Feb 01 Weekly Poem: ‘Centuries of Ashes’ By Tom LeGro Patrick Sylvain is a Haitian-American writer, essayist and poet, and instructor of Haitian language and culture at Brown University's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Continue reading
Feb 01 Watch With Parents Missing, Haiti’s Child Survivors in Limbo Jeffrey Brown talks to Mandalit del Barco of National Public Radio in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, for an update on the state of earthquake recovery, from food distribution to disputes over orphaned children. Continue watching
Feb 01 Watch Detention of Americans in Haiti Renews Adoption Concerns Ten American missionaries have been detained in Haiti for allegedly trying to take 33 children across the border into the Dominican Republican without the proper documents. Continue watching
Jan 29 President Preval: Solutions Will Come From ‘Within Haiti’ By Ray Suarez Sometimes, the best things happen in the news business when you just happen to be at an optimal place, at an optimal moment. Today the NewsHour team was starting to shoot a story on the struggle to get the Haitian… Continue reading
Jan 29 Watch With Businesses Destroyed, Haiti’s Capital a ‘Cashless City’ The realities of the Port-au-Prince economy have become brutally simple. With most businesses now gone, banks still closed, and thousands jobless, the city is virtually cashless. Ray Suarez reports from Haiti. Continue watching
Jan 28 Watch Fifteen Days Below Rubble: Final Quake Survivor in Haiti? Robert Moore of Independent Television News reports on the dramatic rescue of a teenage girl in Haiti more than two weeks after the quake. Continue watching
Jan 28 Watch Haiti’s Preval Striving for Normalcy Amid Chaos Since the collapse of the National Palace in the Jan. 12 earthquake, the Haitian leadership has been without a home. In an interview with Ray Suarez, the nation's president, Rene Preval, talks about his efforts to return a sense of… Continue watching
Jan 27 Shelter, Help for Amputees Among Pressing Challenges in Haiti By Hari Sreenivasan Ray Suarez is reporting from Haiti for the NewsHour. The Rundown blog caught up with him between stories to get his thoughts on what he is seeing as the country struggles with the rebuilding process. Watch Ray’s Tuesday report… Continue reading
Jan 27 Watch Two Weeks On, Most Haitians Still Lack Basics Two weeks into the recovery effort in Haiti, thousands of survivors are still struggling to simply exist. Ray Suarez speaks with Margaret Warner from Haiti about the uneven relief effort. Continue watching
Jan 26 At Factory in Haiti, Garment Work Becomes Lifeline By Ray Suarez Here's a crash course in Haitian economics: Stores in the country's biggest city are closed, and don't appear ready to open very soon. Their employees and the employees of thousands of enterprises around the city haven't been to work… Continue reading