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April 24, 2012 It is 11 P.M. and torrential rain is sweeping the Port-au-Prince area. Already street are flowing with deep water that washes large boulders with it as it rushes down the hillsides. Cars and trucks plow through this fast-moving sea of water. Many have been trapped as their engines drowned. Low lying...
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Tuesday, 24 April 2012 14:28 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht)- The Minister of Justice and Public Safety, Michel Brunache, and the Director General of the National Police of Haiti, Mario Andresol (photo), raised the possibility of punishing the police strike of April 23 under the principles of ethics. Michel Brunache told the press that “if police...
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By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A rogue band of armed men pushing for revival of Haiti’s military are refusing to disband and clear out of old military bases, the leaders of the group said Tuesday, despite repeated orders from the government. In a news conference at an army barracks just outside...
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April 23, 2012 Even as the PNH moved to tie up the Port-au-Prince area, Haitians were treated to the spectacle of Martelly’s son, Olivier, roaring around town in the presidential limousine, escorted by a crowd of heavily armed palace security. He would stop, here and there, to meet with friends. At each stop the...
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By Ezra Fieser / Santo Domingo When Haitian President Michel Martelly visited the Dominican Republic last month, he was awarded the country’s highest honor for a foreign head of state, in large part for his efforts to lure reconstruction investment to Haiti after its catastrophic 2010 earthquake, which killed more than 200,000 people. In...
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Haiti launched a countrywide vaccination campaign to immunize millions of children against childhood killers. U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, center, tours the Eliazar Germain hospital during a visit in Port-au-prince, Haiti, Monday, April 16, 2012. Sebelius is visiting Port-au-Prince to highlight the United States’ ongoing partnership with the Haitian government...
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April 20, 2012 The past saves Martelly. If the governments of Aristide, Gerard Latortue and Rene Preval was not as bad as they were, Michel Martelly would be toast. However, the Creole proverb: Bad is better than worse…. seems to fit the present situation. Our Haitian population has the amazing ability to readjust to...
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By Joseph Guyler Delva PORT-AU-PRINCE | Wed Apr 18, 2012 9:35pm EDT (Reuters) – Haitian President Michel Martelly, who was recovering in a Miami hospital on Wednesday from a blood clot in his lung, condemned the gunmen who stormed and briefly occupied the lower chamber of Parliament in Haiti’s capital a day earlier. No...
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A day after armed ex-soldiers forced their way onto the grounds of Haiti’s parliament, the country’s president and prime minister condemn the incident. Meanwhile, President Michel Martelly, recovering in Miami, says he’s stable. By Jacqueline Charles jcharles@Miamiherald.com A day after busloads of armed former and wannabe soldiers forced their way onto the grounds of...
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Video captured on a cell phone purportedly shows U.N. peacekeepers sexually assaulting an 18-year-old boy in Haiti. (ABC News Exclusive) By LEE FERRAN and MATTHEW MOSK (@mattmosk) April 11, 2012 The teenage boy who was allegedly sexually assaulted by United Nations peacekeepers in Haiti reportedly plans to testify against his attackers. Fritz Dorziair, a...
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