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Catégorie : What's up Little Haiti

Création : 24 octobre 2015

 Karl Adam, l’attaché de presse de l’Ambassade américaine a déclaré « Nous voulons rappeler aux Haïtiens leurs responsabilités d’aller voter dans une démarche pacifique et organisée. Nous ne cessons de répéter ce message de Paix. Haïti est très proche de nous. C’est important pour nous [...] de nous intéresser à la stabilité en Haïti et les élections constituent un premier pas pour maintenir cette stabilité... Nous avons une responsabilité envers Haïti comme un pays voisin et frère ».

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Catégorie : What's up Little Haiti

Création : 28 octobre 2015

 Dominican Republic beefs up border while Haitians go to polls

Dajabon, Dominican Republic.- Three days before Haitians vote for a new president, Dominican Republic´s government deployed  additional military and police, at border markets and where undocumented foreigners could enter as well.

Haitians go to the polls for the first round on Sunday to elect a president and vote for legislative and municipal posts in the second balloting.

Haiti customs meanwhile have retained for the last 22 days nine tractor trailers loaded with cement of the Dominican truckers union Fenatrado, whose local president Giovanni Escotto on Wednesday said they sent a letter to Haitian officials requesting their return. "Now we´re waiting for answers on these trucks."

Quoted by diariolibre.com, the union leader said his concern is that gangs could steal the merchandise if the trucks remain in Haiti any longer.

Binational market

Meanwhile Dominican merchants were readying for the binational market held Mondays and Fridays, but caution that Haitian authorities maintain the ban on 23 Dominican products from entering their territory over land routes.

President Martelly takes back Arcahaie decree

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (sentinel.ht) – On Thursday it was announced that a decision was made to return on President Michel Martelly’s decree, taken outside of the law, creating five new communes including the commune of Arcadins, divided from Arcahaie.

According to the de facto Prime Minister, Evans Paul, the nullification of the decree would have the purpose of ending the protest movements that have been taking place since the decree’s original publishing on July 22, 2015.

Le National reported that it is linked with elections scheduled to take place on Sunday. The first round of legislative elections on August 9, 2015, had not taken place due to violence and a repeat is scheduled for October 25, 2015.

It is unclear if the unrest will be solved by the measure announced by Mr. Paul. The Archelois, who had been protesting violently for months, said the Martelly administration officials had met with individuals who they did not recognize as representatives for their cause.

According toHPN, the commune of Arcadins, which was created along the coast line of Bay of Port-au-Prince and the historical city of Arcahaie, will now be called Montruis in the decree to rescind it.

Protesters had been demanding no divisions at all, not a name change, but information on the public’s response had not yet been received.

The Archelois had been protesting violently, schools had not opened for the 2015-16 school year and tour buses, motorcycles, the town hall, local tax office and other government buildings were burned.

Mr. Paul said that the government would be compensating motorcycle owners, where at least 17 had been burned in recent weeks.

Representative Daphne Campbell, District 108, request Investigation in Health Care Group "No Haitian" Need Apply Ad.

MIAMI, FL- Representative Daphne Campbell has formally requested The New York State Attorney General, Department of Labor, United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Health Care Bureau, to conduct a full and thorough investigation of Interim HealthCare Inc.

Interim HealthCare Inc. published a "help wanted" ad last week.

The ad seeks a "Female LPN/RN" for employment in West Haverstraw. Among the qualifications listed in the ad are "laid back nurse, no Haitians."

Rep. Campbell was disgusted and outraged when she was informed of the "No Haitians" need apply ad and for her it's personal.  "I am not only a State Representative of District 108; I am Haitian, and a licenshttps://ci6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/oPlhgk7NJqf1MuhVlMKMJhTZuMHkFeshsZnmNmNtPpIsFImPX6d8XUncIRSXweBbrwWCB3XTun2VI5FTEHCAlach8n1TZb1GGgyoHOyewEo2-87MdOPbS3uPc-SQ629PgiN_=s0-d-e1-ft#http://files.ctctcdn.com/136dd4d0101/6a713635-05ed-4d64-8d7c-72a9ad61122b.jpg" >ed nurse of over 30 years.  My constituency happens to be the largest Haitian populated district in Miami Dade County." She said. "I cannot accept that in the 21^st Century Haitians must continue to endure violation of their civil, human, and constitutional rights." She continued. "This ad is shameful and cannot be tossed to the side as a simple oversight; this ad was written with deliberate malice."

Federal laws prohibiting national origin discrimination make it illegal to discriminate because of an individual's birthplace, ancestry, culture or language.  With Interim Healthcare located across the US including Florida, Representative Campbell, The Haitian American Nurses Association, along with other public officials are demanding action in the most sever form. Calling on Interims National Headquarters to conduct their own internal investigation.

