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Shops began to reopen in Haiti's capital on January 21 and banking services were to resume at the weekend but the government and aid workers still struggled to assist masses of earthquake survivors camped out in rubble-strewn streets.

As rescuers wound down more than a week of searching for trapped survivors of last week's devastating quake, the government and its aid partners increasingly directed attention toward looking after the living - the hundreds of thousands of injured and homeless people needing medical assistance, food and shelter.

The seaport in the capital Port-au-Prince had been repaired enough to reopen for limited aid shipments, and a Dutch naval vessel unloaded pallets of water, juice and long-life milk.

Teams from Brazil, the United States and Chile were still working with sniffer dogs at the collapsed Montana Hotel in Port-au-Prince, where a whiteboard listed the names of 10 people found dead and 20 more still missing inside.

More than 13,000 US military personnel are in Haiti and on 20 ships offshore. Banks were to reopen on Friday in the provinces and on Saturday in Port-au-Prince, giving most Haitians their first access to cash since the quake hit, Commerce Minister Josseline Colimon Fethiere told Reuters.

The World Bank on Thursday announced it will waive payments on Haiti's US$38 million debt for the next five years, while the IMF said its proposed US$100 million loan for Haiti would be interest free until late 2011 to help the country rebuild.

(Reuters)