He says he was shocked by the way poor people in Port-au-Prince lived when he first visited in nineteen eighty-one.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

The nearest port was more than one thousand kilometers away from where the gold discovery had been made.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

Then he made Conkling even angrier by appointing one of Conkling's political enemies Collector of Taxes for the port of New York.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

Nineteen-year-old Cimeau Cassandra is one of several students from Port-au-Prince whose schools are now closed and who have come to Mirebalais to register for classes.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01