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  • Kim Collins to be honoured by a Texas university

    Caribbean sprint legend Kim Collins is to be inducted into the Texas Christian University's (TCU) Hall of Fame during an official ceremony later this year. Collins, who competed for the TCU Horned Frogs and received six All-America honours, will be inducted into their letterman's Hall of Fame along with six other former TCU athletes. The 37-year-old former World Champion attended TCU between ...

  • Haiti PM files new complaint in defamation case

    MIAMI -- Following a judge's order, Haiti's prime minister has filed a more detailed complaint in his defamation case against a Haitian-American journalist.Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe and South Florida businessman Patrice Baker originally sued Leo Joseph in September over his reporting in the New York-based Haiti-Observateur. They allege that Joseph knew his reporting about the ...

  • Canada sends soldiers to support UN mission in Haiti

    Canada will dispatch dozens of military personnel to support the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), Defense Minister Peter MacKay announced Wednesday.MacKay said a platoon of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) will depart on Friday to operate within a Brazilian battalion in Haiti until December.The 34 CAF members come from the Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group in Valcartier, ...

  • Venezuela Wreckage of plane that disappeared in 2008 located off Caribbean archipelago

    CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan authorities say the undersea wreckage of a small plane that disappeared five years ago with 14 people aboard has been found. Attorney General Luisa Ortega Diaz is announcing via Twitter the discovery of the aircraft with the ID code YV2081. The plane went missing Jan. 4, 2008. Aboard were five Venezuelans including the pilot and copilot, eight Italians and one ...

  • Video Canadian peacekeepers heading to Haiti

    Defence Minister Peter MacKay says 34 soldiers are going to Haiti as part of a UN peacekeeping operation. The troops are scheduled to arrive this week to begin a six-month tour under Brazilian ...


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  • World Bank grants Haiti $20 million to clean up public records government transparency

    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The World Bank has given $20 million to Haiti for cleaning up its public resources and making them more transparent. The grant will help Haiti improve public financial management, procurement practices and performance of the national electrical company. It will also create a tracking system to monitor budgets and a single treasury account to manage funds. The grant is ...

  • Two U.S. Navy landing craft up for auction each seats 200 and a tank

    Two Vietnam-era vessels docked at the Naval Station Great Lakes north of Chicago, landing craft that can hold 200 people each, are for sale, the U.S. Navy said. An auction of the two LCM-8s, capable of plowing through surf onto a beach, opening a ramp and unleashing an amphibious assault, began Tuesday and ends Thursday afternoon on the govliquidation.com website, the Chicago Tribune reported ...

  • Miyamoto Haiti Expands to Build 34 Schools With FAES and UNICEF

    United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). The school sites are mainly in remote areas of Haiti, outside of the capital. These projects will be built to international standards for safety and quality. "There should be no difference in the safety standards for American children and for Haitian children. We need to ensure that all children are completely safe in their schools," said ...

  • Haiti ban fallout reaches more sectors

    They haven't cared for like 200 years and countingSymbolically, when the earthquake of 2010 took out the National Palace wild cheers went up on the part of the underclasses in the still smoldering ashes of that terrible natural disaster. A very telling symbol or statement of the lack of State and Nation balancing.The "saving face" might be part of the problem, but in essence ...

  • Haiti ban spurs slaughter of 1.0M hens cut in egg production

    Santo Domingo.- Agriculture Minister Luis Ramon Rodriguez Wednesday announced an agreement with egg producers to cut production and adapt to local demand, for which the Haitian market will no longer be a priority. Rodriguez said one million laying hens no longer at peak output will be slaughtered, to balance supply to the demand much faster. Among the other measures announced by the official ...

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