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Arrests made.

Antoine Atouriste’s anti-corruption teams looked into 500 school and found 121 were non-existent criminal conspiracies. 72 people were arrested. More arrest expected as inquiry expands.

Martelly’s heartfelt effort to put kids in school has been plagued by elements set on profiting from the program without really doing anything. Some create non-existent schools and just steal the money, while other establish a location, collect kids, and get paid, by the State for each child registered. Then the don’t really teach classes and carry out fraud on another level.

Parents think their children are being educated when, in fact, the schools involved are nothing more that baby-sitting facilities.  And, what is worse, these so-called schools are stealing students from real schools, provided by the Baptist Mission, Mission of Hope … etc…

The children are cheated.

The Nation suffers. ]]> http://www.haitian-truth.org/criminals-steal-kids-hope/feed/ 0 http://www.haitian-truth.org/haiti-cuba-end-of-the-official-visit-of-prime-minister-lamothe/ http://www.haitian-truth.org/haiti-cuba-end-of-the-official-visit-of-prime-minister-lamothe/#comments Sat, 18 May 2013 14:40:06 +0000 ` http://www.haitian-truth.org/?p=46822 Haiti Libre:

The Prime Minister, Laurent Lamothe at the head of the Haitian delegation of high-ranking composed of Thomas Jacques, Minister of Agriculture ; of Marie Mimose Félix, Minister Delegate responsible for promoting the peasantry ; of Philippe Cinéas, Secretary of State for Public Works ; of Oswald Thimoléon, Secretary of State for Literacy ; Advisor Guy William and of Dr Jean Patrick Alfred Director of the Unit of Planning and Evaluation (UPE) of the Representative of the Ministry of Public Health, Thursday completed his official visit after an important meeting of coordination of the Haitian-Cuban cooperation attended by more than forty ministers, deputy ministers and program managers and dignitaries of Cuban regime.

At this meeting, agriculture, infrastructure, health and literacy was especially at the heart of discussions.

Agriculture is the theme that opened the meeting, Thomas Jacques, Minister of Agriculture discussed with his Cuban counterpart of strengthening of fisheries and aquaculture, two areas that already has the support of Cuba. We also believe developing shrimp production in the country indicated the Minister. Cuban cooperation will also extend to the field of animal health.

The topic of health was discussed by Dr. Jean Patrick Alfred, who represented the Minister of Health, Florence Duperval Guillaume. He expressed the wish to have more specialists in the field, a request welcomed by Cuban authorities who have made ​​a commitment to train Haitians and expressed interest in the development of traditional medicine in Haiti. In addition, he was asked to the Haitian government to create adequate conditions in order to integrate doctors trained in Cuba. Indeed, of 818 new physicians, only 600 work in the health system in Haiti.

Philippe Cinéas, the Secretary of State of Public Works discussed with the Cuban authorities of the supervision of the Cap Haitien airport (Hugo Chavez airport), built in cooperation with Venezuela and Cuba, and the construction of the terminal. He also discussed the construction of the airport of Les Cayes and Ile-à-Vaches.

Literacy is a priority for the administration Martelly-Lamothe was addressed by Oswald Thimoléon who asked an even greater involvement of the Cuban government in the fight against this scourge. Following this request, the Cuban authorities have renewed their commitment to help Haiti to eradicate illiteracy. By the next two months, 300,000 Haitians will incorporate classrooms across the country.

After the meeting, the Prime Minister Lamothe went to the Revolution Square in Havana, lay a wreath of flowers in honor of José Marti, Cuba’s national hero, before going to the Palace revolution for an official meeting with Prime Cuban Vice President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez. The official visit of the Prime Minister to Cuba, ended with a luncheon in his honor by the First Cuban Vice President Esteban Lazo and President of the National Assembly.

Lamothe, welcomed this visit and announced that from June, the Cuban authorities will send in the country several missions “[...] Haiti has a special place in his heart for Cuba [...] Without Cuba, we would not be where we are today.” The Haitian delegation returned to the country on Thursday.

Queen Sophia hopes to replace Lamothe with her incompetent puppet Valery Milfort. Milfort doesn’t e-mail anyone, including potential love interests, without CCing Sophia.  Milfort’s home is being watched over by three State vehicles which is usually an indication that the person is about to be names to high office.