Rep, Campbell has made this a priority, working to hold Interim HealthCare and every person involved accountable for their carelessness and flagrant disrespect to the most basic of human rights.

In accordance with New York State Senator David Carlucci, in response to the "No Haitians" ad Rep. Campbell stands in solidarity.Campbell calls for all Haitian Nurses, Haitian Healthcare Workers, Haitian Officials, and Haitian supports to mobilize, demand action against the ideology, and discrimination of RockLand County's Interim Healthcare.

With many throughout his community outraged, Senator Carlucci has created hashtag #YesHaitians to highlight the positive achievements and pride of Haitians throughout the community. Representative Campbell has adopted Senator Carlucci's hashtag #YesHaitians initiative and calls all supporters to post on social media outlets #YesHaitians as we come together in solidarity.

 State Represntative Daphne Campbell's letter addressing No Haitians Ad

Wyclef Jean in Haiti to support his candidate for president : Jude Celestin

According to Jaqueline Charles (The Miami Herald), Haiti-born hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean arrived in Port-au-Prince Friday to close out the campaign with his new candidate.

Earlier this week, Wyclef endorses Jude Celestin for the Haitian presidency. He announced the news in a rap song that immediately triggered a rap war on the eve of Sunday’s highly anticipated vote. The first response was Martelly’s son and sometimes budding rapper Olivier who dropped his own song. Olivier Martelly then soon got a response from a local rap artist, Mono.

“Apparently I hold some kind of weight”, Wyclef joked with the Miami Herald just hours after dropping a mixes tape of five songs on behalf of Celestin. “I am still baffled by the fact Olivier Martelly would put a song out about me when I never even said anything bad about him or his family

But Wyclef said he doesn’t want the music to become a distraction. His support of Celestin, whom he shrugged off in 2010 after he was banned from running, has nothing to do with Martelly, he said.

“ I feel Jude is the man after Martelly to push  Haiti forward, “ he said, noting Celestin’s work as the former head of the government construction company in transforming women’s lives by hiring them to drive tractor trailers.

“He‘s a stand-up guy”, he said.

But in addition to supporting Celestin, Wyclef said his visit is also about pushing for fair elections and exercising his right to vote.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousef condemned the assassination of a Haitian native in Brazil

The president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, vehemently condemned last Wednesday the murder of a young Haitian migrant, Sterlin Fétière, on October 17^th, in Navegantes, a Brazilian city in the State of Santa Catarina, located in the South of the country.

Appalled by this act, which she qualified as xenophobia and unjust, Dilma Rousseff considered that Brazil was always a united country, according to reports from the support group for repatriates and refugees (Garr).

"In a country like Brazil, world-famous for its solidarity and its brotherhood, such crimes are even more unacceptable," she chastised, calling upon the federal police to collaborate with the authorities of the State of Santa Catarina, where the murder was committed, in order to punish the culprits.

The Haitian migrant, who was 33 years old, was killed by several knife wounds by a group of young people in Navegantes as he was returning from a party with his wife, Vanessa Nery Pantoja, a Brazilian national.

Five suspects in the murder, including a 24-year-old man and four teenagers, have already been placed under arrest by the police of Santa Catarina for their implication in this voluntary manslaughter.

Qualifying as barbarian and as inhuman this murder committed against her husband, Vanessa Nery Pantoja, the wife of the victim, denounced the discriminatory behavior that Haitian migrants often experienced on the Brazilian territory.

Haiti Elections - October 25, 2015: “Silence, voting is in progress”

On Sunday, October 25^th Haiti’s Presidential and legislative elections took place in peace. It was nothing comparable to what occurred on August 9th of this year, during the first round of the general elections, where polling stations were burned, voters were prevented from voting, and polling stations were forcibly closed.

In brief, this led to a do over of the elections in certain districts, and all of this significantly delayed the publication of the results as more than a month later, they could not be announced to the public yet. It was nothing comparable to October 25th.

Indeed, even if there were a few irregularities, as in the village of Petit Bourg du Borgne, where ballots were burned the day before by bandits, preventing the polling stations in four schools from functioning.  Even if there was some disorder in Petit Goâve, always a difficult zone, where early in the morning confusion erupted in Vialet, Marose, Delates, (7th municipal section). Even if in the polling stations of the city center and the municipal sections, police officers were needed for additional reinforcement.  We can say that the elections went well.

