9 Injured in a 2nd School Collapse in Port-au-Prince, Haiti479 views | 62 Recommendations | 18 comments
A second school has collapsed in central Port-AU-Prince, Haiti, a top Red Cross official has confirmed.
CNN is reporting that a Red Cross Official has stated that another school has collapsed in Central Port-Au-Prince. Our contact is a Mission to Haiti Missionary who has built schools in the area. Following this tragedy one wonders if the 3 hurricanes this season caused some structural damage.
Update 2100 hrs ET -
PORT-AU-PRINCE -- A second school in Haiti has partially collapsed, injuring nine people.
Portions of the Grace Divine school in Canape Vert came crashing down Wednesday while class was in session, authorities said.
Port-au-Prince Building Inspector Edouard Ernseau said two students were hospitalized with severe head injuries.
Seven others outside the school suffered minor injuries. No one was trapped in the rubble.
Update 12:49 pm ET - 9 injured in 2nd Haiti school collapse
Portions of the Grace Divine school in Port-au-Prince came crashing down Wednesday while class was in session.
Port-au-Prince Building Inspector Edouard Ernseau says two students were hospitalized with severe head injuries.
Seven others outside the school suffered minor injuries. No one was trapped in the rubble.
The cause was not immediately known. But Haiti's president recently warned that many buildings in the country are at risk because of poor construction and lax oversight.
Update 12:33 pm ET- Haitian Radio speculates that the collapse comes following heavy rains on Tuesday.
Update- 12:29 pm ET-
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CNN) -- A second school collapsed in Haiti on Wednesday in central Port-au-Prince, a top Red Cross official has confirmed.
Dr. Jean Pierre Guiteau, executive officer of the Haitian Red Cross, told CNN there are casualties at the Grace Divine Primary and Secondary School.
No further information was available.
Update 12:28 ET -Second school collapses in Haiti: reports
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) — A second school collapsed in Haitian city of Port-au-Prince on Wednesda radio reports said
The reports said people had been injured in the new collapse
The accident came after heavy rains hit the capital late on Tuesday in what is one of the world's poorest countries.
More structures could collapse in Haiti
andscape, and many fear the recent school collapse is a sign of things to come. President Rene Préval said constant turnover in the government and poor oversight by inspectors are responsible for the collapse. "There is a code already, but they don't follow it," he said. "What we need is political stability." Toronto Star, The (11/10)
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November 12, 2008 at 09:14 am by politisite, 479 views, 18 comments
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at 09:51 on November 12th, 2008
Here's the story about the previous school collapse in which more than 90 people died.
at 09:55 on November 12th, 2008
What is it about Haiti? The most blighted country in the western hemisphere!
It is time Canada and the USA started walking the walk instead of just talking the talk and poured targeted aid into the country with the aim of having it stand on its own within ten years. The amounts of money required are negligible and the investment would raise a whole population from ignorance, poverty and misery.
at 10:21 on November 12th, 2008
Moon, I don't want to take away from this tragedy but America released all of their debt this year. Many folks from Both Canada and America work side by side there each year bringing relief. I wish we could change the natural disasters and the other problems. We can only react at time. Like you said a dollar in Haiti is a lot of money. Our family has two sponsored children for 60.00 a month. It is nothing the way we throw away money. The kids are amazing moon. They have little but have a lot of love. It is a message to us that money is not the all in all. It is really nice for us to have subjects we agree on. Thanks
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at 11:03 on November 12th, 2008
politisite,
I was unaware of that and it is a step in the right direction, but more of a concerted commitment is required. I have two foster kids as well but in Central America.
at 12:25 on November 13th, 2008
Cool.
at 10:52 on November 12th, 2008
The IMF, the World Bank, the UN, and even Jimmy Carter have seen the limits when the target Government is corrupt beyond recovery and run by gangsters.
at 12:27 on November 13th, 2008
Things have been getting better in recent years. I wouldn't make a decision not to help based on that. There are ways to provide direct aid
at 10:18 on November 12th, 2008
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at 10:37 on November 12th, 2008
I can't believe another one - at least this one was not as bad as the first
at 10:43 on November 12th, 2008
at 12:04 on November 12th, 2008
Brazil is leading a 9000 troops UN mission in Haiti, providing humanitarian help, also contributing with money and food for the needed one. I have a friend in the Brazilian military serving there and he told me that the constructions are very weak and several buildings structures were affected by the hurricanes.
at 12:10 on November 12th, 2008
It's worth a try. Maybe the cost of caretaking is not impossible if we take turns administering the government.
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forthebetta (not verified)at 13:34 on November 12th, 2008
The Haitians don't generally want the UN there. What they want is their fair share of tourism & trade-partners like the rest of the Caribbean gets. Look at Jamaica, for example, which has one of the highest murder rates in the world (much more dangerous of a place than Haiti), yet gets plenty of tourists every year, and also has dependable trade-partners & foreign investors for coffee, rum, sugar, spices, (weed), etc.. Maybe the media should ease-up on demonizing Haiti and scaring tourists and foreign investors away, then they could build themselves up by themselves.
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keat (not verified)at 14:13 on November 12th, 2008
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at 14:13 on November 12th, 2008
Why does the human being faced with the same stone forever?
At the time of the first school to fall as a result of known deaths and injuries, and knowing that the structures of the buildings are damaged by weather and hurricanes, why were not closed schools that could be in danger of structural collapse?
Why was not it could happen again to take action?
Hopefully, other schools have been closed or public buildings that may harbor the danger of a collapse that brings pain and death to the families of battered Haiti.
at 15:32 on November 12th, 2008
politisite, thanks for this story. It certainly is unfortunate.
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ti_fou_m_yeat 08:51 on November 13th, 2008
I can't remember if this is the same school or not, either way, my heart goes out to all who are injured and their families. Bondye ap ede ou, Li pa'p bliye ou! M sonje ou Ayiti!
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at 12:30 on November 13th, 2008
Thanks for providing media to this story