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SALINE Local students travel to Haiti to provide clean drinking water teacher seeks funding

Saline High School teacher Jan Denzin talks to the Board of Education about her Senior Capstone class trips to Haiti. There have been two trips where students and teachers installed water filters for people to provide them with clean drinking water. Denzin asked the school board to consider regularly funding future trips to ... (Haiti Sun)


JetBlue plans daily flights to Haiti from NY and Florida

Miami.- JetBlue Airways Corp. announced it plans to offer daily nonstop flights to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, from New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport and South Florida's Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. According to a statement from the airline, the flights are scheduled to begin Dec. 5. Haiti's consul general in New York said JetBlue's service ... (Haiti Sun)


Caribbean politician shot dead on beach

By Alastair Jamieson, Staff writer, NBC News A political leader on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao was shot dead as he drank beer on a beach Sunday, authorities said.Helmin Wiels, whose Pueblo Soberano party campaigns for independence from the Netherlands, was killed by gunmen who sped off in a car, according to multiple witnesses.The 54-year-old died ... (Haiti Sun)


Haiti’s ex-President Aristide breaks silence

Two years after his surprise return from seven years in exile, former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide breaks his silence. (MiamiHerald.com)


Ex-Haitian leader criticizes gov't over poverty

Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide emerged from months of seclusion for a second straight day and took several swipes at the current government. (MiamiHerald.com)


Haiti travel getting competition

Pending approval, JetBlue Airways plans to offer flights to Haiti. Meanwhile, IBC Airways is teaming up with a Haitian start-up to expand its reach in the Haitian market. (MiamiHerald.com)


Ex-Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide appears in court, draws crowd

Ex-Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, little seen in public since his return home two years ago, was in court to answer a summons. (MiamiHerald.com)


Thousands follow ex-Haiti president after court

Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide made a rare public appearance Wednesday and thousands of supporters shadowed the ex-leader's motorcade following a court hearing. (MiamiHerald.com)


More Haitians using Puerto Rico as migrant route

Haitians have been fleeing their troubled country for years, trying to reach the U.S. or other Caribbean islands by sea or by trekking across the island of Hispaniola to scratch out a living in the Dominican Republic. (MiamiHerald.com)


More changes in Haiti’s young, inexperienced government

Haiti’s prime minister has tapped cabinet members to replace two departing ministers within days of one another. (MiamiHerald.com)


Michèle Montas looks to Haiti's courts for justice in husband's death

Thirteen years after her husband, famed Haitian journalist and agronomist Jean Léopold Dominique was gunned down in the courtyard of his radio station, Michèle Montas finds herself at the center of two epic cases winding through Haiti’s broken justice system. (MiamiHerald.com)


Haiti’s finance minister resigns

Haiti’s minister of finance and economy has resigned, effective immediately. (MiamiHerald.com)


The Science of Surviving Disasters: Bangladeshi Woman Rescued After 17 Days

Reshma was trapped in a wide Muslim prayer room located in the basement of the eight-story Rana Plaza building that housed five garment factories and thousands of workers in Bangladesh .

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UNCSA students heading to Haiti to aid orphanage

Ten high school students from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts are taking their talents to an orphanage in Haiti this summer.

(Topix.net)


Diplomats learn about new Haiti panel that seeks to co-ordinate quake aid

Diplomats from donor nations met in Haiti on Friday to learn more about a new government panel that seeks to co-ordinate billions of dollars in aid money and speed up their release.

(Topix.net)


Stop the attacks on President Aristide and Haiti's grassroots movement

The people of Haiti stand for justice, but they are against the misuse of the justice system for political persecution.

(Topix.net)


Delta's donate supplies to aid Haitian families

Members of the Milledgeville Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta sorority donated much-needed supplies to Project Haiti Heart Thursday to help make the lives of children and families overseas a little easier.

(Topix.net)


2 New Routes Worth Noting

That unlikely destination was chosen because Qatar will join Oneworld, and US Airways has a large presence in Philly.

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Mission trip to Haiti leaves heartache for Huntsville teen

Katie Fogle hugs Rithnica, an orphan in Haiti with whom she had an instant bond during the March 2013 trip with a team from Huntsville's First Presbyterian Church.

(Topix.net)


Friday - May 10, 2013

A priest, a doctor and the Prince of Denmark walk into a bar. That could be the tagline for the latest production at Portland Stage Company, the comedy "Wittenberg." It's a tale of trouble brewing at Wittenberg University as professors Martin Luther and Doctor Faustus duel for the allegience of their pupil, Prince Hamlet.

(Topix.net)


Haiti Cholera Victims Threaten to Sue UN

Victims of the cholera epidemic in Haiti have given the UN 60 days to stop evading its moral and legal obligations and provide justice and reparations to the thousands affected by the disease it brought to the nation or they will sue.

(Topix.net)


JetBlue announces two new routes to Haiti

JetBlue continues its Caribbean expansion, announcing today that it intends to fly to Haiti.

(Topix.net)


Ex-Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide appears in court, draws crowd

Along Rue Champ de Mars, he waved to cheering crowds from his slow-moving, police-escorted motorcade.

(Topix.net)


Haitian Sweatshop Workers Speak: Sub-Poverty Wages and Sexual Coercion

Below, Haitian women workerstell of their experiences in sweatshops. These interviews, gathered over the past two years, are among many dozens that this writer has collected from Haitian sweatshop workers since the early 1980s.

(Topix.net)


Former Haiti president emerges to testify in court

Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is making a rare public appearance as he testifies before a judge investigating the slaying of one of the country's most prominent journalists.

(Topix.net)


Review: Hugh Laurie Didn't it Rain

He used to be the highest-paid, most-watched actor on TV but now Hugh Laurie has got the blues.

(Topix.net)


Fair City stars for Words on the Street

Fair City stars Bryan Murray and Eamon Morrissey and RTE broadcasters Eileen Dunne and Rick O'Shea are among those taking part in Words on the Street - European Literature Night in venues around Dublin on Wednesday May 15.

(Topix.net)


Haiti police ban street demonstrations on day of Aristide's testimony at court hearing

PRINCE, Haiti - Haiti's top police officer said Tuesday that all street demonstrations are banned for Wednesday, when former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide heads to court for a rare public outing that is expected to draw thousands of his supporters.

(Topix.net)


Couple leaving ET for permanent mission in Haiti

A Knoxville Police Department detective will soon swap his crime fighting mission for a spiritual mission.

(Topix.net)


Stars punk it up for MET Ball 2013

The annual Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala is one of the biggest events on the fashion calendar, and the stars usually save their biggest and best frocks for the night.

(Topix.net)


Strengthening of the Haitian Agricultural Market Information System

As part of the bilateral cooperation, the Dominican Republic runs a plan to support the Republic of Haiti to strengthen the Haitian Agricultural Market Information System, in order to streamline the mechanisms of commercialization of products from the field.

(Topix.net)