Month: December 2017
Lace and gingerbread – what can link Estonia and Haiti?
Estonian World The Haiti-based EU diplomat and estophile, Karel Lizerot, dedicates a poetical political reflection about the role of Estonia out in the wide world….
OF COURSE TRUMP BROKE HIS PROMISE TO FLORIDA’S HAITIANS
By Allison Graves, Times Staff Writer Published: December 18, 2017 With Election Day 2016 approaching, then-candidate Donald Trump traveled to Miami to earn the support…
MUST CURE THIS PROBLEM BEFORE WASTING MONEY ON TOURISM PROJECTS!! – “GTACS CHAPERONES ROBBED AT GUNPOINT DURING MISSION TRIP TO HAITI”
A mission trip to Haiti ended abruptly for St. Francis High School students after a group of chaperones was robbed at gunpoint. School officials said…
TIME TO CHANGE OUR SOCKS!!- Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Dec 18, 2017 A NEW CABINET, CONSTITION?? Deputy Francisque De La Cruz (KID), said that about forty deputies of the majority bloc “Parliamentary Alliance for…
PRESIDENT MOISE – END PREVENTATIVE DETENTION NOW! RELEASE ALL PRISONERS HELD FOR NON-VIOLENT OR DRUG-RELATED CRIMES- ONE LADY HELD 3.5 YEARS WITHOUT ANY COURT APPEARANCE FOR ALLEGED THEFT OF $20 CELL PHONE
Dec 17, 2017 JAMAICA OBSERVER Haiti prisoners threaten to burn down building Saturday, December 16, 2017 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) — Prisoners at the Commissariat of…
Parliamentarians from more than 106 countries gather in Port-au-Prince
The 48th ACP Parliamentary Assembly, bringing together representatives of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States and of the 34th Session of the ACP-EU Joint…
California Warns About Cell Phone Exposure And Health Risks
Alice Walton- Forbes.com: The connection between cell phone radiation and health risks is far from settled—but it’s strong enough that the California Department of Public…
President Moïse promises the construction of 8 airport terminals
Haiti Libre: Saturday, returning the same day from his European tour, President Jovenel Moïse, accompanied by several parliamentarians, including the deputy Gary Bodeau (Delmas) and…
New Departmental Director of the West
Haiti Libre: This week, Divisional Commissioner Berson Soljour, former Departmental Director of the National Police of Haiti (PNH) in Grand’Anse was installed as the new…
Venezuela first lady’s nephews jailed for drugs
Two nephews of Venezuela’s first lady have been sentenced to 18 years in prison in the US after being convicted of trafficking drugs. Venezuelan President…
Epidemiological Update – Diphtheria – 15 December 2017
Diphtheria in the Americas – Summary of the situation Between epidemiological week (EW) 1 and EW 49 of 2017, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and…
How America’s First Black Ambassador Became a Popular Hero
Ebenezer Bassett was the first American diplomat to offer a dissident asylum— and in doing so, became the first to defy his bosses at the…
Mothers of Haiti’s ‘peacekeeper babies’ seek child support payments from UN
A lawsuit has been filed in Haiti against the UN and peacekeeping soldiers by mothers of ‘peacekeeper babies’ seeking child support and paternity payments, the…
‘A World of Misery Few of Us Really See’: Readers and a Bureau Chief Discuss Haiti’s Abandoned Dead
Voodoo devotees take part in Day of the Dead ceremonies in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Nov. 1. Credit Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times The…
HAVE WE LEARNED NOTHING FROM 20 MEN WHO DIED OF STARVATION IN PORT-AU-PRINCE’S OVERCROWDED PRISON?? : Explosive situation among the detainees of the Commissariat of Petit-Goâve- Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Haiti Libre: This Friday morning, the situation of 224 prisoners incarcerated in extremely difficult conditions, in two cells of the Commissariat of Petit-Goâve (built to…
Five Years For $1.7m Drug Run
By NICO SCAVELLA Tribune Staff Reporter A HAITIAN man was yesterday sentenced to five years at the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services after pleading guilty…
Haiti Rolls Out its First Census Survey Since the 2010 Earthquake
For the first time since the 2003, the Haiti Statistics and Informatics Institute is rolling out a new general population and housing census, with the…
OLD IRISH PROVERB: “HE WHO DRAWS HIS SWORD AGAINST THE PRINCE MUST THROW AWAY HIS SCABBARD” IN OTHER WORDS, BE PREPARED TO BE CRUSHED OR MOVE TO MIAMI OR JAIL BECAUSE THERE IS NO RETREAT! THE SUGGESTION OF CRIMINAL, UNCONSTITUTIONAL PROLONGATION FOR 10 TIME-EXPIRED SENATORS IS SUCH CHALLENGE TO PRESIDENT MOISE!!
Dec 15, 2017 The Beauplan PETROCARIBE COMMISSION and Youri Latortue’s suggestion that the 10 time-expired Senators have prolongation fall into the category of “drawing their…