Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Haiti ( ; Haitian Creole Ayiti ), officially the Republic of Haiti (; ), is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic.
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Its countryside is shorn of trees, chopped down for fuel. And yet, Haiti's land may hold the key to relieving centuries of poverty, disaster and disease: There is gold hidden in its hills — and silver and copper, too.A flurry of exploratory drilling in the past year has found precious metals worth potentially $20 billion deep below the tropical ridges in the country's northeastern mountains. Now, a mining company is drilling around the clock to determine how to get those metals out.In neighboring Dominican Republic, workers are poised to start mining the other side of this seam later this year in one of the world's largest gold deposits: 23 million ounces worth about $40 billion.The Haitian government's annual budget is $1 billion, more than half provided by foreign assistance. The largest single source of foreign investment, $2 billion, came from Haitians working abroad last year. A windfall of locally produced wealth could pay for roads...The Dominican Republic plans to start penalizing all companies that hire illegal workers under a new labor regulation that has sparked anger among the Caribbean coun...
Kate Conradt from Save the Children with news from Port - au - Prince
Craig Boswell continues his look at post- earthquake Haiti
Federal Emergency Task Force One rescued six people in quake-ravaged Haiti
Jamie McIntyre surveys the damage left behind by the Haiti earthquake from the air
Obama extends condolences to the people of Haiti ; pledges full support of U.S. government in rescue effort
PORT-AU-PRINCE , Haiti (AP) — A British citizen kidnapped early in the week while in Haiti to do post-earthquake reconstruction was freed Friday, the agency employin...
Haitian -born actor Jimmy Jean-Louis on devastation he has witnessed in Port - au - Prince
U.S. team assess needs in one of Port - au - Prince's worst slums
Haitian-American leaders and others are using Wednesday's anniversary of Haiti's massive earthquake to implore the Obama administration to welcome tens of thousands ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE , Haiti (AP) — A Haitian man kidnapped while working with a U.S.-based development foundation was found dead on Saturday, the group said.The driver fo...
PORT-AU-PRINCE , Haiti (AP) — Haitian civil protection officials say rains have caused small floods in the northwestern city of Gonaives.Civil protection director Ma...
A local sports hero, a New York real estate developer and a well-known architect are teaming up to build a soccer stadium in Haiti's notorious Cite Soleil, hoping to...
A local sports hero, a New York real estate developer and a well-known architect are teaming up to build a soccer stadium in Haiti's notorious Cite Soleil, hoping to...
Four men have confessed they killed a Swiss woman after she began to investigate the finances of an orphanage in northern Haiti, a police official said Thursday.Carl...
A former senior executive at Haiti's state-run telecommunications company was sentenced Monday to nine years in federal prison for money laundering offenses tied to ...
International Red Cross plans major relief operations in Haiti
Haiti moved to crack down on a band of former and would-be soldiers who had been staging protests for more than a year, closing two old military bases they had occup...
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