Month: April 2012
RAPPORT DE LA COMMISSION SUR L’ARMEE D’HAITI AU PRESIDENT MICHEL MARTELLY
Port-au-Prince, le 23 décembre 2011Monsieur Michel Joseph MartellyPrésident de la RépubliquePalais National Monsieur le Président,La Commission d’Etat d’Organisation de la composante militaire de la Force…
Mexican President to Visit Haiti on April 12
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) – Mexican President Felipe Calderón will make April 12 a working visit to Haiti to strengthen bilateral cooperation, said Friday the Haitian…
Cancer hasn’t dimmed Hugo Chavez’s electoral hopes
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — With less than six months left until Election Day, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has hardly hit the campaign trail. Instead, he…
Dominican, Haiti governments say they uncovered plot to overthrow Martelly-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
P. J. Goico…Pepe Goico. File. Pepe Goico denies plot Santo Domingo.- Senior officials of the Haiti and Dominican governments denounced in Santo Domingo Thursday that…
Water In The Time Of Cholera: Haiti’s Most Urgent Health Problem
NPR.Org: In the teeming city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, millions of people have no reliable water supply. Many of the underground pipes that did exist were…
Vaccination Against Cholera Finally Begins In Haiti
by Richard Knox NPR.Org After myriad delays and setback, health workers in Haiti are beginning to vaccinate against cholera. John W. Poole / NPRRice farmer…
GREED IS GOOD
Does Gilbert Bigio make Israel look good? By Paul Woodward, War in Context, January 25, 2010 When Amos Radian, Israel’s Dominican Republic-based ambassador to the…
Excerpt from Citizenship In A Republic
delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris 23 April, 1910 It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong…
MARTELLY’S STYLE OF GOVERNMENT DOOMS HIM
NEVER MEETS ONE-ON-ONE, ALWAYS HANGERS-ON SITTING IN TO MAKE ADEQUATE DISCUSSION IMPOSSIBLE April 12, 2012 Martelly might with the American ambassador, or similar folks, on…
MARTELLY – A BABE IN THE WOODS ARISTIDE PLANS TAKE-OVER WHILE MARTELLY’S PEOPLE PLAY CHILDREN’S GAMES
April 12, 2012 Even as Martelly maneuvered to install a new Prime Minister in the form of Laurent Lamothe, Aristide sat back and watched the…
Gagarin’s Falsified Flight Record
On April 12, 1961, the world met Yuri Gagarin, a former Soviet Air Force pilot who shot from obscurity to international fame after making one…
Top State Department officials tour north Haiti
FOX News: CARACOL, Haiti – Top State Department officials have made an off-the-record visit to northern Haiti, where they met with local leaders and toured…
Chavez, battling cancer, fades from world stage
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, who has yet to confirm his attendance at the Summit of the Americas this coming weekend, faces a slippage of regional…
HAITIAN RUMOR MILL SEES LAMOTHE PAYING $75,000 PER SENATOR FOR VOTE… HOW MUCH FOR THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES?
Avril 11, 2012 A sad, but realistic situation, that sees Laurent Lamothe seen to be paying for his acceptance as Prime Minister. We hope he…
Lamothe en route pour la primature
Après des heures de débats, parfois houleux souvent stériles, l’Assemblée des sénateurs a ratifié, mardi soir, le choix de Laurent Lamothe comme Premier ministre avec…
Nuria Piera, un pitbull à la gueule d’ange
La très respectée journaliste dominicaine Nuria Piera a dénoncé des perquisitions dans des entreprises et résidences effectuées par la police secrète dominicaine afin de remonter…
Prosecutors Move To Reduce Former Haitian Official’s Sentence
WSJBlogs-By Samuel Rubenfeld Prosecutors sought to reduce a former Haitian official’s jail sentence nearly two years after it was imposed. In a Rule 35 motion…
Haitian Teen to Testify in UN Abuse Scandal
Video captured on a cell phone purportedly shows U.N. peacekeepers sexually assaulting an 18-year-old boy in Haiti. (ABC News Exclusive) By LEE FERRAN and MATTHEW…
Haiti: Ban on Transporting Livestock and Humans Together-Added COMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) – The head of the Directorate of Traffic and the Traffic Police, the Divisional Commissioner Will Dimanche, informed that as of Monday,…
The Enduring Voice of Haiti After 60 Years, a Musical Institution Is Still on the Lookout for a New Audience
Kate Lord/The Wall Street JournalHaitian band Orchestre Septentrional performs in Brooklyn last week Deep in Brooklyn one recent night, hundreds of Haitian-Americans got a taste…