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Police: 3-year-old American abducted in Haiti

January 9, 2010
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Police: 3-year-old American abducted in Haiti

Associated Press January 9, 2010 2010-01-09 08:09 AM Authorities are searching for a 3-year-old U.S. citizen abducted last month from a church yard in Port-au-Prince. Police say Grady Mardy was taken while playing outside a Latter-day Saints church in the neighborhood of Carrefour on Dec. 6. Anti-kidnapping investigator Francois Dossous of the Haitian National...
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Comfort Inn plans Haiti hotel in tourism revival

January 9, 2010
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Comfort Inn plans Haiti hotel in tourism revival

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Choice Hotels is opening the first chain hotels to serve Haiti in almost a decade. A spokesman for the Maryland-based company said Thursday that a Comfort Inn will open in the Caribbean coastal city of Jacmel this May. The 32-room motel will be owned by a New York-based group of Haitian-American investors....
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Haitian extradited in French consul’s death

January 9, 2010
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Haitian extradited in French consul’s death

Associated Press 2010-01-09 05:50 AM Haitian gang leader Amaral Duclona has been extradited to France. Dominican anti-drug agency spokesman Roberto Lebron says Duclona left from the Dominican Republic aboard an Air France flight to Paris on Thursday night. Duclona was guarded by three French police officers. The 31-year-old Haitian is accused of killing French...
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UN Rep: Haiti’s Future Depends on Smooth Elections

January 9, 2010
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UN Rep: Haiti’s Future Depends on Smooth Elections

January 7, 2010 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 7:16 p.m. ET PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s democratic and economic development hinge on a pair of legislative and presidential elections planned for this year, the top U.N. representative to the Caribbean nation said Thursday. In a year-opening speech, peacekeeping chief Hedi Annabi said Haiti’s...
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59 MILLIONS DE DOLLARS POUR LA PRIVATISATION DE LA TELECO.

January 9, 2010
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59 MILLIONS DE DOLLARS POUR LA PRIVATISATION DE LA TELECO.

NTS NEWS – NEW YORK DAYBOOK JANUARY 8, 2010 Le Conseil de modernisation des entreprises publiques (CEMEP) a annoncé mercredi que dans le cadre du processus de privatisation de la TELECO, l’opérateur téléphonique vietnamien Vietel Corporation a remporté l’appel d’offres de la Banque Centrale visant à céder 60% des actions de la compagnie téléphonique...
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