DAILY REPORTS, Direct From Haiti
A violent storm is sweeping the area. High winds, lightning strikes, thunder….a classic thunderstorm that is dropping a wild deluge of water on an already soaked scene. Two hours ago, another fast moving storm left 4 inches of accumulated water on our flat roof. The drains were plugged by leafs. We are located on...
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July 3 was Jean-Claude Duvalier’s birthday. Jean-Claude may have been gone since February, 1986…but he is not forgotten. The majority of Haitians questioned, wish for his return. Duvalier was never unpopular with the people. He simply did not fit in with America’s vision of Democracy – so they removed him. The subsequent period has...
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By Alice Speri (AFP) – Jun 17, 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE — The commission set up to oversee the five billion dollars in quake aid money pledged to Haiti by the international community has held its first working session. Co-chaired by former US president Bill Clinton and Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive, the meeting came as...
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Edmund Mulet, Special representative of the UN Secretary General in Haiti appears to be cooperating with the concept of Haitian elections this coming November 28. In reality, the game seems to be something else. Two days ago Mulet spoke to a friend. In a tape recording of that conversation Mulet comments… “I have to...
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Over the past month 1 June – 28 June – we averaged 21,347 hits per day with viewers coming from many nations around the world. For example, daily averages… 7669 from the USA, 2318 from Canada, 1947 from Haiti, 789 from the Dominican Republic…and even 13 from South Africa. Top story which received 17,401...
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Haiti Action.net – Port au Prince, Haiti — Today’s downpour in Haiti was, yet another, reminder that this summer is forecast to be one of the worst hurricane seasons in the last one hundred years. What it doesn’t warn the displaced residents in the streets of Port au Prince is that — as early...
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June 10, 2010 Two weeks ago Edmund Mulet, the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH)…stated that the Preval government must create a new and unbiased CEP – Electoral Council- if Haiti was to have a really free-and-fair-election. He was specific and unequivocal in his...
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June 8, 2010-Claudy Gassant was fired for his handling of drug prosecutions…or his complete and total refusal to pursue Preval associates, involved in the cocaine traffic. This traffic has increased over 300% in the past couple of months. Much of the money is going into Preval’s election war chest for the November elections. He...
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Tuesday, June 8 At special meetings, held in Preval’s personal office in the interim palace, on Monday and Tuesday, Preval and his inner circle planned moves against the Haitian society, in general, and the political class in particular Preval plans to burn down a number of public places and blame his opponents for the...
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Other than emotionally, the downpours do no have an effect upon me other than to flood the yard and leak through the roof in a few places; For those in the streets and the temporary camps it is much different. For the last five or six nights we have been deluged!! The streets in...
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