“Port-au-Prince” on The Daily Caller

In the brutal aftermath of Haiti’s earthquake, Jean-Robert Gaillard turned to his low-tech radio for solace and for a lifeline. (more)

It came as no surprise that within hours of the tragedy in Haiti our president was quick to offer enormous sums of money and resources to help. Unfortunately, my first thought was not for his nobleness, but rather, here we go again with another president throwing taxpayer money to a corrupt government. Before you get all huffy just understand who we are dealing with. (more)

President Sarkozy of France has moved quickly to bury a transatlantic spat after one of his ministers complained that American soldiers were effectively “occupying” earthquake-ravaged Haiti. (more)

As the pace of food and medical aid arriving into the impoverished country increased, doctors say that public health is now Haiti’s major concern. (more)

The U.S. military has sent 11,274 servicemen to help the 3 million neediest victims of last week’s earthquake in Haiti. Yet despite their access to sophisticated equipment, soldiers are lugging water to shore one bottle at a time and often find themselves unaware of other relief efforts by aid groups. (more)

“It is now six days since the earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince and there is still no sign of the global aid effort reaching the main camp of homeless Haitian people in the Champs de Mars public park next to the ruined presidential palace in the very centre of the capital city. (more)

CARACAS – A strong 5.6 magnitude earthquake shook major oil exporter Venezuela on Saturday, causing panic in the capital, Caracas, and injuring at least seven people when houses in the countryside collapsed. (more)

Richard Morse, the American manager of the iconic Hotel Oloffson which served as the inspiration for the Hotel Trianon in Graham Greene’s The Comedians, said that the stench of death in Port-au-Prince was becoming unbearable and people were resorting to desperate measures. (more)

The earthquake aftermath has brought out the best and worst of the people of Haiti. (more)

With thoughtful insight into the devastation that struck Haiti yesterday, Link TV board member Danny Glover spoke with our friends at GRITtv today to discuss steps forward for the Haitian capital. (more)

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations said on Thursday that dozens of its personnel were killed in Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti, the worst loss of life the world body has ever suffered in a single incident. (more)

Aid groups in Port-au-Prince said the relief effort could be hampered by the deteriorating security situation as criminals and desperate locals fought for the scarce resources. (more)

THE death toll from Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake will reach 10s of thousands of people, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said. (more)

(CBS) Half the members of a group on what was to be a week-long humanitarian mission to Haiti from Florida’s Lynn University are unaccounted for in the wake of Tuesday’s earthquake. (more)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—Cries from victims entombed beneath concrete debris pierced the air of seemingly every street in this crowded capital Wednesday, where shocked residents carried the injured and the dead a day after the nation was hit by a quake that some estimate has killed more than 100,000 people. (more)

America’s response thus far to the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti on January 12 has been far too mute, creating an unexpected vacuum of leadership in a critical region. Haiti is the most impoverished nation of the Americas. The government under President Réne Préval is weak and literally now in shambles. Cuba and Venezuela, already intent on minimizing U.S. influence in the region, are likely to seize this opportunity to raise their profile and influence in a country that is already battling drugs and corruption. (more)

The Prime Minister of Haiti tonight said the death toll for the catastrophic earthquake could top 100,000 as the full scale of the disaster began to emerge. (more)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti —  A powerful earthquake struck Haiti’s capital on Tuesday with withering force, toppling everything from simple shacks to the ornate National Palace and the headquarters of U.N. peacekeepers. The dead and injured lay in the streets even as strong aftershocks rippled through the impoverished Caribbean country. (more)

A 7.3-magnitude earthquake which struck off the coast of Haiti is feared to have caused major loss of life in and around the capital, Port-au-Prince. (more)