DEVELOPMENT: Haiti Must Destroy Before Rebuilding

When the Jan. 12 earthquake struck this mountainous country, in less than a minute, it transformed it from one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere to the largest construction site this side of the Atlantic.

HAITI: Earthquake Epicentre Copes with Aftermath

Marie Saintus sat regally on a wicker chair in the narrow alley by her makeshift home at the Anacaona Stadium, in the middle of this once bucolic city, as she teased her neighbours.

HAITI: Quake Victims Overwhelm Medical Capacity

Seriously injured people continue to provide deep challenges to the city's barely functioning hospitals, weeks after a massive earthquake overwhelmed medical staff.

HAITI: Universities Feel Strain After Earthquake

Astride Auguste was late for an exam at Quiskeya University on that fateful Tuesday, Jan. 12, when the earthquake - or "the event", as Haitians have come to call it - struck this capital city.

HAITI: Desperate Residents Flee Capital, But with Hopes of Return

Marjorie Louis and her two small children are sleeping in the street. Their home is in complete ruins. And Louis has no way to let her mother in Les Cayes know that she survived the deadliest natural disaster to hit this country.

HAITI: With Aid Slow to Arrive, Food Prices Skyrocket

Last week, the price of a small can of rice was two dollars. On Tuesday, it cost Haitians 3.50 dollars. A gallon of cooking oil that cost 10 dollars only days ago now fetches 20 dollars.

HAITI: Social Networks Offer News, and Comfort

On Tuesday, Jan. 12, a small story from the Associated Press came across the wires that an earthquake had hit Haiti. Almost instantly, phones began to ring as Haitian Americans started calling each other to find out if there was more to this story.

HAITI: No One Expected the “Big One”

Marjorie Louis was sitting in her kitchen eating dinner when she felt the house shaking, but she didn't get up.

HAITI: On Sunday, Mass Was About the Dead

Rosemarie Tintin's black hat and veil barely concealed the sorrow on her face. She recently lost her entire family in Haiti's devastating earthquake and the only place she could find solace was at her church.

HAITI: A Night on Rue Berne – Living in the Streets

The sun had barely set and already, the residents of Rue Berne were making their beds. These bedrooms were makeshifts arranged neatly on one side of the street, away from shaky walls and fragile home frames that remain so dangerous.

HAITI: U.S. Residents Mount Humanitarian Aid

A group of Haitian American leaders, state and local officials met late Tuesday night to map out humanitarian relief efforts as the extent of the damage from a devastating magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti became clearer.

HAITI: Clinton Revives Modest Optimism for Island’s Economy

Since his appointment last spring as United Nations special envoy to Haiti, former U.S. President Bill Clinton has been called, half-seriously, "president of Haiti" and "viceroy".