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Haiti triggers travel alert over medical and crime concerns

For travlers thinking about going to Haiti, the State Department warns about difficulties obtaining emergency medical care and a high rate of robberies. (Hector Retamal…

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In Haiti, Rand Paul’s patients are happy. A potential donor, less so.

By David Weigel August 19 at 5:49 PM CAP HAITIEN, Haiti — Eighteen hours earlier, Maitre Rose’s world was black with useless, blurry flashes of…

Posted in Crime/Corruption DAILY REPORTS-Direct From Haiti Elections Govt Incompentece

A DEATH SENTENCE FOR KETANT? AS ARISTIDE AND OTHERS, BETRAYED BY HIM, SEEK VENGENCE??

browardpalmbeach.com It was supposed to be easy. Edouard Rene Joseph was a combat vet, Desert Storm, so he had trimmed the situation down to simple…

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Telecom relaunches mobile money product in Haiti, where most people don’t have bank accounts

AP News: PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A mobile phone network provider has relaunched a money transfer system in Haiti designed to let people get easier access…

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College French Class Creates Custom Children’s Books To Fill Shelves Of Haiti School

Cameron Keady Associate Editor, Good News, The Huffington Post Posted: 08/18/2015 08:16 AM EDT | Edited: 08/18/2015 08:17 AM EDT Never underestimate the power of…

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OPONT MAKES COSMETIC EFFORT IN FACE OF MASSIVE DISASTER. FEWER THAN 1% VOTED IN ELECTION FIASCO – DISQUALIFIES CANDIDATES FROM MANY PARTIES TO APPEAR BALANCED- ONLY SOLUTION – OPONT RESIGNATION – NEW CEP – RETURN OF EXCLUDED CANDIDATES – HOLD ALL ELECTIONS IN DECEMBER.

August 18, 2015 Here we are, one day before the CEP is scheduled to release the election results, from August 9. Those, inside the CEP,…

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Haitian Migrants Detained After Coming Ashore in Florida

Map shows locations of Palm Beach, Florida and Haiti. Reuters August 17, 2015 5:50 PM MIAMI—A group of 32 people, mostly Haitian migrants, were detained…

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Putting the spotlight on children’s lives in Haiti

11-year-old Djolanda sits outside her home. (c) UNICEF Haiti/2015/Walther Home Jacmel, in Haiti’s South East and its surroundings are a picture of Caribbean beauty, with…

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Haiti’s critical test — and ours

TROUBLE AT THE POLLS: People are escorted out of a voting center after it was closed because of violence during parliamentary elections in Port-au-Prince, Haiti…

Posted in Earthquake/CHOLERA

Haitian teen gets new leg at Genesis

Deirdre Baker Joverly Charles, 15, of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, is in Davenport for two to four weeks to receive a new prosthesis and physical therapy. She…

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Haiti truck road crash leaves 17 dead, 18 injured – Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

A road accident at a Haiti highway on April 2, 2012. The the most recent accident in Haiti involving a truck on August 15, 2015…

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U.N. role in Haiti cholera epidemic

(CNN) – There is a humanitarian crisis happening in our own hemisphere, but it’s not likely you’ve heard of it. Thousands have died, threatening the…

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HOW THE WORLD WAS WON IN 2006 BY PREVAL THREATS AFTER ATTACK ON MONTANA HOTEL

2006 had a massive voter turnout, as did the 2010 ballot, in which Michel Martelly won a true landslide victory, in spite of Preval’s effort…

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A Difficult Return to Haiti

Tens of thousands of Haitians and Haitian-Dominicans have fled the Dominican Republic in response to its strict new immigration policy with many settling in squalid…

Posted in Crime/Corruption Elections FRENCH/CREOLE Articles

Haïti-Fraudes électorales : Les arroseurs arrosés.-

-Aug 17 08:22AM -0400 Le dimanche 9 août 2015, Haïti a vécu une dure journée dite “électorale”. La violence était répandue à travers le pays….

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Dominicans of Haitian descent fear racism will fuel deportations

Dark-skinned native Dominicans and longtime residents report a rash of deportations following immigration law changes in the Dominican Republic. BATEY LIBERTAD, Dominican Republic — As Roberto Rafael remembers…

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IOM monitors migrant flows on Haiti-Dominican Republic border-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

Saint Soi and his family at the Fond Bayard school in Fond Parisien near the Malpasse border after returning from the Dominican Republic. IOM/Ilaria Lanzoni….

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A young Haitian in semifinals of the TOYP 2015

Haiti Libre: The young Haitian entrepreneur, Garius Lonick, winner of the winners of the Ten Outstanding Young Haitians 2014 (TOYP) organized by Junior Chamber International…

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Miami jury: Haitian police commander helped drug smugglers

By Jay Weaver jweaver@MiamiHerald.com Twelve jurors told a Miami federal judge on Friday afternoon that they were deadlocked in deciding the fate of a Haitian…

Posted in Earthquake/CHOLERA Govt Incompentece

Dominican Republic resumes deportation of migrants deemed illegal

Reuters/Reuters – People wait to talk to an enumerator with The International Organization for Migration (IOM) at a camp for returned Haitians and Haitian-Dominicans, near…