By Franco Ordoñez fordonez@mcclatchydc.com WASHINGTON President Donald Trump’s top immigration official warned Hispanic members of Congress Wednesday that over a million people living in the United States under a special protected status could soon be placed in line for deportation. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly told members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus that the...
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LEOGANE, Haiti Haiti’s most famous export is Barbancourt, a delicately flavored, carefully aged rum that’s considered among the best in the world. Then there’s its rustic cousin clairin, a drink that’s much cheaper and relatively rare outside this struggling Caribbean country. Clairin, or kleren as it’s known in Haitian Creole, is less refined than...
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The U.S. Coast Guard returned 102 migrants to Haiti on Wednesday, the largest migrant interdiction in more than a year, officials said. The migrants were crammed aboard a small sailboat with standing room only when they were intercepted near the Bahamas on Tuesday, a spokesman for the Coast Guard said. The U.S. Coast Guard...
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Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been convicted of corruption charges and sentenced to nine and a half years in prison. The judge ruled he could remain free pending an appeal. Lula has rejected claims that he received an apartment as a bribe in a corruption scandal linked to state oil...
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https://www.vantbefinfo.com/laurentlamothe/ See video here. Laisser un commentaire Port-au-Prince, le 14 juillet 2017.- L’ancien Premier Ministre haïtien , Laurent Salvador Lamothe a défendu sa gestion du fond Petro Caribe lors d’une conférence de presse réalisée, aujourd’hui 14 juillet, au local de « sa fondation » à Pétion Ville, a constaté un reporter de Vant bèf info (VBI)....
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Solidarité fanm pou yon lavi miyò is one of the local network organisations who work with young girls and vulnerable children. They provide shelter to twelve girls, who have been refered to them by governmental social agency. Executive Summary In Haiti, the number of young people, especially women and girls, who report experiencing sexual and...
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The reconstruction of the fire station of Port-au-Prince in Haiti, sponsored by the City of Quebec, falls into the water. The canadian government has chosen to remove his balls. Quebec City mayor Régis Labeaume confirmed to the Newspaper that the project, funded to the height of $ 2.6 million by the federal government, through...
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Tuesday, July 11, passed away the writer poet professor and former mayor of Abricotsn Jean-Claude Fignole. Président Jovenel Moïse : “President Jovenel Moise salutes the memory of a talented writer, a great intellectual figure The death of Professor and poet Jean-Claude Fignole is a great loss for the country. His brilliant intelligence, his...
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Juillet 12, 2017 La Commission dite “Éthique et anti-Corruption du Sénat sur la Gestion des Fonds PetroCaribe” invite ce jeudi 13 juillet 2017 l’ex-Premier Ministre Laurent Salvador Lamothe pour répondre aux allégations CONTRATS ANTI-DATÉS qui pèsent contre lui. En mars 2016, face aux “rumeurs de corruption”, l’Assemblée des Sénateurs a mis sur pied une...
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Wyclef Jean arrives at the 42nd American Music Awards in Los Angeles, California November 23, 2014. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok The story of Wyclef Jean is an embodiment of the ‘American Dream.’ Born in the Haitian commune of Croix-des-Bouquets, Nel Ust Wyclef Jean – whose stage name is Wyclef Jean – immigrated to the U.S. at...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (sentinel.ht) – In Haiti, a trio of wealthy businessmen involved in the electricity sector and characterized as the “energy mafioso”, have successfully, according to reporting, forced, possibly through extortion, President Jovenel Moise to withdraw from a $2 billion plan with China to electrify all of Haiti. The deal with China dates...
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Like every nation, Haiti has limited resources. Prioritization is needed. Understanding the costs and benefits of different policies and proposals can help decision-makers to focus on the most effective investments. Over recent months, I have shared the research from Haïti Priorise on this blog. The research has been written by more than 50 economists...
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Tuesday, the Directorate General of Migration (DGM) of the Dominican Republic revealed that last June 4,943 foreigners in irregular migration had been deported to their country of origin. Most of the returnees were of Haitian origin even though the DGM indicated that these deportations included foreigners from...
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Poultry company Jamaica Broilers Group grew its bottom line by one-third at year ending April, amid a double-digit spike in revenue. The company reported net profit of made $2.27 billion, up from $1.7 billion a year ago. Sales topped $44 billion, up more than 15 per cent from $38 billion. Vice-president of finance, Ian...
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Port-au-Prince (AFP) – Hundreds of Haiti’s factory workers protested in Port-au-Prince on Monday against a small increase in the minimum wage set by the government. The workers, paid 300 gourdes (4.75 dollars) a day, are demanding 800 gourdes (12.75 dollars) for an eight-hour day of labor making products in factories outsourced to foreign companies....
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AFP Monday, 10 July, 2017 14:38 UPDATE Monday, 10 July, 2017 14:38 Several hundreds of workers of contract factories demonstrated Monday in the streets of Port-au-Prince to express their anger at the too low minimum wage adjustment that is proposed, on the background of aggravation of the precariousness in Haiti. Paid 300 gourdes (4,75...
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MEXICO CITY, Mexico (sentinel.ht) – A Mexican laboratory having investments from two Clinton confidants, tech billionaire Bill Gates and Mexican business magnate, Carlos Slim, created 150 tons of genetically modified corn seeds that were sent to Haiti. It is the largest seed shipment to any country in the history of the laboratory known as...
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In this 2013 photo, a boy stands in his room in the U.S.-based Church of Bible Understanding orphanage in Kenscoff, Haiti, a facility run by a Christian missionary group funded by an antique store in Manhattan. Dieu Nalio Chery AP Op-Ed July 03, 2017 10:10 PM To really help Haiti’s children, stop the international...
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Haiti Libre: A modest 135 million Gourdes was finally added to the budget of the Ministry of Defense to enable it to begin recruiting young people for the new Haitian armed force. This budget of 512 million Gdes of the Ministry, of which 25 million envisaged for the investments, inscribed in the law of...
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