The President of the republic, Michel Martelly, accompanied with his wife Sofia, voted at the High School of Pétion Ville, where he submitted his ballot and made a short statement to the press. He shared how satisfied he was with the behavior the population had to chosen to follow, to elect its future leaders. Shortly before president Martelly, the Candidate Jude Célestin also went to the High School of Pétion Ville, with an impressive crowd in attendance. The candidate of LAPEH was accompanied with two artists: Wyclef Jean and IZOLAN. The candidate Moses Jean Charles went to the Vote Center of the ONA, near the road to the airport, to cast his ballot.

But a moment anticipated by the Fami Lavalas was the appearance by the former president Jean Bertrand Aristide, accompanied by the candidate Maryse Narcisse. He went to Caradeux, to the National School Jean Marie Vincent. The crowd was there, shouting slogans about Aristide. But the ex-president made no statement, and once his ballot was cast, returned home together with his wife Mildred Aristide and Narcisse.

The streets remained empty throughout the day as people going to vote on foot. If certain polling stations opened their doors rather late, such as the one at Ruelle Vaillant at l’école Argentine Bellegarde, voters were there early in the morning, and those who left discouraged returned later to cast their ballot. There was a very regrettable incident in Hinche, where ill-intentioned individuals forcibly penetrated a polling station and burned the ballot boxes with their contents.

In addition, our reporters were shocked to learn that the sacredness of the vote did not exist. Groups of three or four entered into polling booths and voted together, without any privacy. When we tried to tell them to wait their turn and vote individually, we got the response: “We are all in this together. All of us who are here are going to vote for one person.” And here is it is. The expectation,
“Silence, voting is in effect” doesn’t apply to us here at home. We heard voting slogans, we saw candidates photos at polling stations, while the campaign has been officially closed since Friday, October 23rd, each person knew for whom the other was going to vote.

It is was a big popular celebration. While there was laughter, and joking… The evil ones were still there and watching. The police announced that it made 27 arrests. A little before 4 p.m. in Terrier Rouge, while things were going relatively well, a radio listener called us, and informing us that people came and demolished the polling station of Terrier Rouge. According to the preliminary reports, this cowardly act was committed by candidates who, sensing that they were going to lose, tried to destroy everything so that there would be no winners in that locality. Fortunately the police intervened and returned the peace and the vote was able to resume. The retrieval of the ballots from the ballot boxes began at 4 o’clock in the afternoon and the CEP (Provisional Electoral Council) announced a press conference for Sunday 7 am in the evening.

The Press conference of the CEP (Provisional Electoral Council)

“The elections went well throughout all the country!” That was the initial report of CEP at its press conference on Sunday night at the Kinam 2 Hotel, at Place St. Pierre in Petion-Ville, were election officials invited the press, for 7 p.m.

What is amazing is that despite threats of violence and unrest, nothing significant went wrong. There were no deaths, and no wounded injuries. There were a few irregularities, but they could be qualified as minor.

Now, we wait for the publication of the results. Will the wait be as long as wait after the ballot of August 9th?

“No,” said the president of the CEP. “You will have the results soon,” he said Sunday night.

This wasn’t yet a detailed overview of the day. Rather, it was a meeting to take advantage of microphones of the journalists present, and to thank the various authorities that made the day a success: first the National Police Force (PNH), then all of the partners international as well national.

Pierre Louis Opont, the president of the CEP asked everyone to remain vigilant, and not to listen to those who offered ill-advice to gain streets for demonstrations, and disturbing law and order. “The electoral decree is clear about this. All the trouble-makers will be punished.”

We wondered a bit why the president of the CEP made such declarations. Did he think that among the candidates, there would be some who would not accept the results of the October 25^th ballots and who would ask to their supporters to take to the streets and riot?

The president of the CEP said that he learned his lesson, and didn’t want to revisit the same errors committed during the elections of August 9th.

Polling stations were able to work at 98 % said the president of the CEP. It was not the 100 percent, because of the arisen incidents on Saturday in Petit Bourg du Borgne where the ballots that were to be distributed in 8 polling stations were burned by gangsters.

There were also some disorder at the local of the Sisters of Elie Dubois, which was graciously put at the disposal of the CEP by the nuns and which was plundered by people who broke locks, penetrated inside and plundered everything.

The CEP promised the nuns that it would pay for all of the damage and that it would return the local and its equipment in the same condition in which it had received it.

On the evening of October 25th Pierre Louis Opont, seemed more sure of himself, satisfied, and with a sense of relief suggesting: “Here we are. We kept our promises and we were able to realize what we had set out to do.”

