Haiti wants UNESCO to make Jacmel a World Heritage site

«There is a temptation to demolish everything. When the bulldozers come, it’s fatal,» Daniel Elie, director of Haiti’s governmental Institute for the Preservation of National Heritage, told The Associated Press at the Paris headquarters of the U.N. cultural agency. Keeping survivors alive and building solid shelter for the 1.2 million made homeless by the Jan. 12 quake are the most immediate priorities. But U.N. officials say preserving the country’s churches, artwork and mementos from its […]