Time for President Martelly to clean house. Otherwise his close associates will bring about his – and their – downfall.

These idiots are cutting the branch they are sitting on.

Written by TRENTON DANIEL

PORT-AU-PRINCE – Former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide recently emerged from months of seclusion for a second straight day and took several swipes at the current government.

Speaking to a small group of mostly Haitian reporters and The Associated Press at his home in the capital May 9, Aristide covered topics ranging from his shock at seeing the devastation caused by the 2010 earthquake to his political party’s strength as the country heads to legislative and local elections.

He also thanked the thousands of supporters who cheered his motorcade a day earlier during a rare outing to answer a judge’s questions in a closed-door testimony in the case of a slain journalist. The crowds comprised one of the biggest demonstrations of its kind in years despite a police ban on all protests.

Aristide then took a few jabs at President Michel Martelly, saying the government has not done enough to address hunger and he referred to the administratio’s tax on international calls and money transfers to fund an education program as a “problem.”

“With all the respect that I have for the authorities in place, they are not able to solve the hunger problem by themselves,” Aristide said in the office of his residence, calling hunger one of Haiti’s “biggest problems.”

“People know that when a dog is hungry it’s doesn’t play,” Aristide said, quoting a Haitian proverb that roughly means hungry people can be unpredictable and even dangerous.

Aristide began to weep as he recalled watching images of the 2010 earthquake while in exile in South Africa. He said that before May 8 he had ventured out of his house only once, on May 1, 2011, since his return earlier that year, but didn’t say where he went.

This time, he came out to go before a judge after being summoned to answer questions in the case of a journalist’s killing. Instead of returning straight home, he toured the capital’s shantytowns, where he is still popular, drawing crowds of supporters as he passed through each neighborhood.

Aristide said the trek also allowed him to see the earthquake’s devastation firsthand.

“I now know what it’s like for you to be unable to leave the suffering caused by goudougoudou,” Aristide said, using a common Haitian term for the quake.

Also on May 9, the justice ministry said in a statement that three journalists who were covering the May 8 march were roughed up by demonstrators and condemned the “act of aggression.” The reporters worked for Radio-Tele Ginen, a media outlet that’s long been seen as pro-government.

Aristide remains popular but was a divisive figure during his two presidential terms. He acknowledged that he had been silent for two years, but said no one ordered him to keep quiet.

“I chose not to speak,” he said. “I speak when I need to speak, and no one can stop me from speaking.” Aristide said he believed his Lavalas political party will be a contender during still unscheduled elections to fill 10 Senate seats and dozens of local posts. The authorities are under pressure to organize the vote by year’s end.

“If they have free and transparent elections, there’s a good chance that we’ll win a big portion of it,” Aristide said.

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COMMENT: HAITIAN-TRUTH.ORG

Haiti was an exporter of food in 1986 when Americans removed Duvalier and gave us Democracy. We were an exporter of rice in 1986. We now import $1,000,000,000 in rice each year.

The Aristide/Preval presidencies created the accelerating starvation that the Martelly/Lamothe government fights to solve. It is the height of cynicism for Aristide to speak of the problem he is responsible for.

Aristide cheated the people before.

He will cheat them again – without conscience.

Time to finish with Aristies/Lavalas once and for all.

Première signification

La première signification du drapeau haïtien est celle de la réconciliation. Pendant la guerre de l’indépendance, l’armée indigène se battait en bandes dispersées..  Les Petit-Noël, Sans-souci, Lamour Dérance…, tous des chefs de bande, refusèrent obstinément de se soumettre à l’autorité de Dessalines.  Il fallait une stratégie unitaire des généraux indigènes tels que Christophe, et Philippe Guerrier pour ramener à la raison ces éléments de discorde dont l’action nocive pouvait retarder pour longtemps l’issue de la lutte contre les Français.  La soumission de ces chefs de bande ainsi que le ralliement de Pétion dans les rangs de l’armée indigène ayant  à sa tête Jean-Jacques Dessalines comme général en chef constituent un acte de haute portée historique.  C’est le premier acte de réconciliation sincère posé dans notre histoire.  Cette stratégie unitaire devait conduire à l’Arcahaie les officiers indigènes de l’Ouest et des quartiers voisins pour la création d’un drapeau spécial pour l’armée indigène le 18 mai 1803.

