Port-au-Prince.– Dominican President Leonel Fernandez agreed with Haiti's President Rene Preval, along with Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive, to implement an "immediate response" plan that will allow
authorities to lessen the damages caused by Tuesday's massive earthquake which flattened the Haitian capital.
According to the Presidency’s Press Office, the agreement seeks to reestablish communications, rescue and
bury the bodies from the rubble, reestablish the electric and water supply, and work out a joint plan with the National Army and United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (Minustah) in order to handle the international aid.
"The Dominican Telecom Institute (Indotel) and the
CDEEE will work in the reestablishment of communication and energy,
while the rubble is being removed," Fernandez
pointed out.
As a way to avoid epidemics and as a preventive measure, a vaccination campaign would be undertaken along the border, carried out by the
Public Health Ministry.
Preval thanked Fernandez for the immediate support and solidarity received from the Dominican Republic, and highlighted he was the
first national leader who visited his country after the devastating earthquake.
Written by: Gringo_1, 15 Jan 2010 9:39 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Maimon (Bonao)
Good news for all!
Written by: generoso, 15 Jan 2010 9:41 AM
From: United States, Quisqueya
Cargo planes full of aid and supplies are unable to land in Port-Au Prince, airport is jammed and in chaos, planes are crowding the airport with scarce airplane fuel available to be able to return.
Traffic must be redirected to Barahona and Puerto Plata airport immediately, repeat air traffic must be redirected to Barahona and Puerto Plata airports immediately.
Dominican air force bases in Santiago could also be used if able to receive large transport aircraft.
This is URGENT, pass this message forward to the corresponding authorities.
Written by: Atabey, 15 Jan 2010 9:48 AM
From: United States, NYC
generoso,
Are you still against the quick meeting that Préval and Leonel had in the aftermath of the earthquake?
Written by: generoso, 15 Jan 2010 9:59 AM
From: United States, Quisqueya
Atabey
Preval's dysfunctional and inept government is history and does not exist but in paper. The US is rightfully taking over, as aid carriers that were knocking at the Haitian bureaucrats door, without a response for 24 hours finally gave up, and took the bull by the horns.
Your desire to always be right, and maybe boasting with an "I told you so" just reflects your immaturity and failure to understand the basic tenets of political language.
Instead of trying to prove your point, I urge you to use your energies to try to get the word out to the control tower in Haiti, now manned by the US, to redirect flights to POP airport and Barahona airport where the aid, can be trucked to Haiti later.
PAP airport has ran out of airplane fuel and transport planes coming in can not return.
Written by: bernies, 15 Jan 2010 10:31 AM
From: United States, key west fl
what about Santiago International Airport. I like to be optimist but this event can have a negative impact in the DR tourism since a great number of travelers might start to think that we can have an epidemic due to the amount of dead people, no running water and defecating on the open land. Some travelers might not be aware that we hundreds of miles apart from the center of were all of this is taking place. But in the mean time the surrounding towns to border can benefit from aid workers looking for accommodation and also from the amount of people that are going to be visiting those areas in the next coming days, weeks and months.
From: Dominican Republic, Puerto Plata
Barahona airport has no fuel storage capacity; fuel must be trucked from SDQ.
The engineers that built the airport "overlooked" that part.
Written by: msjersey, 15 Jan 2010 10:38 AM
From: United States, New Jersey(Cibaeno/Los mina)
Let's rebuild that country, and let's hope they become a bless and prosperous nation after this is over, that's my prayer.
Written by: generoso, 15 Jan 2010 10:40 AM
From: United States, Quisqueya
Fuel trucks can be sent by land from the storage facilities within hours to Barahona, it will only take a phone call. Barahona airport is huge and mostly empty, mainly used by the DR air force.
Santiago airport is too busy presently with cargo and transport to accommodate more traffic, and is further away from Haiti.
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
I am sure all the authorities have been looking at all the alternatives and everything suggested here has already been talked about numerous times on the Television ..but with 3 million people either hurt or homeless it is a huge task ..and I think we can all be very proud of the Dominican response .
Written by: xwill7, 15 Jan 2010 10:53 AM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
barahona is the correct choice. But how is the road to haiti's capital? Will haitian border control slow down the process?
Will landing in DR increase fuel prices for the Dominican public and travelers?
Dominicans can bearly afford current prices
Written by: Atabey, 15 Jan 2010 10:56 AM
From: United States, NYC
"Núñez explicó que serán utilizados el muelle de Barahona y el aeropuerto María Montez para
agilizar la ayuda destinada a los damnificados."
El aeropuerto María Montez.
Length of runways: 9, 843' or 3, 000 m Asphalt surface
Elevation 10'/3 m
Written by: Atabey, 15 Jan 2010 10:58 AM
From: United States, NYC
City served Province ICAO IATA Airport name
International
Barahona Barahona MDBH BRX María Montez International Airport
La Romana La Romana MDLR LRM La Romana International Airport
Puerto Plata Puerto Plata MDPP POP Gregorio Luperón International Airport
Punta Cana / Higüey La Altagracia MDPC PUJ Punta Cana International Airport
Samaná Samaná MDAB EPS Arroyo Barril International Airport
Sánchez Samaná MDCY AZS Samaná El Catey International Airport (Dr. Juan Bosch)
Santiago Santiago MDST STI Cibao International Airport (Santiago International)
Santo Domingo Distrito Nacional MDJB JBQ La Isabela International Airport (Dr. Joaquín Balaguer)
Santo Domingo Distrito Nacional MDSD SDQ Las Américas-JFPG International Airport (Dr. José Fco. Peña Gómez)
Domestic
Constanza La Vega MDCZ COZ Constanza Airport
Dajabón Dajabón MDDJ DAJ Dajabón Airport
Las Terrenas Samaná MDPO EPS El Portillo Airport
Monte Cristi Monte Cristi MDMC MTC Osvaldo Virgil Airport
Pedernal
Written by: LaVerdad, 15 Jan 2010 10:59 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Santiago
Emergency!
Written by: Atabey, 15 Jan 2010 11:04 AM
From: United States, NYC
When the aircraft carrier arrives, things will start to move faster.
The Guardian U.S. aircraft carrier, more troops arrive in Haiti? - 25 minutes ago
The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson also arrived off Haiti's shores overnight carrying 19 helicopters, and it started flights off its deck in the morning, ...
U.S. aircraft carrier, more troops arrive in Haiti
January 15, 2010 | 6:19 am
Hundreds of U.S. troops and an aircraft carried have arrived at the Haiti relief effort, and the commander on the ground said Friday that food, water, medicine and other emergency relief supplies are being rushed to victims.
Thousands more troops and sailors were en route.
"We have much more support on the way," Army Lt. Gen. Ken Keen said. "Our priority is getting relief out to the needy people, to mitigate the suffering that the Haitian people are experiencing right now."
Delayed for hours along with other flights circling over the severely congested Port-au-Prince airport, a second pl
Written by: Atabey, 15 Jan 2010 11:05 AM
From: United States, NYC
The carrier also has water-purifying equipment and three surgical operating rooms and can do medical evacuations as well as ferry supplies and people to and from land.
The arrivals added to more than 300 military personnel who had gotten there as of Thursday and amounted to the first major influx of military from the United States, which has taken the lead in world efforts to assist the devastated country.
The U.S. Southern Command said there were about 8,000 personnel from America's armed forces either on site or on the way as of Friday morning.
Fort Bragg was sending another 800 troops Friday and will have a full brigade of some 3,500 on the ground by the end of the weekend. Another big ground force was expected late this weekend — the USS Bataan amphibious assault ship got under way overnight from Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia and was stopping Friday to pick up Marines in North Carolina on its way.
The Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort was to leave Baltimore Saturday w
Written by: Atabey, 15 Jan 2010 11:06 AM
From: United States, NYC
The State Department confirmed the death of one American, career diplomat Victoria DeLong, a cultural affairs officer at the U.S. Embassy who was killed when her home collapsed. Spokesman P.J. Crowley said three other Americans were known to be missing and the embassy had made contact with nearly 1,000 U.S. citizens in Haiti, a fraction of the estimated 45,000 there.
Aware of the steep political cost that George W. Bush paid for an ineffective response to Hurricane Katrina, the White House has labored to show Obama has been intensely engaged since immediately after the quake struck. Details of evening Situation Room meetings, phone calls with world leaders and canceled events were being released almost hourly.
Obama himself warned it would take hours "and in many cases days" to get the full U.S. contingent to Haiti.
"None of this will seem quick enough if you have a loved one who's trapped, if you're sleeping on the streets, if you can't feed your children," Obama said at the
Written by: Atabey, 15 Jan 2010 11:06 AM
From: United States, NYC
The Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort was to leave Baltimore Saturday with some 250 medical staff, stop in Florida to pick up 300 more people and be off Haiti Thursday.
The infusion of troops began as President Barack Obama declared himself determined to carry out a wide-ranging rescue despite the strain that such a vast undertaking invariably would take.
"To the people of Haiti, we say clearly and with conviction, you will not be forsaken," Obama said Thursday. "You will not be forgotten. In this, your hour of greatest need, America stands with you."
A primary challenge is the badly damaged seaport that will make it difficult for ships — carrying the kinds of mass amounts of supplies and helicopters needed in a natural disaster — to offload their equipment. An assessment team was looking alternatives, including a port the U.S. Coast Guard has been using for some cargo.
The State Department confirmed the death of one American, career diplomat Victoria DeLong, a cultural affai
Written by: generoso, 15 Jan 2010 11:08 AM
From: United States, Quisqueya
xwill
One thing that Dominican authorities are very much aware of, is the danger that an uncontrolled famine in Haiti, would cause the DR, and all of its already stressed to the max hospital and civil defense capabilities, and the not remote possibility of a chaotic stampede or human tsunami into Dominican territory.
This nightmare scenario is to be avoided at any and all costs.
Written by: Atabey, 15 Jan 2010 11:09 AM
From: United States, NYC
UN official: Looters break into UN warehouses in Haiti
January 15, 2010 | 5:28 am
Looters have broken into U.N. food warehouses in Haiti's crumbled capital, an official said Friday, as security and logistical challenges mounted for groups trying to feed at least 2 million people reeling from a devastating earthquake.
The U.N. World Food Program had 15,000 tons of food aid in Haiti prior to Tuesday's 7.0-magnitude earthquake, stocks designed for hurricane relief. Spokeswoman Emilia Casella said local partners reported that the U.N. warehouse in Port-au-Prince's Cite Soleil neighborhood was looted but the agency did not know how much aid was stolen or exactly when it was taken.
She did not give details of the other looted warehouses, but said much of the agency's food stocks were located outside the capital.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/l....eed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LaPlWritten by: Atabey, 15 Jan 2010 11:11 AM
From: United States, NYC
'Everything Is Breaking Down' In Haiti
by KEVIN WHITELAW
text sizeAAAJanuary 15, 2010
Haitians were growing increasingly desperate Friday in the stricken capital of Port-au-Prince as aid supplies remain scarce and bodies still litter the streets.
"Haiti is dead, is dead, is dead, is dead, is dead. Everything is breaking down," Philippe Mercier told NPR's Greg Allen. "It's like somebody who lives in the street, you know? Eat on the street, drink water on the street. There's no pure water."
Bodies were still piled up throughout the city. The international Red Cross estimated on Thursday that between 45,000 and 50,000 people were killed in the quake, based on information from the Haitian Red Cross and government officials.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122602342Written by: Atabey, 15 Jan 2010 11:13 AM
From: United States, NYC
Damaged airport, dock hamper Haiti aid efforts
CNN International - ?1 hour ago?
A South Korean rescue team prepares to leave Friday from Incheon International Airport to help in quake-ravage Haiti. Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) ...
Written by: Atabey, 15 Jan 2010 11:13 AM
From: United States, NYC
Planes laden with supplies unable to land in Haiti
JONATHAN PEARLMAN
January 16, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE: Anger and despair have mounted in quake-hit Haiti, with scores facing a third night trapped beneath the ruins, food and water running out, and little sign of international aid reaching the country.
The stench of death from up to 50,000 decomposing bodies lying in the streets hung over the capital of Port-au-Prince on Thursday as residents hunkered down for another night in the open, traumatised by aftershocks triggered by the 7.0-magnitude earthquake on Tuesday.
Despite a massive aid operation, there was no sign of heavy lifting equipment among the rubble even as tonnes of material and badly needed supplies flooded into the international airport in the capital.
Written by: Atabey, 15 Jan 2010 11:14 AM
From: United States, NYC
Written by: generoso, 15 Jan 2010 11:16 AM
From: United States, Quisqueya
The doomsday warnings are becoming reality, the masses are awakening from their previous state of shock, and now are hungry and mad, and desperately searching for food.
The 82 nd airborne paratroopers are landing in Haiti as we speak, the US aircraft carrier can already be seen from the Haitian coast, and helicopters are landing in PAP.
The Dominican Republic must place the army under immediate and full alert and reinforce all border
entry points. Any refugee camps must be installed in Haitian territory.
Written by: xwill7, 15 Jan 2010 11:20 AM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
generoso,
yes they really need to beef up the border... When I was in Santiago in December... I thought I was in Haiti with so many Haitian... I could see that happening.
They are telling people that are healthy to leave the city and go into the country... Haiti's country side does not produce enough farming to support all of these people
Written by: Atabey, 15 Jan 2010 11:23 AM
From: United States, NYC
Struggle to keep Haiti survivors alive
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/72a026a4-01d6-11df-b8cb-00144feabdc0.htmlBy Benedict Mander in Port-au-Prince
Published: January 15 2010 13:57 | Last updated: January 15 2010 13:57
Conditions on Friday morning at the makeshift hospital set up in the United Nations compound in Port-au-Prince to treat survivors of this week’s earthquake in Haiti were indicative of the desperate struggle to help the millions of affected people.
The ground was packed with camp beds, with many of the victims screaming, others unconscious.
“It’s like a civil war, it’s a disaster. About a fifth of the people here are going to die,” said John MacDonald, a surgeon forming part of a group flown in from the University of Miami, as he surveyed the grim scene. “We’re doing the minimal, it’s just a palliative – we just don’t have enough supplies or equipment”.
Another medic helping out, Mark Barletier, was one of the many Haitians living in the US who flew in to he
Written by: Atabey, 15 Jan 2010 11:25 AM
From: United States, NYC
Rush of corporate donations to Haiti relief effort
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d919010....-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1By Miles Johnson
Published: January 15 2010 14:10 | Last updated: January 15 2010 14:10
Some of the world’s largest companies have pledged millions of dollars of cash and food supplies towards the relief effort in Haiti as international aid agencies scramble to cope with the mounting humanitarian crisis in the earthquake-stricken Caribbean nation.
Many companies, some with staff based in Haiti, have also pledged to match donations made by their employees in an echo of the corporate response after the devastating Boxing Day tsunami in south-east Asia in 2004.
General Electric, the US conglomerate, on Thursday said it was giving $2.5m towards the relief efforts in Haiti, while the US banks Citigroup, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and Jefferies made donations worth millions of dollars.
From: United States
After the mourning ends and hunger sets in, there will be massive riots and looting in the streets. I wonder how the news media will play it after a US trooper shoots a looting gang member in Cite d'Soliel. I give it 10 days before the Haitians start throwing chuncks of concrete from broken buildings at the Marines.
