The project « Monte-Cristo Hôtel & Suites » has received the approval of the Interministerial Commission of Investments (CII). Consequently, this project will benefit of all incentives provided by the Investment Code and the accompanying of Ministry of Tourism. The Monte-Cristo Hôtel & suites, represented by its promoter-investor, Mr. Max Donald Guillaume, will be...
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Former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez STR / AFP/Getty Images By Jacqueline Charles jcharles@MiamiHerald.com An upgraded international airport in Haiti’s second largest city, Cap-Haïtien, will bear the name of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Haiti’s Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe, who is on a six-day visit to the United States to tout his government’s achievements, confirmed...
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WATERLOO — Wondering what to do with your old BlackBerry? Steve Sider has a plan for it. The assistant professor in the faculty of education at Wilfrid Laurier University plans to take used BlackBerrys to Haiti next month and give them to school principals there. The smartphones will be used by the principals to...
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Haiti Libre: Judge Ivickel Dabrésil of the Court of Appeal of Port-au-Prince, in charge of the instruction of the investigation in the murder of journalist Jean Leopold Dominique, director of Radio Haïti Inter and of security guard of the stationJean-Claude Louissaint, on April 3, 2000, formally invited, as a witness, the former President Jean-Bertrand...
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Haiti Libre Thursday, April 18, Michaëlle Jean, the UNESCO Special Envoy for Haiti, will take part in Washington, at ministerial meetings of the World Bank (WB) and of International Monetary Fund (IMF) devoted to “Learning for All”. The Ministers of Education and Finance of Haiti, of Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, India,...
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Tuesday, Michel Belony, 36, who had escaped on the occasion of earthquake of 12 January 2010, was arrested in the capital of the Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo by members of the local branch of the International Police (Interpol) while he presented himself to apply for a visa at the consulate of a country that...
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From left to right: MIT Director of Digital Learning Vijay Kumar, MIT Provost Chris Kaiser, Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe, MIT Linguistics Professor Michel DeGraff and Haiti Minister of National Education and Vocational Training Vanneur Pierre at the signing of a joint commitment to an initiative in digital learning initiatives in Kreyòl. Initiative designed...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Roxbury Community College, Harvard Law School. Le Premier Ministre dresse un état de la situation en Haïti pour la communauté haïtienne de Boston au Roxbury Community College. Le Premier Ministre rencontre maintenant la communauté haïtienne de Boston au Roxbury Community College. Le Premier Ministre Lamothe lors de son discours au...
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16/04/2013 13:43:00 Il y a la science politique, c’est vrai. Mais faire cohabiter science et politique en Haïti n’est pas toujours chose facile. La démission de la ministre de l’Économie et des Finances, Marie Carmelle Jean-Marie (MCJM) en est la preuve par quatre. Quand le président de la République annonce la création de 400...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is refusing to accept the official results of Venezuela’s weekend presidential election, which gave victory to the protege of the country’s late leftist leader Hugo Chavez. Supporters of Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles protest the results of Sunday’s presidential elections, near Plaza Altamira, in Caracas, Venezuela, April 15,...
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By Andres Oppenheimer aoppenheimer@MiamiHerald.com“> aoppenheimer@MiamiHerald.com Here are some of the questions that Maduro, who was proclaimed president-elect in an “express” ceremony less than 24 hours after the election, has not yet answered: • If Maduro is so sure that he won by 51.6 to 49 percent of the vote, as the supposedly neutral National...
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PETER ORSI, Associated Press | 13/04/16 | Last Updated: 13/04/16 1:14 AM ET More from Associated Press Ramon Espinosa / The Associated PressDemonstrators, one holding a poster of opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles, confront riot police from behind a burning barricade in the Altamira neighborhood in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, April 15, 2013. National Guard...
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013 At 8PM Arnel Belizaire, wearing a white shirt, and dark blue pants, driving a blue Land Rover, accompanied by others, in a dark grey Land Cruiser, visited Grand Ravines, Fort Mercredi and Correfour Feuille to distribute money and weapons. He urged the gang leaders to fight the Martelly/Lamothe team and...
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President Jean-Bertrand Aristide WRITTEN BY-events@defend.ht (INCLUDING THEIR NUMEROUS TYPOS) PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) – It was denied but speculated in March and now confirmed; former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide will appear in court on the case of the murder of journalist Jean Leopold Dominique on April 24. The summons was sent on Wendesday by Judge...
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President-elect Nicolas Maduro, left, is rejecting Henrique Capriles’s calls for a recount The US government is refusing to recognise Venezuela’s President-elect Nicolas Maduro’s victory in disputed elections in Venezuela. Secretary of State John Kerry said the US was not yet ready to validate the results of Sunday’s poll. Mr Maduro’s narrow victory has been...
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Above: Port-au-Prince (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti’s economy is projected to grow by 6.5 percent in 2013, according to the International Monetary Fund’s latest World Economic Outlook. That number is in line with a projection made by the IMF in late 2012. Haiti’s economy grew 2.8 percent last year, although it...
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From left to right: MIT Director of Digital Learning Vijay Kumar, MIT Provost Chris Kaiser, Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe, MIT Linguistics Professor Michel DeGraff and Haiti Minister of National Education and Vocational Training Vanneur Pierre at the signing of a joint commitment to an initiative in digital learning initiatives in Kreyòl.Peter Dizikes, MIT...
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Throughout his campaign and into the second year of his term, Haiti’s president Michel Martelly had a constant companion: his cousin and fellow musician Richard Morse. Toronto Star / Lucas Oleniuk Richard Morse said he saw evidence of workers filling drainage canals before the rainy season, which resulted in flooding. When he alerted the...
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BOSTON, April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Speaking today at Boston’s Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Haiti’s Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe lauded the history-making approach of the MIT-Haiti Initiative in addressing one of Haiti’s most significant agenda concerns: Education. Thanks to the MIT-Haiti Initiative, innovative technology-enhanced resources for improving science and math education will be...
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Acre, in the Amazon region, has asked for additional funding to cope with the influx. More than 900 Haitian immigrants to the Brazilian state of Acre have been allowed to stay in Brazil. A federal task force sent to Acre to deal with a rising influx of migrants issued them with residency and work...
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