Nicolas Maduro (left) and Henrique Capriles have been trading accusations BBC-Both sides in the stand-off over Sunday’s presidential election in Venezuela have called on their supporters to attend rival rallies. On Monday, the National Electoral Council declared Nicolas Maduro of the United Socialist Party the official winner. The official count indicates he won 50.8%...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – A humanitarian agency in Haiti says the number of people still displaced by the earthquake three years ago is 320,050. That’s a 79 percent decrease since the number of people living in settlements after the quake peaked at 1.5 million a few months after the 2010 disaster. The International Organization of...
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Nicolas Maduro officially eked out a win over opposition candidate Henrique Capriles, but Capriles is calling foul Late Sunday, acting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro declared victory in the country’s first presidential election since the death of longtime leader Hugo Chavez. The national election commission had just released the results, much closer than the polls had...
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Irene Caselli BBC News, Caracas Will Grant in Caracas: ”It’s a questionable victory from the opposition’s point of view” Defeated Venezuelan presidential candidate Henrique Capriles has demanded a recount of votes, rejecting the election of Hugo Chavez’s successor as “illegitimate”. Mr Capriles, who lost by a very narrow margin, said there were more than...
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Subodh Varma, TNN Apr 12, 2013, 06.36PM IST NEW DELHI: Ants know when an earthquake is about to strike, researchers have discovered. Their behavior changes significantly prior to the quake and they resume normal functioning only a day after it. Gabriele Berberich of the University Duisburg-Essen in Germany presented these findings on Thursday at...
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Célébration des funérailles Nationales de Mgr Francois Marie Wolf Ligondé, premiere Archevêque haïtien. Mgr François Marie Wolf Ligondé Premier Archevêque Haïtien Gestes de Sympathie du Président de la République, S.E.M Michel Joseph Martelly à la Famille Ligonde. (Le frère M. Jean Michel Ligondé et la très chère sœur Margareth Ligondé) Recueillement en la Mémoire...
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Face à la démission de deux Ministres du Gouvernement, le Premier ministre S.E.M. Laurent Salvador LAMOTHE par arrêté approuvé par le Président de la République S.E.M. Joseph Michel MARTELLY, a décidé ce qui suit: 12/04/2013 Face à la démission de deux Ministres du Gouvernement, le Premier ministre S.E.M. Laurent Salvador LAMOTHE par arrêté approuvé...
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Le deputé Fritz Gerald Bourgeolly ,marmottant aux ondes de la Radio Caraibe declare qu’il va poursuivre toutes les stations de radio en justice. Le depute declare que la dame a bu le baygon comme poison parcequ’elle avait entendu des fausses rumeurs disant qu’elle a été violée. Mais jusqu’ici la dame victim n’a aucun fait...
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Port-au-Prince, vendredi 12 Avril 2013 : Le Bureau de Communication de la Présidence tient à informer la population haïtienne en général et la Presse en particulier que par arrêté présidentiel en date du 5 Avril 2013, publié le jeudi 11 Avril 2013 dans le Journal Officiel de la République, Le Moniteur #63, il a...
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NY Times Editorial Board-Opinion section The aid group Doctors Without Borders said last Tuesday that the cholera crisis in Haiti was getting worse, for the most unnecessary and appalling of reasons: a lack of money and basic medical supplies. The disease has killed 8,000 people and sickened 649,000 since October 2010. International efforts to...
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Posted on April 11, 2013 by Nina Golshan-Washington Square News In the wake of the recent global recession, U.S. government spending on domestic and international projects is being pulled back in some areas and increased in others. The distribution of taxpayer dollars to foreign aid initiatives has been reduced by billions of dollars —...
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The cargo of petroleum products from Venezuela, which is supposed to supply Haiti, approximately every 20 days, is in delayed of two weeks. Consequently, the tanks of 91 and 95 Gazolines in most gas stations are empty in the capital, With only a few stations, which serve some privileged customers… Monday, once again, a...
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1 of 6. A supporter of Venezuela’s acting President and presidential candidate Nicolas Maduro cries as a screen shows Venezuela’s late President Hugo Chavez during Maduro’s closing campaign rally in Caracas April 11, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Tomas Bravo By Daniel Wallis and Todd Benson CARACAS | Thu Apr 11, 2013 10:06pm EDT (Reuters) – The...
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Fri, 12 Apr 2013 05:18 GMT Source: alertnet // Anastasia Moloney A woman looks on at Camp Laiterie de Damien for internally displaced persons in Port au Prince, Haiti, on Aug. 26, 2012. Thousands of people remain homeless more than three years after a devastating earthquake. REUTERS/UN/MINUSTAH/Victoria Hazou/Handout BOGOTA (AlertNet) – The United States...
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According to figures released by the National Mango Board (NMB) in its latest harvest report, mango shipments to the US in the week ended on March 30, 2013 totalled approximately 2,031,950 boxes, a 15% increase in relation to the previous week. Of the total, about 1,490,148 boxes came from Mexico, 8% more than the...
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While the 9 members of the College Transitional of Permanent Electoral Council (CTCEP) are still not installed, the Prime Minister, Laurent Lamothe stimated this week that the organization of the next elections senatorial , municipal and local will cost between 35 to 40 million dollars. Concerning the financing of these elections,...
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April12, 2013 Radio Megastar 97.3 reports that a lady, who works in the Parliament, was raped at gunpoint by Deputy Fritz Gerald Bourgeolly. She has attempted suicide by drinking a bottle of BAYGON and is now in critical condition in a local hospital. Of course, since he was not caught in the act, Bourgeolly,...
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The United Nations and the Government of Haiti both issued warnings last week about a pending food crisis in rural Haiti. The U.N. number is 1.5 million, while the Haitian Government indicated 1.3 million people — mostly farmers and their families — are at risk of serious malnutrition because of crop losses due to...
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Recently several people have written to me about agricultural practices, particularly as regards rice, in Haiti. One person made these particular points: 1) It would be nice for Haitians to have an export crop. 2) They have lots of water (I assume good for growing rice) 3) I hope it’s not GMO rice, and...
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La sélection haïtienne de tennis qui a été battue (5-0) par le Pérou au groupe II de la coupe Davis vient de reléguer en groupe III après sa défaite dans les barrages (4-1) face au Guatemala le weekend dernier à Tegucigalpa. La fédération haïtienne de tennis (FHT) qui a cru à la montée d’Haïti...
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