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Rétrospective politique du mois de Janvier 2014 par Stanley Lucas-VIDEO

President Michel Martelly La rentrée politique 2014 est marquée par huit événements politiques, une action judiciaire, une lettre spéciale sur la république Dominicaine, et la…

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Carnaval 2014, prix abusif des hôtels-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

On Saturday, February 1, 2014 5:55 AM, Thierry Theodore thierrytheodore103@yahoo.fr wrote: Les hôtels aux Gonaïves (350 chambres) et sur la Côte-des-Arcadins, réclament entre 300 et…

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Discours de Me Jean-Henry Céant au Cocktail de Lancement de la Fondation CHADEC Centre Haïtiano-Arabe pour le Développement, l’Education et la Culture

Monsieur le Représentant du Premier Ministre, Monsieur le Ministre des Affaires Etrangères et des Cultes Madame le Ministre de la Santé et de la Population…

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Des désaccords sur la formation d’un nouveau gouvernement

29/01/2014 Le Cardinal Chibly Langlois, principal médiateur du dialogue inter haïtien et président de la Conférence Épiscopale d’Haïti (CEH), a informé que les partis politiques…

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Congressmen who met in Haiti now working across aisle

WASHINGTON — Republican Rep. Chris Gibson and Democratic Rep. Raul Ruiz first met at a golf course in Haiti. It was January 2010, and Haiti…

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Dominican Republic immigration plan will protect all-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

BY ANÍBAL DE CASTRO www.domrep.org The United States isn’t the only nation in the Americas grappling with the challenges of immigration reform and the complexities…

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Haiti PM pursues investors at Davos

Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY 5:16 p.m. EST January 24, 2014 “I’m here in Davos to make the case to the most important people in the…

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Haiti talks in bid to end political crisis

A man holds a Haitian flag as he takes part in a protest demanding that Haitian President Michel Martelly step down in Port-au-Prince on Jan…

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Haitians line up to apply for visas outside the Brazilian embassy in Port-au-Prince November 22, 2013.

In 2012, Brazil approved a humanitarian visa policy for Haitians, two years after an earthquake on their island left many in dire poverty, and thousands…

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A Burgeoning Hacker Culture in Haiti

BY Jessica McKenzie | Thursday, January 23 2014 A scene from the 2013 Haiti hackathon (EricGoldhagen/Flickr) Haiti’s first hackathon ever took place only one year…

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In Haiti, music is in the air as pre-Carnival celebrations, jazz fest start the party

BY jACQUELINE cHARLES jcharles@MIamiHerald.com PORT-AU-PRINCE — Carnival may be more than a month away, but that’s not stopping Haitians from launching the party early. A…

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Venezuela’s Maduro shakes up top economic team

Mr Maduro was Hugo Chavez’s foreign minister for seven years Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has announced a shake-up of the team running the country’s economy…

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Four years after the Haiti earthquake, what have billions in US aid bought?-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — In the four years since Haiti’s disastrous earthquake, the United States has promised $3.6 billion in aid, at least $2.8 billion of…

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Pope Names 19 New Cardinals, Focusing on the Poor Including one from Haiti

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press Pope Francis named his first batch of cardinals on Sunday, choosing 19 men from Asia, Africa, Latin America and elsewhere,…

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Haiti’s French/Creole divide

PIERRE By JACQUES PIERRE jacques.pierre@duke.edu It was sunny as usual in Little Haiti, a small Haitian enclave in Miami where the predominant language is Haitian…

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Haiti PM Highlights Headway 4 Years After Quake

By TRENTON DANIEL Associated Press Haiti’s prime minister said Friday that his government has made headway in rebuilding the country following a devastating earthquake four…

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Make 2014 a Year of Recommitment to Haiti

A few years back, I was in Haiti on assignment and had the honor of spending Easter morning with a Haitian colleague, the Reverend Herode…

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Can Haiti and the Dominican Republic repair relations after citizenship ruling?

A September court ruling strips Dominican citizenship from children of undocumented immigrants – mostly Haitian – even if they were born in the DR. By…

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Haiti ‘open for business,’ Jean says -Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

“Haiti is open for business,” former Canadian governor-general Michaëlle Jean says. Four years after the devastating earthquake, the impoverished Caribbean country is making strides attracting…

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Haitian president urges his country to come together

. Demonstrators step on a poster with the image of Haitian President Michel Martelly on November 29, 2013 in Port-au-Prince during a protest to denounce…