Day: June 20, 2011
PRISONER MURDERED IN PETIONVILLE POLICE STATION
June 20, 2011 A MAN ARRESTED AS A SUSPECT IN THE ASSASSINATION OF BNC DIRECTOR TOUSSAINT WAS BEATEN TO DEATH AT THE PETIONVILLE POLICE STATION….
Franck Ciné attendu au parquet mardi
Le PDG de la Haïtel S.A doit se présenter, mardi prochain, au parquet de Port-au-Prince où il sera une nouvelle fois questionné dans le cadre…
Rouzier échappe de justesse à un vote défavorable
Le Matin:« Vu la situation, la séance est suspendue et sera reprise demain matin à 11 heures », Le président de la chambre des députés…
NatCom Customers Victims of Mafia-style Cable Cutting
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Newly acquired NatCom, formerly Teleco, has been a victim of chronic sabotage and the company is suggesting haters in the industry to…
L’ex-président Préval cible d’une commission d’enquête
Haïti: La commission sénatoriale chargée d’éclaircir les zones d’ombre de la falsification du texte amendé de la Constitution de 1987 a démarré, jeudi, une série…
Haiti: MSF Reorganizes Post-Earthquake Medical Services
Doctors Without Borders: Haiti 2011 © Yann Libessart/MSF Patients wait for the physiotherapy in MSF’s new hospital in the Drouillard neighborhood of Port-au-Prince. Thirty-five seconds. That’s…
UN project shows how trees help halt desertification
By Mark Kinver Science and environment reporter, BBC News A UN-led pilot scheme hopes to highlight how trees can help people in arid zone, considered…
MINUSTAH HAS WARNED MARTELLY TO “BE PREPARED.”
June 20, 2011 THE UN HAS STARTED TO WITHDRAW TROOPS AND MARTELLY WAS EXPECTED TO REBUILD THE MILITARY…TO DATE, MARTELLY HAS DONE NOTHING. WAKE UP…
Why Haiti’s prodigal son, Michel Martelly, may be its savior
CSM: President Michel Martelly’s landslide election marked a profound change in Haitian political history: the first alliance of the general populace with the elite. The…
This45: Hal Niedzviecki on Haitian-Canadian novelist Dany Laferrière
By Hal Niedzviecki Dany Laferrière. Photo by Karen Bambonye. It seems strange to be given the task of “introducing” a man who has written more…
PRIME MINISTER FIASCO WAS UNNECESSARY…MARTELLY HAD SOLUTION IN FRONT OF HIM
June 20, 2011 The nomination of Daniel Rouzier, without obtaining copies of all pertinent documents, before putting his name forward, is an example of incompetence….
OpEdNews Writer Nienaber Called it: Surge in Haiti Cholera Cases Happening
By Mac McKinney: Cholera Treatment Center in Mirebalais, Haiti, from an earlier Nienaber article (source) In this OpEdNews/LA Progressive article back in February, Georgianne Nienaber,…
Face off over condoms at schools-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
June 20 2011 at 11:08am By Bianca Capazorio and Lyse Comins: A mooted government plan to distribute free condoms at schools has caused a heated…
Cholera control center funded by S. Korea, Canada opens in Haiti
TMC news.com: Santo Domingo, Jun 19, 2011 (EFE via COMTEX) — The Dominican Churches Social Service, or SSID, has opened a Cholera Attention Center in…
Defender Lescinel Jean-Francois joins Sheffield United
BBC: Former Swindon Town defender Lescinel Jean-Francois has joined Sheffield United on a two-year deal. The 24-year-old Haiti international’s contract at Swindon expired this summer…
Haiti’s Horrendous Teenage Prostitution Problem
With fewer shelters, more girls—many orphans from the quake—have no choice but to have sex just to scrape by. Lisa Armstrong reports on their brutal…
Franck Ciné se retourne contre ses avocats
Haïti: Le mardi 14 juin 2011, les avocats de Franck N. Ciné, Mes Camille Leblanc, Joël A. Petit-Homme, Patrick Woolet et Samuel Madistin, agissant par…
ROUZIER WILL BE REJECTED BY CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES ON MONDAY
ROUZIER WILL BE REJECTED BY CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES ON MONDAY MARTELLY WILL PROPOSE EITHER JEAN-HENRY CEANT OR LESLIE VOLTAIRE AS HIS NEXT CHOICE – MARTELLY…