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This is a hotel of 54 rooms the hotel group's largest country has just opened in front of the Toussaint Louverture International Airport. This investment of six million, the group owner and Kinam Karibe, offers an attractive setting in the first hotel that combines comfort to earthquake standards.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Former U.S. President Bill Clinton launched a new business loan program in Haiti on Tuesday aimed at helping bolster an economy that was devastated by the January 2010 earthquake. Clinton said the first loan in the $20 million program is being made to Caribbean Craft, which produces colorful goods such as carnival masks, sculptures and paintings for export and lost its workshop in the earthquake.

Two Telecommunications Executives Convicted by Miami Jury on All Counts for Their Involvement in $800,000 Scheme to Bribe Officials at State-Owned Telecommunications Company in Haiti

President Michel Martelly was in Miami, Florida, USA to tell potential investors that Haiti is open for business, particularly investment, and is in the process of doing everything it can to get the ball rolling. "We need to create jobs, and in order to create jobs we need to create security," Mr. Martelly said. "We need to let [investors] know we're going to change our laws, our investment laws, and let them know we will secure their investments."

Several dozen Haitians will soon return to their earthquake-ravaged country to rebuild, armed with knowledge they are taking away after three months of training in Ottawa.

One day, most if not all people living in Haiti should be able to conduct financial transactions on their cell phones thanks to an initiative currently underway by World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU).

The textile manufacturing sector employed more than 25,000 people prior to the January 12, 2010 earthquake. After the quake, estimates suggest the industry is operating at about 50 percent capacity. If U.S. companies begin manufacturing in Haiti, experts say the industry there could support 100,000 jobs.

Silas Ho, a 34-year-old engineer who until recently worked at Modesto's Lionakis architecture and design firm before taking a new job. Ho left Wednesday for Haiti, where he'll take on an engineering assignment like none he's tackled before. As part of a team from Sacramento-based Miyamoto International, Ho will inspect damaged buildings and determine whether they're safe to occupy.

Haiti's rice farmers are dismayed. It's nearly harvest time in this fertile valley where the bulk of Haiti's food is grown, and they're competing once again with cheap U.S. imported rice. Just down the road, vendors are undercutting them, selling the far less expensive grain. Subsidized U.S. rice has flooded Haiti for decades. Now, after the Jan. 12 quake, 15,000 metric tons of donated U.S. rice have arrived.

The system is based on UPS’s Trackpad® technology, which UPS customers use to track packages within campus environments as the packages move from the loading dock to distributed offices for delivery.

As Haiti begins digging out from under 60 million cubic meters of earthquake wreckage, U.S. firms have begun jockeying for a bonanza of cleanup work. At least two politically connected U.S. firms have enlisted powerful local allies in Haiti to help compete for the high-stakes business.