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Haiti stories: 43 news summaries

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Murdered Family's Dad Held in Haiti

Mesac Damas is a 'person of interest' in Fla. slayings of 6

Sep 21, 09 5:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Haitian National Police have apprehended a man believed to be the husband and father of the woman and five children found murdered Saturday in their Florida home, the Naples Daily News reports. Mesac Damas, who flew to Haiti Friday, is not officially a suspect in the case. He is... More »

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Florida • murder • Haiti • homicide • Mesac Damas • Guerline Damas • Naples, Fla. • Haitian National Police

Cops Hunt
Man After
Wife, 5 Kids
Found Slain

Mesac Damas may have fled to Haiti

Sep 21, 09 1:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Police are hunting a man whose wife and five children were found slain in their Florida home, reports CNN. The bodies of Guerline Damas, 32, and kids aged 11 months to 9 years were discovered by police after they were contacted by relatives. Investigators believe Mesac Damas, 33, may have... More »

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Naples • Haiti • Miami International Airport

(Newser) - Famed reality TV villain Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth has seen the light, E! reports. The Apprentice anti-hero will enter an Ohio seminary next week for 2 years of religious schooling on her way to becoming a minister. Her ambition is in line with her character, an official at the United Theological... More »

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reality TV • Christianity • Donald Trump • Haiti • villains • minister • The Apprentice • Omarosa • Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth • seminary

Migrant Boat Capsizes Near Haiti; 85 Missing

Some 113 saved after vessel reportedly hit reef evading police

Jul 28, 09 7:35 AM CDT
(AP) - A boat carrying Haitian migrants capsized and sank off the Turks and Caicos Islands and up to 85 people are missing, the US Coast Guard says. One survivor said the boat struck a reef as it tried to elude police. Rescuers found 113 survivors stranded on two reefs and recovered... More »

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Haiti • Coast Guard • Turks and Caicos Islands • capsize • migrants

(Newser) - Bill Clinton has officially been named UN special envoy to Haiti, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon awarded Clinton the $1-per-year post today, noting that “No one is better placed for this mission. He knows the country, he loves the people, and they love him.... More »

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United Nations • Bill Clinton • Haiti • Ban Ki-Moon • UN special envoy

(Newser) - Bill Clinton will be named the United Nation’s special envoy to Haiti this week, Foreign Policy reports. Clinton’s popularity in the deeply impoverished nation remains high from his presidential tenure, when he intervened to restore Jean-Bertrand Aristide to the presidency after his 1994 ouster. The announcement, expected tomorrow,... More »

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Hillary Clinton • United Nations • Bill Clinton • Haiti • UN special envoy

 10 Dead After 
 Smuggler's Boat 
 Capsizes Off Fla. 

Coast Guard slams 'callous' smugglers  after migrants drown

May 14, 09 6:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - At least 10 people died when an overloaded boat authorities believe was being used to smuggle Haitian migrants into the US capsized off the coast of Florida yesterday, CNN reports. The Coast Guard—which launched a massive search-and-rescue operation after a pleasure boat spotted survivors in the water—saved 16... More »

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Florida • Haiti • Coast Guard • smuggler • boat accident • capsize

At Least 9 Dead as Migrants' Boat Capsizes Off Fla.

28 Haitian and Bahamian migrants were aboard: Coast Guard

May 13, 09 2:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - As many as nine people are dead after a boat carrying 28 Haitian and Bahamian migrants capsized 15 miles off the Florida coast this morning, the Palm Beach Post reports. About half the passengers have been located and the search is continuing, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel adds. Some passengers may... More »

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Florida • Haiti • Coast Guard • Bahamas • boat accident • search and rescue • capsize • migrants

Clinton Heads
to Haiti With
$325M Boost

New aid will combat drug trafficking, island's economic crisis

Apr 16, 09 11:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton is headed to Haiti to meet with the president and pledge her support for economic help for the hemisphere’s poorest nation. The trip comes on the heels of an international fundraiser that generated $325 million for programs aimed at the nation’s 70% unemployment, reports NPR. The... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Haiti • poverty • international aid • President Obama

 Haitian School 
 Toll Hits 90; 
 Owner Arrested 

Little structural steel or cement was used in building, according to authorities

Nov 9, 08 8:17 AM CST
(Newser) - The owner of a collapsed Haitian school was detained by police yesterday as the death toll in the flattened building hit 90. The Protestant minister who owns the College La Promesse Evangelique surrendered to authorities yesterday, reports CNN. He has not yet been charged with a crime. Authorities said the... More »

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children • Haiti • disaster • school collapse

(Newser) - The death toll in the Haitian school collapse has risen to 75, the AP reports. The mayor of the Port-au-Prince suburb where it occurred said 17 dead students have been found so far today. Another 80 are being treated for injuries, many of them serious, and hundreds more children could... More »

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construction • Haiti • school • collapse • rescue • survivors • search • building • disaster

