Congresswoman: Renew our commitment to Haiti

Rep. Frederica S. Wilson

OPINION - Three years ago today I was serving in the Florida Senate when a devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck the island nation of Haiti...

Romney storm relief efforts met with skepticism

Ugonna Okpalaoka

theGRIO REPORT - The Romney campaign's decision Tuesday to suddenly change a scheduled victory rally in Ohio into a storm-relief event in the wake of Hurricane Sandy is being criticized by pundits as a staged photo opportunity...

GOP rep already stingy on Sandy recovery funds

Ugonna Okpalaoka

theGRIO REPORT - Republican Iowa Representative Steve King has said he doesn't want to sign off on federal Hurricane Sandy disaster relief unless a specific plan on how the money will be spent is set in place.

Just 2 percent of quake debris in Haiti cleared

theGrio

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - By some estimates, the quake left about 33 million cubic yards of debris in Port-au-Prince...

UN slams Haitian hospitals for charging patients

theGrio

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) - The United Nations has warned that it will cut off shipments of free medicine beginning immediately to any Haitian hospitals that it finds are charging patients...

French team makes new 'miracle' rescue in Haiti

theGrio

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) - A French search team that wouldn't go home pulled off another "miracle" rescue in Port-au-Prince, lifting a 17-year-old girl alive from beneath this cityscape of rubble....

Haiti govt gets only 1 cent of every US aid dollar

theGrio

Relief experts say it would be a mistake to send too much direct cash to the Haitian government, which is in disarray and has a history of failure and corruption...