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50 children die in Haiti as a school building collapse

Posted by: hardtalk

Port-au-Prince :: Haiti | about 1 month ago | Conflict & Tragedy

A hillside school in Haiti, where 500 students crowded into several floors, collapsed during classes on Friday, killing at least 50 people and injuring many more. More children were believed buried in the rubble of the concrete building, and the...

Children found alive in Haiti school rubble

Posted by: kalex

Port-au-Prince :: Haiti | about 1 month ago | Political News

Rescue workers pulled two uninjured children from the rubble of a school that collapsed the day before, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross said Saturday. The children have been reunited with their families, Rob Drouen said....

Haiti school collapse toll rises

Source: BBC

Pétionville :: Haiti | about 1 month ago | Conflict & Tragedy

President Preval later told the Associated Press news agency that he believed poor construction methods, including a failure to use reinforced steel, had been to blame for the building's collapse. Other buildings throughout Haiti were at a similar risk because...

Owner of collapsed Haiti school arrested

Posted by: kalex

Pétionville :: Haiti | about 1 month ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Haitian police say they have arrested the owner of a school that collapsed and killed at least 88. Police spokesman Garry Desrosier says Fortin Augustin, the preacher who owns and built College La Promesse, was arrested Saturday and charged with...

Haiti school collapse toll rises

Source: Al Jazeera

Pétionville :: Haiti | about 1 month ago | No category

The number of people killed in the collapse of a school near Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, has risen to 84, officals say. Rescuers uncovered a classroom full of dead students on Saturday, after searching through the night to find survivors in the...

Crews search at collapsed Haiti school

Source: CNN

Pétionville :: Haiti | about 1 month ago | No category

Three days after a school collapse killed at least 89 people, rescuers continued their search Monday for survivors in the rubble. No one has been found alive since early Saturday at the College La Promesse Evangelique, a three-story concrete building...

Cerabino: Palm Beach restaurant owner posts KKK notes election night

Source: Palm Beach Post

Port-au-Prince :: Haiti | 2 months ago | Political News

I've got a hot head and I'm crazy," she said today. "It's my hot Italian blood." Gatti shares ownership of the restaurant with her black business partner and chef, Avery Watson. She said her exuberance over John McCain was just...

Pastor probed in Haiti school collapse

Source: The Sunshine Coast Daily

Port-au-Prince :: Haiti | about 1 month ago | No category

Police have questioned the pastor who ran a Haitian school that collapsed, killing 93 people, as rescuers dig through the rubble in the search for survivors. "Haitian authorities are looking into the matter," Justice Secretary Joseph-Luc Euchere told AFP.

Supplies collected by CAHS to delivered to Haiti today --

Source: The Virgin Island Daily News

Port-au-Prince :: Haiti | about 1 month ago | Entertainment News

Sometime today, Ryan Kite will be landing his BE-60, six-seat aircraft in Haiti transporting several containers loaded with aid to be distributed among the people of that hurricane-ravaged island. Coordinated by a group of teachers and students at Charlotte Amalie...

$23m Ponzi scheme uncovered

Source: The Courier-Mail

Port-au-Prince :: Haiti | 6 days ago | Business News

SEC halts $23 million Ponzi scheme run by George Theodule From correspondents in Washington December 31, 2008 08:39am US securities regulators obtained an emergency court order to stop an alleged Ponzi scheme that collected more than $23 million from thousands...