Written by: Atabey, 15 Jan 2010 11:27 AM
From: United States, NYC
Scientists warned Haitian officials in 2008 that the country was ripe for a major earthquake
http://www.google.com/hostednews/....LeqM5hgpjEjX_VHsGI1qC2Soo8rlOR9-QBy Rick Callahan (CP) – 5 hours ago
INDIANAPOLIS — Scientists who detected worrisome signs of growing stresses in the fault that unleashed this week's devastating earthquake in Haiti said Thursday they warned officials there two years ago that the country was ripe for a major earthquake.
Their sobering findings, presented during a geological conference in March 2008 and at meetings two months later, showed that the fault was capable of causing a 7.2-magnitude earthquake - slightly stronger than Tuesday's 7.0 quake that rocked the impoverished country.
Though Haitian officials listened intently to the research, the nearly two years between the presentation and the devastating quake was not enough time for Haiti to have done much to have prevented the massive destruction.
"It's too short of a timef
Written by: generoso, 15 Jan 2010 11:27 AM
From: United States, Quisqueya
The million or so employed Haitians in DR have to step up to the plate also, and go donate much needed blood for their Haitian brothers. So far over 99% of blood donations have been from Dominicans.
Written by: GNLove, 15 Jan 2010 11:27 AM
From: Dominican Republic
Written by: generoso, 15 Jan 2010 11:28 AM
From: United States, Quisqueya
Aftershocks have been more than 30 in one day, in the beginning and continue sometimes causing
panic, and human stampedes, but have diminished considerably.
Written by: Atabey, 15 Jan 2010 11:28 AM
From: United States, NYC
A German Red Cross member walks between medicine boxes and humanitarian aid at the Red Cross Logistic Center in Berlin on Friday prior to an aid flight to Haiti. The German Red Cross chartered a plane to send a mobile Basic Help Care Unit and aid to the victims of earthquake hit Haiti. Photo: AP.
United Nations’ food stockpiles in Haiti have been looted, an official said on Friday.
The World Food Programme’s warehouses which were in place prior to the earthquake were raided, spokeswoman Emilia Casella, said.
The UN’s food organization believes nearly 2 million people were “food insecure” even prior to the latest blow to Haiti owing to previous natural disasters and conflicts.
WFP would aim to continue food distributions from its remaining supplies, the spokeswoman told reporters.
“At this point we are trying to get the food we have our hands on to the people,” Ms. Casella said, adding that these supplies were a “drop in the bucket.” Meanwhile, the UN does not need more sea
Written by: Atabey, 15 Jan 2010 11:31 AM
From: United States, NYC
U.N. to launch Haiti emergency appeal for $550 million
Stephanie Nebehay
GENEVA
Fri Jan 15, 2010 10:09am EST
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60E2WG20100115 GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. aid agencies will launch an emergency appeal to raise for about $550 million to help survivors of the earthquake in Haiti, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Friday.
WORLD | NATURAL DISASTERS
Thousands of people injured in Tuesday's massive earthquake in the Caribbean country spent a third night waiting for help, many lying on sidewalks, as their despair turned to anger.
"The reality is that getting the quantities of supplies, equipment and expertise that are so desperately needed on the ground inevitably takes time," U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes said in a statement.
The world body also said it was looking at converting the national soccer stadium in Port-au-Prince into a field hospital and at setting up collective kitchens for the homeless.
Written by: Atabey, 15 Jan 2010 11:32 AM
From: United States, NYC
Haiti: 8 foreigners' 50 hours in rubble ends
January 15 2010 at 01:43PM Get IOL on your
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From the twisted debris of a collapsed Haitian hotel, French rescuers saved seven Americans, and a US team returned the favour, pulling from the rubble a French woman who promptly asked for a glass of wine.
Amid the untold death and destruction that has marked Haiti's worst natural disaster on record, rays of hope like this one have poked through the despair. Hope has energised a global aid operation facing the grievous task of extracting thousands of victims - most of them lifeless - from the ruins.
Perched in the hills above Port-au-Prince, the large Hotel Montana saw crews from Chile, France, the United States and Venezuela converge on Thursday in a desperate effort to rescue some 200 Haitians and foreigners believed to have been inside when the five-story structure collapsed during Tuesday's cataclysmic earthquake.
Written by: Jatmaxon, 15 Jan 2010 11:32 AM
From: United Kingdom
would Monte Cristi airport not be viable to fly in supplies? its built to military standards and has no traffic at all....
From: Dominican Republic
I visited MonteCristi airport a couple of years ago, and you could land a small plane but I don't think it is big enough and is grande enoug for large planes.
From: Dominican Republic
Has anybody seen josean?
From: Dominican Republic
platanos
As josean himself dijo yesterday.
"Rumors about my demise have been greatly exaggerated"
El esta vivo.
Written by: Atabey, 15 Jan 2010 11:49 AM
From: United States, NYC
Long-term security for Haiti is daunting prospect
BY SHELDON ALBERTS, CANWEST NEWS WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENTJANUARY 14, 2010
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WASHINGTON — A U.S. army brigade of 3,500 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division will join more than 2,200 American marines in Haiti by week's end as worries mount over the potential for post-earthquake unrest in a nation long beset by political violence, rampant drug crime and gang warfare.
http://www.canada.com/news/Long+t....nting+prospect/2442701/story.htmlWritten by: Atabey, 15 Jan 2010 11:50 AM
From: United States, NYC
More than 1,400 Canadians still missing in Haiti
BY JORGE BARRERA , CANWEST NEWS SERVICEJANUARY 15, 2010 10:00 AM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A total of 1,415 Canadians are still missing in Haiti days after a devastating earthquake struck the Caribbean country, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said Friday.
Four Canadians have died and 13 others were wounded. Fifty have sought refugee in the Canadian Embassy and 50 others are living elsewhere in the country.
Julie Dion, 41, believes dozens of Canadians are missing and likely dead.
http://www.canada.com/news/More+t....+missing+Haiti/2444938/story.htmlWritten by: xwill7, 15 Jan 2010 12:04 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
who is going to gather all of the inmates that broke out?
Written by: Atabey, 15 Jan 2010 12:04 PM
From: United States, NYC
Haitian earthquake victims need our help, not misplaced pity or scorn
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/....227_guest15watts.html?prmid=op_edHaiti is too often referred to as a basket case that is responsible for its history of political violence, writes guest columnist Richard H. Watts. What Haiti needs is our help — help that empowers the Haitian people — not pity or scorn.
By Richard H. Watts
Special to The Times
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A man wanders in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as a fire burns in a destroyed building Wednesday after a 7.0 earthquake hit the island nation, killing tens of thousands.
THERE are many possible responses to the devastating earthquake in Haiti: shock, horror, profound sadness, empathy and the urge to help.
Tens of thousands of people are dead and much of the capital city, Port-au-Prince, its edge-city slum Carrefour, and its one relatively prosperous suburb, Pétionville, have been re
Written by: Atabey, 15 Jan 2010 12:40 PM
From: United States, NYC
"Our biggest problem is insecurity. Yesterday they tried to hijack some of our trucks. Today we were barely able to work in some places because of that," said Delfin Antonio Rodriguez, civil defense chief and rescue commander for the Dominican Republic. "There's looting and people with guns out there, because this country is very poor and people are desperate."
Despite an expansive international aid effort, workers are facing a logistical nightmare.
There was no sign of heavy lifting equipment among the ruins as tons of material and badly needed supplies clogged up the international airport.
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From: Dominican Republic, Cabarete
My message is in this link
http://www.everythinghaitian.com/....gDetail.aspx?BID=183&PID=2146 to the American government. I am a two times OIF veteran soldier who is still in the United States Army Reserves. I have given my service to the United States and now my home country is in terrible distress I am watching how time is being wasted on demagogueries by not even providing them with basic food and water so they can endure and shelter the storm.
