PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) -- A Haitian judge made no decision at a hearing on Monday whether to free or prosecute 10 US missionaries accused of kidnapping children, and their leader said she trusted in God they would be cleared and released. The missionaries belong to an Idaho-based Baptist church. read more...

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QUITO, Ecuador (Reuters) -- South American leaders deeply divided by political differences may take a break from their usual recriminations on Tuesday when they meet to discuss the continent's response to the crisis in quake-shattered Haiti. Previous meetings of the UNASUR countries have been marked by insults. read more...

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BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) -- Haiti's interior minister on Monday toured a Colombian town rebuilt after a huge 1999 tremor as his own country considered plans to reconstruct its wrecked capital city after last month's devastating earthquake. Haiti says more than 200,000 people were killed. read more...

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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AFP) -- Screen star Angelina Jolie on Monday visited Haitian children being treated in the neighboring Dominican Republic after the devastating earthquake in their homeland killed more than 200,000 people. Oscar-winner Jolie toured the pediatric wing of Dario Contreras Hospital. read more...

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KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) -- Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Roosevelt Skerritt, has said that the spirit and strength of the Haitian people remain high, despite the earthquake which devastated sections of the island on January 12. He said they were resilient, out building homes and helping neighborhoods. read more...

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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (BGIS) -- Some 126 Barbadian health care workers have offered to be a part of this country's medical response in Haiti. This was revealed by Minister of Health, Donville Inniss, last Thursday, during a press briefing at Government Headquarters on the National Collaborative Haiti Relief Effort. read more...

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KINGSTON, Jamaica -- As part of Digicel’s relief efforts in Haiti, the country’s largest mobile operator has donated an assortment of generators, phones and credit to 15 radio stations in Port-au-Prince to help them get back in contact with their listeners after the earthquake on January 12th. read more...

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) -- The struggling aid effort in Haiti was hit by another setback Monday as the UN halted deliveries to some 10,000 quake survivors after discovering that fake coupons were in operation. An agitated crowd of around 100 people continued to wait well into the afternoon at the drop-off site. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Guyana has been deemed by the United Nations to be the kindest country regarding monetary and other donations to Haiti. ReliefWeb, a UN-operated website providing the latest information to humanitarian organizations, released a graph detailing funding by countries to Haiti. read more...

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Digicel, on Thursday distributed care packs containing food, water, milk, T-shirts and medical supplies to 350 members of the Haiti National Football Federation and to over 100 members of the Special Olympics Association who have been living in campsites following the earthquake in Haiti. read more...

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BRADES, Montserrat (GIU) -- Montserrat has already collected more than EC$100,000 to aid in earthquake-stricken Haiti. This effort was praised by Sue Wardell, the Regional Director for the Department for International Development (DfID) during her recent visit to the island. The amount continues to increase weekly. read more...

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) -- Haiti's quake-shattered justice system, grappling with collapsed courts, destroyed records and homeless employees, would be hard-pressed to hold a high-profile trial for 10 Americans charged with kidnapping children, Haitian lawyers and rights advocates said on Sunday. read more...

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KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) -- Special CARICOM Envoy on Haiti Disaster Relief, former Jamaican prime minister, P J Patterson, has suggested several long term measures for the rebuilding of the earthquake ravaged nation, Haiti, which he says will ensure the rebirth of the country. "Simply putting back what was there... read more...

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KINGSTON, Jamaica (OPM) -- CARICOM has given a commitment to finance the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) relief base in Haiti for another month so that humanitarian assistance from the region can continue in the earthquake ravaged capital of Port au Prince. Funding until March 5 will come from the Bahamas. read more...

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LONDON, England (AFP) -- Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Saturday hailed a G7 decision to cancel bilateral debt with Haiti, saying "a nation buried in rubble must not also be buried in debt". Around a million people were left homeless in Haiti after a devastating earthquake on January 12. read more...

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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) -- Despite the desolation wrought by last month's earthquake, Haiti can salvage hope for the future by looking at how the Indonesian province of Aceh rebuilt after the equally devastating 2004 tsunami. More than 6.7 billion dollars was poured into the rebuilding of Aceh over five years. read more...

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NEW YORK, USA -- Grenadian artistes in New York will come together in a benefit concert to raise money to assist the people of Haiti following last month’s devastating earthquake. GRENCAP United, the umbrella body of Grenadian organisations in New York, is collaborating with the Grenada Consulate. read more...

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) -- The cockfighting must go on, even after earthquakes, so the roosters have been bathed, their claws sharpened, and they wait in cages in the red-carpeted ring, the crowd anxious and gripping cash. The referee has weighed them and now he wants a moment of silence for prayer. read more...

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) -- From an air-conditioned tent in what used to be a Port-au-Prince bus station, the mighty US military controls its 17,000 troops deployed to help Haiti's earthquake relief, amid questions over how long they will stay. The US military has reduced its presence in the Haiti in recent weeks. read more...

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CALLEBASSE, Haiti (AFP) -- "I would like to give up my son again," says Anchello Cantave, a farmer here, who willingly handed over his five-year-old to US missionaries now facing charges of child abduction in Haiti's post-quake chaos. Cantave, 36, is convinced that the Americans had only good intentions. read more...

