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Researchers Estimate That Haiti Can Quell Cholera Without Vaccinating Most People
Cholera could be contained in Haiti by vaccinating less than half the population, University of Florida researchers suggest in a paper published in the journal Scientific Reports. The work places UF's Emerging Pathogens Institute in the pro-vaccination camp in an ongoing international debate over how best to contain the two-year-old epidemic that has claimed thousands of lives. The Centers for…
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Haiti Then And Now: 3 Years After The Earthquake
Evidence of loss remains even three years after a massive earthquake claimed the lives of as many as 200,000 people in Haiti. In the middle of Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, there is a cathedral whose sun-washed walls reach into the sky where a roof used to be. A lone flagpole marks the spot where the National Palace, a symbol of Haiti's…
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Wake-up call for Haiti
Just in time for the third anniversary of Haiti’s earthquake on Jan. 12, 2010, Canada’s principal foreign aid minister, Julian Fantino, delivered a wake-up call to that country’s government by declaring that he was placing future foreign aid to Haiti “on ice” because he was not satisfied with its progress toward recovery. Given that Haiti would collapse without foreign assistance,…
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Senior UN official visits Haiti
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – The head of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) Hervé Ladsous has arrived here ahead of the third anniversary of the devastating earthquake that killed more than 300,000 people in the French Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country on January 12, 2012. The United Nations said that Ladsous, who has already met with Haitian President Michel…
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Chávez, or at Least His Sash, Is Set for Venezuela Inauguration
CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chávez’s supporters have not ruled out swearing him in from his hospital in Havana. His detractors are calling for government investigators to go check his pulse themselves. The justices whom Mr. Chávez’s allies have named to the Supreme Court have decided that he can continue to govern in absentia. In a country that Mr. Chávez…
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Capriles: Venezuela court ruling political
CARACAS, Venezuela, (UPI) — A Venezuelan Supreme Court ruling letting President Hugo Chavez begin his new term Thursday in absentia was politically motivated, a key opposition leader said. The court's ruling was intended “to resolve the problem” in the ruling United Socialist Party of a growing power struggle between Vice President Nicolas Maduro and National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello, Henrique…
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Legislator welcomes ruling on stop-and-frisk tactics
NEW YORK, CMC – The Grenada-born American legislator, who was arrested during the West Indian American Day Carnival Parade two years ago, is hailing the decision of a court to strike down part of the New York Police Department (NYPD) “stop-and-frisk” policy. “I thank Judge Scheindlin for standing up to the abuses of the stop, question and frisk tactic and…
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CARICOM stock market review 2012
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The year 2012 was a challenging year for equity investors in Caricom. Despite solid gains on manufacturing, conglomerate and banking stocks, returns were depressed by declines on tourism, real estate, insurance, investments and retail stocks. As a result, the CSX 30, which tracks the 30 most influential stocks in Caricom, posted a modest gain of…
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Take a bow, Tobago
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – However it goes on THA election day January 21, the people of Tobago have already scored a victory with the agreement by the contesting political parties to participate in tonight's debate. To have secured the leaders of the three contending parties to agree to enter the sober, rational environment of the forum organised by the…
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Ministers in ‘secret talks’ with Jack
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Seven Government Ministers, including National Security Minister and UNC chairman Jack Warner, were in Tobago yesterday for a meeting with political leader of the Tobago Organisation of the People (TOP), Ashworth Jack. The meeting took place at the Coco Reef Resort in Crown Point under a high degree of secrecy, and included Ministers Warner, Suruj…
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