From: United States
Looks like usa took over haiti...now that's a great news.
Written by: jmzlp12, 15 Jan 2010 1:48 PM
From: United States, Larchmont
What i think should be done. (after this is all over)
1st: The U.S. and other powerful nations should build the infrastructure of this country by paying Haitians to do so. At the same time build co-ups like in the Bronx’s, obviously not as tall; this is so the people who are building the country can live in them.
2nt: Just like in ww2 and like china U.S companies (as well as international ones) should create factories so that Haitians can work. The goods produced here would be better than china because the shipping coast would be much less and labor coast would be the same.
3rd: The U.S military and U.N should be the police force will all of this is going on. They should train, build, ad provide the Haitians with the necessary skills and technology to fight crime.
that is how I think this country could be a functioning one. After all it was the powerful nations who destroyed it
Written by: Smili3, 15 Jan 2010 2:10 PM
From: United States, Florida
wow, i hope that both of the countries gets aid, and help get rebuild and everyone becoming brothers, and sisters and friends :) i beilieve that it could happen, better yet it will. its just that we have to make that happen....
Written by: Smili3, 15 Jan 2010 2:12 PM
From: United States, Florida
also i thank you Fernandez, you were the first :)
Written by: dagtan, 15 Jan 2010 2:55 PM
From: United States
Generoso, I know that I got you with the proverbial 'pants down' on that statement that Atabey is talking about. However, this is not the time nor the place for me to further show how wrong your thinking is.
I once again, reiterate that the current situation is once again bringing out the best nature of both people and while we all disagree with our current political relationship with Haiti, I have to give them respect for keeping peaceful for three days under such conditions. I do not know if I would have been able to stay as calmed as they did. This show how strong willed these people are and we should capitalize on that strong will to better our relantionship.
Finally, Caracas, Venezuela experienced a 5.7 quake a few hours ago, do not know how bad things are over there yet.
Written by: Atabey, 15 Jan 2010 3:05 PM
From: United States, NYC
CARACAS, Venezuela — An earthquake shook Venezuela's capital and nearby states Saturday, injuring 14 people and causing damage to a few buildings.
The U.S. Geological Survey reported a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 for the quake, saying the epicenter was off Venezuela's Caribbean coast 65 miles (110 kilometers) west of Caracas. The head of Venezuela's seismological agency, Francisco Garces, put the quake at magnitude 6.2, followed by an aftershock registering 4.0.
Two young people, ages 9 and 26, suffered serious leg injuries, and 12 other people had minor injuries, Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami said.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/200....ela-earthquake-ratt_n_284733.htmlWritten by: Atabey, 15 Jan 2010 3:06 PM
From: United States, NYC
El Aissami said western Falcon state reported the most structural problems, with seven houses and two other buildings damaged. Two houses were reported damaged in neighboring Lara state, where the wall of a medical clinic also collapsed, state civil protection director Hector Vargas told the state-run Bolivarian News Agency.
Buildings swayed as the quake rocked Caracas about 3:40 p.m. local time (4:10 p.m. EDT, 20:10GMT). Only a few people evacuated buildings to stand outside as a rainstorm slowed traffic. No injured were reported in the capital, El Aissami said.
The head of Venezuela's national civil protection agency, Luis Diaz, said authorities would evaluate two Caracas malls, including one where glass had shattered, to ensure their safety.
Cities in nearby Carabobo and Aragua states were also jolted, but did not experience major problems. In Aragua, there were reports of damage to some houses, and some people were injured on an escalator at a mall during a panicky evacuat
Written by: Atabey, 15 Jan 2010 3:07 PM
From: United States, NYC
Cities in nearby Carabobo and Aragua states were also jolted, but did not experience major problems. In Aragua, there were reports of damage to some houses, and some people were injured on an escalator at a mall during a panicky evacuation, a state security official, Col. Cesar Oliveros, told Venezuela's official news agency.
Infrastructure Minister Diosdado Cabello said there were no reports of major infrastructure damage. No problems were reported at oil refineries or other installations in Venezuela's key oil industry.
Written by: Atabey, 15 Jan 2010 3:14 PM
From: United States, NYC
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Written by: hvargas, 15 Jan 2010 3:14 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Six months from now and Haiti is still under the rubbles along with most of its poor populations. The rich who holds most of the wealth are the only ones back and now they hold even more wealth than before. Decades of UN forces and they still don`t have law and order. The U.S. along with some of their allies forces are pretending to care for the well fare of that nation and instead what its taking place is still a struggle for the control of the true wealth of that nation. The majorities of its poor people are displaced and still looking towards the D.R. or chancing it to the U.S. through the sea. The question that everyone is asking ´´ where is all the money and supply gone to ´´. Well if you out to the other towns not affected, these are the places that will be used as examples of where the money and supplies went to. For the good hearts around the world, how will you know that your contributions help a child eat and walk or have a roof under its head.
Written by: Atabey, 15 Jan 2010 3:17 PM
From: United States, NYC
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Written by: Atabey, 15 Jan 2010 3:17 PM
From: United States, NYC
By Andres R. Martinez and Lori Rothman
Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) -- The earthquake in Haiti will cost the nation’s economy at least 15 percent of its gross domestic product, said Pamela Cox, the World Bank’s vice president for Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Jan. 12 quake is a “much bigger tragedy” than the four tropical storms or hurricanes that struck the nation in 2008, Cox said in an interview today with Bloomberg Television. Reconstruction efforts will take years and require help from the private sector, she said.
Since the 7-magnitude earthquake, governments from the U.S. to France, companies such as Bank of America Corp. and the World Bank have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars in aid and sent hundreds of rescue workers and equipment. Haiti’s prime minister estimated that more than 100,000 people may have died.
“We are looking at a minimum of 15 percent of GDP,” Cox said, basing her estimate on the toll the four storms took on the economy in 2008.
Written by: Atabey, 15 Jan 2010 3:18 PM
From: United States, NYC
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Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, had an economy of $6.9 billion in 2008, according to the Central Intelligence Agency’s Web site. Service accounts for about 52 percent of the gross domestic product in Haiti, located on an island with the Dominican Republic. The rest is made up of agriculture and industry.
The World Bank’s 15 percent figure is too conservative, Eduardo Gamarra, a political science professor at Florida International University in Miami, said in a telephone interview. Aid and pledges to Haiti will be difficult to distribute, said Gamarra, who specializes in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Delivering Aid
“The international community has had a marvelous way of promising things to Haiti but then being incapable of delivering it,” Gamarra said. The government “is incapable of absorbing the necessary aid money because Haiti has no institutions.”
Written by: Atabey, 15 Jan 2010 3:19 PM
From: United States, NYC
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Economic damage in Haiti may be in the “low-single-digit billions” of dollars, said Eqecat Inc., the company that builds financial risk models to help insurers prepare for catastrophes.
Bank of America Corp., the largest U.S. Bank, pledged $1 million in aid. Digicel Group Ltd., the largest mobile phone provider in Haiti, said it would donate $5 million for relief services. Other announced donors included JPMorgan Chase & Co., American Express Co., Visa Inc. Amgen Inc., United Parcel Service Inc. Lowe’s Cos., Wells Fargo & Co., Eli Lilly and Co., Walt Disney Co., Western Union Co., France’s Credit Agricole SA and Britain’s Tesco Plc.
U.S. Assistance
President Barack Obama said the U.S. would respond with “every element of our national capacity,” including $100 million in relief spending.
Obama has asked former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to lead the U.S. efforts to aid Haiti. Clinton is also the UN’s special envoy to Haiti.
From: Dominican Republic, Civil Rights and Peace Activist for Our Dominican People
It is great Dominican goverment is helping Haiti in such way.
Now, I hope the Dominican goverment is making sure that there is enough medice and hospital spaces for the Dominicans in case we get hit by a earthquake, it is possible, specially in Santiago where we had a very strong earthquake few hundreds years ago in Jacagua.
