I wasn't holding my breath for this, but you say goodbye, I say hello….
"Physicians for Haiti help quake-devastated nation mend medical system" by Meghan E. Irons | Globe Staff, January 12, 2014
As the world looks to Haiti on the fourth anniversary of the quake, Dr. Michelle Morse, cofounder of the Haiti program and a physician at both Brigham and Women’s and Boston Children’s hospitals, said in a phone interview from Haiti, “We still have a cholera epidemic, so there is much that needs to be done.”
That's my number one concern when seeing what the Globe presents regarding Haiti.
As Haiti tries to move past the widespread devastation, its people remain in need of food, homes, and jobs.
After four years?
Billions of dollars in promised aid from foreign countries and humanitarian organizations have not trickled down, partly because of worries about Haiti’s political infighting and corruption, according to Associated Press reports.
Or it was stolen.
Weren't George W. Bush and Bill Clinton in charge of that dough? And all the Haitians got was a hotel Clinton could stay at as he and his fly through the region?
On Saturday, Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe sounded a hopeful tone in his progress report to the country, saying that fewer people are living in settlement camps and that thousands of new houses are being built….
Looks to me like politicians, no matter which country they come from, are lying scum.
Sorry, folks, but I've simply lo$t hope in them or my propaganda pre$$.
“It’s a sad anniversary, but we don’t want to make it a sad time,’’ said the Rev. Jean Jeune, whose First Christian Church Source of Grace in Mattapan will hold two services marking the quake. “We are going to celebrate life.”
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The Rev. Jacques Dady Jean, a Mattapan pastor, said, “Haiti was forgotten before the earthquake; now the earthquake has put Haiti back on the world map.’’
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They remain mostly forgotten, and they always were on the map -- just mostly ignored by my propaganda pre$$.
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Planned construction on a new section of the hospital has not happened, Morse said.
Despite those challenges, Physicians for Haiti moves forward, she added.
Through the debris, carcasses, and ill people.
The program connects physicians in Haiti with doctors in the United States, giving them resources, training, and information.
Its visiting professors program holds conferences in Haiti and it offers a social medicine course each summer. In addition, it launched a pilot effort at Mirebalais University Hospital to hold interactive training sessions that focus on skills critical to being an educator. So far, 500 medical practitioners in Haiti — doctors, nurses, students — have participated in the program.
Sacks said that while so much attention to Haiti has centered on the problems, it is important to note the efforts that are working.
“There is truly a remarkable group of professionals in Haiti,’’ said Dr. Zadok Sacks, the group’s other co-leader. “They are doing the work day in and day out to provide the best health care they can, and they do it without a lot of the tools that we have.”
Everything is great.
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Sorry, folks, but I'm tired of $elf-$erving back-$lapping from the agenda-pu$hing, public relations outfit known as the Boston Globe. Sorry.
Also see: Sorrow over Haiti quake still deep, 4 years later
And then the Globe looked away.
And what has the Globe been concerning itself with over the interim?
"Group from Maine, New Hampshire heading to Haiti to help children" Associated Press, November 29, 2013
KITTERY POINT, Maine — A seven-member group from Maine and New Hampshire is taking hundreds of pounds of donated harmonicas, jump ropes, dresses, medical supplies, and other items to children in Haiti who are recovering from the 2010 earthquake.
The group recently spent a Sunday afternoon in the Kittery Point home of Ann Grinnell, packing supplies.
It is Grinnell’s fifth trip to Haiti. She will be joined by several other women and high school students….
‘‘During this trip, I will be visiting a new factory in Haiti that has been opened by a friend of a swimming client,’’ Grinnell said.
‘‘They are employing 65 Haitians, paying them a living wage, and I believe their model of help gives the Haitians an opportunity to lift themselves up.’’
Yeah, pick yourselves up by those bootstraps (which are about all you have left) if you are not too sick from cholera.
I'm sorry, folks, but I can no longer purchase or read the Boston Globe propaganda pre$$ that is found on my jewsstands.
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Also see: More lawsuits allege sex abuse at Haiti school
A Sandusky scapegoat for the child abduction sex-slave operation and organ-harvesting outfit that was residing in Haiti?
"Haiti, Dominican Republic meet to discuss disputes" by Trenton Daniel | Associated Press, January 08, 2014
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitian and Dominican officials met Tuesday in an effort to resolve mounting tension between the Caribbean neighbors that was reflected in a recent court ruling that threatens to strip the citizenship of people of Haitian descent who were born in the Dominican Republic.
