· August, 2011

Stories about Haiti from August, 2011

Haiti: Grim Housing Situation

Haiti Grassroots Watch investigates whether “the 634,000 people still living in Haiti’s 1,001 camps, and the undoubtedly tens of thousands of others living in unsafe and even condemned structures [will]...

23 August 2011

Haiti: Jobs Needed for Progress

Love Haiti suggests that “the hardships facing Haiti today may be compared to the Great Depression of the United States”, explaining: “The point of this analogy is simply to state...

10 August 2011

Haiti: Tackling the Housing Problem

Toussaint on Haiti maintains that “kicking people out of the IDP camps without providing them with an adequate alternative will not solve the [housing] problem”, adding: “The only solution is...

5 August 2011

Caribbean: Update on Emily

Tropical Storm Emily lightly skirted Dominica, Guadeloupe [FR] and the U.S. Virgin Islands, causing rain and “wave action”; now, Cuba and Haiti await her arrival.

3 August 2011