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 JanuaryHaiti’s magnitude 7.0 earthquake happened five years ago, on Jan. 12, 2010. This graphic by Ramon..
15 JanuaryThe 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 .
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 MarchHaitians 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 SeptemberGoing 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 MarchMy 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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