The Port of Petit Goave is renovated

The President of the Republic, Michel Martelly, accompanied with the Managing Director of Customs (AGD), M. Victor H. Saint-Louis, and the Managing Director of the National Harbour Authority (APN), Monsieur Alix Célestin, proceeded, last Wednesday with the inauguration of a construction project at the Port of Petit-Goâve.

"Refurbished with new customs offices and stores, in compliance with the ISPS Code, the current Port of Petit-Goâve has a coast of 1,500 meter and a surface of 51 square meters. It falls within the framework of retrofitting projects in the territory to improvement its competitiveness and help with the development of Haiti. Opened to international trade, the new reconstructed port is called to connect the city of Petit-Goâve and its neighborhood with the various points of the coast, to facilitate the transport of passengers and goods, to open up the spaces for agricultural and craft production and also to encourage the possibility of tourism in the area," according to a press release from the presidency.

The Head of State recalled that these positive transformations throughout the country, realized during his administration, are springboards for the initiatives that will change, at the same time, our image, our economy and the lives of our people.

The reconstruction of the Port of Petit-Goâve, realized by the local firm Maritime Economic Construction Inc. (Eccomar S.A.), lasted ten months and cost the Haitian State 2,330,000 US dollars. It can receive boats that are up to 2,000 tons.

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Catégorie : What's up Little Haiti

Création : 4 novembre 2015

 DEATH OF JOE TROUILLOT AT THE AGE OF 93

The famous singer of the Haitian band Issa El Saieh, of the 1940’s and 1950’s, died last Thursday in Montreal (Canada), at the age of 93, learned HPN.

The band was first lead by the Maestro Issa El Saieh, who later left his role to the maestro Ernest Lamy. Joe Trouillot succeeded the latter, while the group had for its name "Ensemble Cabanne Choucoune." Joe Trouillot often found himself singing with Guy Durosier under the supervision of Maestro Issa.

"I tell goodbye to Joe Trouillot, this outstandingly talented man who accompanied us, rocked and charmed us for more than half a century. In the name of the fellow countrymen of Chicago, the Midwest, the American West, and in the name of the Haitian family, I present my deep sympathies to his widow Pauline, to her children and to all his close friends and relatives," said Lesly Condé, General Consul of Haiti in Chicago.

MORE THAN 90 MILLION GOURDES TO BE GIVEN TO SECRETARIES AND SECRETARIES OF STATE LEAVING THIS GOVERNMENT

According to Presidential Order 193, published in the official publication The Monitor, based on privileges to certain Haitian officials, a severance package of 2.5 million gourdes was given to each of the 25 Secretaries of the government of Evans Paul, and 2 million gourdes to each of 15 Secretaries of State.

According to the calculations of the agency Haiti Press Network, the current government includes a Prime Minister, 21 Secretaries and 3 General Secretaries who rank as Secretary. If each of these officials receive 2.5 million Gourdes, it will add up to 62.5 million gourdes total. (That is about 1.2 million US dollars).

Secretaries of State, who are 15 altogether, will receive 2 million Gourdes. This will total 30 million gourdes (or about 560,000 US dollars).

All in all, the Haitian State will have to pay 92.5 million Gourds in severance packages. (That is 1.7 million US dollars) to its former dignitaries.

Senator Steven Benoit, candidate for the presidency, went on the record to denounce this presidential order published on October 8^th, 2015 in the Monitor, modifying the order from November 23rd, 2005 which addressed the severance packages of former dignitaries of State.

Haitians Mark Voodoo Day of the Dead

Associated Press - PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Revelers streamed into cemeteries across Haiti on Sunday bearing beeswax candles, food offerings and bottles of rum infused with hot peppers to mark the country's annual Voodoo festival of the dead.

At Port-au-Prince's sprawling national cemetery, Voodoo priests and priestesses gathered around a blackened monument that is believed to be the oldest grave. There, they lit candles and stoked small fires as they evoked the spirit Baron Samedi, the guardian of the dead who is typically depicted with a dark top hat and a white skull face.

Some filled their mouths with fiery rum and sprayed it over the tomb's cross. As if in a trance, one young man wrapped in a paisley print sheet chewed up bits of a broken glass bottle, but onlookers who scrambled on burial vaults to get a better look didn't buy his performance. "Thief!" they shouted, as he spat out blood.

Minutes later, the crowd perched atop the tombs gave respect to a priestess with a purple scarf wrapped around her head as she danced in a spastic manner and made a keening lament.

Other Haitians gathered among the tombs to quietly remember dead relatives and ask spirits to grant favors or provide guidance. One man paid a soothsayer for advice on how to increase his chances at winning bets at Haitian outlets that play on New York State Lottery numbers.

