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MTV Networks. Original release. Release. January 22, 2010 (2010-01-22) Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief was a charity telethon held on January 22, 2010, from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (January 23, 2010 from 1 a.m. to 3 a.m. UTC ). The telethon was the most widely distributed telethon in history. [3]
As in many developing countries, radio reaches the widest audience in Haiti. Estimates vary, but more than 300 radio stations are believed to broadcast throughout the country. Talk show programs serve as one of the few ways in which ordinary Haitians can speak out about politics and the government.
United Parcel Service. United Parcel Service, Inc. ( UPS) is an American multinational shipping & receiving and supply chain management company founded in 1907. [ 1] Originally known as the American Messenger Company specializing in telegraphs, UPS has expanded to become a Fortune 500 company [ 6] and one of the world's largest shipping couriers.
The U.S. envoy to the United Nations is traveling to Haiti on Monday, said U.S. officials, a month after the first contingent of Kenyan police arrived in the Caribbean country as part of an ...
He remains free on bond. Martinez, known as a tough sentencing judge, had already given out five life terms to five prior defendants in the Haiti assassination case, which is now at a crossroads.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -The United States said on Wednesday it was calling on Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry to expedite a political transition as armed gangs seek his ouster amid a collapse ...
Jean-Bertrand Aristide ( French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ bɛʁtʁɑ̃ aʁistid]; born 15 July 1953) is a Haitian former Salesian priest and politician who became Haiti 's first democratically elected president. [ 1][ 2] As a priest, he taught liberation theology [ 3][ 4] and, as a president, he attempted to normalize Afro-Creole culture ...
The country was free of cholera until 2010, when U.N. peacekeepers dumped infected sewage into a river. More than 9,000 people died of the disease, and some 800,000 fell ill.