“It’s a big part of the personality of who we are as a state,” said Aaron Putze, spokesman for the Iowa Soybean Association.

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Presiding over a ceremony marking the departure of the vessel and crew, , expressed the gratitude of the Haitian government, saying, “Thank you for your training and reconstruction work.

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‘s comprehensive disaster preparedness strategy advanced significantly with today’s groundbreaking ceremony for a new emergency operations center, disaster relief warehouse, and fire station in Fort-Liberte. As the first of 10 such emergency operations centers and disaster relief warehouses, eight community clusters and 14 fire stations to be … (more)

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Of a capacity of 20,000 liters per day, a water treatment by ultrafiltration, has been installed at the Jacmel prison.

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Newswise – Two years after Haiti was rocked by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake near Port au Prince, a New York University graduate student and staff at the University of Kentucky Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History are teaming up to capture, save and share the stories of survivors of the terrible event and its aftermath.

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Investigative Magistrate Carves Jean said the statute of limitations had run out on the human rights charges but not on the accusations of misappropriation of public funds.

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Jamaica’s largest poultry producer Jamaica Broilers, has purchased 1,700 acres of land in Spring Garden, St Catherine in order to facilitate a number of initiatives it has in the works.

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MEXICO CITY/PORT-AU-PRINCE, Oct. 2 — Haitian President Michel Martelly’s plan to create a new army has stirred a heated debate in the Caribbean country just days after it was published last week.

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Like a hurricane born in the Caribbean and gathering momentum as it pushes northward, word spread last week that Jean-Claude Duvalier, 34, Haiti’s President-for-Life, had fled his country.

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Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 15 September 2011 – The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization , together with the Haitian Ministry of Health and with the support of Canada, will launch a major project on maternal and child health, Manman ak timoun an sante, today in Port-au-Prince. The project seeks to reduce maternal and child … (more)

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