Vendors who set up shop in the cemeteries did a brisk business selling pictures of Catholic saints alongside candles, rum, and rosary beads.

Voodoo, or Vodou as preferred by Haitians, evolved in the 17th century when colonists brought slaves to Haiti from West Africa. Slaves forced to practice Catholicism adopted saints to coincide with personalities in the African religions. Voodoo was sanctioned as an official religion in 2003 and it is practiced widely across the country of 10 million inhabitants.

This year' two-day celebration comes shortly before Haitian officials are expected to announce the top two finishers in a presidential first-round vote. Electoral authorities say they plan to release the preliminary results of the presidential vote on Tuesday, after the Voodoo festival concludes.

Voodoo priest Pierre Saint Ange cracked a rope whip on a crumbling tomb and told onlookers not to "fight with guns or burn tires" in coming days.

"We are asking for peace," he cried, standing near three women with their faces smeared in white paint.

THE HAITIAN AMERICAN POET DANIELLE GEORGES WAS TOURING THE COUNTRY

Within the framework of cultural exchanges to promote the mutual understanding between Haiti and the United States through poetry, the Office of Public Affairs of the U.S. Embassy in Haiti informed the public, poets and amateur poets in particular, that the Haitian-American poet Danielle Georges was touring Haiti last week.

During her stay, Mrs. Georges managed poetry workshops for high school students, university students and comedians, at the Pyepoudre Cultural Center, the Anne Marie Morisset Cultural Center, and for members of the Reading Club of the Documentation Center at the American Embassy. She also conducted workshops for members of the English Conversation Club of the "American Corner" located in FOKAL, as well as for students of advanced reading classes at the Haitian-American Institute.

Representative Campbell, District 108, Calls on Congress to support efforts in Annually Recognizing Haitian Holidays throughout the State of Florida.

 MIAMI, FL- Representative Daphne Campbell, represents one of the largest populated Haitian districts in Miami Dade County.

 In October 2015, Rep. Campbell formally draft a bill calling on the Congress of the United States to annually recognize January 1^st as Haitian Independence Day, as well as annually recognizing May 18^thas Haitian Flag day, and marking the month of May as Haitian Heritage Month throughout the State of Florida.

 The Great Republic of Haiti is ½ of Hispaniola, which is one if not the largest islands in the West Indies. The island nation of Haiti declared its independence from French colonial rule on January 1, 1804, after a slave revolt under leadership of Generals Toussaint L' Ouverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and Alexandre Petion. Haiti then became the first and only state created from a successful slave rebellion, and the first post-colonial independent nation led by blacks in the world.

 Haitian Independence Day is globally acknowledged and annually celebrated as an affirmation of equality, freedom, and the abolition of slavery, which in part makes January 1^st so significant to the Haitian community.

 The Haitian flag is a definitive symbol of pride, and in the melting pot of South Florida, the flag is constantly revered not only by Haitian Americans and, foreign-born Haitians but also, other cultures throughout Florida. The Haitian flag known today is an adaptation of the first flag of the republic. The Haitian flag is embellished with the country's coat of arms, and accented with the colors red and blue.

 Blue representing the former African Slaves brought to Haiti by colonial powers, and the red, which symbolizes a people of mixed ancestry. The Haitian flag was adopted from the flag of France the country from which Haiti gained its independence.

 With Haiti's vast culture and immense history. Rep. Campbell believes it is important the State of Florida embrace the month of May as Haitian Heritage Month. The State of Florida in its entirety holds the biggest population of Haitians, and in particularly South Florida.

THE NAHP WILL HAVE ITS FOURTH CONFERENCE IN FLORIDA

Last Thursday, a second planning meeting took place at the Ministry of Haitians Living Abroad (MHAVE), to coordinate the 4th International Conference of the National Association of Haitian Professionals (NAHP), which will take place at Florida International University from November 12 to November 14^th, 2015

Representatives from several partnering institutions, including the National Office of Identification, the National Archives of Haiti, the Bank of the Republic of Haiti, the Prime Minister’s Office, the Ministry of the Communication, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were all present at this meeting.

This 4th Edition of the NAHP will address questions on: the direct investment of the Diaspora and foreigners in Haiti; the success of the Haitian entrepreneurs; a stronger education system, and the current state of the business in the country. These topics will be at the center of discussion and will be the object of panels and workshops.

It should be noted that several VIP’s are expected to attend, among whom are: the Governor of the Central Bank, Charles Castel; the Ambassador of Haiti in the United States, Paul Altidor; Dr Edouardo A . Gamarra, professor at FIU; the economist Kesner Pharel, President of the Group Croissance; and Alain Lafalaise, Administrative Director of the Rum Barbancourt company are expected at this event.

