Up against the brick wall...

Haiti is indeed in bad shape! And what a way to start the year. No one expected things will be this way. But it's a good indication that there's still a lot of love spreading around specially if something like this happen. Haiti is really going through a lot since the traumatic damage of that January 10, 2010 earthquake with magnitude 7, that gave them a real shake and stunning anguish and pain to those who have lost their loved ones. The smell of casualties in rigor mortiz and still some rotting under the gigantic rubbles are whiffing in the air that adds up to their agony. The statistics are beyond imagination that it came up to be the worst disaster ever. Many countries are so eagerly sending troops, aids, foods and in any way they can to show love, care, compassion with so much great humanitarian concern.

Capital:

Port-au-Prince

Population:

9,035,536 (July 2009 est.)

Conventional Name:

Republic of Haiti

Local Name:

Republique d'Haiti/Repiblik d' Ayiti

Location:

Caribbean, western one-third of the island of Hispaniola, between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, west of the Dominican Republic

Chief of State:

President René Préval

Head of State:

Prime Minister Max Bellerive