Healing hope: Victims remembered one year on

HAITI began two days of remembrance ceremonies yesterday in honour of the nearly quarter million people who died in an earthquake that levelled the impoverished country a year ago.

Government officials started by paying respects at a mass grave outside the capital Port-au-Prince, where some of the more than 220,000 victims of the January 12, 2010 quake lie.

Ceremonies were to climax with a moment of silence on Wednesday at 4.53 pm, the exact moment the quake struck.