Are our hospitals and emergency supply big enough in case of an earthquake like in our soil? Do we have enough food bank supplies? I was just wondering.
Written by: Atabey, 15 Jan 2010 3:21 PM
From: United States, NYC
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The International Monetary Fund has set aside $100 million for Haiti, Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn
“The IMF stands ready to do its part” he said today.
The World Bank and IMF had granted Haiti $1.2 billion in debt relief for improvements in the government’s economic and financial management last year. In May 2009, the IMF estimated Haiti’s economy would grow 2 percent and inflation would rise 5 percent.
-With assistance by Mark Crumpton in New York and Sandrine Rastello in Washington. Editors: Fred Strasser, Brendan Walsh
To contact the reporter on this story: Andres R. Martinez in Mexico City at amartinez28@bloomberg.net; Lori Rothman in NYC
Written by: Sajomero, 15 Jan 2010 6:50 PM
From: United States, Del primer Santiago de America....y el mejor!!!
This morning Leonel made a call to the international aid providers that the Barahona International Airport was completly available to be used as an alternative airport to PAP. Yes there are little glitches with this airport, but it offers a lot of storage space for planes and goods as well as a lot of security. If used wisely, this can actually help the organization and distribution of the aid more efficiently since there are more communities besides PAP that were affected by the quake.
Written by: generoso, 15 Jan 2010 9:05 PM
From: United States, Quisqueya
Sajomero
Maybe Leonel read my suggestion and later followed the advise. Tanfeamami (Afro) brought up the fact that nothing is being done for Jacmel, and they have an unused smaller airport that could be used as well.
Written by: Atabey, 15 Jan 2010 9:06 PM
From: United States, NYC
La cifra de muertos en Haití podría llegar a 200.000
El secretario de Estado haitiano dice que ya se han enterrado 40.000 cadáveres.- Haití cede a EE UU el control del aeropuerto.- La ira se apodera de las calles de Puerto Príncipe ante la falta de alimentos y medicinas
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El Gobierno de Haití calcula de la cifra de muertos a causa del terremoto del pasado martes podría alcanzar los 200.000, según ha informado el ministro del Interior haitiano, Paul Antoine Bien-Aime. "Ya hemos recuperado cerca de 50.000 cuerpos y anticipamos que la cifra de muertos se situará entre los 100.000 y los 200.000, aunque nunca sabremos el número exacto", ha dicho Bien-Aime. Poco antes, el secretario de Estado de Seguridad Pública de Haití, Aramick Louis, aseguraba que ya se han enterrado 40.000 cadáveres.
Written by: Atabey, 15 Jan 2010 9:45 PM
From: United States, NYC
El aeropuerto de Puerto Príncipe, incapaz de contener la marea de aviones que acuden a Haití
Una marabunta de personas aguarda en la República Dominicana para conseguir un vuelo que
les permita llegar al país vecino y echar una mano en la catástrofe
ANTONIO JIMÉNEZ BARCA (Enviado especial) - Santo Domingo - 15/01/2010
Colaboró con la policía haitiana para detener a criminales que se enseñoreaban de los barrios más pobres. "Y ahora se han escapado: 5.000 presos se han fugado de la cárcel. Volverán a hacer lo que hacían", vaticina. Y explica de qué se trata: "Son gente que mata porque sí, yo he visto cómo le han arrancado los dientes uno a uno en la calle a un tipo al que acusaban de ser un chivato; son gente que viola a quien quiere, bajo amenaza de matar a la hermana o a la madre o a la abuela, es gente que acaba con otro de un balazo, así, pum, por menos de nada, porque se les pone en medio: nos costó mucho meterlos en la cárcel. Pero lo hicimos. Y ahora están de nuevo
From: United States, Brooklyn
Josean has died in the earthquake... jajajjaajaj
RIP
Written by: pelaut, 16 Jan 2010 9:00 AM
From: United States
Archived for the future: Generoso's statement that "The US is rightfully taking over."
And of course, the fault that erupted was the CIA's fault.
Written by: Atabey, 16 Jan 2010 12:48 PM
From: United States, NYC
http://www.abc.es/20100116/intern....ar-toda-costa-ayuda-20100116.htmlEl escritor haitiano Métellus. / Imagen: JP Quiñonero
JUAN PEDRO QUIÑONERO | PARÍS
Jean Métellus, patriarca de la cultura haitiana, en el destierro, teme que gobernantes, ministros, prefectos, militares y policías roben masivamente buena parte de la ayuda internacional a Haití, precipitando una tragedia humana todavía más pavorosa.
Métellus (Jacmel, 1939) es el escritor haitiano más importante de nuestro tiempo, autor de una docena de novelas, una veintena de libros de poesía, seis dramas y varios ensayos, comenzando por su legendario, «Haití, una nación patética» (2003).
En su despacho-biblioteca, en las afueras de París, Lope de Vega, García Lorca y Borges ocupan un puesto privilegiado, frente a Martin Luther King y los héroes de la independencia haitiana. En el exilio, desde 1959, Métellus es un conocedor emérito de las tragedias de su patria y estima que el drama en curso es una «enc
From: Dominican Republic
YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY , Slick Willy has more ideas for his money . What a great way for Uncle Sam to peacefully "capitalize' on a situation . Afterall , we must keep all of those leftists out of paradise, right ? The Leonel puppett looks so sincere and convincing in this photo as he looks for his big chance to gain some points for his battered image . Isn't he just like his American puppeteers that do and did nothing for thier own country and then try to play the hero when thier nieghbors car breaks down ?
From: Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Oh Thats Good! Thats great!
Written by: Atabey, 17 Jan 2010 6:54 PM
From: United States, NYC
Puerto Príncipe.- “A cualquier lugar pero lejos de la ciudad”, repite Talulum Saint Fils, mientras aguarda que un autobús cargado de pasajeros la saque junto a su marido y sus cuatro hijos de Puerto Príncipe, donde el sismo del martes destrozó su casa y les convirtió en vagabundos.
Desde hace dos días, miles de damnificados por el terremoto huyen de la capital. Cansados de dormir en la calle, temerosos de que “la tierra vuelva a temblar” o de que les intenten robar lo poco que les queda, numerosas familias decidieron recurrir a parientes que viven en otras provincias menos afectadas por el sismo.
“Las calles huelen a muerto, no tenemos ningún tipo de ayuda y nuestros niños no pueden vivir como animales”, afirma esta madre de familia.
La familia Saint Fils ha pagado 400 ‘gourdes’ (10 dólares) por cada pasaje cuando el precio normal es la mitad. Vendieron joyas para pagar este billete, sólo de ida. “Me gustaría volver y reconstruir nuestra casa, pero ¿con qué dinero?”, se preg
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Traffic must be redirected to Barahona and Puerto Plata airport immediately, repeat air traffic must be redirected to Barahona and Puerto Plata airports immediately.
Dominican air force bases in Santiago could also be used if able to receive large transport aircraft.
This is URGENT, pass this message forward to the corresponding authorities.
Are you still against the quick meeting that Préval and Leonel had in the aftermath of the earthquake?
Preval's dysfunctional and inept government is history and does not exist but in paper. The US is rightfully taking over, as aid carriers that were knocking at the Haitian bureaucrats door, without a response for 24 hours finally gave up, and took the bull by the horns.
Your desire to always be right, and maybe boasting with an "I told you so" just reflects your immaturity and failure to understand the basic tenets of political language.
Instead of trying to prove your point, I urge you to use your energies to try to get the word out to the control tower in Haiti, now manned by the US, to redirect flights to POP airport and Barahona airport where the aid, can be trucked to Haiti later.
PAP airport has ran out of airplane fuel and transport planes coming in can not return.
The engineers that built the airport "overlooked" that part.
