DAILY REPORTS, Direct From Haiti
Reference: E-1024/12 January 4, 2012 Haiti Assumes Chair of OAS Permanent Council The Permanent Representative of Haiti to the Organization of American States (OAS), Ambassador Duly Brutus, today assumed for the next three months the Chair of the Permanent Council, taking over from the Permanent Representative of Guyana, Ambassador Bayney Karran. The Haitian diplomat...
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Huffingtonpost: January 10 is international Vudon Day in Benin (formerly Dahomey). Celebrations will take place everywhere honoring the religion. I can’t help reflect on this most African part of our heritage in the New World especially as it is continually maligned by those whose knowledge is restricted to popular images that favor the macabre....
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By PATRACIA RONDON ESPIN CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad began a four-nation Latin American tour Sunday aiming to show off relationships with allies as tensions grow over Iran’s nuclear program. It is the Iranian leader’s fifth visit to Venezuela. He will also travel to Nicaragua, Cuba and Ecuador. Tensions have been...
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January 5, 2012 Customs Director at Miragoane = $400,000, APN Director Port-au-Prince = $750,000, Director PL-480 another small fortune…and so it goes. In a time when Haiti needs all of the good people available, to help on it stalled road to recovery, jobs are being sold for big dollars to people who plan to...
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January 2, 2011 The Christmas season has always been a time when various Haitian businesspeople made a little money. Now so in 2011!!. Sophie Martelly and her band of friends, cancelled existing contracts and took over everything, everything, everything. Martelly prepared almost 500 Christmas baskets, for the palace at an actual cost of $85.00...
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Connecticut Post BRIDGEPORT — A Haitian couple visiting the city for the past month will be bringing back more than souvenirs and memories. Georgeline Jean and Biguener Simeon are new parents, with Jean giving birth to the first baby born in the area in 2012. Biguener Jr. made his entrance at 2:07 a.m. on Sunday...
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January 1, 2012 Michel Martelly was busy attempting to create a Christmas for Haiti’s poor children. Even as he worked to accumulate gifts for the kids, staff members were stealing many, many, many of the gifts. Martelly expended something like $45,000,000 on Christmas in an attempt to keep the peasants under control. The “let...
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At least 38 migrants from Haiti have been found dead after their boat sank just off the eastern tip of Cuba, officials in Havana say. Another 87 people from the boat were rescued, Cuban TV reported quoting civil defence officials. It said the boat was spotted only 100m off shore. A search for more...
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December 16, 1991 Dr. Maryse Narcisse, coordinator of the Executive Committee of Fanmi Lavalas was at a loss to explain why Aristide did not attend a rally to commemorate his electoral win in 1991. The turn out was small with ex-Prime Minister Alexis in attendance. As a contrast, Jean Claude Duvalier visited Gonaives to...
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