Event organizers hope other personalities will participate to ensure the full success of the conference, but their presence will depend on their availability according to their schedules. They include: Prime Minister Evans Paul; former heads of government Laurent Lamothe, Garry Conille and Jean Max Bellerive; current Minister of Trade Wilson Laleau; Ambassador Danielle Saint-Lot, member of the NAHP; Jean Monestime, President of the Miami-Dade County Board of Commissioners; and Secretary Robert Labrousse (MHAVE).

On its Website the NAHP confirmed that three former Haitian prime ministers, Laurent Lamothe, Garry Conille and Jean-Max Bellerive will be present and will participate in a panel discussion about the changes, the development and the future of Haiti.

SEIZURE OF MORE THAN A TON OF NARCOTICS

A total of 1,300 kg of cocaine, worth about 45 million dollars, was seized in two operations led by units of the United States Coast Guard based in San Juan (Puerto Rico).

Last Wednesday, the U.S. Coast Guard announced in a press release that the first operation was carried out on October 19th, 2015, when a suspicious ship was detected approximately 70 kilometers southeast of Haiti. The boat was intercepted and a cargo of cocaine of about 1,100 kg was recovered. It had been thrown overboard by the crew before they were stopped by the Coast Guard.

In a second operation led on October 21st, 2015, 3 people traveling on a suspicious speedboat were stopped. A Coast Guard ship followed the speedboat to the island Saona (Dominican Republic), where the occupants were stopped with 8 packages containing 200 kg of cocaine.

REOPENING OF THE OFFICIAL BORDER POINTS

According to a press release from GARR, peace has returned to the official Haitian-Dominican border points. The traffic of vehicles transporting goods and passengers was noticed to have returned to its normal level since prior to October 19th, 2015, contrary to last week when ongoing tension had completely paralyzed commercial activities.

At the border point of Dajabón Ouanaminthe, the commercial activities which had been suspended at the Dominican-Haitian market on October 12th and 16th, 2015, started again shyly, on Monday, October 19th, 2015.

The decision to reopen the aforementioned market followed a meeting held on Sunday, October 18th between Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrés Navarro, Minister of Industry and the Trade, José del Castillo Saviñó, the local authorities of Dajabón and the Dominican Consul all came to Haiti. Dominican merchants and commercial drivers who led this suspension also participated in this meeting.

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Catégorie : What's up Little Haiti

Création : 11 novembre 2015

Haiti council names 2 candidates for presidential runoff

David Mcfadden, Associated Press

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Government-backed candidate Jovenel Moise and former state construction chiefJude Celestinappear to be advancing to a runoff election for Haiti's presidency, according to preliminary results announced Thursday.

The much-anticipated results from the 54-candidate first round presidential contest on Oct. 25 were issued by Pierre Louis Opont, the leader of the Provisional Electoral Council. Since no candidate won a majority in that ballot, the two top finishers are set to meet in a Dec. 27 runoff.

Opont did not take any questions from reporters after delivering the preliminary results at the council headquarters, which was under guard by heavily armed police. He said Moise received 511,992 votes or 32.8 percent of the total, and Celestin got 394,390 or 25.2 percent.

Seven of the council's nine members signed off on the preliminary results, indicating that there was not unanimous agreement with the tally. An appeals period will follow the Thursday announcement and officials say certified results are expected in late November or early December.

Moise, handpicked by outgoing PresidentMichel Martellyto be his successor, greeted applauding partisans gathered at a fancy hotel in Petionville, not far from the electoral council headquarters. Looking into TV cameras, the top vote getter told Haitians they were backing the right man.

"I'm standing in front of you because I am the winner," said Moise, an agricultural entrepreneur who set up a banana plantation in Haiti's north and founded a public-private project called Agritrans to successfully export the fruit to Europe.

But several major candidates have alleged fraud by the well-financed Tet Kale campaign behind Moise and voiced concern that the results do not accurately reflect national will.

The candidate who placed third in the official tally with 14.2 percent, former senatorMoise Jean-Charles, has asserted in recent days that he won half of Haiti's 10 departments. Last week, he insisted that partially burned ballots checked with his name were found by his backers in Port-au-Prince and numerous ballots supporting his bid had gone missing elsewhere.

After the preliminary results were announced, Jean-Charles said the results were a sham orchestrated by Martelly, who he insists would be pulling strings in a Moise presidency. He called on his supporters to participate in a "peaceful revolution" to ensure their voice is heard.

But tire barricades were already burning in a few spots of Port-au-Prince and Associated Press journalists saw one dead body on a street in the neighborhood of Delmas 33.

