Haiti’s President Michel Martelly TAIPEI, Taiwan (CMC) — Haitian President Michel Martelly arrived here yesterday for a four-day state visit. Martelly, accompanied by his wife, Sophia, met yesterday with his Taiwanese counterpart David YL Lin A and signed a technical assistance agreement to increase rice production in the French-speaking Caribbean Community country. Martelly’s 30-member...
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April 21, 2014 Senate President Desras makes statement from Fermath home allegedly purchased with $330,000 bribe as he accuses Martelly government of illegal activity with regard to ONA. Seems as though government, short of cash, borrowed from ONA and public pension funds. BRH then tried to cover this by offering bonds on the local...
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BBC NEWS Tear gas and water cannon were used to disperse the protesters Fresh violence has erupted in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, between police and opponents of President Nicolas Maduro. Masked protesters burned effigies of the president after a rally called “Resurrection of Democracy”. Police responded to petrol bombs in the Chacao district with...
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By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD and SOMINI SENGUPTA A young Haitian fishing in the Latem River, known to be contaminated. The country is still struggling to stem a cholera epidemic. Ian Willms for The New York TimeCHAPOTEAU, Haiti — For three years, the United Nations has refused to address whether its peacekeepers brought a deadly...
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By jacqueline charles, The Miami HeraldMcClatchy-Tribune Regional NewsDec. 14, 2012–PETIONVILLE — The long-awaited soiree in the middle of the week attracted an invitation-only crowd of 800, including foreign diplomats, local celebrities and Haiti’s well-heeled and politically connected — all of whom had been waiting years for the final reveal. As they munched on passed...
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Le Nouvelliste | Publié le : 16 avril 2014 Les autorités agricoles sont dans la ligne de mire des planteurs de la plaine des Gonaïves et de plusieurs autres communes du haut Artibonite. Selon les protestataires, ces responsables n’ont rien fait pour les aider à mener à bien leurs activités. Aux Gonaïves, l’agriculture se...
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Dr. Susan Nelson, a volunteer physician with the West Tennessee Haiti Partnership, delivers a flute donated by Memphis Symphony Orchestra board chair Gayle Rose to Myrielle Julian, 15, outside Holy Trinity Cathedral in Port au Prince, Haiti. Myrielle’s father, Moliere Julian, asked Nelson if she could find a flute for his daughter, who recently...
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2014/04/19 09:59:10 President Ma Ying-jeou chatted with President Michel Joseph Martelly during a visit to Haiti in August 2013. Taipei, April 19 (CNA) President of Haiti Michel Joseph Martelly is scheduled to arrive in Taiwan April 21 on a four-day state visit, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Saturday. Martelly, who assumed office in...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE — A post-earthquake housing program in Haiti funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has delivered only a quarter of the planned number of homes at nearly twice the budgeted cost, according to a government audit. The project was part of reconstruction efforts in Haiti, where a devastating earthquake in January...
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By kim ives Thousands marched in the streets of Port-au-Prince on Apr. 15 to demand that President Michel Martelly step down. The day before, 50 protestors picketed outside the military headquarters of the 9,000-soldier occupation force, the United Nations Mission to Stabilize Haiti or MINUSTAH, demanding that the troops leave Haiti by the May...
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