July 24 2017 UNITED NATIONS — The top U.N. official for Haiti is urging the Caribbean country’s new government to keep its promises to fight corruption, improve justice, and combat poverty especially in rural areas, saying peacekeepers have accomplished their mission of stabilizing the Western hemisphere’s poorest nation. Sandra Honore said Haiti today “is...
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Security Council meeting on The situation concerning Haiti. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe 18 July 2017 – With three months left before the current United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti transitions to a smaller one, a UN envoy stressed today that the Caribbean country faces the “window of opportunity” to solidify stability, following recent elections. “Haiti...
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Le sénateur Carl Murat Cantave, ’initiateur de la proposition de loi interdisant le mariage homosexuel en Haïti. Juillet 24, 2017 Sur proposition du sénateur de l’Artibonite, Carl Murat Cantave, le Sénat de la République a mis au vote la proposition de loi portant interdiction du mariage entre deux personnes de même sexe en Haïti....
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Matt Dorannews.com.au “WHO is afraid of the water?” The question, from a former special agent with the US Department of Homeland Security, is directed at a group of children being held against their will in a rusted home hidden in the hills of Petion-Ville, in the republic of Haiti. The undercover human trafficking operative...
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By KHORRI ATKINSON JULY 21, 2017 Jean Jubens Jeanty, 29, last week at Brooklyn College, where he will soon complete a high school diploma program. Mr. Jeanty, who is from Haiti, has temporary protected status. Credit Sam Hodgson for The New York Times Jean Jubens Jeanty, a Haitian Uber driver who lives in Brooklyn,...
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The 2017 voodoo Haitian pilgrimage at Saut d’ Eau, Haiti. (Photo credit: HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images) By NAN Travel Editor News Americas, New York, NY, Fri. July 21, 2017: Women sat and stood unabashedly bare breasted as they gathered for the annual pilgrimage that drew hundreds of both sexes each year to a Caribbean waterfall....
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By Noel Harris nharris@sacbee.com Traveling is not allowed in basketball. However, for some Kings players this offseason, that word has taken on a much different meaning. Days after Sacramento center Willie Cauley-Stein visited Vietnam to work on his painting skills, another Kings player got on a plane and traveled to his homeland. In a...
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#Haiti : La remobilisation de l’Armée permet de démasquer les espions infiltrés dans les FADH, la PNH et dans la société civile.- (Texte de Cyrus Sibert) La déclaration du Général Henry Namphy dans un journal dominicain contre la remobilisation de l’armée haïtienne, est un acte de trahison. Ce Général dont l’ambition démesurée du pouvoir...
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How Haitian Earthquake Relief Efforts Pulled Off a Huge Con Job, With the Help of Mainstream Media Money that was promised to provide “tens of thousands of people with permanent homes” reportedly only made it to a total of six. PORT-AU-PRINCE – AUGUST 22: The collapsed Presidential Building in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti on August 22,...
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Fritz Renner started in Parkersburg, moved to California Jul 21, 2017 Paul LaPann Fritz Renner holds a Tree of Life from Beyond Borders, 55-gallon steel drum art from Fair Trade Haiti, and Scrappy Dog from Yardbirds in Kentucky. Artist Rich Kolb made this dog figure from scrap metal. (Photo Provided) MONTEREY, Calif. — Fritz...
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wbal.com President Donald Trump plans to nominate a career diplomat from Maryland to be the next ambassador to Haiti, the White House announced Thursday. Michele Jeanne Sison currently serves as deputy permanent representative at the U.S. mission to the United Nations, a role she’s held since 2014. Sison previously served as ambassador to Sri...
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Jeudi 20 juillet 2017 7h00 p.m. Local de AMAGA (Caracoli, Jérémie) : Veillée patriotique en mémoire de feu Professeur Jean Claude Fignolé, Ancien Maire des Abricots et Ancien Président de l’Association des Maires de la Grand’Anse (AMAGA), organisée par ladite Association Vendredi 21 juillet 2017 Hôtel Montana : Les Parents reçoivent les salutations à l’Hôtel...
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After Klaus Eberwein’s suicide, inevitable links to the “Clinton Body Count” rumor emerged, but without clear merit. CLAIM Former Haitian official Klaus Oberwein died in a suspicious suicide days before he was scheduled to testify against either Hillary Clinton or the Clinton Foundation. RATING FALSE ORIGIN On 12 July 2017, the Miami Herald covered the...
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Il s’agit d’une démarche exceptionnelle qui vise à soutenir les entreprises américaines en manque de travailleurs non agricoles. À l’heure qu’il est, des entreprises américaines font face à un manque de mains-d’œuvre qualifiées et disposées pour effectuer le travail non-agricole temporaire. Pour résoudre ce problème, l’administration Trump offrira un supplément de 15 000 visas...
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En provenance de Haïti, les écailles de quelque 380 tortues, d’une valeur de 300 000 euros, étaient destinées au Vietnam. Les douanes ont réalisé une saisie record d’écailles de tortues marines le 13 juillet à l’aéroport de Roissy. L’ensemble correspond à plus de 380 tortues Eretmochelys imbricata, une espèce protégée par la convention de Washington...
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The Associated Press MIAMI The former general manager of a Florida-based telecommunications company has pleaded guilty for his role in a $3 million Haitian bribery scheme. Court records show 66-year-old Amadeus Richers, who headed Cinergy and Uniplex, pleaded guilty in Miami federal court Wednesday to conspiring to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. His...
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By Jacqueline Charles jcharles@miamiherald.com PORT-AU-PRINCE Haiti opened recruitment for its new army Monday, attracting a long line of young Haitians who want to be part of the revived force. The five-day recruitment drive runs until Friday, and is a significant public step in rebuilding the force, which was dismantled more than two decades ago...
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Après une première audition en avril 2016 par la Commission d’enquête du Sénat de la République présidée à l’époque par le Sénateur Youri Latortue, l’ancien Premier ministre Laurent Lamothe a répondu à l’invitation qui lui a été adressée et s’est présenté une deuxième fois le jeudi 13 juillet 2017 devant cette Commission sénatoriale pour,...
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Madrid, July 18 (IANS) The President of Spain’s football federation, his son, and the organisation’s Vice President were arrested on Tuesday amid a corruption investigation ordered by the country’s national courts Madrid, July 18 (IANS) The President of Spain’s football federation, his son, and the organisation’s Vice President were arrested on Tuesday amid a...
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When I was a young kid growing up in Montreal, our annual family trips to my grandparents’ Florida condo in the 1970s and ‘80s offered glimpses of a better life. Not just Bubbie and Zadie’s miniature, sun-bronzed world of Del Boca Vista, but the whole sprawling infrastructural colossus of Cold War America itself, with...
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