Deadly earthquake rocks Haiti
Just days after a United Nations report revealed that more than half of Haiti is experiencing acute hunger, the country was hit with a 4.9 magnitude earthquake.
The quake hit the City of Jérémie on June 6. Three fatalities have been reported and Haitian authorities have confirmed that the victims were crushed after their homes collapsed.
Haiti — the most vulnerable country in the western hemisphere — is also experiencing heavy rains that have displaced more than 13,000 people.
Agencies of the United Nations are already on the ground offering emergency support services.
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has stated that it “has noted with deep concern reports of death, injuries and displacement in our sister member state, Haiti, as a result of heavy rains and flooding over the past weekend, and the earthquake of June 6, 2023.”
CARICOM stated that they extend an arm of friendship to the government and people of Haiti and pledge to continue supporting them as they recover.
However, the regional body did not state how it will be supporting Haiti. Whenever Haitians flee to CARICOM countries, they are sent back to their homeland as Caribbean governments usually say they don’t have the resources to support an influx of migrants.
The BVI has a growing Haitian expat community with many persons raising families here while supporting others in their country.
Haiti has experienced a number of major disasters in recent years and is yet to fully recover from the 7.0 magnitude earthquake it experienced in 2010.
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If anyone wanted to see the true evilness of the entity known as America, all you got to do is look at how destabilised they’ve kept Hati, installing puppet regimes so they can continue to strip it of resources and not give a solitary ‘spit’ about the people involved.
Infrastructure against earthquakes in such a zone prone to them should be key to the buildings here, but these buildings are always built with little to no enforcement or rebar. Necessary to withstand such intense shaking.
21st century colonisation while the world sits back on its smart phones and care only about melanin less people problems.
A long suffering people who go from one bad situation to another. It seems as if they cant catch a break in their tormented land. I hope one day their much suffering ends.
I find it interesting that despite Haiti and DR shares one island separated by a boarder all the bad things in terms of natural disasters appears on the Haitian side perhaps due to the earthquake fault lines being on that side.
To my Hatien brothers and sisters many of whom I know from Cap Hatien, I wish you safety and better days ahead. Stay strong and hopeful despite the troubles that plague your land.
Solidarity begins today, let’s help however we can.
what does Haiti export ? , what is Haiti known for ? do good and good will follow you / and my condolences goes out to the innocent ones ? in peace and love ❤️
Love and hate can never be friends. You obviously know very little about Haiti except the propaganda spread by Western Media as a smokescreen for their cruel exploitation of the country’s natural resources. Iridium is valued at $5,ooo.oo dollars an ounce on the world market. It is found only in Haiti and South Africa. It is the key ingredient in all tech products Telephones computers electric cars you name it. Haiti contains a mountain of Iridium which is being pillaged by the US France and other western countries while they keep the country destabilized. If Haiti was to receive fair value for its resources it would be the richest country on the plant. Now talk that.
Sorry to hear this.
Only God can help them.
Haiti shares the same island as the Dominican Republic….the same island.
Haiti is not an exporter of Iridium (google it!). There is unproven speculation of reserves however large scale mining would benefit a foreign investor while ravaging the environment. For this reason Haiti have rejected the return of Newmont. The solution would be state owned/local mining companies. Foreign mining companies would happily ravish the country but to blame the west for Haiti’s problems is not true (though foreign grants could help get the country on its feet if a trustworthy government could be installed)
well (not correct ) answered your comments for me / and I never mentioned the word hate , and I will leave with , ” he who thinks he knows , knows no he knows nothing “
This is crazy. Will the suffering never end for Haiti? It’s like tragedy after tragedy.
Haiti have its good but they have more bad them good one say the people in the virginislands have to much some of the are genuine but the majority of them into voodoo and its a fact if they do not repentbofvyheir wrong doing it will continue We have a God who loves us let us follow him repent and your land will be healed.
If a trust worthy government was to be installed it would probably be wrecked by the US the same way Aristide was given 24 hours to leave his country and flown to exile in Africa. Stop defending wrong and call it out for what it is instead of giving weak minded persons like @@@ mickey Mars the wrong impression. Haiti has been a target of the western powers ever since they defeated France militarily to gain their independence during slavery. No other slaves in history have accomplished this feat and they have been made to suffer since that time. What is happening in Haiti is all by design stop supporting evil.
Black people in Virgin Islands also freed themselves from slavery? Why don’t you know that? Never heard of buddhoe?
And very few things annoy me more than hearing black people talk down on Haiti. Whoever you are mr. Black man, you’re from a third world country, if not, your colonial master still has his thing in your mouth, or you would be no different from Haiti. White man rules, he hates Haiti because Haiti kicked his ass, so Haiti will be made to suffer. All the uncle toms and suckasses get to tell themselves how sophisticated the white man made them.
The earthquake is definitely manmade. The dominican republic would have felt some sort of effects of the earthquake.
How convenient for the powers that be, terrorize the peole of Haiti just to reap the resources of Haiti.
I feel disgaust for the puppets that are running Haiti.
What ever man sow they shall reap a whirlwind. The time will come….