DAILY REPORTS, Direct From Haiti
Exports in Haiti decreased to 71.32 USD Million in December from 72.21 USD Million in November of 2016. Exports in Haiti averaged 72.30 USD Million from 2008 until 2016, reaching an all time high of 98.30 USD Million in October of 2014 and a record low of 11.91 USD Million in January of 2010....
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May 25, 2017 Michel Martelly’s gift to The Mothers of Haiti? A free concert at Champs de Mars Saturday. Listen to his video.
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A child is screened for malnutrition in a mobile clinic in Les Anglais, on the western coast of Haiti’s southern peninsula. (Credit: St. Boniface Haiti Foundation) Health experts say the international community has turned a blind eye to widespread food insecurity in Haiti, where communities across nearly every region of the island are approaching risk of famine. In March,...
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Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry (center), Bishop of Haiti Jean Zache Duracin (left) and Bishop Suffragan of Haiti Ogé Beauvoir (right), talk before the solemn Eucharist on Tuesday, May 23 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The bishops and members of the Diocesan Standing Committee ceremoniously signed a covenant aimed at healing and reconciling the...
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May 22, 2017 JOVENEL MOISE HAS BEEN BADLY SERVED BY HIS INNER CIRCLE! Some say that President Moise sent a letter to President Trump. That is nice, but really too little too late. Should have initiated contact in March. No one advised him of situation, or its potential for good and positive media coverage...
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BY Haiti Libre: As part of the 375th anniversary of the founding of Montreal, the Mayor of Montreal, Denis Coderre, in the presence of Bernard Voyer, co-president of the Council of the Order of Montreal, presented at a solemn ceremony at City Hall, the prestigious medal of the Order of Montreal to 17 eminent...
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May 19, 2017 Truly amazing! President Donald Trump appeared at LIBERTY UNIVERSITY to give the commencement speech. Wallace and Eleanor Turnbull, founders of Haiti’s oldest ONG – the Baptist Mission, received an award from Liberty University. Appearing on the same platform with President Trump was Daniel Jean-Louis, a Haitian who had been educated by...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) — Haiti’s government announced on Sunday fuel price increases of up to 20 per cent in an effort to shore up the country’s disastrous public finances.People in this destitute Caribbean nation rushed to gas stations to top off their tanks before the price rises take effect on Monday. The government had...
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MICHAEL COLLINS May 14, 2017 We believe that any effort to destabilize the Jovenel Moise Presidency is criminal. Everyone should work to make it a success, so that the next Presidency will have a firmer base upon which to build. RED LIGHTS FLASHING!!! The obvious was obvious shortly after Donald Trump’s inauguration. Elements within...
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May 13, 2017 Jovenel did not create the problems! Our President inherited them, an accumulation ever-expanding since 1986, with no effort to control the situation. Now President Moise would like to cure the situation in one cold water bath. Like drug and alcohol addiction, one must deal with corruption in a gradual manner, so...
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Austin, TX, May 12, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Top NCAA athletes will unite in a shared purpose and common good this month as they kick off their summers by serving in Haiti. Athletes from Texas A&M, University of Texas, Texas Tech, and University of Oklahoma will give up the comforts of home and spend...
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May 10, 2017 One of my Haitian associates gets upset each time I use a bunch of pigs, at a trough, to illustrate the enormous, unlimited, glutinous, self-centered greed demonstrated by certain members of our community who lack even a superficial smear of social conscience. Like cancer, there are certain focal points of the...
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Photos by Karston Tannis Jack Brewer has long-enjoyed spending time giving back in Haiti, but bringing along former Vikings teammate Byron Chamberlain made his most recent trip that much more special. Brewer (2002-03) and Chamberlain (2001-02) recently returned from a Global Ambassadors tour to the Caribbean country. While the trip marked Chamberlain’s first to...
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AIRPORT–Winair is in the process of beginning operations to Curaçao and Port-au-Prince, Haiti, weekly via St. Maarten in June. The airline has been negotiating for some time to use a wet-leased MD-82 to service the route. Winair President and Chief Executive Officer Michael Cleaver said in an invited comment on Sunday that the launch...
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The terminal at the Haitian capital’s international airport has been flooded after a sustained downpour transformed some low-lying Port-au-Prince streets into brown rivers. Videos circulating on social media show passengers up to their ankles in water inside Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince. Irving Mehu is director general of Haiti’s airports authority. He says...
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Download PDF (614.06 KB) Situation Heavy rain has been affecting the Central Caribbean islands over the past few weeks, causing floods and landslides. In Haiti, the South, South-East, Grand’Anse and Nippes departments are the most affected. According to local authorities, 10 000 houses have been damaged and 350 000 people are affected in the...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A motorcade carrying Haiti’s prime minister struck two teenage boys, killing one, as officials drove into the country’s third largest city on Monday to see flood damage left by heavy rains. Serge Daniel, a government delegate who was traveling in Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant’s motorcade, said one of the...
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Des pluies diluviennes s’abattent sur plusieurs régions du pays depuis plusieurs jours, notamment dans le Sud. Face aux risques d’inondations et de déboulonnement de terrains qui persistent, les autorités appellent la population à la vigilance. Selon le centre National de Météorologie (CNM), « un creux de surface qui se déplace vers l’Est dans le Canal...
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