NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–20 January 2010 – One week after the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti, the United Nations radio station in Port-au-Prince, MINUSTAH FM, is back on air with material and technical assistance from Radio France and Télédiffusion de France. A six-person emergency team from France arrived in Haiti shortly after[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–20 January 2010 – The United Nations is “straining every nerve” to ramp up its aid to the countless victims of Haiti’s devastating earthquake, from medical care, food and water supplies to security and logistics, but there is still a very long way to go, the world body’s humanitarian[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–20 January 2010 – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has employed almost 400 Haitians to give the local economy a boost and swiftly deliver urgently-needed humanitarian aid following the catastrophic earthquake which struck the Caribbean country last week. By week’s end, the cash-for-work programme will be expanded to[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 20, 2010.  Yesterday, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano authorized the temporary activation of up to 900 reserve U.S. Coast Guard service men and women to bolster the more than 500 Coast Guard personnel already serving in Haiti in support of the U.S. government’s response to[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 20, 2010.  Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), along with Senators Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) and George Lemieux (R-Fla.), today introduced the Haiti Assistance Income Tax Incentive (HAITI) Act, legislation designed to help facilitate emergency aid and rebuilding efforts in Haiti following[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 20, 2010.  The House of Representatives today unanimously passed H.R. 4462, legislation that would allow individuals who make charitable contributions to victims of the earthquake in Haiti to claim an itemized charitable deduction on their 2009 tax return instead of having to wait until next year to claim[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–20 January 2010 – Little did Logan Abassi, a United Nations photographer, imagine that he would help to save a life when he hit the streets of the Haitian capital to capture images of looters one week after the catastrophic earthquake struck the impoverished Caribbean country. Mr. Abassi, who[Read More…]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti–(ENEWSPF)–Jan. 20, 2010.  Another large aftershock, measuring 6.1 in magnitude, struck Haiti in the early hours today. Save the Children staff in country in Port-au-Prince heard already weakened structures collapsing. The threats to and fears of children in the disaster zone remain undiminished. “Children and families are still sleeping[Read More…]

ABOARD THE USNS COMFORT–(ENEWSPF)–Jan. 20, 2010 – In a life-saving move, a Navy helicopter transported two severely injured Haitians to receive treatment aboard this hospital ship. The Comfort received the patients last night while it was still steaming toward Haiti. The patients — a 6-year-old boy and 20-year-old man —[Read More…]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti–(ENEWSPF)–Jan. 20, 2010 – An early morning aftershock shook the sleeping soldiers here from their bags as the building swayed and creaked for a few seconds. “It was like: ‘Whoah! Is somebody shaking me awake or was the ground moving?’” said Army Maj. J.T. Eldridge, the squadron operations officer[Read More…]