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• Haiti: Catherine Flon’s Needle, Flag and Undeniable Legacy – Rapadoo Observateur! May 21, 2013
  Haitians across the globe celebrated, on May 18, 2013, the birth of a symbol: Haiti’s bi-color blue and red; hence, commemorated 210 years since that solemn day in 1803   Flon sewed the first Haitian flag. Mobilized around their collective aspiration, adamant bravery and inalienable rights to liberty and equality, Haiti’s Founding ...
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• The Haitian Government Censors Speech at Haiti’s most Celebrated Agora – Rapadoo Observateur! March 12, 2013
  During a live interview aired on Radio Scoop FM  (107.7) 48 hours before Haiti’s carnival festivities, President Michel Martelly dispelled all rumors surrounding band selections for Cap-Haitien’s 2013 Carnival procession. “It was I, who personally decided to exclude bands from the carnival parade,” declared the president. “The decision to exclude bands, such […]
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• Haiti: Martelly under International Pressure to Hold Overdue Elections – Rapadoo Observateur! March 12, 2013
  Reacting to a United Nations Security Council’s Jan. 28, 2013 press release that called on the Haitian government to hold free, fair, inclusive and credible senatorial and municipal elections that are 14-months overdue, Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe reiterated his administration’s determination to organize elections this year, an exercise the note ...
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• Kita Nago to Transcend Mediocrity, Divisiveness and Unite Haitians – Rapadoo Observateur! February 3, 2013
  “Ki bwa li ye, bwa sa; ki bwa li ye, bwa sa,” sang euphoric young men and women, floating in a sea of people embarked on a lengthy pilgrimage to unity. At the end of the unprecedented grassroots movement Kita Nago in Northern city Ouanaminthe, a half-ton tree trunk, symbolizing ...
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• Haiti: Occupy Haiti (I)- Earthquake’s Anniversary – Rapadoo Observateur! January 12, 2013
  Armageddon three years on… Haiti’s conventional image rarely extends beyond succinct summations of a corrupt, dangerous, impoverished and unstable place plagued by a litany of tragedies: man-made and nature-engineered. Perhaps then, it should surprise no one that the tarnished image prevailed, even two years after the cataclysmic devastation. The reconfigure […]
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• Haiti: Occupy Haiti (II) – Earthquake Anniversary Edition – Rapadoo Observateur! January 12, 2013
  Part two Read part one here first: Occupy Haiti (I) Armageddon, two years on… Reconstruction year 2012…. “There was hope that the quake would bring an opportunity to break the country’s fatal cycle of struggle, catastrophe and indifference,” wrote the AP’s Jonathan M. Katz on the quake’s first anniversary last ...
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• Radyonou.com: Yon ti kout je sou Tropicana d’Haiti – Rapadoo Observateur! December 31, 2012
  Yo toujou di Ayisyen pa ka fè anyen ki bon, yo toujou di ti nèg nwè pa ka fè anyen. Èske se vre? Yon 23 Mas 1963 nan lakou Okap, yon ekip jenn gason ki chaje ak fòs ak kouraj, ak detèminasyon lanse yon mouvman, lanse yon lide, lanse yon ...
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• Super Storm Sandy Exposed Haiti’s Failed Reconstruction – Rapadoo Observateur! December 16, 2012
  Transforming Haiti into a consumer nation, ultimately meant that a short-supplied world would force its population into mass starvation, a recurring nightmare Haitians are currently experiencing amid the recent global food crisis, which caused a wave of sporadic protests to erupt throughout the country last month. Rampant inflation sent food ...
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• Haiti: Bataille de Vertieres – Rapadoo Observateur! November 18, 2012
  The Endless Battle for Sovereignty “As the French sailed from the island, they saw the tops of the mountains lighted up. It was not a blaze kindled for war, but for freedom. Every heart for liberty, and every voice shouted for joy. From the ocean to the mountains, and from ...
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• Governor Jones Motivates Members of Charlotte for Haiti Provisional Rotary Club September 12, 2012
  Rotary District 7680’s governor, Chris Jones, commanded complete silence from his audience, as he detailed recruiting fundamentals to attending members of Charlotte for Haiti Provisional Rotary Club (CHRC) meeting that aspired to get their club chartered within the Rotary International’s fiscal year, which ends on June 30, 2013. Diving straight ...
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