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An I-petition ‘For the love of Haiti and its People’, has just been launched online. This I-petition is the initiative of the well known St Martin nation-building grassroot movement on the island of St Martin/Sint Maarten. While this grassroot St Martin movement has already committed itself financially and otherwise... read more...

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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AFP) -- Two men killed in a helicopter crash in the Dominican Republic were US citizens supporting relief operations in quake-devastated Haiti, a US official said. Dominican authorities said that the bodies of the pilot and co-pilot were recovered from the wreckage of a helicopter. read more...

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) -- Ten American Christians charged in Haiti with child kidnapping and conspiracy were denied conditional release on Friday, their lawyer told AFP. "The judge did not accept the request for conditional release," said Edwin Coq, lawyer for the group. read more...

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) -- Former US president Bill Clinton arrived at the headquarters of the Haitian government Friday as some 200 people protested outside, demanding tents more than three weeks after a devastating quake. Clinton's arrival here comes amid persistent problems in getting aid. read more...

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KINGSTON, Jamaica (OPM) -- The government has suspended the withdrawal of Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) troops from Haiti after the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) confirmed that it will send J$40 million to cover expenses incurred up to January 30.
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA) -- Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Roger Luncheon has disclosed that Guyana’s pledge to the Haiti relief efforts will go towards the support of the proposed healthcare initiative as well as other commitments. Luncheon made the disclosure at a press conference on Friday. read more...

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NEW YORK, USA (AFP) -- Former US president and special UN envoy Bill Clinton was to travel to Haiti on Friday to coordinate aid efforts and meet with leaders of the country devastated in an earthquake last month. Clinton was asked by UN chief Ban Ki-moon to help lead aid efforts to the Caribbean nation. read more...

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WASHINGTON, USA (Reuters) - In the heart of Washington, a room full of satellite imaging and aerial photographs is where the monumental task of rebuilding Haiti begins. The Haiti Situation Room at the World Bank contains materials assembled by thousands of volunteers from 103 organizations. read more...

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) -- Ten US missionaries detained in Haiti were charged on Thursday with child kidnapping and criminal association for allegedly trying to take children illegally out of the country. Deputy Prosecutor Jean Ferge Joseph said the case was being sent to an investigative judge. read more...

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (ACN) -- The fifth Cuban field hospital in Haiti will soon be in operation after its arrival and transfer to Les Cayes, its final destination, as efficiency in medical treatment to the population increases. There are also medical consultation posts in different localities, near people in need. read more...

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (RSF/IFEX) -- Three weeks after the earthquake, the Haitian press has had its first serious run-in with the US military. Homère Cardichon, a photographer working for the daily "Le Nouvelliste", had his camera confiscated by US marines on Wednesday while covering a demonstration. read more...

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Yesterday, 10 Baptist missionaries from the United States were formally charged with conspiracy and child kidnapping for allegedly trying to abscond from Haiti with 33 children. They were arrested a week ago today while crossing the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The missionaries claim... read more...

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) -- Sitting at a table under billowing bed sheets, David Delva tries to compile a list of around 12,000 people who now live in an open field below a hillside slum that collapsed in Haiti's January 12 earthquake. After fleeing their crumbled homes, local residents quickly built up... read more...

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MIAMI, USA (Reuters) -- New Orleans Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma plans to visit his parents' homeland of Haiti after the Super Bowl is over and make a hands-on contribution to relief efforts in the earthquake struck country. Vilma will line up against the Indianapolis Colts, who feature wide-receiver Pierre Garcon. read more...

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WASHINGTON, USA (AFP) -- US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday it was "unfortunate" that American Christians are suspected of smuggling children out of quake-hit Haiti even if their intentions were good. Haitian prosecutors are due to decide Thursday whether to charge the 10 Christians. read more...

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) -- The death toll in the Haiti quake has swelled to 200,000, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said Wednesday as angry protests over the slow arrival of aid flared on the rubble-strewn streets. Bellerive said his tiny Caribbean nation had been ravaged by "a disaster on a planetary scale". read more...

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WASHINGTON, USA -- The orchestra of the École de Musique Sainte Trinité, of Haití, will offer a concert at 4 pm local time this Friday in Bel Air, Port-au-Prince. The École has cooperated with the OAS on its Youth Orchestra Program for Youths at Risk in the Caribbean, which seeks to address Haiti’s youth violence. read more...

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA) -- As vital supplies continue to pour in from compassionate Guyanese individuals and charitable donor organisations, the Guyana National Committee for Haiti Relief on Wednesday shipped another 11 containers to Haiti. The containers hold water, clothes and other essentials. read more...

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MIAMI, USA (AFP) -- Taking extra motivation from a desire to inspire earthquake-ravaged Haiti, two rival Super Bowl standouts of Haitian descent each want to claim the crown in Sunday's showdown for those who are suffering. And either Indianapolis Colts receiver Pierre Garcon or New Orleans Saints linebacker... read more...

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GENEVA, Switzerland (Reuters) -- The aid operation in Haiti has been complicated and frustratingly slow, but is making significant progress, particularly in getting food to quake survivors, the top UN relief official said. Providing shelter to an estimated 1 million homeless is first priority now that rescue efforts have ended. read more...

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