International Business News - Haiti http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif The American Embassy in Haiti says the U.S. will help rebuild a key bridge that collapsed during this summer's devastating floods. Embassy spokeswoman Mari Tolliver says construction is due to begin later this year on the Ennery bridge leading to the hard-hit northern coastal city of Gonaives. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081009/us-to-help-rebuild-washed-out-haitian-bridge.htm Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:54:46 EDT The U.N Security Council will likely keep peacekeeping troops in Haiti for another year, but will not heed Haitians' calls to shift their focus to economic development in the storm-ravaged nation, the chief U.N. envoy to the country said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081008/un-force-in-haiti-likely-to-be-renewed.htm Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:48:27 EDT The official death toll from four storms that ravaged Haiti this summer has nearly doubled to some 800 people, authorities said Friday. Civil defense director Maria-Alta Jean Baptiste said in an interview with The Associated Press that 793 bodies have been found so far, and authorities are still looking for bodies in the mud that swamped coastal settlements. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081003/haiti-raises-storm-death-toll-to-nearly-800.htm Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:30:58 EDT The U.N. World Food Program's director flew to a Haitian city still encased in mud Friday to draw global attention to the ongoing disaster that has enormously complicated the country's struggle to feed itself. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/139808-haiti-encased-in-mud.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080926/haitian-city-encased-in-mud-needs-global-help.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080926/haitian-city-encased-in-mud-needs-global-help.htm Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:06:06 EDT Four tropical storms have wiped out most of Haiti's food crops and damaged irrigation systems and pumping stations, raising the specter of acute hunger for millions in the impoverished country. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/134421-haiti-floods.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080919/haitis-food-crisis-deepens-after-floods.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080919/haitis-food-crisis-deepens-after-floods.htm Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:57:46 EDT Cries of adulation--and hunger--followed Haitian-born singer Wyclef Jean and actor Matt Damon as they toured flood-ravaged Gonaives on Sunday to call attention to widespread suffering in the marooned city. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/130706-haiti-celebrity-aid.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080915/matt-damon-wyclef-jean-visit-haiti-city-in-ruins.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080915/matt-damon-wyclef-jean-visit-haiti-city-in-ruins.htm Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:09:23 EDT Cries of adulation--and hunger--followed Haitian-born singer Wyclef Jean and actor Matt Damon as they toured flood-ravaged Gonaives on Sunday to call attention to widespread suffering in the marooned city. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/130484-haiti-celebrity-aid.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080914/matt-damon-wyclef-jean-visit-haiti-city-in-ruins.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080914/matt-damon-wyclef-jean-visit-haiti-city-in-ruins.htm Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:52:53 EDT Matt Damon and Wyclef Jean lightened the misery for Haiti's floods victims Saturday, arriving to hand out food and lend star power to relief efforts. Damon and Haitian-born singer Jean are encouraging more people to help the United Nations raise more than US$100 million for an estimated 800,000 people left in dire circumstances by four devastating tropical storms and hurricanes. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/129704-toronto-film-festival-onexone.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080913/matt-damon-wyclef-jean-help-haitian-storm-victims.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080913/matt-damon-wyclef-jean-help-haitian-storm-victims.htm Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:27:11 EDT The U.N.'s World Health Organization is appealing for US$4.2 million to help treat injured and sick Haitians in the wake of a devastating string of storms. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080912/who-seeks-4-2-million-for-haitian-flood-victims.htm Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:06:02 EDT In a cathedral surrounded by mud and flood waters, the 34-year-old motorcycle taxi driver shivers on a pew, wrapped in a sheet and delirious from fever. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/127890-haiti-floods.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080911/in-flooded-haitian-city-every-home-is-a-shelter.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080911/in-flooded-haitian-city-every-home-is-a-shelter.htm Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:56:51 EDT Food and fresh water ran dangerously low for thousands in the flood-stricken Haitian city of Gonaives and surrounding villages on Wednesday, as governments and aid groups struggled to get aid to people stranded at shelters. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/127255-haiti-floods.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080910/food-runs-low-as-haiti-aid-effort-struggles.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080910/food-runs-low-as-haiti-aid-effort-struggles.htm Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:56:10 EDT Cemetery workers trudge through the water with a wooden cart, fetching dozens of bloated corpses from the muck and carting them off for burial. The city's 15 police officers have buried dozens more, and nobody knows how many were swept out to sea. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/126700-aptopix-haiti-floods.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080909/in-rain-soaked-haiti-no-identifying-the-dead.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080909/in-rain-soaked-haiti-no-identifying-the-dead.htm Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:01:09 EDT The sun came out in Haiti on Monday as waters from Hurricane Ike receded and a U.S. Navy hospital ship equipped with helicopters and amphibious boats was arriving in the capital to deliver food and water to cities still marooned by flooding. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/125635-haiti-floods.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080908/flooding-from-ike-kills-58-in-rain-soaked-haiti.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080908/flooding-from-ike-kills-58-in-rain-soaked-haiti.htm Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:29:59 EDT Haitians took to their roofs to escape rising floodwaters for the second time in a week on Sunday as squalls from Hurricane Ike killed 58 people and collapsed a bridge that cut the last land route into the starving city of Gonaives. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/125488-haiti-tropical-weather.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080907/haitians-flee-gonaives-before-ike-reaches-island.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080907/haitians-flee-gonaives-before-ike-reaches-island.htm Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:00:37 EDT Hundreds of people fled this waterlogged city Saturday for higher ground as powerful Hurricane Ike threatened to unleash heavy rain and compound a disaster caused by a previous storm. At the local jail, emaciated inmates waited for food to stave off starvation. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/124900-haiti-floods.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080906/first-aid-ship-arrives-in-flooded-haitian-city.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080906/first-aid-ship-arrives-in-flooded-haitian-city.htm Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:32:24 EDT Flooding in Haiti from three major storms has killed scores of people and "washed away" progress toward dealing with ongoing food shortages, the top-ranking U.N. humanitarian official said Friday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/124126-correction-haiti-floods.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080905/un-sees-storms-add-to-hard-hit-haitis-food-crisis.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080905/un-sees-storms-add-to-hard-hit-haitis-food-crisis.htm Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:14:59 EDT International aid groups providing relief to Haiti following Hurricane Hanna say donating money, rather than material goods, is the best way to help. Details here: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080905/a-look-at-aid-efforts-in-haiti.htm Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:09:31 EDT U.N. peacekeeping troops began handing out food and water to famished Haitians on Friday after the first shipload of aid sailed into a crumbling port on the outskirts of this flooded city, where tens of thousands are stranded in the wake of Tropical Storm Hanna. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/123440-aptopix-haiti-floods.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080905/rescuers-cant-get-aid-to-starving-haitian-city.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080905/rescuers-cant-get-aid-to-starving-haitian-city.htm Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:19:14 EDT Entering a flooded city on inflatable boats, U.N. peacekeepers found hundreds of hungry people stranded for two days on rooftops and upper floors Wednesday as the fetid carcasses of drowned farm animals bobbed in soupy floodwaters. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/122622-tropical-weather.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080904/hanna-flooding-strands-hungry-haitians-on-rooftops.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080904/hanna-flooding-strands-hungry-haitians-on-rooftops.htm Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:19:17 EDT The convoy rumbled out of the U.N. base toward a flooded, starving and seething city Thursday, carrying some of the first food aid since Tropical Storm Hanna killed 137 Haitians and drowned Gonaives in muddy water three days ago. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/123284-aptopix-haiti-floods.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080904/chaos-desperation-from-hannas-floods-in-haiti.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080904/chaos-desperation-from-hannas-floods-in-haiti.htm Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:12:18 EDT