December 1, 2013
Categories: Foreign Policy, Sovereignty
Tags: corruption, foreign policy, haiti, police, sovereignty
See on Ayiti Now Corp PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The U.S. State Department has begun a community policing program in Haiti that aims to strengthen ties between officers and the neighbourhoods they patrol in a country where police are largely mistrusted. Alex Lizzappi‘s insight: Such heavy-handed tactics were on the mind of a few students […]
December 14, 2010
Categories: Elections, Haiti, Politics
Tags: conflict, council, elections, haiti
Haiti’s leading candidate speaks against council: “Supporters of one of her competitors in Haiti’s presidential election set barricades on fire and threw rubble at cars when initial results put him third. The No. 2 finisher urged his partisans to mobilize and his staff warned they could start a war.”
December 13, 2010
Categories: Haiti, Infrastructure, Medicine and Health, Natural Disaster, NGOs
Georgianne Nienaber: New Haiti Cholera Warning, Vaccine Questions, and “Squatters” Vulnerable: “ While all eyes were on Sarah Palin’s visit to Haiti this weekend, Dr. Jocelyne Pierre Louis, Director of Haiti’s Department of Public Health and Population (MSPP) predicted a new outbreak of the cholera epidemic, particularly in Port-au-Prince and the Metropolitan Region due to […]
December 13, 2010
Categories: Elections, Haiti, Politics
Tags: elections, haiti, riots, Uncategorized
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Two of the top three candidates in Haiti’s disputed presidential election have rejected a proposed recount, threatening to torpedo a compromise aimed at quelling days of riots and violence over allegations that the vote was rigged. Only the candidate of the governing party, Jude Célestin, supports the offer by the electoral […]