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• Investors plan soccer stadium for Haiti shantytown

  Duval has run the L'Athletique D'Haiti sports program from a field at the northeastern edge of Cite Soleil, giving some of Haiti's poorest children life skills through sports. There are 2,000 youths enrolled in the program, which has been recognized in Sports   Read more »

• Ex-Haiti official, 9 years in telecom bribery case

  -- A former top executive at Haiti's telecommunications company has been sentenced to nine years in prison in a major bribery case.A federal judge in Miami imposed the sentence Monday on 45-year-old Jean Rene Duperval, former international relations director   Read more »

• Haiti's new PM: Mining laws being drafted

  after The Associated Press reported last week that two mining companies have begun drilling in Haiti's northeastern mountains. They estimate that precious metals there are potentially worth $20 billion.Mining laws in Haiti haven't been revised since 1976.   Read more »

• Haiti may sit on billions in precious metals

  DU NORD, Haiti -- 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 centuries of poverty, disaster and disease: There is gold hidden in its hills --   Read more »

• Gold! Haiti hopes ore find will spur mining boom

  at the bottom," said Dan Hachey, president of Majescor Resources, the Canadian company, "and I figured after that earthquake, Haiti was as low as it could get."Hachey was also betting that the $10 billion in foreign assistance promised for earthquake recovery   Read more »

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• We Interrupt This Column…

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• UNMC team is working to cure blindness in developing countries

  this story with reporting from NET senior videographer-editor Ray Meints, who accompanied Mike Feilmeier and his UNMC team to Haiti in May 2012. Haiti is a place ravaged by natural disasters, turmoil and poverty; the poorest country in the Americas. Two-thirds 12:11 AM from NET Nebraska Public Television Read more »

• Haiti: JAPENGCOY : une premiere promotion d'Haitiens formes dans le maniement d'engins lourds

  jeunes haitiens ont reçu leur parchemin ce 31 mai a l'issue d'une formation de trois semaines dispensee par des ingenieurs et techniciens de la Compagnie de genie japonaise (JAPENGCOY) de la MINUSTAH. Ils constituent la premiere promotion d'un groupe de 24 5/31/12 from Humanitarian News Read more »

• Haiti: Solidar network in Haiti: Better Work for a Decent Reconstruction

  Lack of access to skills training and education are key factors that keep many potentially productive people from participating effectively in the labour market. Investing in people is an investment for a country's economic performance, and decent work and 5/31/12 from Humanitarian News Read more »