THE U.S. CONFERENCE of Mayors, meeting at its annual convention this month in Oklahoma City, did something extraordinary. With no dissent, the mayors called on President Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to “promptly” grant entry to 55,000 Haitian visa candidates with relatives in the United States, a measure that would result in...
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HA NOI — Military-owned mobile phone service provider Viettel will invest US$300 million in Haiti’s telecommunications market, following a market survey that has already neared completion, said Viettel deputy general director Tong Viet Trung. Viettel would invest in the construction of network infrastructure as well as an improved fixed-line network in Haiti, Trung said,...
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25/06/2010 14:20:42 Selon RFI et sa correspondante en Haïti, le président de la République René Préval aurait officialisé, jeudi 24 juin 2010, la tenue des prochaines élections. Le décret présidentiel était attendu depuis plusieurs semaines. Le scrutin aura donc lieu le 28 novembre et ce serait le Conseil Électoral Provisoire (CEP) actuellement en place...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (June 25) — Hurricane season in Haiti officially began three weeks ago, bringing rain to the region nearly every day. More than 1.5 million Haitians remain in the streets. Yet this week, the United Nations completed a study, revealing that 40 percent of all emergency shelters, including tents and tarps, already need...
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BY JACQUELINE CHARLES jcharles@MiamiHerald.com PORT-AU-PRINCE — Haitian President René Préval has mandated that the country’s nine-member Provisional Electoral Council plan for presidential elections. The mandate, however, is not the presidential decree that sets the official election date and that the international community has been pressuring Préval to issue. Still, it is an important step...
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