By AVA TURNQUEST Tribune Chief Reporter aturnquest@tribunemedia.net DESPITE having no record of Bahamas-born Jean Rony Jean-Charles being deported, the Haitian Embassy in Nassau yesterday confirmed it delegates two consular agents to notify individuals at the Carmichael Road Detention Centre of their impending deportation. The embassy furthered, in accordance with a signed agreement with the...
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Feb 7 2018 Listen to the attached audio and draw your own conclusions. An already dangerous situation made impossibly dangerous when the public cannot differentiate between real and counterfeit police office. A recipe for disaster in an already explosive situation. When disaster strikes there will be a lot of finger-pointing and denials. 2018-02-07-AUDIO-00000247<–CLICK HERE...
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Installation dans les grillages du Palais national des œuvres de l’exposition « Je me souviens… » Port-au-Prince, le mercredi 7 février 2018.- L’exposition de portraits de quelques grandes figures et groupes ayant marqué la musique haïtienne de 1940 à nos jours a été installée ce mercredi après-midi dans les périmètres du Palais national et...
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Tuesday at the National Palace, on the eve of the end of his first year in power, President Jovenel Moïse at a press conference presented his record and awarded himself a good report, claiming to have worked to put Haiti on the path of change and development, give hope to the people and put...
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PHILIPSBURG - The St. Maarten aviation company WINAIR has announced direct service to Curaçao, Santo Domingo, and Haiti, commencing February 26, 2018. “We will offer daily service to Curaçao, five flights per week to Santo Domingo – Dominican Republic, two flights a week to Port au Prince – Haiti,” the airline announced on Wednesday....
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – In our final report on Haiti tonight, we take you back to a factory in Port-au-Prince that’s providing high-tech hope and changing so many lives in the process. Four years ago, Local 10 was the first to feature the Surtab company. The small tech firm opened Haiti’s first tablet computer factory. We...
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In November 2017, the Trump administration announced it would end a programme that has allowed tens of thousands of Haitians to live and work in the US since a devastating earthquake hit their country eight years ago. Haiti is now bracing for a mass return of its citizens. The country is currently in the...
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By Air Force Maj. Wayne Capps 315th Airlift Wing CONTACT AUTHOR PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Feb. 7, 2018 —Air Force reservists from the 315th Airlift Wing at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, delivered nearly 100,000 pounds of humanitarian aid to Haiti, Feb. 3-4. Airmen from the 315th Airlift Wing unload a well-drilling truck in Port-au Prince,...
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DOWNLOAD PDF HERE Total requirements: $23.18 B People in need: 137.0 M People to receive aid: 94.0 M Countries affected: 26 In January, five humanitarian response plans outlined in the GHO 2018 were officially launched: these were for the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Somalia and Yemen. A special...
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By Kuhl, Nick on February 7, 2018. Nikki Jamieson Southern Alberta Newspapers – Picture Butte ssnews@sunnysouthnews.com A 13-year old in Picture Butte is getting clean water to children in Haiti with his wish. Trenton Dyck was diagnosed with stage four alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma (ARMS) in October 2017. When the Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada approached...
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The name of Haiti’s most prominent LGBT rights organization is Kouraj (Haitian Creole for courage) — with good reason. The group’s headquarters have moved three times after attacks. The current office is on a side street, unmarked, with a plainclothes security guard out front. But inside there’s no question where you are. The reception area is...
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Starting Wednesday, February 7 in Port-au-Prince, in the perimeter of the National Palace and the Museum of the Haitian National Pantheon (MUPANAH) will be held the exhibition “I remember…” (Je me souviens…) portraits of some great figures and groups having marked Haitian music from 1940 to the present day, works of 8 painters from...
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Feb 6, 2018 Where are we with the PETROCARIBE Dossier? People are still endlessly debating the fact that many structural flaws exist, coupled with dozens of factual errors, but the original game is over and another time-consuming inning has only started. The Senate transfer of the problem to the Court of Superior Accounts –...
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By Malcolm Strachan THE Haitian exodus to The Bahamas has arguably become as Bahamian as conch salad. Haiti’s precipitous decline has truly become a legend in the Western hemisphere. Geographically positioned in the worst place possible, they have become a nexus for natural disasters, which does not do anything to help a nation already...
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Haiti Libre According to a “World Prison Brief” ranking published at the end of last January, Haiti occupies the dishonorable first place out of 205 countries, for the most overcrowded prisons in the world, followed in 2nd place by the Philippines and El Salvador. In June 2016 (study reference) the 17 Haitian prisons in...
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Haiti Libre: As part of the “Mondays of the Press”, a special conference was held at 6 days of the event around a set of arrangements made for the smooth running of the National Carnival in Port-au-Prince (11 to 13 February 2018). This special conference brought together Marie Greta Roy Clément, the Minister of...
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This article was originally published on The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Disclosure information is available on the original site. —— Author: Grant Dawson, Assistant Professor of Social Science and International Politics, University of Nottingham Stephen Harper, Canada’s former prime minister, might well have been...
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By Doug MacCash NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Look for the new Haitian-themed Krewe du Kanaval parade to begin in Armstrong Park at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 6. The parade will travel through the Treme on an unspecified route, passing by the Backstreet Cultural Museum, 1116 Henriette Delille St., at some point. The parade will...
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Children at Santa Teresita del Niño Jesús, a church-run shelter for potentially trafficked children and unaccompanied minors trying to cross the Haiti-Dominican Republic border. (GSR photo / Chris Herlinger) by Chris Herlinger Feb. 5, 2018 inIn September, 15-year-old Prospélanda Aimé tried to cross the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic with an older...
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Under the warm midday sun that lit the city of Jacmel on Sunday, a colorful procession of spectacular masks and costumes took over the streets of the Haiti’s arts capital. The coastal city turned into a giant 24-hour party, which started at noon and ended the next day, setting the stage for a parade...
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