Last Updated: Thursday, December 27, 2007 12:01

27/12/07

LETTER OF THE DAY – For growth to happen, halt runaway murder
Jamaica Gleaner – Kingston,Jamaica
What is going on in Jamaica today is a sure way for Jamaica to plunge so far into poverty, Haiti will seem like paradise. The Government alone cannot do it. …
www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20071227/letters/letters1.html

DVD REVIEW: GHOSTS OF CITE SOLEIL
Cinematic Happenings Under Development – New York,NY,USA
Haiti has always been a dangerous, poor country thanks in large part to the United States involvement. The first predominantly black country to achieve…
www.chud.com/dvd/13063

UN Envoy to Haiti Addresses Sex Abuse
The Associated Press –
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Every unit in the UN’s 7800-strong Haitian peacekeeping force has been warned against misconduct after a sex-abuse scandal …
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j8WOojhq
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Haiti Seeks Chevron for Venezuelan Oil
CNNMoney.com – USA
NEW YORK (Associated Press) – Haiti is seeking a contract with Chevron Corp. to ship Venezuelan oil purchased under President Hugo Chavez’s discount fuel …
money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/apw
ire/9ee9542796b0e0d1e7dd9558973c869b.htm

Haiti President Seeks End to Kidnappings
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
By AP PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — President Rene Preval asked kidnappers to stop targeting youngsters during a somber holiday address Sunday in this…
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-haiti -ch
ristmas-kidnappings,1,4587925.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

A global trek to poor nations, from poorer ones
International Herald Tribune – France
Still, with the average income in the Dominican Republic six times as much as in Haiti, Moises has answered each expulsion by hiring a smuggler to bribe the …
www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/27/america/27migration.php

Amnesty International breaks its silence: Issues statement on …
The NarcoSphere – New York,NY,USA
Whether or not Human Rights Watch will follow with a statement of their own remains to be seen. For current information and news about Haiti read…
www.narconews.com/Issue48/article2946.html

26/12/07

Local Struggles Meets Global Movemements in New Orleans and Haiti
By jubileeusa
Gerard Jean-Juste, a Catholic priest from Haiti, just does not know when to shut up. In the 1970's he saw his people starved and persecuted while Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier lived in opulence, so he organized for change. …
jubileeusa.typepad.com/blog_the_debt/2007/12/local-struggles.html

Season offers us lessons in tolerance, rather than hate
Seattle Times – United States
Larry A. Bailly is a lifelong Snohomish County resident and a mechanic by trade. He spends time in the mission field in Haiti, Mexico and other places. …
seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinio
n/2004091837_snobailly26.html

Check Out the New Black Digital Network
Black PR Wire (press release) – North Miami Beach,FL,USA
The Resolution also marks Haiti’s independence and renunciation of slavery. Congressman Meek, who represents Florida’s 17th Congressional District, …
www.blackprwire.com/display-news.asp?id=3750

25/12/07

Haiti seeks Chevron for Venezuelan oil
By tiffany
Haiti joined Chavez’s Petrocaribe initiative more than a year ago, but has been unable to transport or receive any oil shipments so far, said Michael Lecorps, director of the aid management office in charge of implementing the program. …
chevrontexaco.120host.net/2007/12/25/
haiti-seeks-chevron-for-venezuelan-oil/

A Christmas letter from CFNE… Haiti is a land of despair.
By Administrator
The political man says “Haiti is the land of despair.” We, as people of god, we are called to change our living place in showing to every one our love for God and in serving the others in need. God promises us in Isaiah 60: 1-3, …
haitichildren.genesisgenius.com/a-christmas
-letter-from-cfne-haiti-is-a-land-of-despair/70

24/12/07

Wyclef, Akon Bring Free Show To Haiti: P… –
By fzkj
WYCLEF, AKON BRING FREE SHOW TO HAITI: P… , CA – 12 hours ago Wyclef stated: “In a time when record companies are suffering due to download technology, the idea of artist development doesn’t exist anymore. …
movies.propeller.com/story/2007/12/24/
wyclef-akon-bring-free-show-to-haiti-p

Haiti plea over child abductions
By BBC (reposted)(SF Bay Area Independent Media Center (Indybay))
Monday, December 24, 2007 : Haiti President Rene Preval marks Christmas with a call for gangs to end to a spate of abductions of children.
www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/12/24/18468712.php

Haiti Vs. “September 30" Human Rights Defenders
“The Haitian authorities have a responsibility under international law to protect the legitimate rights of human rights defenders to organize and take action without restrictions or fear of reprisals.”
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0712/S01168.htm

Christmas plea to Haiti gangs
Haiti’s president has appealed to criminal gangs to stop targeting youngsters after a spate of child kidnappings. Simon Bowden reports.
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