Deuxième signification

La deuxième signification du drapeau est celle de la liberté.  Sans entrer dans les controverses historiques relatives aux couleurs de notre drapeau et à ses différentes positions par rapport à la rampe, notre “oriflamme à deux tranches”est le symbole vivant du souffle puissant de la liberté qui animait l’armée indigène dans sa lutte contre les hordes de Napoléon Bonaparte.   Aussi, à chaque fois que nous voyons flotter le drapeau haïtien, il représente l’effort et les sacrifices  consentis par nos ancêtres pour vivre libre ou mourir, tout en refusant la domination d’aucun autre peuple sur cette planète.  L’épopée fulgurante de Vertières a été conduite et menée au succès au nom de la liberté.  Car, après le 18 novembre 1803, le soleil d’Haïti luisait sur deux catégories d’hommes: les morts et les libres.

Troisième signification

La troisième signification de notre drapeau est celle  l’indépendance nationale.  L’indépendance est le fondement politico-juridique de la nation haïtienne.  Elle lui confère une personnalité légale afin que ses citoyens puissent assurer son des destin qui devrait être un destin de grandeur.  A chaque fois que le drapeau haïtien flotte sur un édifice public ou privé, national ou international, il indique clairement que Haïti est une nation indépendante et qu’elle fait partie des autres nations, jouissant de son statut politico-juridique.  Aussi, tout acte nuisible  à l’indépendance nationale posé par nous est une souillure portée à notre drapeau..

MAY 18 ANTI-LAMOTHE MANIFESTATIONS HAVE SPONSORS WITHIN MARTELLY’S INNER CIRCLE…

SOME SUSPECT QUEEN SOPHIA AND HER DESIRE TO INJECT THE INCOMPETENT, CONTROLLABLE, VALERY MILFORT INTO THE PRIME MINISTER’S SLOT…

EVEN AS  YOU READ THIS SHE HAS THREE STATE VEHICLE GUARDING HER HOME…

IS THERE A MESSAGE HERE???!!!

ARISTIDE WOULD WELCOME THIS SINCE HE KNOWS THE MARTELLY/ LAMOTHE TEAM IS UNBEATABLE, BUT MARTELLY – ALONE – WILL BE AN EASY TARGET..

In a letter dated May 8, 2013 addressed to Ms. Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Attorney Guy Lewis, the head of the Lewis & Tein law firm, requests the Court to open an investigation into the actions of Michel Martelly, Laurent Lamothe, Rene Preval and other Haitian government officials that they accuse of having perpetrated against Franck Cine and his family, acts including, unjust arrest, unlawful detention, torture, illegal prosecution, confiscation of property.

For these reasons, Guy Lewis writes, “we are asking the Court to investigate and prosecute these people,” in accordance with Article 15 of the Rome Statute.” Although Haiti has signed the Rome Statute it has not been ratified in the nation.

In a second action, along with the complaint to the International Court in The Hague, lawyers of Franck Ciné made a request to invoke the Arbitration Court of Bermuda, the tribunal designated in the statutes creating Haitel, to decide in cases of dispute between the company and the Haitian government.

The third action initiated against the Haitian leaders came in a letter sent to the Minister of Justice, Jean Renél Sanon. In this letter, Lewis is seeking an investigation against Martelly, Lamothe and Preval.

Haitel’s dossier has now changed with the submission to these courts. Sources say, leaders in Haiti will be forced to respond within times prescribed by law. The legal “runaways” and delaying often employed by Haitian officials to evade justice in Haiti will not be appropriate in those jurisdictions.

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COMMENT: HAITIAN-TRUTH.ORG

Writing a letter is not “filing an action.” In fact, writing a letter really means nothing at all and is just another attempt on Cine’s part to get publicity.

If the International Criminal Court is an acceptable venue for hearing the Haitel case, Martelly should file one against Franck Cine for his criminal actvities in partnership with Aristide and Preval.

Aristide and Preval benefitted from the Cine/Haitel crimes when Franck Cine paid enormous bribes in order to avoid taxes. His bill stands at over $80,000,000 without interest.

Cine is a bum and should be jailed for what he did to Haiti.