The talks are part of a new binational commission that aims to discuss issues including commerce, migration, the environment, and border security. The countries share the island of Hispaniola.
The hand of the New World Order?
The first of what is supposed to be several meetings began Tuesday at an industrial park in the northern Haitian border town of Ouanaminthe.
Haiti’s Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe and Gustavo Montalvo, the Dominican president’s chief of staff, led the respective delegations.
Many on both sides of the border, and elsewhere, hope the talks will begin to confront the elephant in the room: a September court ruling that threatens to revoke citizenship from thousands of people living in the Dominican Republic who are mostly of Haitian descent. They could be sent to Haiti even though they weren’t born there.
I guess it is better than an 800-lb gorilla in the room.
The Haitian newspaper Le Nouvelliste on Tuesday quoted a spokesman for Haitian President Michel Martelly, Lucien Jura, saying that the commission would not be obligated to discuss the court ruling.
Dominican authorities said last week that they only planned to discuss trade, the environment, and security.
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Also see:
Haitians without a nation
Dominican court’s misguided ruling on citizenship
Israel is the only one who doesn't take heat from my Boston Globe because it is Zionist racism.
"30 Haitians dead after boat capsizes off Bahamas" New York Times, November 27, 2013
MIAMI — A 40-foot sailboat overloaded with Haitians ran aground Monday night near the Bahamas, killing at least 30 people aboard, the US Coast Guard said Tuesday.
The vessel had been at sea for about nine days, with at least 100 people on board, said Lieutenant Gabe Somma, a Coast Guard spokesman. None had life jackets.
The accident was the latest in a series of shipwrecks involving Haitian migrants, who pay smugglers to ferry them across dangerous waters to the United States in boats that are often unseaworthy.
“This is just another example that highlights the dangers of illegal migration and taking to the sea,” Somma said. “The sea is unforgiving. These are dangerous vessels. They are unbalanced, overloaded, and they are not stable.”
And if we pick you up at sea back you go!
The vessel was spotted by fishermen late last week and reported to Bahamian authorities, he said. On Monday, Bahamian authorities asked the Coast Guard for assistance. A Coast Guard helicopter found the ship near Scrub Cay, about 20 miles from where it was first seen, Somma said.
The boat had run aground and capsized near Harvey Cay, in the Exuma chain. Ten bodies in the water could be seen from the helicopter, along with 30 people in the water and up to 60 clinging to the boat.
Thirteen people were hoisted onto the helicopter. During the night, the Coast Guard dropped food, water, and eight life rafts.
Related: 2 icebreakers trapped in Antarctica break free
Coast Guard back on course.
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Kind of thing happens all over the planet due to U.S.-driven wars, destabilization attempts, and the corporate exploitation it supports, and they occasionally bob up in my propaganda pre$$ until sinking again.
UPDATE:
"18 migrants dies in capsizing off Turks and Caicos" by Associated Press / AP / December 25, 2013
PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands (AP) — Eighteen people believed to be migrants from Haiti died Wednesday when their overloaded sailboat overturned as their vessel was being escorted to shore in the Turks and Caicos Islands, officials in the British territory said.
The sailboat, which had about 50 people on board, abruptly capsized about 150 yards from the island of Providenciales, said Neil Smith, a spokesman for the government. The cause was not immediately known but overloading was a likely factor, he said.
About two hours earlier, in the pre-dawn hours of Christmas, the marine branch of the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force had intercepted the sloop as a suspected migrant vessel and was escorting it to shore, Smith said.
Police recovered 18 bodies and are continuing to search for more with the assistance of divers and a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter.
Authorities rescued 32 people from the water and they are in custody on suspicion of attempting to illegally enter the territory. They were in custody in Providenciales, the territory’s most populated island.
Turks and Caicos, southeast of the Bahamas, is a frequent destination for Haitian migrants seeking to escape their impoverished country and find work in the British territory’s construction and tourism industries.
In November, an overloaded migrant sloop overturned in the southern Bahamas and an estimated 30 people drowned. The area is dotted with many tiny islands, reefs and patches of shallow water, making it treacherous for boaters and a frequent transit zone for smugglers seeking to evade capture.
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Related: The Point to Silly Panama Story
My point is the global surveillance grid knows those rickety boats are out there and thus can't not know about human smugglers.
Also see: Deal offered in Panama Canal expansion dispute
UPDATE: Local Haitian faithful cheer naming of cardinal
