rubble

RAND report: Haiti must clear rubble, aid business (AP)

August 13th, 2010

Residents of camps set up for people left homeless by the Jan. 12 earthquake demonstrate in front of  the collapsed presidential palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Aug 12, 2010. Demonstrators said the government is failing on its promises to provide housing as private landowners pressure the camp residents to leave. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)AP - A U.S.-based think tank is painting a grim picture of the earthquake recovery effort in Haiti, adding its voice to widespread accusations of ineffectual local leadership.


Tags: earthquake recovery,…

Haiti’s Latest Problem: Clearing Away the Rubble (Time.com)

June 6th, 2010

Time.com - There is enough debris in Port-au-Prince to fill five Louisiana Superdomes. But there is only one approved place to dump it.

Tags: problem, latest, Clearing, rubble, away

Haiti to use quake rubble in capital’s rebuilding (AP)

April 3rd, 2010

A man prays in a camp for people displaced by the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Friday, April 2, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12, killing and injuring thousands and leaving more than a million people living in makeshift camps. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - The rubble from Haiti’s shattered capital is rising in heaps at the port, dumped for sorting and recycling by a fleet of heavy, exhaust-belching trucks.


Tags: capital’s, quake, rebuilding,…