Santiago airport is too busy presently with cargo and transport to accommodate more traffic, and is further away from Haiti.
Will landing in DR increase fuel prices for the Dominican public and travelers?
Dominicans can bearly afford current prices
agilizar la ayuda destinada a los damnificados."
El aeropuerto María Montez.
Length of runways: 9, 843' or 3, 000 m Asphalt surface
Elevation 10'/3 m
International
Barahona Barahona MDBH BRX María Montez International Airport
La Romana La Romana MDLR LRM La Romana International Airport
Puerto Plata Puerto Plata MDPP POP Gregorio Luperón International Airport
Punta Cana / Higüey La Altagracia MDPC PUJ Punta Cana International Airport
Samaná Samaná MDAB EPS Arroyo Barril International Airport
Sánchez Samaná MDCY AZS Samaná El Catey International Airport (Dr. Juan Bosch)
Santiago Santiago MDST STI Cibao International Airport (Santiago International)
Santo Domingo Distrito Nacional MDJB JBQ La Isabela International Airport (Dr. Joaquín Balaguer)
Santo Domingo Distrito Nacional MDSD SDQ Las Américas-JFPG International Airport (Dr. José Fco. Peña Gómez)
Domestic
Constanza La Vega MDCZ COZ Constanza Airport
Dajabón Dajabón MDDJ DAJ Dajabón Airport
Las Terrenas Samaná MDPO EPS El Portillo Airport
Monte Cristi Monte Cristi MDMC MTC Osvaldo Virgil Airport
Pedernal
The Guardian U.S. aircraft carrier, more troops arrive in Haiti? - 25 minutes ago
The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson also arrived off Haiti's shores overnight carrying 19 helicopters, and it started flights off its deck in the morning, ...
U.S. aircraft carrier, more troops arrive in Haiti
January 15, 2010 | 6:19 am
Hundreds of U.S. troops and an aircraft carried have arrived at the Haiti relief effort, and the commander on the ground said Friday that food, water, medicine and other emergency relief supplies are being rushed to victims.
Thousands more troops and sailors were en route.
"We have much more support on the way," Army Lt. Gen. Ken Keen said. "Our priority is getting relief out to the needy people, to mitigate the suffering that the Haitian people are experiencing right now."
Delayed for hours along with other flights circling over the severely congested Port-au-Prince airport, a second pl
The arrivals added to more than 300 military personnel who had gotten there as of Thursday and amounted to the first major influx of military from the United States, which has taken the lead in world efforts to assist the devastated country.
The U.S. Southern Command said there were about 8,000 personnel from America's armed forces either on site or on the way as of Friday morning.
Fort Bragg was sending another 800 troops Friday and will have a full brigade of some 3,500 on the ground by the end of the weekend. Another big ground force was expected late this weekend — the USS Bataan amphibious assault ship got under way overnight from Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia and was stopping Friday to pick up Marines in North Carolina on its way.
The Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort was to leave Baltimore Saturday w
Aware of the steep political cost that George W. Bush paid for an ineffective response to Hurricane Katrina, the White House has labored to show Obama has been intensely engaged since immediately after the quake struck. Details of evening Situation Room meetings, phone calls with world leaders and canceled events were being released almost hourly.
Obama himself warned it would take hours "and in many cases days" to get the full U.S. contingent to Haiti.
"None of this will seem quick enough if you have a loved one who's trapped, if you're sleeping on the streets, if you can't feed your children," Obama said at the
The infusion of troops began as President Barack Obama declared himself determined to carry out a wide-ranging rescue despite the strain that such a vast undertaking invariably would take.
"To the people of Haiti, we say clearly and with conviction, you will not be forsaken," Obama said Thursday. "You will not be forgotten. In this, your hour of greatest need, America stands with you."
A primary challenge is the badly damaged seaport that will make it difficult for ships — carrying the kinds of mass amounts of supplies and helicopters needed in a natural disaster — to offload their equipment. An assessment team was looking alternatives, including a port the U.S. Coast Guard has been using for some cargo.
The State Department confirmed the death of one American, career diplomat Victoria DeLong, a cultural affai
One thing that Dominican authorities are very much aware of, is the danger that an uncontrolled famine in Haiti, would cause the DR, and all of its already stressed to the max hospital and civil defense capabilities, and the not remote possibility of a chaotic stampede or human tsunami into Dominican territory.
This nightmare scenario is to be avoided at any and all costs.
January 15, 2010 | 5:28 am
Looters have broken into U.N. food warehouses in Haiti's crumbled capital, an official said Friday, as security and logistical challenges mounted for groups trying to feed at least 2 million people reeling from a devastating earthquake.
The U.N. World Food Program had 15,000 tons of food aid in Haiti prior to Tuesday's 7.0-magnitude earthquake, stocks designed for hurricane relief. Spokeswoman Emilia Casella said local partners reported that the U.N. warehouse in Port-au-Prince's Cite Soleil neighborhood was looted but the agency did not know how much aid was stolen or exactly when it was taken.
She did not give details of the other looted warehouses, but said much of the agency's food stocks were located outside the capital.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/l....eed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LaPl
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Haitians were growing increasingly desperate Friday in the stricken capital of Port-au-Prince as aid supplies remain scarce and bodies still litter the streets.
"Haiti is dead, is dead, is dead, is dead, is dead. Everything is breaking down," Philippe Mercier told NPR's Greg Allen. "It's like somebody who lives in the street, you know? Eat on the street, drink water on the street. There's no pure water."
Bodies were still piled up throughout the city. The international Red Cross estimated on Thursday that between 45,000 and 50,000 people were killed in the quake, based on information from the Haitian Red Cross and government officials.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122602342
CNN International - ?1 hour ago?
A South Korean rescue team prepares to leave Friday from Incheon International Airport to help in quake-ravage Haiti. Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) ...
JONATHAN PEARLMAN
January 16, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE: Anger and despair have mounted in quake-hit Haiti, with scores facing a third night trapped beneath the ruins, food and water running out, and little sign of international aid reaching the country.
The stench of death from up to 50,000 decomposing bodies lying in the streets hung over the capital of Port-au-Prince on Thursday as residents hunkered down for another night in the open, traumatised by aftershocks triggered by the 7.0-magnitude earthquake on Tuesday.
Despite a massive aid operation, there was no sign of heavy lifting equipment among the rubble even as tonnes of material and badly needed supplies flooded into the international airport in the capital.
‘No water, no food, no shelter’ as Canadian military begins Haitian mission
Jorge Barrera, Canwest News Service
Published: Friday, January 15, 2010
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The 82 nd airborne paratroopers are landing in Haiti as we speak, the US aircraft carrier can already be seen from the Haitian coast, and helicopters are landing in PAP.
The Dominican Republic must place the army under immediate and full alert and reinforce all border
entry points. Any refugee camps must be installed in Haitian territory.
yes they really need to beef up the border... When I was in Santiago in December... I thought I was in Haiti with so many Haitian... I could see that happening.
They are telling people that are healthy to leave the city and go into the country... Haiti's country side does not produce enough farming to support all of these people
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/72a026a4-01d6-11df-b8cb-00144feabdc0.html
By Benedict Mander in Port-au-Prince
Published: January 15 2010 13:57 | Last updated: January 15 2010 13:57
Conditions on Friday morning at the makeshift hospital set up in the United Nations compound in Port-au-Prince to treat survivors of this week’s earthquake in Haiti were indicative of the desperate struggle to help the millions of affected people.
The ground was packed with camp beds, with many of the victims screaming, others unconscious.
“It’s like a civil war, it’s a disaster. About a fifth of the people here are going to die,” said John MacDonald, a surgeon forming part of a group flown in from the University of Miami, as he surveyed the grim scene. “We’re doing the minimal, it’s just a palliative – we just don’t have enough supplies or equipment”.
