly is a U.S. citizen and hence illegally in power. Two weeks ago, Sen. Moïse Jean Char…
13 MarchHaiti backers heralded some good news Monday for the earthquake ravaged Haiti: 44 miles of newly asphalted road, a new 605-acre industrial park in the north that will attract 65,000 jobs and a marquee hotel brand [Marriott]. “This is a very special day. It is truly a day of change,” Luis Alberto Moreno, the head of the Inter-American Development Bank said Monday. The bank, which invests hundreds of millions of dollars in Haiti, is sponsoring a two-day investment forum in Port-au-Prince beginning Tuesday. So far, 1,000 people have registered, 500 of them business people from 29 countries. Here is more .
Haiti Update
Has a new dystopian form of urban organization been invented, or rather reinvented in the Western hemisphere, namely the aid-supported tent city?: A large but unknown number of people in the camps are choosing to stay in them. Life is better there…
21 MarchA Looming Food Crisis
Haitians are a resilient group of people. The evidence is very much clear as it was back when I was there five years ago and, even today, as I browse the news that’s coming from the despoiled anomaly island. As it was distinctly predicted, one of …
13 Septemberelasticity of deaths due to natural disasters vs. income
Going back to hammer in the topic of economic freedom, Matt Kahn has a paper on the topic of the elasticity of deaths due to natural disasters vs. income which states this in the Abstract: Though richer nations do not experience fewer natural disa…
1 MarchHouse in Haiti
My family house looks ok but with a hole on the roof. Still no contact. Update: Fine for now, but with an aunt missing. They’ve moved out of the city. 18.01
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