Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Port-au-Prince (; ; Haitian Creole: Pòtoprens; ) is the capital and largest city of the Caribbean country of Haiti.
Read More at Wikipedia ›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 revive the seaside shantytown known throughout the hemisphere for its extreme poverty and gang battles.
Foreign investors in Haiti have largely directed their efforts at rebuilding from a devastating 2010 earthquake, focusing their funds on Port-au-Prince and the overlapping cities that make up the capital and the country's sleepy coastlines.But ex-Haiti soccer star Robert "Boby" Duval has masterminded the $5 million stadium project, which he says will address problems that predate the 2010 disaster. Developer Delos LLC and architect Carlos Zapata are working with him on the project in a slum on the outskirts of the capital, full of tin shacks and open sewage canals formerly shunned by investors, avoided by diplomats and at one point considered so dangerous that U.N. peacekeepers would only enter it in armored vehicles."Cit...At least five people who traveled from rural Haiti to the country’s capital tested positive for cholera when they arrived in Port-au-Prince , health officials said S...
PORT-AU-PRINCE , Haiti (AP) — As the charter jet began backing away from the terminal, Ginel Thermosey slowly turned around to shake hands with the medical student s...
The cholera strain in Haiti is evolving, researchers reported Thursday, a sign that it may be taking deeper root in the nation less than two years after it appeared ...
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Sean Penn no longer lives in a tent, surrounded by some 40,000 desperate people camped on a muddy golf course. And he no longer rushes about the capital with a Glock...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Health workers feared a surge of cholera cases in the shantytowns and muddy tent camps of Haiti's capital as suspected cases piled up Tuesda...
PORT-AU-PRINCE , Haiti (AP) — Former U.S. President Bill Clinton officially inaugurated the commission overseeing Haiti's post-earthquake reconstruction on Thursday,...
The man's body lay face down, his white dress shirt shining like wax in the sun, as he was unearthed in the ruins of a Port-au-Prince restaurant a year after the ear...
PORT-AU-PRINCE , Haiti (AP) — Time was up, not 10 minutes into the visit. The social worker went to pull the 3-year-old orphan out of the arms of the woman he calls ...
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...
PORT-AU-PRINCE , Haiti (AP) — The founder of the U.S. cable TV company Black Entertainment Television has announced a project for factories that will build construct...
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...
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...
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 ...
Its capital is blighted with earthquake rubble. Its countryside is shorn of trees, chopped down for fuel. And yet, Haiti's land may hold the key to relieving centuri...
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Glimmers of hope are coming to this devastated capital and its surrounding cities, as the concrete Royal Oasis hotel rises over a metropolitan area still filled with...
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