Another medic helping out, Mark Barletier, was one of the many Haitians living in the US who flew in to he
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d919010....-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1
By Miles Johnson
Published: January 15 2010 14:10 | Last updated: January 15 2010 14:10
Some of the world’s largest companies have pledged millions of dollars of cash and food supplies towards the relief effort in Haiti as international aid agencies scramble to cope with the mounting humanitarian crisis in the earthquake-stricken Caribbean nation.
Many companies, some with staff based in Haiti, have also pledged to match donations made by their employees in an echo of the corporate response after the devastating Boxing Day tsunami in south-east Asia in 2004.
General Electric, the US conglomerate, on Thursday said it was giving $2.5m towards the relief efforts in Haiti, while the US banks Citigroup, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and Jefferies made donations worth millions of dollars.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/....LeqM5hgpjEjX_VHsGI1qC2Soo8rlOR9-Q
By Rick Callahan (CP) – 5 hours ago
INDIANAPOLIS — Scientists who detected worrisome signs of growing stresses in the fault that unleashed this week's devastating earthquake in Haiti said Thursday they warned officials there two years ago that the country was ripe for a major earthquake.
Their sobering findings, presented during a geological conference in March 2008 and at meetings two months later, showed that the fault was capable of causing a 7.2-magnitude earthquake - slightly stronger than Tuesday's 7.0 quake that rocked the impoverished country.
Though Haitian officials listened intently to the research, the nearly two years between the presentation and the devastating quake was not enough time for Haiti to have done much to have prevented the massive destruction.
"It's too short of a timef
7 Tuesday, 30 Wednesday, 4 Thursday and 2 Today.
There has been some mention but not the amounts.
VA News had a mention
http://weblogs.marylandweather.co....a_well_reacts_to_haiti_quake.html
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthq....recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php
Subtract 4 hours from Zulu Time for local Atlantic TIme.
panic, and human stampedes, but have diminished considerably.
United Nations’ food stockpiles in Haiti have been looted, an official said on Friday.
The World Food Programme’s warehouses which were in place prior to the earthquake were raided, spokeswoman Emilia Casella, said.
The UN’s food organization believes nearly 2 million people were “food insecure” even prior to the latest blow to Haiti owing to previous natural disasters and conflicts.
WFP would aim to continue food distributions from its remaining supplies, the spokeswoman told reporters.
“At this point we are trying to get the food we have our hands on to the people,” Ms. Casella said, adding that these supplies were a “drop in the bucket.” Meanwhile, the UN does not need more sea
Stephanie Nebehay
GENEVA
Fri Jan 15, 2010 10:09am EST
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60E2WG20100115
GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. aid agencies will launch an emergency appeal to raise for about $550 million to help survivors of the earthquake in Haiti, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Friday.
WORLD | NATURAL DISASTERS
Thousands of people injured in Tuesday's massive earthquake in the Caribbean country spent a third night waiting for help, many lying on sidewalks, as their despair turned to anger.
"The reality is that getting the quantities of supplies, equipment and expertise that are so desperately needed on the ground inevitably takes time," U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes said in a statement.
The world body also said it was looking at converting the national soccer stadium in Port-au-Prince into a field hospital and at setting up collective kitchens for the homeless.
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From the twisted debris of a collapsed Haitian hotel, French rescuers saved seven Americans, and a US team returned the favour, pulling from the rubble a French woman who promptly asked for a glass of wine.
Amid the untold death and destruction that has marked Haiti's worst natural disaster on record, rays of hope like this one have poked through the despair. Hope has energised a global aid operation facing the grievous task of extracting thousands of victims - most of them lifeless - from the ruins.
Perched in the hills above Port-au-Prince, the large Hotel Montana saw crews from Chile, France, the United States and Venezuela converge on Thursday in a desperate effort to rescue some 200 Haitians and foreigners believed to have been inside when the five-story structure collapsed during Tuesday's cataclysmic earthquake.
As josean himself dijo yesterday.
"Rumors about my demise have been greatly exaggerated"
El esta vivo.
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WASHINGTON — A U.S. army brigade of 3,500 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division will join more than 2,200 American marines in Haiti by week's end as worries mount over the potential for post-earthquake unrest in a nation long beset by political violence, rampant drug crime and gang warfare.
http://www.canada.com/news/Long+t....nting+prospect/2442701/story.html
BY JORGE BARRERA , CANWEST NEWS SERVICEJANUARY 15, 2010 10:00 AM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A total of 1,415 Canadians are still missing in Haiti days after a devastating earthquake struck the Caribbean country, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said Friday.
Four Canadians have died and 13 others were wounded. Fifty have sought refugee in the Canadian Embassy and 50 others are living elsewhere in the country.
Julie Dion, 41, believes dozens of Canadians are missing and likely dead.
http://www.canada.com/news/More+t....+missing+Haiti/2444938/story.html
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/....227_guest15watts.html?prmid=op_ed
Haiti is too often referred to as a basket case that is responsible for its history of political violence, writes guest columnist Richard H. Watts. What Haiti needs is our help — help that empowers the Haitian people — not pity or scorn.
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A man wanders in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as a fire burns in a destroyed building Wednesday after a 7.0 earthquake hit the island nation, killing tens of thousands.
THERE are many possible responses to the devastating earthquake in Haiti: shock, horror, profound sadness, empathy and the urge to help.
Tens of thousands of people are dead and much of the capital city, Port-au-Prince, its edge-city slum Carrefour, and its one relatively prosperous suburb, Pétionville, have been re
Despite an expansive international aid effort, workers are facing a logistical nightmare.
There was no sign of heavy lifting equipment among the ruins as tons of material and badly needed supplies clogged up the international airport.
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My message is in this link http://www.everythinghaitian.com/....gDetail.aspx?BID=183&PID=2146 to the American government. I am a two times OIF veteran soldier who is still in the United States Army Reserves. I have given my service to the United States and now my home country is in terrible distress I am watching how time is being wasted on demagogueries by not even providing them with basic food and water so they can endure and shelter the storm.
1st: The U.S. and other powerful nations should build the infrastructure of this country by paying Haitians to do so. At the same time build co-ups like in the Bronx’s, obviously not as tall; this is so the people who are building the country can live in them.
2nt: Just like in ww2 and like china U.S companies (as well as international ones) should create factories so that Haitians can work. The goods produced here would be better than china because the shipping coast would be much less and labor coast would be the same.
3rd: The U.S military and U.N should be the police force will all of this is going on. They should train, build, ad provide the Haitians with the necessary skills and technology to fight crime.
that is how I think this country could be a functioning one. After all it was the powerful nations who destroyed it
I once again, reiterate that the current situation is once again bringing out the best nature of both people and while we all disagree with our current political relationship with Haiti, I have to give them respect for keeping peaceful for three days under such conditions. I do not know if I would have been able to stay as calmed as they did. This show how strong willed these people are and we should capitalize on that strong will to better our relantionship.
Finally, Caracas, Venezuela experienced a 5.7 quake a few hours ago, do not know how bad things are over there yet.
The U.S. Geological Survey reported a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 for the quake, saying the epicenter was off Venezuela's Caribbean coast 65 miles (110 kilometers) west of Caracas. The head of Venezuela's seismological agency, Francisco Garces, put the quake at magnitude 6.2, followed by an aftershock registering 4.0.
Two young people, ages 9 and 26, suffered serious leg injuries, and 12 other people had minor injuries, Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami said.
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Buildings swayed as the quake rocked Caracas about 3:40 p.m. local time (4:10 p.m. EDT, 20:10GMT). Only a few people evacuated buildings to stand outside as a rainstorm slowed traffic. No injured were reported in the capital, El Aissami said.
The head of Venezuela's national civil protection agency, Luis Diaz, said authorities would evaluate two Caracas malls, including one where glass had shattered, to ensure their safety.
