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Haiti Relief Supply Plane Crashes into House
Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating in the 400 block of Patricia Avenue in Clearwater, Florida where a single-engine Piper Mirage PA-46 plane crashed into an occupied residential home. The accident occurred around 10:00 am on Sunday, May 16, 2010. Witnesses reported the plane started wobbling and split into two pieces after flying into power lines and skidding...
US Missionary Laura Silsby Awaiting Trial In Haiti
American missionary Laura Silsby still remains imprisoned in Haiti after being arrested on kidnapping charges after the country’s massive earthquake.
Silsby is one of ten missionaries that visited the country and was arrested for trying to escort a group of 33 Haitian children out of the country.
The group claims to have been helping the children, believing that they had all lost their parents...
First Lady Makes a Surprise Visit to Haiti
Residents of Haiti were surprised yesterday by a surprise visit from our nation’s First Lady, Michelle Obama.
By visiting the earthquake ravaged island, she hopes to survey the damage and to draw attention back to the country’s relief efforts.
The First Lady travelled with Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden; they spent time with school children and took a tour by helicopter of the...
Outrage After George Bush Wipes Hand After Shaking Haitians Hand
President George Bush, if nothing else can be said of him, always finds himself in humorous situations. The shoe tossing incident in Iraq was a classic, in “slapstick comedy.” He and ex-president Bill Clinton often travel together. They found themselves in Haiti, aiding the victims of the earthquake and there a humorous incident occurred.
The tape has been shown many times. It appears that...
Heavy Rains in Haiti Cause Further Woe
HAITI – Survivors of the tragic January 12th 7.0 earthquake near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, were faced again with tragedy and woe as recent heavy rainfalls swept through the homeless camps that thousands of Haitians now call home.
The heavy rains have brought only more misery to the country where necessities and hope have taken on a precious new meaning. During the weekend of February 27th, heavy...
Haitian Children Siezed At Airport
Ever since the January 2010 earthquake which shook Haiti and killed over 100,000 residents of the island country, there has been a lot of confusion as to where local children are heading. Last month, several Americans were arrested and temporarily charged with kidnapping after they attempted to drive a busload of orphans to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic.
Over this past weekend, four American...
Eight Baptist Missionaries Released From Haitian Jail
The eight Baptist missionaries held in jail for three weeks after suspicion of child trafficking of Haitian children were released from jail and returned to Miami around midnight. It is unclear what they will say to reporters since two more members of the group remain in a Haitian jail. The judge refused to release them, stating that he wanted to understand why the two were in Haiti before the earthquake...
Haiti Expected to Get Hammered During Hurricane Season
The small, impoverished and now devastated country of Haiti is expected to get battered by Mother Nature again this hurricane season. Hurricane experts are predicting a more active Atlantic hurricane season than in the past. This is not good news for the country who is still struggling to recover their dead from underneath the rubble. The country has been brought to its knees by the string of earthquakes...
Judge To Free Americans In Haiti Kidnapping Case
According to sources, a Haitian judge is likely to release 10 Americans who are presently charged with kidnapping.
The incident stems from a situation in which 10 American volunteers, who came to the country to help the Haitian earthquake victims, were arrested from trying to transport 33 Haitian children across the border and into safer land in the Dominican Republic.
According to an American source,...
Quake Survivor Found After 27 Days- Nothing Short Of A Miracle
In what must be considered one of the most miraculous events of our times, a man was rescued yesterday after being trapped for 27 days in the rubble from the Haiti earthquake. Evans Monsigrace, 28, was trapped under rubble in the flea market where he sold rice for a living.
Mr. Monsigrace, at first, was incoherent when found. He rambled on and begged to die. He was suffering from severe dehydration...
