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Members of Tampa Bay community are helping Haiti recover listen
01/13/12 Andrea LypkaWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Compassion Network International Ministries, Haiti
After the earthquake that killed 300,000 people and wiped out some villages and cities in Haiti two years ago, Tampa Bay organizations are helping to rebuild the infrastructure. A Haiti-native and St. Petersburg resident plans to build 10 training centers in Haiti.
Local officials and volunteers commemorated the Haiti earthquake victims at Night of Unity and Hope for Haiti at First Baptist Church in St. Petersburg last night. Some of the volunteers, including Victor Floener from Disaster I...
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05/11/11 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Honduras, Haiti, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, State Department, Central America
Union busting, deregulation of private industry and silencing of dissent are on the laundry list of beefs many US citizens have about the new Republican leadership in statehouses like Florida, Ohio and Indiana. Working people in one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere are railing against their US-supported government’s anti-labor policies.
An estimated 300 people have died suspiciously in Honduras since a 2009 military coup that replaced democratically elected president Manu...
2 commentsThe elections In Haiti and tree sitter protestors in South Florida
03/21/11 Robert LoreiLast Call Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Haiti, Panagioti Tsolkas, Scripps, Everglades Earth First
Good afternoon, welcome to The Last Call; I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up today we'll hear two interviews before we open the phone lines.
First with Tampa resident Daniel Thelusmar who is in Haiti observing the elections. Daniel is originally from Haiti.
Later we'll hear from Panagioti Tsolkas who is with Everglades Earth First. He is part of a group of protesters who are trying to save an undeveloped area of palm Beach County from being bulldozed to build th...
Be the first to commentActor/activist Danny Glover on Haiti elections listen
03/17/11 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Danny Glover, activism, recession, Tampa, Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is leaving South Africa today and plans to return to Haiti tomorrow at noon.
Actor Danny Glover flew to South Africa to accompany Aristide back to Haiti.
The impoverished nation of Haiti is still feeling the pain of the earthquake that ravaged the country over a year ago, not to mention a chaotic presidential election many have deemed fraudulent. Actor Danny Glover recently made a film about a 1791 slave uprising in that country, and has m...
Be the first to commentMany are skeptical of Haiti election listen
12/03/10 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Haiti, earthquake, elections, Jean Bertrand-Aristide
The London Telegraph reported today that between two and three thousand Haitians protested the results of Sunday’s presidential election in the capitol of Port Au Prince. Some of the twelve presidential candidates were reportedly among the protestors. A United Nations peacekeeping official has meanwhile warned that the international community would pull its support from the country if it did not accept the results of the election. Preliminary results are expected to be out Tuesday. This wee...
2 commentsElementary School in Haiti
11/06/10 mary glenneyFrom A Woman's Point of View
Tags: Haiti
Liliane Stransky, the founder of Step By Step Foundation who just opened the Tipa Tipa Elementary School in Lahaie, Haiti for 596 children talked to us as Hurricane Tomas was striking the area. She talked of her concerns for the children and their families. She also discussed the recent cholera outbreak and her organizations efforts to help the people. Tipa in Creole means step-thus step by step Liliane hopes to go forward and continue to help particular...
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10/18/10 Sarah CurranWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Haiti, elections, Eckerd College, St. Petersubrg
As the small Caribbean nation of Haiti shook on January 12, 2010, the hearts of people all around the world shook with it. Over 200,000 people lost their lives to the disaster and billions of dollars worth of infrastructure laid in ruble. Now the country is hoping a new president will raise a new and more powerful Haiti out of the ashes.
“I am watching My country and it is dying”
Haitians like Beatrice Abbott gathered at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, last Saturday, to h...
Be the first to commentUSF Tampa will host forum for Haiti presidential candidates listen
09/23/10 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Note: as of Sept. 29, this forum has been moved to Eckerd College in St. Pete. October 16th from 2pm until 4pm in Fox Hall.
The people of Haiti will choose a new president this fall. Like all elections, the candidates will debate. But the location of one forum might take you by surprise: At least ten of the candidates for president of Haiti will debate in October on the campus of the University of South Florida in Tampa.
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Be the first to commentThe Tampa Bay for Haiti Coalition hosts Haiti Memorial listen
02/22/10 Alexis ChamberlainWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, Haitian relief, Haitian Earthquake, Haitian Ambassador Raymond Joseph
On Friday in Tampa, Haiti’s ambassador to the United States, Raymond Joseph, acknowledged exiled former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Artistide’s desire to assist Haiti and return to the country with medical supplies and other emergency equipment.
Joseph made the comment after the City of Tampa hosted the first U.S. memorial to pay its respects to those lost in last month’s earthquake.
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Haitians in US can seek Temporary Protected Status beginning tomorrow listen
01/20/10 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, immigration, TPS
Beginning tomorrow Haitian nationals in the U.S. will be able to apply for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Any Haitian who was in the U.S. before the earthquake devastated their home country is eligible for 18 months amnesty from deportation.
Stuart Dresser, director of the Tampa Field Office of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, announced in a press conference this afternoon that the application window opens tomorrow. “During the de...
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