http://www.mail.com/people/1353218-michel-martelly.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/people/1353218-michel-martelly.html http://www.mail.com/news/world/2084788-eviction-fears-haunt-haiti-camps-attacks.html PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Attorney Reynold Georges showed up with a judge and a police officer on a recent afternoon at Camp Acra, a cluster of tents and plywood shelters scattered across rocky hills dotted with trees in the heart of the Haitian capital. The lawyer told the camp of some 30,000 people that they were squatting on his land and had to leav... Tue, 14 May 2013 18:49:56 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2084788-eviction-fears-haunt-haiti-camps-attacks.html 2013-05-14T18:49:56Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2039016-amnesty-criticizes-haiti-evictions-camps.html PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti has violated international human rights obligations by failing to protect people who have been forced to leave the impromptu settlements that sprang up in the Caribbean nation after the 2010 earthquake, a global advocacy group said Tuesday. A report by Amnesty International said it found that thousands of displaced peopl... Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:05:44 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2039016-amnesty-criticizes-haiti-evictions-camps.html 2013-04-23T16:05:44Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1996952-haiti-historian-who-chronicled-capital-dies-88.html PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — George Corvington, a prominent Haitian historian best known for his exhaustive study of the Caribbean nation's capital of Port-au-Prince, died Wednesday at age 88, a close friend said. Fellow historian and longtime friend Georges Michel said that Corvington died peacefully in his sleep at his home in the capital he wrote so mu... Thu, 04 Apr 2013 04:56:30 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1996952-haiti-historian-who-chronicled-capital-dies-88.html 2013-04-04T04:56:30Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1980650-haiti-replaces-head-industrial-park-agency.html PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The Haitian government has issued a presidential decree replacing the head of an agency that oversees a new industrial park that the U.S. invested in heavily after the Caribbean nation's 2010 earthquake. The office of President Michel Martelly announced Tuesday that he had issued a decree naming business owner Bernard Schettin... Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:22:21 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1980650-haiti-replaces-head-industrial-park-agency.html 2013-03-26T20:22:21Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1978346-haiti-splashes-slum-with-psychedelic-colors.html PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — One of Haiti's biggest shantytowns, a vast expanse of grim cinderblock homes on a mountainside in the nation's capital, is getting a psychedelic makeover that aims to be part art and part homage. Workers this month began painting the concrete facades of buildings in Jalousie slum a rainbow of purple, peach, lime and cream, ins... Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:04:20 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1978346-haiti-splashes-slum-with-psychedelic-colors.html 2013-03-25T20:04:20Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1948090-clinton-awards-than-700000-to-haiti-farms.html PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A charity for former U.S. President Bill Clinton awarded more than $700,000 to develop the country's agriculture sector. The Clinton Foundation announced Monday that the grants will go toward efforts to plant trees, build a coffee farm and train farmers. Clinton has been the United Nations' special envoy to Haiti since shortly... Tue, 12 Mar 2013 07:57:21 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1948090-clinton-awards-than-700000-to-haiti-farms.html 2013-03-12T07:57:21Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1935032-chavez-widely-mourned-hope-change-way.html LONDON (AP) — Some cried, some cheered. Many Latin Americans mourned the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, leaders in Europe and Asia sent condolences, and Iran's president predicted great works in the afterlife. President Barack Obama, meanwhile, focused on "a new chapter" for Venezuela, following 14 years in which Chavez cast himself as a bulwa... Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:46:08 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1935032-chavez-widely-mourned-hope-change-way.html 2013-03-06T22:46:08Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1906642-un-rejects-damage-claim-haiti-cholera-victims.html UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations rejected a claim for damages on behalf of more than 5,000 Haitian cholera victims and their families on Thursday, citing diplomatic immunity. The claim was filed in November 2011 by the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, a Boston-based human rights group that contended the U.N. and its peacekeeping force... Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:51:43 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1906642-un-rejects-damage-claim-haiti-cholera-victims.html 2013-02-21T23:51:43Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1899848-us-ag-meets-with-caribbean-leaders-haiti.html PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder discussed regional crime with Caribbean leaders on Monday during a summit in Haiti. Holder talked with the leaders of mostly English-speaking Caribbean countries about crime problems, efforts to curb weapons and drug trafficking and a need to alert countries in the region about imminent deport... Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:07:21 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1899848-us-ag-meets-with-caribbean-leaders-haiti.html 2013-02-18T23:07:21Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1873032-haitian-schools-expand-use-creole-language.html CROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, Haiti (AP) — Teenagers in blue-and-white uniforms pour out of classrooms of this boarding school at the edge of Haiti's capital, chattering in their native language of Creole about the science test they have just taken. "Eske ou te byen konpoze?" asks one boy in the campus courtyard. In English, it translates as "How do you think you d... Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:13:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1873032-haitian-schools-expand-use-creole-language.html 2013-02-06T18:13:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1831162-branford-marsalis-headlines-jazz-festival-haiti.html PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Saxophone legend Branford Marsalis is headlining a jazz festival in Haiti. Marsalis arrived in the impoverished Caribbean nation Friday to perform several shows at the Port-au-Prince International Jazz Festival. The first show for the Branford Marsalis Quartet will be Friday night in the coastal town of Jacmel. The second show... Fri, 18 Jan 2013 21:57:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1831162-branford-marsalis-headlines-jazz-festival-haiti.html 2013-01-18T21:57:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1815960-haiti-quietly-marks-quakes-3rd-anniversary.html PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — President Michel Martelly urged Haitians to recall the tens of thousands of people who lost their lives in a devastating earthquake three years ago, marking the disaster's anniversary Saturday with a simple ceremony. Former U.S. president Bill Clinton joined Martelly later in the day for a similarly quiet wreath-laying commemo... Sat, 12 Jan 2013 23:08:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1815960-haiti-quietly-marks-quakes-3rd-anniversary.html 2013-01-12T23:08:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1814204-haiti-plans-subdued-memorial-3-years-quake.html PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The Haitian government plans a low-key ceremony Saturday for the third anniversary of the earthquake that devastated the country and killed hundreds of thousands of people. President Michel Martelly will preside over a subdued memorial on the grounds of the former National Palace, which was destroyed in the disaster and later ... Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:07:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1814204-haiti-plans-subdued-memorial-3-years-quake.html 2013-01-12T00:07:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1788622-haitian-president-to-sing-with-julio-iglesias.html SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Haiti's singer-turned-president is returning to the international stage. President Michel Martelly will sing two songs with Spanish singer Julio Iglesias at a benefit concert Friday in the Dominican Republic. Martelly has made several impromptu performances in Haiti since he was elected in May 2011. But the show in... Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1788622-haitian-president-to-sing-with-julio-iglesias.html 2012-12-27T17:17:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1751402-study-widespread-hunger-haiti-storms.html PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitians have suffered widespread hunger following an unusually active storm season this year and are likely to experience more, according to a study released Friday. The report, backed by a Rio de Janeiro, Brazil-based think tank, found that rural households in the heavily hit areas of Haiti's west, north and Grand-Anse depar... Fri, 07 Dec 2012 19:15:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1751402-study-widespread-hunger-haiti-storms.html 2012-12-07T19:15:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1724600-jimmy-carter-returns-to-haiti-to-build-houses.html LEOGANE, Haiti (AP) — Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on Monday urged donors to honor the billion-dollar pledges they made to help Haiti rebuild after its devastating 2010 earthquake. Carter's call for greater humanitarian aid to Haiti came on the first day of a weeklong effort to build 100 homes with about 600 volunteers from Habitat for Humanity. It ... Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:53:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1724600-jimmy-carter-returns-to-haiti-to-build-houses.html 2012-11-26T19:53:00Z