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BY GARRY PIERRE-PIERRE

Astride Auguste was late for an exam at Port-au-Prince’s Quiskeya University on that fateful Tuesday January 12, when the earthquake, or ‘the event’, as Haitians have come to call it happened.

Auguste, an undergraduate student in international affairs and management was nearby the campus when she felt the earth shook beneath her.…

BY GARRY PIERRE-PIERRE

THE EARTHQUAKE that shook Haiti to its core did not spare the country’s largest rum producer, Barbancourt. The plant, located in the La Plaine area of Port-au-Prince suffered extensive damage, according to Alain Duret, the company’s human resources director.…

BY GARRY PIERRE-PIERRE

HAITI’S troubled fishing industry has been dealt a severe blow by the earthquake that devastated its capital Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas. The destruction of the city’s port facilities, warehouses, and distribution systems means that fish, once plentiful in markets, have for the time become a rare commodity, said Michel Chancy, the undersecretary for food at Haiti’s ministry of agriculture, which is responsible for fishing and aquaculture.…

BY MITCH

As the international community converges on Haiti, many are fearful that the small Caribbean country will become another victim of promised international aid that falters amongst bickering and petty squabbles between donor countries and agencies.

But, in truth, this disaster could serve as a model for international aid done right, with large scale cooperation and organisation that not only relieves the immediate suffering of the Haitian people, but reestablishes the shattered remains of their infrastructure and society.…

BY GARRY PIERRE-PIERRE

Astride Auguste was late for an exam at Port-au-Prince’s Quiskeya University on that fateful Tuesday January 12, when the earthquake, or ‘the event’, as Haitians have come to call it happened.

Auguste, an undergraduate student in international affairs and management was nearby the campus when she felt the earth shook beneath her.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EARTHQUAKE that has ravaged Haiti seriously damaged the air traffic control tower at Toussaint L’Ouverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, rendering it unusable. Denis Chagnon public information officer for the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) said: "It’s out of commission and non-operational."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A HAITIAN consortium E-Power SA will receive US$30 million in investment through the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation to build a 30-megawatt heavy fuel oil power plant, reducing the Caribbean state’s acute power shortages. US$14 million of this will be syndicated through Dutch development bank FMO.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ANTI-CORRUPTION organisation Transparency International has warned that the perceived level of corruption in Britain significantly worsened in the past year. In its latest international rankings, it said that the UK was now the 16th least corrupt nation, with a rating of 7.7 (10 being cleanest and zero highly corrupt).…

BY KENCHO WANGDI, in Thimphu, Bhutan; JUHEL BROWNE, in Port of Spain, Trinidad; BILL CORCORAN, in Johannesburg; and KEITH NUTHALL

THE RISING price in oil has hit the prosperity of many companies, communities and countries, but it is the world’s poorest people, living in what the United Nations calls least developed countries that are suffering the most.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD’S poorest countries are suffering from a punishing exodus of their most talented, experienced and educated citizens a UN Conference on Trade and Development reports claims. Around 1 million skilled persons from officially-designated Least Developed Countries (LDCs) lived and worked in developed countries in 2004, a brain drain of 15%, considering the 6.6 million LDC citizens with university-level educations.…