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Création : 7 août 2018

Agriculture : Les planteurs victimes de la Vallée de l’Artibonite annoncent une marche pour le 16 août
HPN - Les planteurs victimes d’une mauvaise semence de riz vietnamien dans la Vallée de l’Artibonite ont annoncé une marche pacifique pour le jeudi 16 août prochain. Selon les organisateurs, cette marche de protestation partira de Carrefour-Peye pour aboutir devant les locaux de l’ODVA à Pont-Sondé.
Les protestataires entendent exiger de l’État haïtien de meilleurs encadrements et de la Natcom, la réparation de l’injustice causée dans cette région agricole par la distribution d’une semence de riz de mauvaise qualité.
Toujours concernant la question agricole, le député Samuel D’Haïti envisage de saisir la justice contre le ministère de l’Agriculture à cause de la mauvaise gestion de la vente des engrais.
D’après le président de la Commission agriculture à la Chambre basse, la mafia a pris le contrôle de ce marché, alors que le ministère de l’Agriculture, des Ressources naturelles et du Développement rural (MARNDR) reste les bras en croix face à de telles dérives.
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Création : 7 août 2018

Politique:

UNIR prend acte de la nomination de Me Céant
HPN

6 AOÛT 2018
Le leader du parti UNIR (Union nationale pour l'intégrité et la reconciliation), Clarens Renois a pris acte lundi de la nomination officielle du notaire Jean Henry Céant comme le nouveau Premier Ministre par le président Jovenel Moise. Cette nomination vient exactement un mois après les émeutes provoquées par la hausse des prix des produits pétroliers, décision retirée par le gouvernement.

"Nous prenons acte de cette nomination. Maintenant il revient au nouveau PM de se montrer à la hauteur des attentes sociales et des circonstances politiques dans lesquelles il a été nommé", a réagi Clarens Renois. Selon le responsable de UNIR qui intervenait sur plusieurs stations de radio de la capitale, deux grands chantiers attendent le nouveau gouvernement.
Au plan social, le nouveau Premier ministre doit répondre à la crise socio-économique grave qui secoue le pays. "Jean Henry Céant doit apporter un apaisement social à la population, notamment aux défavorisés, qui attendent des actions sociales pour soulager la misère et le chômage", a souligné l'ex-candidat à la présidence.
Renois a d'autre part souhaité qu'un autre chantier soit entamé pour "Refonder les structures institutionnelles, sociales, politiques" du pays qui patauge dans une instabilité chronique depuis plus de 30 ans. Pour mettre fin à l'instabilité, Clarens Renois propose un grand dialogue national incluant tous les secteurs politiques, dont les plus farouches adversaires du président Jovenel Moise. HPN

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Création : 7 août 2018

Santé : Mauvais fonctionnement de l’hôpital général à Port-au-Prince, Paralysie des activités à l’hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais
P-au-P, 6 août 2018 [AlterPresse] --- Le chirurgien Philippe Desmangles, médecin orthopédiste à l’hôpital de l’Université d’État d’Haïti, critique le mauvais fonctionnement de cette institution sanitaire, dans une interview accordée à l’agence en ligne AlterPresse.
Le manque de personnels qualifiés et de matériels comme des bonbonnes d’oxygène crée une situation très critique à l’Hôpital, déplore-t-il.
De plus, le plus grand centre hospitalier du pays fait face à un problème d’énergie électrique, qui empêcherait de fournir adéquatement des soins que nécessite la population, fustige-t-il.
Le docteur Desmangles dénonce l’irresponsabilité des autorités du Ministère de la santé et de la population (Mspp) qui restent, selon lui, indifférentes aux patients qui périssent, faute de soins.
Le médecin orthopédiste appelle à un changement de mentalité pour améliorer l’état du système sanitaire en Haïti.
Depuis 2016, les activités au niveau de plusieurs hôpitaux publics du pays ont été perturbées, de manière intempestive, par des grèves visant à forcer le gouvernement à fournir de meilleures conditions de travail en faveur du personnel administratif.
Par ailleurs, les activités à l’hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais (Plateau central) restent paralysées, ce lundi 6 août 2018, suite à un mouvement de protestation des personnels de santé et de soutien, qui vise à réclamer un ajustement salarial, indique le directeur général de la mairie de Mirebalais, Noël Reynold.

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Création : 7 août 2018

Haiti's President Chooses Jean Henry Ceant as Country's Next PM

PORT-AU-PRINCE — 

Haitian President Jovenel Moise said Sunday he had picked Jean Henry Ceant, 61, to be his next prime minister.

Moise unveiled his choice following two days of intense negotiations with leaders of both houses of Parliament, three weeks after riots against rising fuel prices wreaked havoc in Port-au-Prince.

"After consultations with the Presidents of the two branches of Parliament, I made the choice of citizen @jeanhenryceant as new Prime Minister," the president said on Twitter.

A one-time notary by profession and former presidential candidate in 2016, Ceant leads a political organization called Renmen Ayiti.

