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• THE BARBADOS ADVOCATE

  Barbados lads find tough going in Cuba

  The Barbados National Football team arrived in Cuba on Sunday to continue in their quest to be crowned champions in the Digicel Caribbean Football Championships. However, all is not well in the camp as the accommodations that have been provided in Cuba have been reported to be not up to par.

• ST. LUCIA STAR

  $25 million for St. Lucia civil servants

  Finally the Stephenson King government is getting some positive press. And for the time being seems to be on the good side of public servants, especially since the government has made good on a promise to pay out 25 million dollars in back-pay and salary increases to its employees.

• Haitian taxi drivers demand justice

  A group of taxi drivers in Haiti are demanding that the government pay for the funeral of a colleague and support his two young children after he was killed by police.

• Haiti to get portable classrooms unused by Broward

  The Broward board of education is giving Haiti several hundred portable classrooms it no longer uses. They will help alleviate a crunch created by damaged schools still serving as shelters for more than 165,000 homeless storm victims. be used to

• JAMAICA GLEANER

  'No need to panic' - Shaw says Jamaican funds safe from U.S. banking crisis

  As the Lower House of the United States Congress voted yesterday against a US$700-billion bailout plan for that nation's banking sector, Jamaican Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Audley Shaw, said there was no need for the island to panic.

• Vodou shrub is alternative fuel

  For generations, Vodou practitioners in rural Haiti have sworn by the mystic qualities of Jatropha, an indigenous plant believed to purge evil spirits and release the trapped souls of the dead. But the shrub may soon be in bigger demand as a source of biofuel

• EmpireStateNews.Net

  N.Y. governor calls for more aid to Haiti

  Governor David Paterson Wednesday thanked the hundreds of New Yorkers who have donated critical supplies for the island nation of Haiti, following the devastating hurricanes that tore through the region during the last four weeks.

• PALM BEACH POST

  Alcee Hastings seeks help for Haitians

  Although the U.S. government has suspended deportations to Haiti in the wake of Hurricane Ike, Rep. Alcee Hastings is seeking more protections for those fleeing the impoverished Caribbean country.

• CBS NEWS

  Saving mud-covered Haiti's crops

  The Haitians have a saying, “beyond mountains there are mountains,” meaning after each big obstacle stands another bigger obstacle. I saw the saying come to life in the town of Cabaret.

• THE WASHINGTON POST

  In devastated Haitian city, a body as envoy of peace

  The many other bodies in the Haitian city of Gonaives were important too, the bloated and decomposing flood victims, not to mention the people who survived the storms -- the ones with broken bones, the tuberculosis case in the crowded prison, the homeless and the hungry. But Max Cosci was there on a special mission: recovering Lionel Augustin's body and sending it back to his home village could prevent a riot.

• THE NEW YORK TIMES

  Meager living of haitians is wiped out by storms

  Suffering long ago became normal in Haiti. But the enduring spirit of the people of Gonaïves is being tested by a string of recent tropical storms and hurricanes whose names Haitians spit out like curses: Fay, Gustav, Hanna and Ike.

• DOMINICANTODAY

  Danny Glover says producers told him his Haiti film lacked 'white heroes'

  U.S. actor Danny Glover, who plans an epic next year on Haitian independence hero Toussaint-Louverture, said he slaved to raise funds for the movie because financiers complained there were no white heroes.

• ST PETERSBURG TIMES

  Mortgage fraud trips up accused Haiti torturer

  Just as the gangster Al Capone was finally brought down on tax charges, one of Haiti's most notorious death squad leaders looks like he's headed to prison for mortgage fraud of all things

• Charities help Haiti fishermen earn their keep

  Venturing to sea in tiny boats powered only by sails, fishermen in a remote village on Haiti's western shore struggled for generations through stormy seas and windless days to earn their keep. Now, outfitted with shiny new fiberglass boats, small outboard motors and sparkling new coolers provided by Food for the Poor, a South Florida charity, they have turned around their village's economy.

• COX NEWS SERVICE

  Haitian slum calm, but racked by hunger

  The guns have fallen silent for now and an uneasy calm has settled over Cité Soleil, Haiti's most notorious slum.

• XINHUA

  Switzerland to return Duvalier funds to Haiti

  The Swiss government will authorize the return to Haiti of unclaimed funds linked to former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, the official Swissinfo news website reportedon Wednesday.

• OAS chief says it will not get involve in Haiti crisis

  The head of the Organization of American States says it has no plans to intervene in Haiti's internal affairs, despite growing fears that the Caribbean nation may be headed toward deeper instability if it doesn't appoint a new prime minister soon.

• SUN SENTINEL

  Detained — a life in limbo: Haitian immigrant awaits deportation decision

  Pulled from her job, family and friends, Haitian immigrant Guerline Normil awaits a decision on deportation from her home of 14 years.

• INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE

  Rights groups attack U.S. for withholding Haiti aid money

  An array of human rights groups has strongly criticized the United States government for withholding money meant to provide clean drinking water to Haiti as leverage for political change in the country.

• PALM BEACH POST

  Desperate Haitians weigh risks of escaping nation by sea

  With long-troubled Haiti wracked by a new crisis, this one sparked by soaring food prices and widespread hunger, thoughts of risking everything to reach America may be spreading among Haitians again.

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