 Haiti School Collapse 
 Kills At Least 30 

Poor repair job, not recent rains, doomed building, mayor says

Nov 7, 08 4:21 PM CST
(Newser) - At least 30 people, many possibly children, died in Haiti today when a school building collapsed, AP reports. The school, in a village in the hills above Port-au-Prince, experienced a partial collapse in 2000. Before today, the building was under construction, and the town’s mayor said structural problems, not... More »

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Brazil • Haiti • Chile • school • Red Cross • collapse • Ecuador • Dominican Republic • Doctors Without Borders • engineering • disaster

 Damon, Singer Jean 
 Help in Haiti 

Call on UN to raise $100M for storm recovery

Sep 15, 08 11:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Matt Damon and singer Wyclef Jean waded through knee-deep flood waters during a tour of decimated Gonaives, Haiti, yesterday to call attention to the widespread suffering that has followed tropical storm Hanna and Hurricane Ike. "I'm speechless, I can't believe it," Damon told the AP. The actor and... More »

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United Nations • Haiti • Matt Damon • celebrity humanitarianism • Wyclef Jean • hurricane recovery • Hurricane Ike

Fla. Keys Evacuation Order Canceled

Residents urged to stay put as Hurricane Ike menaces mainland

Sep 8, 08 12:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hurricane Ike is now a Category 2 storm, and officials have rescinded orders to evacuate the Florida Keys, the Miami Herald reports. Residents still on the archipelago shouldn't go anywhere, and those who've already left are being asked not to return until after the storm passes. It's expected to continue... More »

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Fidel Castro • Cuba • Haiti • natural disaster • Florida Keys • Hurricane Ike

 Ike Slams Cuba;
 600 Dead in Haiti 

Hurricane now heading for the US

Sep 8, 08 2:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hurricane Ike has hit land in northeastern Cuba and is now sweeping across the country with savage 125 mph winds, Bloomberg reports. Over 800,000 people were evacuated before the arrival of the Category 3 hurricane, the second in just over a week to slam the country, AFP notes. “... More »

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severe weather • Cuba • Haiti • evacuation • death toll • Hurricane Ike

 Haitians Starving in Hanna Hell

Survivors stranded on rooftops beyond reach of aid workers

Sep 5, 08 2:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Impoverished Haiti is reeling from the devastation of a series of tropical storms and hurricanes, with refugees starving on rooftops in flood-ravaged areas, reports the Guardian. Faced with washed-out roads and winds too strong for helicopters, UN aide workers are using inflatable boats to reach at least some survivors. The... More »

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United Nations • Cuba • Haiti • hurricanes • Tropical Storm Fay • Hurricane Gustav • Hurricane Hanna • Hurricane Ike • Port-au-Prince

Ike Spikes to Cat 4, Deadly
Hanna Churns Toward US

Now Josephine's waiting in the wings

Sep 4, 08 2:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two major storms are churning across the Atlantic, with their chances of striking the US still unclear. Hurricane Ike has rapidly strengthened to a raging Category 4, while Tropical Storm Hanna is now battering the Bahamas after killing 26 in Haiti. Hanna could hit the US  Saturday anywhere between Georgia... More »

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Georgia • North Carolina • Haiti • National Hurricane Center • Dominican Republic • Bahamas • Hurricane Hanna • Hurricane Ike • Tropical Storm Josephine

 Hanna Drenches 
 Waterlogged Haiti 

26 dead, thousands stranded as island suffers through another storm

Sep 3, 08 2:16 PM CDT
(AP) - Far-reaching Tropical Storm Hanna drenched flood-plagued Haiti today, adding to the miseries of a country that has lost 110 lives to mudslides and flooding since mid-August. The storm was expected to sweep across the Bahamas and then start climbing along the US coastline by the weekend, with a 20% chance... More »

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weather • New York City • Haiti • tropical storms • Tropical Storm Hanna

 Gustav Slams Jamaica 
 as Gulf Coast Braces

Tropical storm could be category 3 hurricane by tomorrow

Aug 29, 08 7:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tropical Storm Gustav pummeled Jamaica today with 65mph winds and may build to a category 3 storm by the time it reaches Cuba tomorrow, CNN reports. The storm killed some 51 in Haiti and eight in the Dominican Republic yesterday. Officials in the National Hurricane Center’s “cone of... More »

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Haiti • National Hurricane Center • evacuation • hurricane • Dominican Republic • Tropical Storm • Gulf Coast • Hurricane Gustav

 Gustav Kills 11, Weakens

Could strike US as Category 3

Aug 27, 08 11:09 AM CDT
(AP) - Thousands fled their homes as Hurricane Gustav triggered flooding and landslides that killed at least 11 people in the Dominican Republic and Haiti before weakening to a tropical storm, but forecasters said today that he still represents a major threat to the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. They suggested... More »

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weather • Latin America • Mexico • Cuba • United States • Jamaica • Haiti • Caribbean • tropical storms • Dominican Republic • Royal Dutch Shell • Hurricane Gustav

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