If he wins approval from Parliament, he will be Moise's second prime minister.

Deadly violence hit the Caribbean country last month during mass protests sparked when the government announced major fuel price hikes -- 38 percent for gasoline, 47 percent for diesel and 51 percent for kerosene.

The early July demonstrations in the capital Port-au-Prince and other cities saw streets blocked with barricades of debris and burning tires. 

At least four people were killed as dozens of shops were looted and burned and cars were set ablaze. 

In a quick about-face the government called off the planned price increases.

Former prime minister Jack Guy Lafontant – a physician who had little political experience before taking office in February 2017 – had faced widespread criticism even before the spasm of violence. 

The embattled politician resident in the unrest's wake, triggering a fraught process to form a new government.

New prime minister announced in Haiti weeks after deadly protests

By Spencer Feingold, CNN

Updated 4:45 AM ET, Mon August 6, 2018

(CNN)Haitian President Jovenel Moise announced on Sunday that Jean-Henry Céant will be the nation's new prime minister.

"Following consultations with the Presidents of the two branches of Parliament, I made the choice of the citizen Jean-Henry Céant as the new prime Minister," President Moise said in an official tweet.

The announcement comes three weeks after former Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant resigned amid violent and deadly protests sparked by a proposed plan to significantly raise fuel prices. A former notary by profession, Céant has long been involved in Haitian politics and was a presidential candidate in 2016.

Election posters of current President Jovenel Moise and newly appointed Prime Minister Jean Henry Céant in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 2015.

"I thank the President of the Republic for choosing me as his Prime Minister and welcome the commitment of the Presidents of both chambers," Céant tweeted, referring to the two chambers of Haiti's National Assembly. "I understand the scope of the task and the challenges that await me."

Former Prime Minister Lafontant resigned on July 14 in front of the nation's parliament before he was due to face a vote of no confidence.

Lafontant's government came under fire after protesters took to the streets in early July in response to a controversial plan that would have increased the cost of gasoline by 38%, diesel by 47% and kerosene by 51%.

Looting broke out on the streets of Haiti's capital on July 8, after two days of deadly protests over ultimately suspended fuel price hikes.

At least two people -- a police officer and social leader -- were killed in violent demonstrations in the capital Port-au-Prince, according to Yves Germain Joseph, the general secretary of Haiti's National Palace.

The UN praised the composure of Haitian police officers while managing recent events

While criticized by some for his management of police forces during the recent riots caused by an increase of petroleum products, the director of the National Police Force of Haiti (PNH), MICHEL ANGE GÉDÉON, received praises from Mamadou Diallo.

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The Managing director of the PNH, Michel-angel Gédéon, received a visit recently from the Special Representative of the General Secretary of the United Nations in Haiti, Dr. Mamadou Diallo.

In his introduction, he congratulated the calm manner in which law enforcement officers managed the recent riots in Haiti. These actions demonstrated an improvement for the respect of human rights by the PNH. The praise given to PNH confirmed the interest and the support which the MINUJUSTH has for the development of the capacities of Haiti’s police according to its mandate.

DACA program should be fully restarted, federal judge rules.

A federal judge on Friday ordered a total restart of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, in a hit to the Trump administration.

The administration last year announced its plan to phase out the program, which provides a level of amnesty to certain illegal immigrants, many of whom came to the U.S. as children.

The order is not set to kick in right away, according to Politico, which notes that the government has until Aug. 23 to file a motion to appeal the ruling by U.S. District Judge John Bates.

However, the judge denied a motion by the government to revise its earlier decision in April -- which determined that the Department of Homeland Security's decision to rescind DACA was "unlawful," according to court documents.

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Following that decision, the court issued a 90-day stay acknowledging that the "DHS could possibly remedy the decision's inadequacies -- at least in theory." That period of time is now over, the judge said. "For the reasons explained below, the government's motion will be denied," the document read. "Although the Nielsen Memo purports to offer further explanation for DHS' decision to rescind DACA, it fails to elaborate meaningfully on the agency's primary rationale for its decision: the judgment that the policy was unlawful and unconstitutional."

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The DACA program was formed through executive action by former President Barack Obama in 2012 and allowed certain people who came to the U.S. illegally as minors to be protected from immediate deportation. Recipients, widely known as Dreamers, were able to request "consideration of deferred action" for a period of two years, which was subject to renewal.

Individuals were able to request DACA status if they were under the age of 31 by June 15, 2012, came to the U.S. before turning 16 and continuously lived in the country since June 15, 2007.

It did not provide "legal status."

Humanitarian crisis: the FAO believes that Haiti is neglected by the international community

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The crises in Haiti was among the most sub-financed, as were those in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and in the region of Sahel

A new report of the FAO blew the whistle on some of the least financed crises in the world and urged that in the face of future instability, a humanitarian response should be required as well as some emergency agricultural help.

According to the United Nations agency, without the necessary financing, new challenges such as droughts, floods, poor crops or conflicts could pull millions of people towards grave sufferings linked to hunger and food insecurity, threatening people’s lives, well-being, and their future.