Criminal Justice International Associates (CJIA), a risk assessment and global analysis firm in Miami, estimated in a recent report that the Chávez Frías family in Venezuela has “amassed a fortune” similar to that of the Castro brothers in Cuba. According to Jerry Brewer, president of CJIA, “the personal fortune of the Castro brothers has...
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AP News: AP Photo/Roberto Candia CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez was a former paratroop commander and self-styled “subversive” who waged continual battle for his socialist ideals. He bedeviled the United States and outsmarted his rivals time and again, while using Venezuela’s vast oil wealth to his political advantage. Chavez led one coup...
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Friday was held at the Hotel Le Plaza, a workshop between Jean François Thomas, the Minister of the Environment and 137 Community Organizations of Morne l’Hôpital, in order to decide on a final resolution on the beginning of work of Protection and Stabilization to slow down deforestation at Morne l’Hôpital. This workshop will also...
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Graham Greene is a literary legend, famous for best-selling spy novels like Our Man in Havana, The End of the Affair, and The Quiet American. But the writer was as mysterious as his characters: secretive and prone to bouts of bipolarism. Few people really ever got to know him. Surprisingly, one of the men...
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A fire swept through a camp for survivors of Haiti’s January 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince’s eastern Juvénat neighborhood the night of Feb. 16, destroying tents and leaving some 4,000 people without shelter. The inhabitants of the camp, known as Acra 2, were among as many as 350,000 people in southern Haiti who still haven’t...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – An audit of a U.S. Agency for International Department program that aims to boost Haiti’s economy by providing loans to overlooked business has found a range of problems in the effort. Problems include a failure to train workers, to keep accurate records and to award loans to lenders to the intended...
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The op-ed “UN’s cold, but correct, call on Haiti” (Juliette Kayyem, Feb. 28) misstates the basis for the UN’s dismissal of claims filed by cholera victims in Haiti. While it correctly notes that immunity is an important protection for the United Nations, it assumes that immunity precludes justice for people harmed by reckless actions...
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Port-au-Prince, le 17 novembre 2000 Sénateur Irvelt Chéry Lettre Ouverte A tous les Commissaires du Gouvernement de la République, tous les Doyens des Tribunaux Civils de 1ère Instance, tous les Juges d’Instruction et autres Officiers de Justice du Territoire Mesdames/Messieurs les Autorités Judiciaires de mon pays, J’ai l’honneur de vous présenter mes félicitations pour...
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Le Président de la République, S.E.M. Michel Joseph Martelly, décorant l’Ambassadeur Fritz Cinéas de l’Ordre National Honneur et Mérite au grade Grand Croix Plaque Argent Discours de circonstance du Président de la République Discours de circonstance du Président de la République Mme Michaelle Craan dans son allocution de circonstance L’Ambassadeur Fritz Cinéas dans son...
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Beginning March 4, 2013, certain immigrant visa applicants who are spouses, children and parents of U.S. citizens (immediate relatives) can apply for provisional unlawful presence waivers before they leave the United States. The provisional unlawful presence waiver process allows individuals, who only need a waiver of inadmissibility for unlawful presence, to apply for a...
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March 4, 2013, 10:33 am Little of the more than $9-billion pledged for post-earthquake relief and reconstruction in Haiti actually made it to the country, a journalist who closely covered the disaster tells NPR. Jonathan Katz, a former chief of the Associated Press’s Haiti bureau and author of a book on the disaster, The...
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Le président Michel Michel Joseph Martelly et la premiere Dame, la Ministre de la culture Josette Darguste, la Ministre du Tourisme Stéphanie Villedrouin et de plusieurs personnalités, ont procédé au cours d’une cérémonie organisée à l’Hôtel Ibo Lele, à la remise des Prix aux gagnants du Carnaval National de 2013 : Prix de la...
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Friday, as part of recovery plan of agriculture implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture designed to meet 60 to 70% of food needs of the country, at the end of term of President Martelly, a memorandum of understanding was signed by Pierre Richard Casimir, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Ambassador of the...
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The Guardian: The organisation ducked responsibility for the cholera outbreak in denial of the ideals set out in its own charter ‘Nearly three times as many have died as were killed in 9/11, yet there are no urgent debates at the general assembly.’ Illustration by Andrzej Krauze Imagine if a multinational company went to...
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Intervention du Président du Comité National du Carnaval , M. Gilbert Bailly Intervention de la Ministre de la Culture, Mme Josette Darguste Le groupe Anbyans gagnant le prix d’originalité dans la création Le Chef de l’Etat saluant les chanteurs de Team lobey sour le regard attentif du chanteur Kreyol La, Joe Zenny Le groupe...
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Lettre Ouverte a l’Honorable Tholbert Alexis, President de la Chambre des Deputes Honorable Tholbert Alexis President Chambre des Deputes Port-au-Prince, Haiti Monsieur le President, J’ai l’avantage de vous presenter mes compliments dans vos nouvelles fonctions que vous assumez depuis bientot un mois. J’espere que durant le mandat d’un an que vous avez recu de...
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“I would appreciate if your column could assist Maurice by publishing what could be construed as my version of the story so that Maurice, who is an honest man, from an honorable family can be clean and resume his simple life.” Reginald Martin- Pierre Michel Maurice Prosper was nominated to be the mayor of...
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