A crowd of Jean-Charles supporters gathered around their dead colleague and insisted he was fatally shot in the neck by officers with a newly created police unit referred to as BOID. Chanting "freedom or death," the crowd scattered Jean-Charles campaign posters around his corpse.

Firefighters who arrived to douse the flaming barricades were pelted with a few rocks, but managed to put out the flames. One furious partisan screamed at them: "You won't have enough water to put out all the fires tomorrow!"

In recent days, eight presidential candidates, including Celestin and Jean-Charles, asserted that there were instances of "massive fraud" during Oct. 25 election — perhaps as a way to prepare their partisans for a loss. They warned that if fraud went uncorrected it "would make the alleged results of these elections unacceptable" and asked the council to form an independent commission to review the electoral processes over the next 15 days.

Celestin's campaign manager did not offer any immediate comment now that his candidate apparently secured a spot in the runoff. At least one presidential candidate in the top 10,Pierre Sauveur Etienne, said he would throw his support behind Celestin, the government-backed candidate in the last election cycle.

The top two finishers announced in preliminary results don't always make it to a runoff in Haiti. During the last election, disputed preliminary results showed Celestin edging out Martelly for one of two spots in a runoff ballot, but under international pressure Haiti's electoral authorities reviewed the count and eliminated Celestin from the race.

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Eurasian Minerals Sells Haiti Joint Venture Interests for US $4 Million and an NSR Royalty

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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Nov 2, 2015 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- Eurasian Minerals Inc. (the "Company" or "EMX") (EMX)(nyse mkt:EMXX) is pleased to announce the sale of its interests in Haiti to joint venture partner Newmont Ventures Limited ("Newmont" or "NVL"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Newmont Mining Corporation NEM, -1.02% for a US $4 million (CAD $5.3 million) cash payment and a retained 0.5% net smelter return ("NSR") royalty interest.

The now terminated EMX-Newmont joint ventures (the "Joint Ventures") covered six designated exploration areas along a 130 kilometer trend of northern Haiti's Massif du Nord mineral belt. Since 2013, activities in the designated exploration areas have been limited to care and maintenance only.

Pursuant to the transaction, Newmont acquired all of EMX's interest in the Research Permit applications on the following terms:

-- Newmont paid US $4 million (CAD $5.3 million) in cash to EMX at closing; -- The Joint Ventures were terminated; -- EMX retains a 0.5% NSR royalty on the 49 Research Permit applications covering the designated exploration areas; -- EMX retains the right to acquire any properties proposed to be abandoned or surrendered by Newmont.

Please see www.eurasianminerals.com for more information.

About EMX. Eurasian Minerals leverages asset ownership and exploration insight into partnerships that advance our mineral properties, with EMX retaining royalty interests. EMX complements its generative business with strategic investment and third party royalty acquisition.

Mr. Dean D. Turner, CPG, a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and consultant to the Company, has reviewed, verified and approved disclosure of the technical information contained in this news release.

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

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The new taxes and the privileges of the state employees of the State have been cancelled

The Prime Minister is going back on his decision to grant immense advantages to higher level government officials immediately after they retired.

Also being cancelled is the order that would have increased taxes on certain items including passports, fiscal rolls and driving licenses.

 During an important meeting which took place last Saturday in his office, the Prime Minister made the decision to cancel the order granting certain advantages to senior civil servants, once they retired. According to this order, the President of the Republic could benefit from a severance pay of two millions five hundred thousand gourdes and the ministers and secretaries of states two million gourdes.

This was to ease their entrance back to civilian life after having lost the numerous advantages and the opportunities they were granted in their respective functions. The same order also removed the customs duties for these senior state officials in case they purchased a car. The car in question could also be housed in a garage for up two years at the expense of the state … etc. … etc. …

Also following the meeting last Saturday, a press release from the prime minister’s office canceled the increase of certain taxes. The increase had caused anger among the population and threatened two days of strikes on November 9th and 10th. The Leader of the government said that the country cannot face two more days of strikes and Evans Paul used this opportunity to express his loyalty to the Haitian population.

However, in spite of this important decision, which should have calmed the protests and returned order to the country, groups lit barricades of burning tires almost everywhere through the streets of the capital, and the police proceeded to make numerous arrests last Saturday.

Among the people who was were arrested was the singer IZOLAN who was later freed.

Evans Paul considers that the two days of strike planned for Monday, November 9 and Tuesday, November 10 will no longer serve their original purpose.

