Le Ministère de l’Intérieur et des Collectivités Territoriales chargé d’assurer la gestion des Collectivités ne dispose d’aucun mécanisme de gestion des détritus générés par le Bureau Central et les bureaux déconcentrés de l’ère métropolitaine. Les immondices générées au bureau central de la rue Duncombe sont jetés au Bois de Chêne à coté de l’hôpital...
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April 9, 2013 Last night, hundreds of people, led by partisans of Deputy Jude Charles Faustin attacked the Port Margot police station to free one of the deputy’s associates. They freed the prisoner, took the police officers’ guns and chased them away. The PNH station was then burned. Port Margot – Borgne Arrondissement, in...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – A former Haitian bishop who presided over the lavish wedding of former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier and was viewed as a supporter of the regime has died. He was 85. The privately owned Radio Kiskeya is reporting that Francois-Wolff Ligonde died Monday following an unspecified illness. He had suffered from...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A new report on American aid to Haiti in the wake of that country’s devastating earthquake finds most of the money went to U.S.-based operations. The Center for Economic and Policy Research analyzed the $1.15 billion pledged after the January 2010 quake. The group says a lack of transparency makes it...
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Solar panels light up the night on this avenue in the Haitian capital. Credit: Jean Reniteau/IPS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Apr 4 2013 (ipsnews.net) – While Jean Reniteau mulls over the idea of using solar panels to light his house, Frantz Fanfan is wondering how to expand production of biomass briquettes to replace the use of charcoal...
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Rebuilding Haiti: The dependency, the hurdles and the pitfalls April 9, 2013 · By Staff Writer ·stabroeknews.com During his visit here in March Haitian President and sitting Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Chairman Michel Martelly provided confirmation of what we already knew …that more than three years after a devastating earthquake that claimed thousands of lives...
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Girls at Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart on Friday welcomed award-winning author, Edwidge Danticat, the fifth writer to come to Stuart as part of the school’s Lies, Light, McCarthy Visiting Author Program. Danticat is a storyteller who navigates the terrain of lives lived in both Haiti and America. Her award-wining memoir, Brother,...
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« Une voie d’eau fait submerger un vaisseau », « Chimen Bouton, Chimen Maleng ». Ce dicton, emprunté à la sagesse populaire qui enseigne qu’il faut aller au devant des problèmes pour mieux les résoudre, inspire et éclaire le sens et la raison du présent message que j’adresse aux citoyens et citoyennes, gouvernants et gouvernés, eu égard...
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It took eight years, but on Oct. 8 I finally secured a copy of Fusion Telecommunications’ 1999 contract with the Haitian telephone monopoly Teleco. By law the agreement is a public document but Fusion wouldn’t give it to me until the FCC required them to do so. Now I think I know why. Getty...
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Lesly Condé, Consul General of the Republic of Haiti in Chicago, reminds the Community as a whole that, Sunday, April 7, 2013, brings the 210th anniversary of the death of Toussaint Louverture. “It’s time to pay tribute to the man, who in the eighteenth century, challenged the world order, his lucidity and courage, showed our...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – A new report on American aid to Haiti in the wake of that country’s devastating earthquake finds most of the money went to U.S.-based operations. The Center for Economic and Policy Research analyzed the $1.15 billion pledged after the January 2010 quake. The group says a lack of transparency makes it...
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In the Dominican Republic, discounts on Venezuelan oil imports keep the lights on. In Jamaica, they are helping a limping economy stay afloat, and in Haiti, a young and inexperienced leadership is using them to achieve quick results. But despite financial benefits of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s Petrocaribe oil agreement with cash-strapped...
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By the Caribbean Journal staff Malnutrition rates in some parts of Haiti have increased since last fall as more and more people in the country do not have enough food to eat, according to the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Food shortages are now affecting seven of 10 departments in...
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By the Caribbean Journal staff There are “significant” problems in the way the United States delivers aid to Haiti, according to a report from the Washington-based Center for Economic and Policy Research. The report, Breaking Open the Black Box: Increasing Aid Transparency and Accountability in Haiti, found an “overall lack of transparency on how the...
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MUNCIE — Ball State women’s soccer coach Craig Roberts attended a game between the Haiti and Australian national teams last year, and he took that opportunity to chat up Haiti coach Shek Borkowski about the prospect of playing his Cardinals in the spring. Borkowski promised to see if a date opened in his schedule....
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by buildingaschool PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti The Associated Press ….Born in Port-au-Prince, Corvington began writing in the 1970s, collecting thousands of books that eventually formed a seemingly unmatched library collection. In addition to his work about the capital, a hilly coastal city that eventually swelled to an estimated 3 million people, Corvington also wrote about the National...
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France Francois says the organization has done far more harm than help in the quake-stricken nation. Despicable: United Nations peacekeepers from Nepal infected a quake-stricken Haiti with cholera by polluting the Artibonite River with fecal matter from a faulty septic tank in 2010. To date, the cholera epidemic has killed over 8,000 Haitians, sickened...
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“Haitians, U.S. taxpayers unable to verify how U.S. aid funds are being used on the ground” Image: LYNNE SLADKY/AP/SIPA A new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) identifies significant problems with the delivery of U.S. aid in Haiti and finds an overall lack of transparency on how the billions of dollars obligated...
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