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Haiti's new PM: Mining laws being drafted

Submitted by CHAN on May 16, 2012 - 07:18

Gold mine testing, Majescor's Somine project, northern Haiti, May 2012.jpg

By the Associated Press, published in the New York Times, May 15, 2012
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti--The Haitian government is drafting legislation for the newly emerging mining industry to help this impoverished Caribbean nation reap benefits, the new prime minister said Tuesday. Laurent Lamothe, who saw his Cabinet and policy plan approved hours earlier, told The Associated Press during an interview that the legislation will be sent to Parliament soon.

New report by Center for Global Development on Haiti aid

Submitted by CHAN on May 15, 2012 - 12:55

Haiti: Where Has All the Money Gone?

By Vijaya Ramachandran and Julie Walz
Center for Global Development, Washington, D.C., Policy Paper 004, May 2012, 48 pp
Report is attached here as a pdf. Find it also here.

Introduction:
Since the 2010 earthquake, almost $6 billion has been disbursed in official aid to Haiti, a country with a population of just under 10

Gold! Haitians hope ore finds will spur economic boom from mining for gold, copper and silver

Submitted by CHAN on May 14, 2012 - 04:39

Canadian company Majescor is leading exploration in north of Haiti

Associated Press, published in Washington Post, May 11 , 2012
TROU DU NORD, Haiti — Its capital is blighted with earthquake rubble. Its countryside is shorn of trees, chopped down for fuel. And yet, Haiti’s land may hold the key to relieving centuries of poverty, disaster and disease: There is gold hidden in its hills — and silver

Editorial, New York Times: Haiti's cholera crisis

Submitted by CHAN on May 13, 2012 - 08:28

Haiti's cholera crisis

Editorial, New York Times, Sunday May 13, 2012
The cholera epidemic in Haiti, which began in late 2010, is bad and getting worse, for reasons that are well understood and that the aid community has done far too little to resolve. A chronic lack of access to clean water and sanitation make Haitians vulnerable to spreading sickness, especially as spring rains bring floods, as they always do. Summer hurricanes are bound to come; more misery

Canadian premieres of 'Haiti: Where Did The Money Go?', May 14 to 18

Submitted by CHAN on May 13, 2012 - 04:40

Film to be shown in six centers in Maritime provinces

The Canadian premiere of director Michele Mitchell's 60-minute documentary film 'Haiti: Where Did the Money Go?' will take place in Summerside and Charlottetown PEI on Monday, May 14. She will take the film to four other centers in the Maritime provinces,

Army ups ante in Haitian power struggle

Submitted by CHAN on May 12, 2012 - 04:51

Armed group is waging a brazen campaign aimed at stoking public anger at the continued presence of the 10,000-strong UN mission in Haiti and inviting violent conflict with authorities

By MICHAEL NORBY and BRIAN FITZPATRICK, The Irish Times, May 12, 2012 (This article first appeared in a shorter version in The Guardian (UK). The shorter version was posted to the CHAN website at the time.)

Dossier on the fight against cholera in Haiti: four items

Submitted by CHAN on May 11, 2012 - 18:43

Cholera treatement center, photo Doctors Without Borders.jpg

1. Human Rights Groups Commend UN for Acknowledging Limitations of “Band-Aid” Approach to Haiti Cholera

Press release, May 10, 2012
Thursday, May 10, 2012, Port-au-Prince, Haiti and Boston, USA—Rights groups in Haiti and the United States commend last week’s acknowledgment by United Nations official Nigel Fisher that the current efforts to alleviate cholera in Haiti are “patchwork, band-aid work on a fundamental problem.”

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