“Port-au-Prince” on The Daily Caller

From popular carnival singer known for dropping his pants on stage to buttoned-down president of Haiti, Michel “Sweet Micky” Martelly is on the verge of completing an unlikely transformation. (more)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The 22-year-old woman, wearing a gauzy blue dress that she had changed into after her release, spoke in a whispery voice. (more)

In Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, there is a police impound lot where dozens of brand-new vehicles sit gleaming in the sun, sporting the logos of aid groups that poured into the city to help in the wake of a devastating earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people and left 1 million homeless. (more)

For the United Nations World Food Program, it was a moment of satisfaction: the U.N.'s flagship relief agency announced on its Web site on March 19 that two gleaming passenger ships had docked in ravaged Port au Prince harbor. (more)

Earlier this week, the all-news radio stations in Metropolitan Washington were giving frequent flash bulletins about the “gun situation” at the city’s National Cathedral. From the initial reports, the “developing story” had political drama for a cathedral setting last reached in Victor Hugo’s epic novel “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” The Cathedral Schools—Saint Albans (boys) and National Cathedral (girls) were “locked down” for 90 minutes until calm was restored. Even Sidwell Friends middle school, a mile away from the alleged incident was” locked down” as well, out safety for the president’s daughter who attends the school’s sixth grade. (more)

Donors have pledged nearly $10bn (£6.6bn) in aid to Haiti, more than double the amount requested by the country’s president after the January earthquake that devastated the capital, Port-au-Prince. (more)

What an awesome week for all kinds of crazy. If aliens had landed on our planet, they would have watched as: the world’s most celebrated movie stars snored through a bizarre, seventeen-hour interpretive dance at the Oscars; Rep. Patrick Kennedy lost his effing mind on the House floor; Glenn Beck and Eric Massa out-crazied each other over some exotic birth ritual called “kill the old guy;” and a Pennsylvania woman opened a dating service for lonely jihadists. Slip into a straight jacket and follow me into this padded room, Crazy, because you just had the best week ever! (more)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — One of two Baptist missionaries still held on kidnapping charges in Haiti was released and flew to Miami on Monday, but the U.S. group’s leader remained in custody. (more)

The spray-painted X marks from the search-and-rescue teams still mar the dilapidated buildings where the bodies of people, dogs, cats and even chickens were found in Hurricane Katrina’s wake. (more)

Eight American missionaries charged with child kidnapping in Haiti were back in the U.S. Thursday and looking forward to homecomings, even as two others remained in a Haitian jail in an ordeal sparked by the group’s attempt to take 33 children out of the earthquake-stricken country. (more)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — French President Nicolas Sarkozy has landed in Haiti for the first visit ever by a French president to the former colony. (more)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – It will take three long years to clear the rubble left by Haiti‘s devastating earthquake, said President Rene Preval who admitted even he’s still afraid to sleep under concrete in case another quake strikes. (more)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The police in El Salvador have begun an investigation into whether a man suspected of leading a trafficking ring involving Central American and Caribbean women and girls is also a legal adviser to many of the Americans charged with trying to take 33 children out of Haiti without permission. (more)

Steve Corbett, author of “When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor … and Yourself,” has some advice for churches looking to get involved with earthquake-ravaged Haiti: “Don’t start something new right now.” (more)

Professor Falk Amelung and many of his colleagues are urging Haiti’s government and international donors to consider relocating the capital, which was largely reduced to rubble by the quake. The most important infrastructure should be rebuilt at a site well away from a fault line that they believe will rupture again within the next generation or two but even closer to Port-au-Prince. “If this were a typical earthquake, the risk of future incidents would decline over the next few months,” says Tim Dixon, also a geology and geophysics professor at Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. “The stress would be relieved, and we could all go back to sleep for another 250 years,” which is about how long ago Haiti’s Enriquillo Fault last convulsed. “But that’s not the case here — our findings suggest another shoe has to drop.” (more)

The one building in the country that produced prosthetic limbs was damaged and there is an urgent need for them. (more)

A 16-year-old girl has been pulled out of the rubble in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, 15 days after the earthquake struck, rescuers say. (more)

UN troops and Haitian police are struggling to maintain order a fortnight after the earthquake that killed 200,000 people and left more than a million homeless. (more)

The game between the Sixers and the Blazers started at 7 p.m. (more)

Haiti’s humanitarian disaster has rightfully elicited an outpouring of support from around the world. But the tragedy should also elicit outrage because the massive destruction, suffering and loss of life were largely avoidable. (more)