Haiti govt falls after food riots Reuters/bdnews24.com . Port-Au-Prince Haiti's government fell on Saturday when senators fired the prime minister after more than a week of riots over food prices, ignoring a plan presented by the president to slash the cost of rice. Sixteen of 17 senators at a special session voted against the prime minister, Jacques Edouard Alexis, an ally president Rene Preval placed at the head of a coalition cabinet in June 2006 that was meant to unite the fractious Caribbean nation. The move by opposition senators was seen as a serious but not crushing blow to Preval, whose 2006 election brought a measure of calm to the poorest country in the Americas as it searched for political stability after decades of dictatorship, military rule and economic mayhem. The clash with senators came after the president of the country of 9 million people