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107TH YEAR, NO. 183 ©2010

MiamiHerald.com

TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 2010
FINAL EDITION

PUBLIC HEALTH | THE JACKSON FINANCIAL CRISIS

Jackson retreats on cuts, closings
HESITANT: County Commissioner Dorrin Rolle said he liked the new plan, but he didn’t
know if he could trust it.
MARSHA HALPER MIAMI HERALD STAFF

■ Jackson Health System board came up with a new recovery plan – fewer layoffs,
no hospital closings but more money uncertainties.
BY JOHN DORSCHNER AND JAY WEAVER
jdorschner@MiamiHerald.com

In a major reversal from her first proposal, Jackson Chief Executive Eneida Roldan
presented Monday a new restructuring plan with much smaller cuts — eliminating
about 650 jobs and keeping two satellite hospi-

leader said afterward she knew nothing about an agreement — and a UM official immediately
disputed the size of the medical school contribution. tals open. Public Health Trust
Chairman The new plan depends on several items not yet solidified — including a
John Copeland III did not call for a union agreeing to $30 million in unspecified
cuts over the next six •TURN TO JACKSON, 5A months and the University of Miami
MiamiHerald.com/video accepting the delay of $29 million in Watch video from the
meetings payments from Jackson. The union

SCOTT ROTHSTEIN SAGA

Rothstein helped feds hook reputed mobster
■ Facing a long prison term, Scott Rothstein switched from Ponzi schemer to undercover
snitch to help the feds nail a reputed Italian mobster in South Florida.
BY JAY WEAVER AND AMY SHERMAN
jweaver@MiamiHerald.com

Just when disgraced lawyer Scott Rothstein’s sordid saga couldn’t get any stranger
comes this plot twist: He worked undercover for the feds and helped them bag a suspected
Italian mafia man living in Miami Beach. Rothstein’s cooperation dating back to
last fall means the con artist who orchestrated South Florida’s biggest Ponzi scheme
— stealing $1.2 billion from dozens of innocent investors — will benefit from
his acting skills and seedy connections when he is sentenced in May. Rothstein’s
luck appeared to have run out when he returned from Morocco last November after the
implosion of his Fort Lauderdale law firm. But days later, Rothstein spilled his
guts to

ANDY NEWMAN/FOR THE MIAMI HERALD

BOOKINGS ARE UP, PRICES ARE ON THE RISE AND NEW SHIPS ARE ON ORDER AS THE MAJOR SOUTH
FLORIDA INDUSTRY REBOUNDS FROM THE DEPTHS OF A RECESSION LAST YEAR
BY MARTHA BRANNIGAN
mbrannigan@MiamiHerald.com

Last week, Kevin Sheehan, the chief executive officer of Norwegian Cruise Line, opened
an e-mail from his pricing guru with an update on ticket prices and bookings. ‘‘Yee-haw,’’
wrote Crane Gladding, an NCL senior vice president. At least one corner of the

Florida economy is showing some pizazz: the battered cruise industry. After the worst-ever
downturn for the South Floridabased industry in 2009, cruise bookings are going up.
Cruise lines are starting to raise prices from the deep-recession bargain basement.
And a few companies are even feeling bullish enough to start

ordering new ships after a dry spell of nearly two years. As the cruise industry
gathers at the Miami Beach Convention Center this week for Seatrade Cruise Shipping
Miami — the industry’s largest annual gathering — executives are far more upbeat
than they were just a few months ago. ‘‘We’re really doing well.

Our pricing is doing well,’’ said Sheehan, whose company will debut the hottest
new ship of the year this summer, the NCL Epic. The ship boasts the first ice bar
at sea, South Beach-style nightlife, and Blue Man Group, a quirky live show aimed
at a younger crowd. ‘‘We think we’re hit•

TURN TO CRUISING, 2A

TURN TO ROTHSTEIN, 5A

EDUCATION

AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE

A change for schools getting a mixed grade
South Florida’s school superintendents applaud President Barack Obama’s plan
to revamp No Child Left Behind legislation. The emphasis would be on raising the
standard for students and teachers, instead of punishing failing schools. But not
everybody likes the president’s blueprint. Teacher unions say the bill is flawed.
If approved by Congress, Obama’s bill will change the federal No Child Left Behind
legislation, which was signed into law in 2002 by President George W. Bush. ‘‘The
previous law was too punitive, too prescriptive,’’ U.S. Education Secretary Arne
Duncan said Monday. ‘‘It lowered the bar for teachers and too often, lowered
the bar for students. We have to flip all that.’’ Story, 3A — KATHLEEN McGRORY
AND HANNAH SAMPSON

For anguished Haitians, a mental toll
■ The Jan. 12 earthquake struck a psychological blow for Haitians, some of whom
have begun treatment.
BY JAMES H. BURNETT III
jburnett@MiamiHerald.com

JAMES BURNETT III/MIAMI HERALD STAFF

HELP: Marie Kettie Geolnarol-Archer, a psychologist, gives some impromptu counseling
to student Belance Rotzer.

PORT-AU-PRINCE — On a recent Friday morning, Marie Kettie Geolnarol-Archer, between
appointments in the Champ de Mars neighborhood, stopped people in the street and
on the sidewalk, gently squeezing shoulders and patting backs until they looked her
in the eye. ‘‘You are not crazy,’’ she told them. ‘‘Everything will be
OK.’’ Geolnarol-Archer is a psychologist, and while her sidewalk ‘‘treatments’’
may have been casual and unorthodox, the most unusual thing about

them was the responses. Most people, after pregnant pauses and awkward foot-shuffling,
began to share with her complaints about everything from headaches to depression.
Before the Jan. 12 earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people, GeolnarolArcher
wouldn’t have offered random psychological counsel because she would have been
rebuffed, she says, due to Haiti’s cultural practice of frowning on mental health
problems and people who acknowledge

TURN TO TREATMENT, 2A

NATION, 3A

LOCAL & STATE, 1B

TROPICAL LIFE, 1E

NORTHEAST POUNDED AGAIN
MORE RAIN AND WIND TAKE A TOLL ON REGION STILL RECOVERING FROM EARLIER STORMS

PSYCHIATRIST GETS WARNING
THE FDA SENT A LETTER TO A DOCTOR WHO TREATED A FOSTER CHILD WHO KILLED HIMSELF

PAGING DR. ROBOTO
SOUTH FLORIDA OPERATING ROOMS ARE SEEING AN INCREASE IN THE USE OF SURGICAL ROBOTS

INDEX | ADVICE, 5E | CLASSIFIED, 5-8C | COMICS, 4E | CROSSWORD, 5E | DEATHS, 4B |
EDITORIALS, 10A | LOTTERY, 6B | MOVIES, 3E | PEOPLE, 6A | TELEVISION, 3E | WEATHER,
6B

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