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Basketball Star Dwight Howard Is Going To Haiti September 1, 2010 06:46 AM Orlando Magic basketball player Dwight Howard announced his plans to visit Haiti later this month but first, Dwight Howard is hosting a concert for Haiti on September 15 at the House of Blues in Orlando FL. Also Co-hosting this special concert for Haiti is Tichina Arnold from the TV sitcom "Everybody Hates Chris". Read the rest of this entry » 4 Comments | Add a comment Share it: Twitter  Facebook  More   IDT Donates USD $10, 000 To American Red Cross Haiti Earthquake Relief August 31, 2010 03:46 AM NEWARK, NJ – (Aug. 31, 2010): IDT Telecom, a provider of low cost, high quality consumer telecommunications products, announced today donated USD $10,000 to the American Red Cross for their Haiti Relief effort. The gift fulfills IDT Telecom’s commitment to donate 100% of net proceeds from calls to Haiti made using its popular Boss Revolution prepaid calling service following the earthquake and also includes 100% of the contributions collected from customers who donated $1 of their account balances. Read the rest of this entry » 1 Comments | Add a comment Share it: Twitter  Facebook  More   Haitian Singer Luck Mervil To Build A 900 Shipping-Container Village In Haiti August 30, 2010 05:09 PM Remember back in March I wrote an article suggesting the use of shipping container homes in Haiti? Well... This is exactly Haitian Canadian musician Luck Mervil has in mind. I have some info about his new project. inhabitat.com reports, Luck Mervil is leading the charge to help rebuild Haiti with houses made from repurposed shipping containers. Through a new Montreal organization called Vilaj Vilaj, Luck Mervil plans to use 900 retrofitted shipping containers to construct a new village in Haiti, big enough to house 5,000 people but there's more... Keep on reading... Read the rest of this entry » 7 Comments | Add a comment Share it: Twitter  Facebook  More   Voila Teams Up With The Red Cross For A New Haiti SMS Campaign August 28, 2010 03:43 PM Great News... Voila, one of Haiti's largest mobile phone companies, has developed a new web-based platform that allows the Red Cross to send emergency SMS messages through their country-wide mobile network. Since the Haiti earthquake back in January, every Haitian agree that SMS messages saves lives. Now Voila has teamed up with the Red Cross to send a series of "preparedness message alerts" to all Voila mobile phone subscribers across Haiti. Read the rest of this entry » 3 Comments | Add a comment Share it: Twitter  Facebook  More   IDT Telecom To Donate $10, 000 To The Red Cross For Haiti Earthquake Relief August 28, 2010 09:15 AM On Tuesday, August 31, 2010, IDT Telecom will donate $10,000 to the American Red Cross for the Haiti Relief effort. This event will take place at 7:00pm on Tuesday, and it will air on Tropik TV the following day, Wednesday September 1st. Watch it on www.TropikTV.tv, South Florida Comcast Channel 689 / TV Channel 48.2 or Check for TropikTV coverage in your area. Read the rest of this entry » 1 Comments | Add a comment Share it: Twitter  Facebook  More   Technology - Haiti Is Getting An Internet Access And Voice Over IP Upgrade August 27, 2010 04:08 PM On the technology side of things, MultiLink, a Haiti-based Internet service provider, has just contracted Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) to deploy a new microwave radio network in Haiti. This is supposed to extend high-quality data services such as Voice over IP (VoIP) to subscribers across Haiti. I read this on NASDAQ's web site... Se gro koze... Multilink, is a an Internet service provider in Haiti established since 1997 (I didn't know that...) and they provide services such as Internet access, data transmission, and Voice over IP in Haiti. Read the rest of this entry » 1 Comments | Add a comment Share it: Twitter  Facebook  More   Reconstruction Of Port-au-Prince Haiti Start September 2010 August 27, 2010 12:32 PM A date has finally been set as to when the reconstruction of Port-au-Prince Haiti will begin. Ronald Beaudin, Haiti's finance minister says. that Major projects for reconstruction will be visible in downtown Port-au-Prince during the month of September. The first phase of the reconstruction will be to demolish and clean up the sites that were badly damaged during the Haiti earthquake of January 12. Read the rest of this entry » 7 Comments | Add a comment Share it: Twitter  Facebook  More   Miss Haiti Is Not Miss Universe 2010 But It's All Good August 24, 2010 06:56 AM Sarodj Bertin did not make it as one of the finalists in the Miss Universe 2010 beauty competition last night but she did bring some attention to Haiti the past few weeks. Believe me, attention on Haiti is good for us... Considering that the only time the world talks about Haiti is to remind everyone of how poor the country is, it's good to get free the publicity on the "beauty" side. Read the rest of this entry » 1 Comments | Add a comment Share it: Twitter  Facebook  More   Evelyn Miot, Miss Haiti 1962, First Black Semi-Finalist In Miss Universe Pageant August 24, 2010 06:11 AM Did you know that the first black woman ever to reach the top five finalists position in the Miss Universe pageant was Haitian? Her name was Evelyn Miot, Miss Haiti 1962. She made history... Miss Haiti, Evelyn Miot, was a semi-finalist in the Miss Universe 1962 pageant. that was the very first time that Haiti sent a delegate to the Miss Universe beauty contest. Read the rest of this entry » Add a comment Share it: Twitter  Facebook  More   Gerthie David, Miss Haiti 1977, First Runner Up At Miss Universe 1975 August 24, 2010 06:10 AM Did you know that the first runner up at the Miss Universe 1975 beauty competition was Haitian? Her name was Gerthie David, Miss Haiti 1975. Miss Haiti, Gerthie David, advanced all the way to the final, she was the first runner up. Read the rest of this entry » Add a comment Share it: Twitter  Facebook  More   Older Posts > View: Extended | Compact