How To Use Port-au-Prince In A Sentence
- The other day in the midst of Port-au-Prince, the great degraded capital city that is my home, I saw a car, an old battered car, a jalopy, falter and sputter and come to a slow halt.
- To guarantee an S. R.O crowd for their execution, Duvalier ordered all businesses closed and schools let out; backland peasants were trucked into Port-au-Prince. Ferentz LaFargue: Edwidge Danticat's Immigrant Artist at Work
- Earlier Thursday, planes carrying teams from China, France and Spain landed at Port-au-Prince's airport with searchers and tons of food, medicine and other supplies — with more promised from around the globe. Chaos in Haiti as rescue teams arrive
- With most ofits basic infrastructure flattened and the majority of its citizensliving in temporary housing and tents, Port-au-Prince is beginning tothink about how it will rebuild itself.
- Since the minute the goudou-goudou the onomatopoeic name locals give to the earthquake made the ground shake and groan, more than 230,000 people have died and about 1.5 million have lost their homes in Port-au-Prince and the nearby cities of Léogâne, Jacmel and Petit-Goâve. Haiti earthquake charities blamed as scars fail to heal
- Marilyn was staying at the decidedly downscale Park Hotel, across from the similarly down-scale Champs Mars, Port-au-Prince's town square.
- According to Hover, Port-Au-Prince's bay was originally much deeper and was probably filled in over time "with a very soft and liquefiable soil" that contributed to the damage. Stories from The Sun
- Lack of sanitation is one of the greatest risks in Port-au-Prince, as more than a million people now live in 116 improvised camps without latrines in school yards, soccer stadiums and even the front yard of the presidential palace, said Steve Hollingworth, chief operating officer for CARE. U.S. military boosts aid to quake-ravaged Haiti
- While in Haiti, we notified a health monitoring service about suspected outbreaks of up to 100 cases of diptheria in Camp Cannan, twelve miles north of Port-au-Prince. Georgianne Nienaber: UN Reports Diphtheria Outbreak in Port-au-Prince: IDP Camps Vulnerable
- Aid workers in Haiti say earthquake relief efforts are starting to make an impact, but frustration is mounting in Port-au-Prince, where Haitians say they lack food, water and a government.
