Category: Elections
Will Haitians ever see their votes count in a real Election?
Détails du train de vie d’Aristide
Interview de Stevens Mokgalapa, député de l’Alliance Démocratique (DA) avec Mme Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, ministre des Relations internationales et de la Coopération en Afrique du Sud 08/07/2010…
Haiti’s sick ‘must not be forgotten
By Jane Elliott Health reporter, BBC News Operation. Pic: Merlin/Jeroen Oerlemans Merlin orthopaedic and plastic surgeons operate on a survivor Six months ago, scores of…
Aid cargo sits unused in Haitian customs lot-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
(NECN/CNN: Port-au-Prince, Haiti) – In the main harbor of Port-au-Prince, where life-saving supplies are shipped in from around the world, there is a hold put…
Haiti reconstruction must proceed with all possible speed-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Saturday, July 17, 2010 IT HAS BEEN half a year since an earthquake nearly flattened Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, killing 250,000 people and leaving…
France: Group Claims Responsibility for Making Fake Web Site About Haiti
By ROBERT MACKEY Published: July 16, 2010 A group calling itself the Committee for the Reimbursement of the Indemnity Money Extorted From Haiti took responsibility…
Haitian protesters say President Rene Preval must go
THOUSANDS of young Haitians demonstrated in their devastated capital yesterday, demanding the ouster of President Rene Preval. One day after marking the six-month anniversary of…
DECLARATION DE PRINCIPE D’UN GROUPE DE PARLEMENTAIRES DE LA 48ème LEGISLATURE
1) Considérant que la présidence de René Préval n’a jamais respecté les délais constitutionnels relatifs au mandat des parlementaires, a toujours accouché des élections frauduleuses…
Haitian rebel, Guy Phillipe slams quake response
Haiti’s most notorious former rebel leader has criticised the government’s response to the January 12th earthquake and has called on Rene Preval, the Haitian president,…
Trinidad: Obama Dissed Preval – Nouvelle Tournure
Trinidad: Obama Dissed Preval in Trinidad during the Summit of the Americas (April 17-19, 2009) – Nouvelle Tournure (New twist) What really is the case…
FLASH-FLASH-FLASH MINUSTAH and POLICE Fire on Crowd of Protesters
11:00 AM Port-au-Prince More that 5,000 Anti Preval protesters gathered today on Rue Capois, Haiti to protest against Rene Preval’s plans for the November Presidential…
Aid agencies ‘stretched to limit’ in Haiti
Aid agencies have warned that their ability to keep delivering basic services in earthquake-stricken Haiti is being stretched to the limit. The Red Cross said…
Haiti’s president rejects US Senate advice on how to prepare for fall presidential election-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Johnathan Katz-Baltimore SUN Associated Press Writer 6:04 PM EDT, June 30, 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s president on Wednesday rejected U.S. Senate recommendations on…
CARICOM SUMMIT: Transparent elections needed for Haiti-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Jamaica Observer Monday, July 05, 2010 MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica — United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for “transparent and credible” presidential elections in…
Cap-Haïtien, le 2 juillet 2010 Note de Presse
L’Initiative Citoyenne (IC), une des organisations signataires de la proposition promouvant la formation d’un CEP crédible et équilibré, prend acte du mépris affiché par le…
After 5 long months and countless deaths: First meet for Clinton Haiti quake commission
By Alice Speri (AFP) – Jun 17, 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE — The commission set up to oversee the five billion dollars in quake aid money pledged…
Out of the ruins, a new role for Haitian women
BY JACQUELINE CHARLES jcharles@MiamiHerald.com PORT-AU-PRINCE — Cendra Guillaume walks into the dusty depot of manly machines, passes fellow female workers, and steps into the front…
Sex, death and slaves: Welcome to Haiti’s horror carnival
Blood and black magic flow through Haiti’s history – as photographer Leah Gordon discovered when she went to Mardi Gras in the port town of…
Haitian President on tour to Venezuela, Cuba and Jamaica with elections in mind
VHeadline News Editor Patrick J. O’Donoghue reports: Haitian President Rene Preval is on a tour of Cuba, Jamaica and Venezuela in an attempt to muster…
Préval closes door on elections panel revamp-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
BY JACQUELINE CHARLES jcharles@MiamiHerald.com PORT-AU-PRINCE — Haitian President René Préval said Wednesday that suggestions by a ranking Republican on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee…
Haiti’a Camps of Despair-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Port-au-Prince- A raucous crowd surges from between two rows of tightly packed tents in Camp Dadadou, and from the middle of it, a young woman…