Haiti

UN chief, Bill Clinton to visit Haiti

UN chief, Bill Clinton to visit HaitiNew York  - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and former US president Bill Clinton are scheduled to visit Haiti next week, working together to achieve an economic recovery in one of the poorest nations in the region, the UN said Tuesday.

Ban plans to be in Haiti Monday for a one-day visit, accompanied by Clinton, who successfully led international efforts to help Southeast Asian nations devastated by the
2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean.

Another school building collapses in Haiti

Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Another school building partially collapsed Wednesday in Haiti, less than a week after a school crumbled leaving more than 90 people dead.

Eyewitnesses said a building adjoining the Grace Divine (Divine Grace) school in the Canape Vert neighbourhood of Haitian capital Port-au-Prince collapsed, falling onto the school itself.

According to preliminary reports, eight people - seven adults and one child - were injured and had to be taken to hospital.

On Friday, at least 93 people, most of them children, died in the collapse of Evangelical Promise school in Petionville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince. Some 160 others were injured and many more remained missing.

Another school building collapses in Haiti

Port-au-Prince, Haiti  - Another school building partially collapsed Wednesday in Haiti, less than a week after a school crumbled leaving more than 90 people dead.

Haiti president bemoans construction anarchy after school collapse

Port-au-Prince, Haiti  - Haitian President Rene Preval said the weakness of the state and the flouting of building regulations were responsible for a school collapse that cost the lives of at least 93 children.

"The anarchy in the construction sector is the root of the tragedy," Preval told Radio Metropole Monday night.

The lawlessness was a result of the weakness of the state, which also caused lives to be endangered in natural catastrophes, he said.

This year, about 800 Haitians died in tropical storms, often being buried underneath their collapsed homes.

Haiti school collapse death toll rises to 90; owner arrested

Haiti school collapse death toll rises to 90; owner arrested Port-au-Prince  - The number of children killed the collapse of a school in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince rose to 90 late Sunday, rescuers said, as police arrested the school's owner.

There were still many victims buried under the rubble of the Evangelical Promise school in the city's Petion-Ville suburb, that collapsed Friday morning with up to 700 children inside, rescuers said.

Haiti death toll rises to 84 in school collapse; 200 still buried

Port-au-Prince  - As rescue workers continued to dig through the rubble, the number of dead early Sunday had reached 84 in the collapse of a Hatian school as special rescue teams from the US and France rushed to help dig out survivors from the rubble.

An estimated 200 more children and possibly teachers are believed to still be buried in the rubble of the Petion Ville suburb of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, Radio Metropole reported Saturday.

The school collapsed Friday morning as an estimated 700 students were in the building.

Rescue workers had contact with some of the victims in the rubble and were able to talk to and supply them with water.

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