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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As Haiti rebuilds, questions continue to hound the country’s government and its donors about how aid money is being spent. When it comes to U.S. assistance to Haiti, much of the aid dollars, it appears, have gone to the “usual suspects”: big international nongovernmental organizations and development consultancies. This contrasts with the U.S. Agency...
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Above: Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe (Photo: OPM Haiti) The Prime Minister, Laurent Lamothe, accompanied by Vanneur Pierre, the Minister of National Education and technical advisers, left the country yesterday Tuesday for an official visit to the United States from April 17 to 23, to establish new partnerships to strengthen the Haitian education system....
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Le Matin « Il n’y a pas de parti politique sur le terrain qui peut seul remporter les (prochaines) élections ». Telle est la déclaration de l’ancien sénateur, Jean Gabriel Fortuné. Invité ce matin à l’émission « Recto-Verso », diffusée sur les ondes de Radio-Trans-Inter (RTI), 98.1 F.M, il a commenté la réticence ou...
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An HI representative gives a ShelterBox kit demonstration to a group of aid recipients, Haiti 2013. We were forced to live under a tarp for several weeks before we received a ShelterBox. International disaster relief organization, ShelterBox continues to distribute humanitarian aid to the many families in Haiti that remain in need after Hurricane...
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Haiti’s earthquake that buried her father alive, has left Darline an orphan and her country completely in ruins. Director: Tessa Boerman “We all lost someone … children, family members, friends, lovers. Haiti is the first black country that fought for liberty and justice. This is a big achievement. We didn’t die because we survived...
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Rose Anne Auguste, the Minister Delegate in Charge of Human Rights and the Fight against Poverty Extreme, recently met with a delegation from the Lifestyle Ministries (LMI) International and of the Community of British Columbia (Canada). During this meeting, the delegation was able to establish with the Office of the Minister various cooperation frameworks....
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Dr. Marie Guirlaine R. Charité, Director General of the Ministry of Public Health and Population (MSPP), advises health professionals, importers and distributors of pharmaceutical products in particular and the public in general, that the importation, distribution and use of “Tyno ®” are prohibited throughout the national territory. This cough syrup, non homologated in Haiti,...
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Haiti Libre: Professor Sauveur Pierre Etienne, National Coordinator of the Organization of People in Struggle (OPL) has indicated that his political party will not be part of the common front of the opposition in the next elections, decided during the first weekend of April, during the 4th meeting of the leaders of the Democratic...
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eurekalert.org Strain is evolving to be more like virulent 1800s cholera CHICAGO — The cholera strain that transferred to Haiti in 2010 has multiple toxin gene mutations that may account for the severity of disease and is evolving to be more like an 1800s version of cholera, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. The...
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