3 September 2010 – The United Nations peacekeeping force in Haiti has unveiled three drainage and canal rehabilitation projects that it hopes will boost employment and reduce violence in troubled neighbourhoods of a major city.The projects will benefit the districts of Goya, Petite Anse and Ti Riviere in the northern city of Cap Haïtien,...
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Agence France-Presse September 3, 2010 A growing use of weapons and cocaine trading through quake-stricken Haiti threaten stability ahead of key November elections, the United Nations said Thursday. A new report on the impoverished Caribbean state, where a magnitude 7.0 earthquake on Jan. 12 killed 250,000 people, said criminal gangs are increasing their grip...
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A FREE-AND-FAIR FARCE The reader should think carefully.With the exception of sophisticated nations like Canada, the USA, France, England, Japan…EEC..….etc, there has never been a situation in which the government in power, lost. The government in power controls all of the factors and is not about to give these control levers to anyone else....
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In Haiti, where money is scarce, campaigns a costly endeavor BY JACQUELINE CHARLES jcharles@MiamiHerald.com Even before being deemed qualified to run, presidential hopefuls in impoverished Haiti faced a hefty bill: a $12,500 nonrefundable filing fee. Now they are finding that the amount will only get steeper as campaign season begins to sizzle this month....
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Santo Domingo, Sept. 3 (CNA) Although Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the same island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean, they are worlds apart. Haiti is often deemed as the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, with four of five people living below poverty line. The history of this small, heavily deforested Caribbean country...
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Pour le directeur du Département des organisations internationales, Ministère des Affaires étrangères, Carlos Duarte, les chances sont bonnes que le Conseil de sécurité (ONU) de proroger d’un an le mandat de la Mission des Nations Unies pour la Stabilisation d’Haïti (Minustah) dont le mandat lancé en 2004 se termine en Octobre de cette année....
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