Jan 26 Watch Rebuilding Health Care System Major Hurdle for Haiti Ray Suarez reports on how Haitian and international medical teams are wrestling over whether to discharge earthquake victims who have been treated, but don't have homes where they could continue their recovery. Continue watching
Jan 25 Conference Looks to Future of Haiti Reconstruction By Talea Miller Haiti’s Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive sought international commitments to aid his country in recovery from this month’s devastating earthquake, saying it would take at least 5 to 10 years of reconstruction efforts. “Haiti will need massive support in the medium… Continue reading
Jan 25 Weekly Poem: ‘Ports of Sorrow’ 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
Jan 25 Watch Delivery of Aid Remains the U.N.’s Toughest Job in Haiti Ray Suarez talks to the United Nations' deputy special envoy to Haiti about the obstacles facing aid workers in Port-au-Prince, where thousands require urgent care. Continue watching
Jan 25 Watch Two Weeks Later, Many Haitians Still Waiting for Aid Kwame Holman updates the situation in Haiti, where aid workers continue to struggle to reach quake survivors in urgent need. Continue watching
Jan 24 Ray Suarez: Scenes of Loss and Resilience in Haiti By Ray Suarez _pap_embed_custom('news01s3976qd89',482,304,""); Ray Suarez and a team from the NewsHour are in Port-au-Prince, reporting on the aftermath of an earthquake that has ravaged the Haitian captial and turned the eyes of the world back to the story of Haiti's larger… Continue reading
Jan 23 ‘Green Shoots’ of the Next Haiti Start to Poke Through By Ray Suarez Maybe you've been riveted by the scenes of desperation and heroism from Haiti. Maybe you've seen the bodies stacked for burial by earth- moving equipment before anonymous masses are bulldozed into a pit. The "Haiti Story" isn't just one… Continue reading
Jan 22 In Haiti, Efforts Turn to Relocating Quake Survivors By Larisa Epatko Haiti's government said Friday that some 400,000 survivors of the Jan. 12 earthquake would be relocated to cleaner tent villages outside Port-au-Prince to prevent disease in the current makeshift camps. Continue reading
Jan 22 Watch Haiti Quake Victims Seek Help on Border Ray Suarez reports from a hospital organized by the Pan American Health Organization in the Dominican Republic, where many Haitians are seeking refuge after last week's earthquake leveled Port-au-Prince. Continue watching