The International community issues a call for restraint

The International Community, represented within "Core Group", took note of the publication of the preliminary results of the elections of October 25th and issued an appeal to all to continue to participate in a responsible way

Sandra Honoré, the special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General and the members of the international community in Haiti, represented within "Core Group" (the Ambassadors of Brazil, Canada, France, Spain, United States of America, the European Union, and the special Representative of the Organization of American states), took note of the preliminary results of the first round of the presidential elections of October 25th and anticipated the organization of a second tour to be held on December 27th, 2015, with the local elections and the second round of the general elections in certain districts.

"The Core Group calls all the actors to deal with each and every one of the challenges, in accordance with the electoral decree. Regretting the isolated acts of violence and vandalism, observed after the announcement of the preliminary results, the Core Group asks insistently that Haitian authorities arrest and judge the people responsible for unrest to the full extent of the law.”

The Core Group repeated its call to all the actors to continue to participate in the electoral process with responsibility, respect and restraint, looking forward to the definitive results of the first round of the presidential elections as well as the preliminary results of the general and municipal election.

Little Farm Trailer Resident Fights Eviction

By NADEGE GREEN • WLRN

Clemencia Charles had just left a prayer meeting at her church. She waited for everyone to leave for the night, including the pastor. Then she returned to sleep outside on the floor.

“I didn’t tell anyone what I was going through,” she said. “I prayed and went to sleep."

Charles had been evicted from her trailer home in El Portal earlier that day in October.

Coral Gables-based Wealthy Delight purchased the Little Farm trailer park in El Portal where Charles had lived and gave the mobile home residents a deadline of February to move out.

Until February, Wealthy Delight has said it will pursue evictions against mobile home tenants who do not pay the monthly fee to lease the land their homes sit on.

In court documents, the company alleges Charles owes $1,420.

Charles denies owing any money and said she had proof she paid Wealthy Delight, but the 59-year old, who attends weekly prayer meetings, never got a chance to present her defense to a judge. In order to get what is called an evidentiary hearing, the court required her to deposit the money Wealthy Delight said she owes into the court registry.

Charles didn’t have the $1,420 and her lawyer said she shouldn’t have to deposit money she doesn’t owe. 

“This is a bar to justice,” said Evian White, an attorney with Legal Service of Greater Miami who represents Charles. “That’s not the way the justice system should work.”

Charles now is back in her home -- at least temporarily -- after a series of twists and turns in the legal system led her to file for bankruptcy to fight off the eviction.

Charles’ case gives a glimpse into the court system and some of the challenges for low-income residents who can’t afford to deposit hundreds and sometime thousands of dollars to fight an eviction case in court.

Haiti - Economy: Garius Lornick takes away the title of "The most remarkable Young person of the World 2015"

On Saturday, November 7th, 2015 in Kanazawa, Japan, the young Haitian entrepreneur Garius Lornick who was the winner of the competition, "The Ten Most Remarkable Young Haitian of 2014" TOYP organized by the Junior chamber international Haiti (JCI Haiti), was selected among thousands of candidates worldwide coming from 17 countries. He participated with 10 other finalists in the competition TOYP 2015, to take away the much sought after title of "The Most Remarkable Young Person of the World.”

After careful consideration of the jury, made up of JCI partner personalities worldwide and the consideration of the votes from Internet users, the Jury awarded the title of "the Most Remarkable Young Person of the World in 2015" to our fellow countryman Garius Lornick.

More about Garius Lonick:

"From the age of 12 years, Lonick Garius took his future and his education in his own hands. When his parents’ finances were reduced, Garius was forced to leave school and become an entrepreneur as way to insure the financial stability of his own education.

Although confronted with numerous obstacles during his first years, Garius financed his studies thanks to his entrepreneurship efforts, weaving dry banana tree leaves, to make hats, baskets and crafts for the resale. He pursued this company until he obtained his high school diploma in medical technology. Garius then launched the Center of Biological Diagnostic (Bioced), a medical initiative offering laboratory tests, and internal medicine services, psychiatry, gynecology and dental care at reduced costs, to allow low-income people to have access to reliable health care.

Because of the immense success of Bioced and his entrepreneurial experience, Garius along with six partners, launched the Superior School of Applied Nursing and Medical Technology (ESNATECH). Despite having to grapple with a number of infrastructures challenges and low registration in the first years, the percentage of children registered increased and ESNATECH offers now 1,000 classes and takes care of all the operational costs. Because of the success of the schools, a scholarship program was implemented to help young students who cannot afford to pay for such an education.

Garius developed his entrepreneurial spirit at a young age as way to finance his own education. Since then, he turned to actions to contribute to the well-being of humanity. Today, he is holds a university degree, owns four different companies, employs about 100 people and is a main agent of a laboratory, working in the screening of the HIV and supplying technical support.