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In rural Haiti, looking for a way to make clean water sustainable

Dieu Nalio Chery/AP – Outside Port-au-Prince, Haiti, a woman arrives at Wharf Jeremie in August to fill her two containers with water that she will…

Posted in Ag/Farming Earthquake/CHOLERA Elections

IDB awards Haiti $53 million to improve key artery

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The Inter-American Development Bank is awarding Haiti a $53 million grant to upgrade a stretch of one of the Caribbean nation’s…

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Wyclef Jean’s highly-hyped Haiti charity defunct and in debt, surprising approximately…..nobody

Yéle is bust. How bust? So bust that their domain, yele.org, has expired. Deborah Sontag in the NYT, writing about the rockstar who once thought…

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MINUSTAH’s Upcoming Renewal: A Setback for Democracy in Haiti

Kevin Edmonds The Other Side of Paradise October 11, 2012 Despite widespread opposition from the Haitian people and many of their political representatives in parliament,…

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WYCLEF IS, WAS AND ALWAYS WILL BE A BUM WHO STOLE FROM HIS PEOPLE IN TIMES OF NEED

Richard Perry/The New York Times The charity Yéle allotted $230,000 for the revitalization of this Port-au-Prince plaza in the Cité Soleil slum, with no lasting…

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Development bank awards Haiti $53 million to upgrade important highway, ports department

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti –  The Inter-American Development Bank is awarding Haiti a $53 million grant to upgrade a stretch of one of the Caribbean nation’s major…

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American prisoner released in Haiti- with a story to tell

WATCH HER STORY ON VIDEO HERE PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — John Shattuck is a serial entrepreneur, running several successful businesses and proud to say he hasn’t…

Posted in Crime/Corruption DAILY REPORTS-Direct From Haiti Earthquake/CHOLERA Elections Govt Incompentece

SIMPLE MATH FOR SCHOOL FUNDING AS LAMOTHE PUTS SIN TAX ON BOOZE AND CIGARETTES.

ADDS 2% TAX AND NEEDS $40,000,000 TO MEET SHORTFALL IN SCHOOL FUNDING… THEREFORE 1% = $20,000,000 SO WE NEED A TOTAL OF $1,000,000,000 IN BOOZE/TOBACCO…

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Haiti’s UN mission chief praises progress-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

Xinhua: A chief of a UN mission in Haiti on Monday praised advances made by the Haitian government over the past one and a half…

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IMF: Haiti, Suriname, Dominican Republic Boast Top Regional Growth -Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

Print By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti, Suriname and the Dominican Republic will post the Caribbean’s highest GDP growth rates i 2012, according to quarterly…

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In rural Haiti, looking for a way to make clean water sustainable

Dieu Nalio Chery/AP – A woman arrives at Wharf Jeremie to fill her two containers with water that she will use to wash her dishes,…

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Dominican Republic, Haiti in 10-Year Cholera Fight

Officials in Haiti and the Dominican Republic are preparing for a long campaign against cholera, the water-borne disease that has sickened tens of thousands of…

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Haiti PM Announces Sin Tax to Pay for Education-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

ABC News: Haiti’s government wants to raise $100 million for a special education fund by putting additional taxes on alcohol, cigarettes and gambling, the Caribbean…

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CLINTON PLAYS HAITI GAME FOR NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

AFP 10/7/2012 11:47:52 PM This year’s Nobel prize season kicks off Monday with rumours suggesting the peace prize could go to Egypt’s Maggie Gobran for…

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Haiti’s constitutional horror show-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

by Charlie Hinton Update Sept. 30, 2012: For the past two weeks, massive demonstrations have rocked Haiti, protesting constitutional changes, the corruption of the Martelly…

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Haitian Students, in the Ecuadorian military schools

Following the agreement signed on 21 September in Petite Rivière de l’Artibonite, between Jean Rodolphe Joazile, the Minister of Defence and Miguel Carvajal Aguirre his…

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ARISTIDE-ARISTIDE- ARISTIDE !!! POUR COMPRENDRE LES ORIGINES ET CAUSES DE LA VIE CHERE EN HAITI: L’EMBARGO ECONOMIQUE D’ARISTIDE DE 1992, AUCUN INVESTISSEMENT DANS L’AGRICULTURE PENDANT 20 ANS, MONTEE DES PRIX MONDIAUX ET-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

Stanley Lucas <centurionlucas@gmail.com> Oct 05 11:27PM -0400 Suite a mon memo pour expliquer le phenomene de la vie chere en Haiti, comme il fallait s’y…

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HAITI GANG-RAPED BY USAID AND CHEMONICS – AGAIN!! USAID contractor Chemonics cited for numerous mistakes in Haiti

By Jacob Kushner | 10/05/12 NEW YORK — Two years ago, auditors revealed the Washington, DC, consulting firm Chemonics International and a partner company were…

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Nepotism in Haitian Gov’t is Ugly, but Not Necessarily Corruption

President Martelly, First Lady and Son This week, I received three documents that are serving as evidence by four senators to put under indictment, Prime…

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U.N. Troops Expected In Haiti For Another Year, and Another, and Another, and…..infinity and beyond.

October 5, 2012 The U.N. Security Council is likely next week to approve Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s recommendation that the U.N. peacekeeping force in Haiti…