The Whole Delivery

Photo from Gallo and Getty You wouldn't be happy too if the aid was so slow to come like it has : It has been six months since a seven magnitude earthquake struck Haiti. As many as a quarter of a million people died and 1.5 million more were rendered homeless. Despite a major reconstruction effort many Haitians fear, not enough is being done to rebuild the devastated island nation. Mother of four Carmen Hypolite said: “We were expecting a change in our situation because they were speaking only about reconstruction, but the way things are going, we could be waiting five or 10 years, even for the rest of our lives and see nothing happen.” So slow, and so little : The technical obstacles to reconstruction are immense. But the political roadblocks are larger. Immediately after the quake $10bn in international aid was pledged. As of June 30, only 10 per cent of the $2.5bn promised for 2010 had been delivered. A lot of it has been held up in political wrangling. The intern...

Photo from the AFP The rest of the world has got to get it together, especially the country that I am from and currently in at the moment : Haiti's president has called on leaders from Europe and the Americas to keep their promises of aid for the Caribbean country as it struggles to rebuild from the January's devastating earthquake. Speaking at a donor conference in the neighbouring Dominican Republic on Wednesday, Rene Preval said that the nation faced an "immense challenge" to rebuild. According to aid experts, Haiti needs about $11.5bn for its anticipated decade-long rebuilding effort. But so far, Haitian government officials say, only Brazil has delivered its entire aid pledge of $55m. We can't even do consistent aid correctly right now. Hopefully that will change soon ladies and gentlemen. To Tevin, Goodnight:

There are still are a lot of idiots in this country that hate on this wonderful woman.

It just doesn't dumbfound the soul enough : It just doesn't.

AP's Andres Leighton US troops are leaving Haiti it appears. There are some Haiti citizens here who aren't looking forward to this , seeing the troops as invaluable in their arrival towards the pain they have encountered in Haiti: "I would like for them to stay in Haiti until they rebuild the country and everybody can go back to their house," said Marjorie Louis, a 27-year-old mother of two, as she warmed a bowl of beans for her family over a charcoal fire on the fake grass of the national stadium. More praise for the troops from the locals, an end result a lot of people from different backgrounds didn't predict would happen with the troops. "They should stay because they have been doing a good job," 35-year-old Lesly Pierre said as his family prepared dinner under a tarp at an encampment in Petionville. "If it was up to our government, we wouldn't have gotten any help at all." U.S. soldiers said they had nothing but warm encount...

Photo from Tom Fawthrop You wouldn't know by our media, but it's paramount to give you the whole delivery as always. Playing just as vital a role of any country, if not more, for the treatment of the travesty Haiti has endured has been the Cuban government. You won't here any major news packages on this : "It is striking that there has been virtually no mention in the media of the fact that Cuba had several hundred health personnel on the ground before any other country," said David Sanders, a professor of public health from Western Cape University in South Africa. Continuing their medical pact of helping Haiti since 1998, Cuba's doctors (and Haitian doctors trained at Cuban schools) has been nothing short of immense to the ravished nation. Before the earthquake struck, 344 Cuban health professionals were already present in Haiti, providing primary care and obstetrical services as well as operating to restore the sight of Haitians blinded by eye diseas...

Especially this one, covered by the quality reporter from British's ITV named Bill Neely. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy This one is truly a sole turner. But they all are.

Emotion was never going to be a question in this afternoon's press conference from Wyclef Jean about Haiti. But answers to the questions surrounding the shady money situation of his Yele foundation still are far from given in my perspective. After showing tears and speaking in Creole to any Haitians watching the press conference, Wyclef called on the world to provide habitation to the hundreds and thousands who survived the tragic earthquake. "America, the Middle East, the world, I call on you" he said in his belief that a mass exodus out of Port-au-Prince is the only answer. But there was no convincing answer in regards to the allegations of foul play from his charity organization in benefiting him instead of doing what a charitable organization is suppose to do. Wyclef's only response in the press conference to those reports was to mention how his father warned him of people criticizing him for doing good deeds. He vehemently denied profiting from Yele and...

In such a traumatic situation : On the fifth day of their response to the disaster in Haiti, the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams on the ground remain focused on trying to cope with the huge demand for lifesaving surgery for those who suffered terrible injuries in the January 12 earthquake. They are stretching their existing operating theatres to the limit by working around the clock, while at the same time trying to create more capacity by finding new facilities and transporting in mobile structures.

Long before the world has focused squarely on Haiti, Wyclef Jean has been a prominent ambassador for his homeland since establishing himself as a music superstar. But in the midst of urging aid support for Haiti by going to the Yele website , that foundation's ethics and managing of funds has now been serious questioned in this devastating report from Smoking Gun released early this afternoon. Really devastating However, Internal Revenue Service records show the group has a lackluster history of accounting for its finances, and that the organization has paid the performer and his business partner at least $410,000 for rent, production services, and Jean's appearance at a benefit concert. Though the Wyclef Jean Foundation, which does business as Yele Haiti Foundation, was incorporated 12 years ago--and has been active since that time--the group only first filed tax returns in August 2009. The evidence is pretty damaging, with the foundation actually playing Wyclef and s...

Just a short time ago, both President Obama and Haitian President Preval spoke for about 30 minutes. And Preval express his gratitude to the reaction from around the world for his further devastated country. "From the bottom of my heart and on behalf of the Haitian people, thank you, thank you, thank you." Also, the First Lady on Haiti: