BBC:Two United Nations peacekeepers from Pakistan have been sentenced to a year in prison and sacked from the army for raping a 14-year-old boy in Haiti. The soldiers were found guilty by a Pakistani military tribunal in Haiti and will serve their terms back home. The attack in Gonaives in January was not the...
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Bank robber Willie Sutton said he targeted banks because “that’s where the money is.” While most would disapprove of his ethics, few would argue with his logic. Why, then, do we keep hearing about thieves targeting Haiti? In today’s Wall Street Journal, Mary Anastasia O’Grady informs us of the latest allegations of stealing from...
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Tuesday, 13 March 2012 13:36 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) – Senator Nènèl Cassy (Nippes/Inite), a member of the special commission conducting the investigation on nationality, described Monday as “an important step” to seek a diplomatic “formalization” of the recent statement by U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Merten who denied that the Haitian leader would hold US citizenship....
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The Miami Herald – BY JAY WEAVER – February 21, 2012 A federal prosecutor Tuesday recommended cutting one-time Haitian drug lord Jacques Ketant’s 27-year prison sentence by half, citing his ?invaluable information? that helped authorities convict a dozen fellow traffickers, politicians and police officers from Haiti. But U.S. District Judge Federico Moreno delayed his...
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(Reuters) – A former senior telecommunications official in Haiti has been convicted in federal court in Miami for accepting $500,000 in bribes from two U.S. companies that secured lucrative long-distance phone contracts in the impoverished Caribbean nation, authorities said on Tuesday. A jury unanimously found Jean Rene Duperval guilty on Monday after a week-long...
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PORT-DE-PAIX, Haiti (defend.ht) – A squad of nine gunmen on motorcycles opened fire Monday morning on a police patrol killing one police officer, in a serious incident which occurred near the bus station in Port-de-Paix, boulevard La Saline, at the entrance to the wharf Jeremie (north of Port-au-Prince). Injured with several projectiles, the officer...
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BBC: Two United Nations peacekeepers from Pakistan have been sentenced to a year in prison and sacked from the army for raping a 14-year-old boy in Haiti. The soldiers were found guilty by a Pakistani military tribunal in Haiti and will serve their terms back home. The attack in Gonaives in January was not...
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Caribbean Journal.com By Irwin P Stotzky Op-Ed Contributor Two years and two months after a devastating earthquake struck Haiti killing approximately 350,000 people, leaving several million homeless and destroying thousands of buildings, including most of the landmark buildings in Port-Au- Prince, Haiti stands on the precipice of another disaster. The issue is whether the...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) – The senate investigation into the nationality of the president and executive members of the government continues despite the decision of the Head of state to show his passports to prove his Haitian nationality. Senator Anick Francois Joseph (Artibonite/Alternative), declared the case is not closed, but has only just opened. “We...
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The vaccine — $417,000 worth of it — is stacked high in refrigerated containers to protect it from the Haitian heat. Hundreds of health workers are trained and ready to give the vaccine. They’re armed with programmed smartphones and tablet computers to keep track of who has been vaccinated and who needs a second...
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