Cities in nearby Carabobo and Aragua states were also jolted, but did not experience major problems. In Aragua, there were reports of damage to some houses, and some people were injured on an escalator at a mall during a panicky evacuat
Infrastructure Minister Diosdado Cabello said there were no reports of major infrastructure damage. No problems were reported at oil refineries or other installations in Venezuela's key oil industry.
Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) -- The earthquake in Haiti will cost the nation’s economy at least 15 percent of its gross domestic product, said Pamela Cox, the World Bank’s vice president for Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Jan. 12 quake is a “much bigger tragedy” than the four tropical storms or hurricanes that struck the nation in 2008, Cox said in an interview today with Bloomberg Television. Reconstruction efforts will take years and require help from the private sector, she said.
Since the 7-magnitude earthquake, governments from the U.S. to France, companies such as Bank of America Corp. and the World Bank have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars in aid and sent hundreds of rescue workers and equipment. Haiti’s prime minister estimated that more than 100,000 people may have died.
“We are looking at a minimum of 15 percent of GDP,” Cox said, basing her estimate on the toll the four storms took on the economy in 2008.
Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, had an economy of $6.9 billion in 2008, according to the Central Intelligence Agency’s Web site. Service accounts for about 52 percent of the gross domestic product in Haiti, located on an island with the Dominican Republic. The rest is made up of agriculture and industry.
The World Bank’s 15 percent figure is too conservative, Eduardo Gamarra, a political science professor at Florida International University in Miami, said in a telephone interview. Aid and pledges to Haiti will be difficult to distribute, said Gamarra, who specializes in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Delivering Aid
“The international community has had a marvelous way of promising things to Haiti but then being incapable of delivering it,” Gamarra said. The government “is incapable of absorbing the necessary aid money because Haiti has no institutions.”
Economic damage in Haiti may be in the “low-single-digit billions” of dollars, said Eqecat Inc., the company that builds financial risk models to help insurers prepare for catastrophes.
Bank of America Corp., the largest U.S. Bank, pledged $1 million in aid. Digicel Group Ltd., the largest mobile phone provider in Haiti, said it would donate $5 million for relief services. Other announced donors included JPMorgan Chase & Co., American Express Co., Visa Inc. Amgen Inc., United Parcel Service Inc. Lowe’s Cos., Wells Fargo & Co., Eli Lilly and Co., Walt Disney Co., Western Union Co., France’s Credit Agricole SA and Britain’s Tesco Plc.
U.S. Assistance
President Barack Obama said the U.S. would respond with “every element of our national capacity,” including $100 million in relief spending.
Obama has asked former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to lead the U.S. efforts to aid Haiti. Clinton is also the UN’s special envoy to Haiti.
Now, I hope the Dominican goverment is making sure that there is enough medice and hospital spaces for the Dominicans in case we get hit by a earthquake, it is possible, specially in Santiago where we had a very strong earthquake few hundreds years ago in Jacagua.
Are our hospitals and emergency supply big enough in case of an earthquake like in our soil? Do we have enough food bank supplies? I was just wondering.
The International Monetary Fund has set aside $100 million for Haiti, Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn
“The IMF stands ready to do its part” he said today.
The World Bank and IMF had granted Haiti $1.2 billion in debt relief for improvements in the government’s economic and financial management last year. In May 2009, the IMF estimated Haiti’s economy would grow 2 percent and inflation would rise 5 percent.
-With assistance by Mark Crumpton in New York and Sandrine Rastello in Washington. Editors: Fred Strasser, Brendan Walsh
To contact the reporter on this story: Andres R. Martinez in Mexico City at amartinez28@bloomberg.net; Lori Rothman in NYC
Maybe Leonel read my suggestion and later followed the advise. Tanfeamami (Afro) brought up the fact that nothing is being done for Jacmel, and they have an unused smaller airport that could be used as well.
El secretario de Estado haitiano dice que ya se han enterrado 40.000 cadáveres.- Haití cede a EE UU el control del aeropuerto.- La ira se apodera de las calles de Puerto Príncipe ante la falta de alimentos y medicinas
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El Gobierno de Haití calcula de la cifra de muertos a causa del terremoto del pasado martes podría alcanzar los 200.000, según ha informado el ministro del Interior haitiano, Paul Antoine Bien-Aime. "Ya hemos recuperado cerca de 50.000 cuerpos y anticipamos que la cifra de muertos se situará entre los 100.000 y los 200.000, aunque nunca sabremos el número exacto", ha dicho Bien-Aime. Poco antes, el secretario de Estado de Seguridad Pública de Haití, Aramick Louis, aseguraba que ya se han enterrado 40.000 cadáveres.
El aeropuerto de Puerto Príncipe, incapaz de contener la marea de aviones que acuden a Haití
Una marabunta de personas aguarda en la República Dominicana para conseguir un vuelo que
les permita llegar al país vecino y echar una mano en la catástrofe
ANTONIO JIMÉNEZ BARCA (Enviado especial) - Santo Domingo - 15/01/2010
Colaboró con la policía haitiana para detener a criminales que se enseñoreaban de los barrios más pobres. "Y ahora se han escapado: 5.000 presos se han fugado de la cárcel. Volverán a hacer lo que hacían", vaticina. Y explica de qué se trata: "Son gente que mata porque sí, yo he visto cómo le han arrancado los dientes uno a uno en la calle a un tipo al que acusaban de ser un chivato; son gente que viola a quien quiere, bajo amenaza de matar a la hermana o a la madre o a la abuela, es gente que acaba con otro de un balazo, así, pum, por menos de nada, porque se les pone en medio: nos costó mucho meterlos en la cárcel. Pero lo hicimos. Y ahora están de nuevo
Josean has died in the earthquake... jajajjaajaj
RIP
And of course, the fault that erupted was the CIA's fault.
El escritor haitiano Métellus. / Imagen: JP Quiñonero
JUAN PEDRO QUIÑONERO | PARÍS
Jean Métellus, patriarca de la cultura haitiana, en el destierro, teme que gobernantes, ministros, prefectos, militares y policías roben masivamente buena parte de la ayuda internacional a Haití, precipitando una tragedia humana todavía más pavorosa.
Métellus (Jacmel, 1939) es el escritor haitiano más importante de nuestro tiempo, autor de una docena de novelas, una veintena de libros de poesía, seis dramas y varios ensayos, comenzando por su legendario, «Haití, una nación patética» (2003).
En su despacho-biblioteca, en las afueras de París, Lope de Vega, García Lorca y Borges ocupan un puesto privilegiado, frente a Martin Luther King y los héroes de la independencia haitiana. En el exilio, desde 1959, Métellus es un conocedor emérito de las tragedias de su patria y estima que el drama en curso es una «enc
Puerto Príncipe.- “A cualquier lugar pero lejos de la ciudad”, repite Talulum Saint Fils, mientras aguarda que un autobús cargado de pasajeros la saque junto a su marido y sus cuatro hijos de Puerto Príncipe, donde el sismo del martes destrozó su casa y les convirtió en vagabundos.
Desde hace dos días, miles de damnificados por el terremoto huyen de la capital. Cansados de dormir en la calle, temerosos de que “la tierra vuelva a temblar” o de que les intenten robar lo poco que les queda, numerosas familias decidieron recurrir a parientes que viven en otras provincias menos afectadas por el sismo.
“Las calles huelen a muerto, no tenemos ningún tipo de ayuda y nuestros niños no pueden vivir como animales”, afirma esta madre de familia.
La familia Saint Fils ha pagado 400 ‘gourdes’ (10 dólares) por cada pasaje cuando el precio normal es la mitad. Vendieron joyas para pagar este billete, sólo de ida. “Me gustaría volver y reconstruir nuestra casa, pero ¿con qué dinero?”, se preg