CITYWIDE: MAYOR WILL GO TO HAITI FOR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
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Mayor Bloomberg is scheduled to go to Haiti next Tuesday to recognize the country’s 200th anniversary, his office said yesterday. The trip, originally scheduled for January, but canceled because of political unrest, will last for only a few hours and will have the mayor back in the city by midafternoon.
The country is still recovering from May’s devastating floods, which claimed thousands of lives, and from the upheaval that began when the former president, Jean-Paul Aristide, was forced from power in late February. The mayor, who will be traveling with a small New York delegation, is tentatively scheduled to visit Cite-Soleil, one of the largest slums in Port-au-Prince, the nation’s capital, and will stop in at a hospital.
