PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti–(ENEWSPF)–Jan. 25, 2010. The global humanitarian organization Save the Children is supporting efforts to promote breastfeeding among new mothers in Haiti to ensure the protection of the youngest and most vulnerable survivors of the devastating January 12 earthquake. The agency has translated internationally recognized public health messages into Creole,[Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
Doctors Without Borders: Haitian Staff Determined To Help Their People
PORT-AU-PRINCE–(ENEWSPF)–January 25, 2010. Haitian surgeon Dr. Philippe Brouard has worked with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) at Trinité hospital in Port-au-Prince since 2006. On January 13, the morning after the earthquake, he came to work at the trauma surgery centre only to find that most of Trinité had collapsed.[Read More…]
Haiti: Surgery, Post-Op Care Remain Most Pressing Medical Needs According to Doctors Without Borders
HAITI–(ENEWSPF)–January 25, 2010. Nearly two weeks after the January 12 earthquake, the most pressing needs Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in Haiti face are patients who still require surgery and the growing number of patients who now require post-operative care. In Port-au-Prince, Choscal hospital in the Cite Soleil[Read More…]
Haiti Earthquake Recovery: The First 10 Days (January 12-22)
Port-au-Prince, Haiti–(ENEWSPF)–January 25, 2010. Total number of live rescues: 122 (by all USAR Teams) – 43 (by U.S. USAR Teams) Number of relief flights that have arrived at Toussaint L’Ouverture Airport: 896 Total American citizens evacuated by land and air: 10,901 Total number of evacuation flights: 143 Total number of[Read More…]
FBI Joins Search for Cary Woman
Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced today that the FBI was joining local authorities in the search for a Cary, Illinois woman charged with abducting her two children. SONIA DEL CARMEN LEON DE CAROL, age 43, is[Read More…]
Remarks by Secretary of State Clinton With Canadian Prime Minister Harper At Friends of Haiti Meeting
Montreal, Canada–(ENEWSPF)–January 25, 2010. PRIME MINISTER HARPER: Well, first of all, Secretary Clinton, welcome to Montreal. We’re delighted to have you in Canada representing the Administration and I should just say as well delighted with the work you’ve been doing with us and delighted – very pleased at the fact[Read More…]
Final Days For January College Illinois! 529 Prepaid Tuition Prices
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.–(ENEWSPF)–January 25, 2010. Sunday, January 31, is the final day to make good on New Year’s resolutions to start saving for college by locking in January’s discount prices with the College Illinois! 529 Prepaid Tuition Program. Prices will increase Monday, February 1, according to the Illinois Student Assistance Commission[Read More…]
Chicago FBI: Two Charged in Murder-for-Hire Plot
Hammond, IN–(ENEWSPF)– The United States Attorney’s Office announced that two DuPage County, Illinois men were arrested last week after being charged by complaint in a murder-for-hire plot targeting an Assistant United States Attorney and a Drug Enforcement Administration agent assigned to Chicago. Frank Caira, 39, of Downers Grove, Illinois, and[Read More…]
When You Sign A Petition, Should Your Name Be Secret?
Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center vice president/executive director “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, that phrase set out a central theme of the star-crossed lovers’ tragedy: Real[Read More…]
Police Officers Sworn In at PSC
(PHOTO SUPPLIED) Chicago Heights, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Ben Gilbert and Steve Winding were sworn in as police offices joining the Prairie State College police force. Shown here from left to right: J.R. Dempsey, vice president of finance and administration; Norman Martin, director, campus and public safety/chief of police; police officers Ben Gilbert[Read More…]
