C’est avec une bonne vingtaine de minutes de retard en raison de la circulation à Londres que Jupp Heynckes, l’entraîneur du Bayern Munich, est arrivé en conférence de presse. Et le technicien du club bavarois est confiant avant la finale de la Ligue des champions programmée face au Borussia Dortmund …
“Ce déficit nettement inférieure à 1% du PIB n’est pas de nature à créer un déséquilibre et des perturbations indésirables sur l’économie”,a indiqué M. castel précisant que la Banque centrale a assez de moyen pour continuer à intervenir pour équilibrer le marché des changes. Selon le gouverneur de la Banque …
Presidential Advisor Joseph Lambert denied being the person shown in photos circulating around the internet of a man who looks like the former senator and a young woman. Lambert, a family man and former senator of the South-East said “the photo is the work of my detractors using photoshop-like software …
We’re expecting a giant rumble in London on Saturday. Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund (live, FOX, Saturday, 2 p.m. ET) don’t like each other and there are so many storylines here between these two titanic German rivals it’s difficult to cut down. It’s probably not the matchup anyone expected or …
The Pétionville suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, has long been a tourism-friendly area, with a smattering of boutiques, galleries and restaurants. Now it is home to a Best Western Premier, the first of several of the hotelier’s upscale branded properties that are planned throughout the Caribbean. The $15 million hotel is …
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will support a $3 million technical cooperation project to help the government of Haiti test different renewable energy solutions with the goal of expanding rural electrification. Haiti has the lowest level of electrification in the Americas. In the countryside, over 70 percent of the population …
“No education, no future. With education, dreams come true!” I discovered these words scribbled in chalk on a door while visiting a very poor community during a recent mission trip. It’s a statement that’s stuck with me as I’ve visited other communities and saw the quality of education (or lack …
You see, the Swiss government maintains an “assets freeze” on over $5.7 million of Duvalier-related bank accounts in Switzerland. And while Duvalier has been fighting the assets freeze for years — trying to stop the Swiss from confiscating his allegedly ill-gotten gains — the law that takes effect this week …
Dossier Haïti : En France, la communauté haïtienne évangélique toujours en quête de lieux de culte, un an après l’effondrement du plancher d’une église installée dans un bâtiment inadapté (Jeanne Bartoli). via – RFI .
L’Etat risque de connaitre d’énormes difficultés si les dirigeants ne changent pas leurs pratiques dans la gestion des finances publiques, prédit le sénateur Jocelerme Privert. Le président de la commission économie, finances et budget au Sénat de la République fait remarquer que les recettes de l’Etat sont en chute libre …
On a visit to the United Arab Emirates, Messi was speaking to a Qatari television network Al-Kass when he was asked about the possibility of Barcelona signing Neymar. While Messi did not give anything away over whether or not the Brazilian was set to join Barcelona, he made it clear …
Pour pallier au manque de structures culturelles en Haïti, nous avons créé avec les principales institutions du livre en Haïti une bibliothèque mobile à l’image des taxis collectifs haïtiens, les TapTaps. Certainement le moyen le plus simple et efficace pour amener le livre au plus près des populations qui n’y …
Il ne saurait exister nulle part de rose sans épines soutient un vieil aphorisme. Mais, dans le cas spécifique du bilan de deux ans du gouvernement Martelly/Lamothe, tel ne fut pas le cas. Les épines de la déception et de la désillusion ont atterri dans chaque section communale même dans …
A travers le geste du député de Ouanaminthe (Nord-Est du pays), c’est toute la 49e Législature haïtienne qui s’est mise à genoux devant le président de la République. Du haut de l’estrade montée en la circonstance pour commémorer le deuxième anniversaire de son accession à la Magistrature Suprême de l’Etat, …
The 4,180-passenger ship will sail from Cape Liberty Cruise Port in Bayonne, N.J. After its inaugural voyage on Nov. 23, 2014, it will offer seven- and eight-night Bahamas, eight- to 11-night Eastern Caribbean, and 11- and 12-night Southern Caribbean itineraries. On the Bahamas cruises, the ship will call at Port …
Le gouvernement est convoqué par le bureau du Sénat pour le mardi 28 mai prochain à la demande d’un groupe de 7 sénateurs. Le premier ministre Laurent Lamothe et les membres du cabinet ministériel devront fournir sénateurs convocateurs des explications notamment sur la gestion des 5 milliards de gourdes décaissées …
Late Friday night Alexandre was shot in the abdomen during an armed incident, he seemed to be able to recover and was given an optimistic medical diagnosis that said he was “out of danger”. His colleagues at Radio Kiskeya said they received the news that he had passed Monday morning …
‘Now is the time to seize opportunities in Haiti, a nation which can provide “incredible value” to other countries as well as to itself, especially by virtue of its private sector,’ says an article I just read on actor Sean Penn meeting with World Bank officials. Another article, this time …
A lot of people who I think don’t genuinely believe that the interests of foreigners should play no role in our thinking about immigration policy at least claim to believe that during Twitter conversations. But I defy you to look at Vlad Sokhin’s photos of children sold into slavery in …
Le pays n’arrive pas à briser le cercle vicieux du marasme économique dans lequel il se trouve depuis des décennies et les résultats conjoncturels sont catastrophiques et alarmants. La dégradation du cadre socio-économique s’est accentuée. Pour la première fois dans l’histoire du pays, 6.7 millions d’habitants sont en insécurité alimentaire, …
Lamothe will meet with high ranking government officials, including: Senior Advisor for international relations to President Dilma Rousseff, Marco Aurelio Garcia; Minister of Defense Celso Amorim; and, the Minister of Foreign Relations Antonio Patriota, among others. Topics to be discussed include a timeline for the reduction of troops in Haiti, …
Accompagné de membres du secteur privé haïtien et de responsable du gouvernement, le Premier ministre Laurent Lamothe est arrivé lundi au Brésil dans le cadre d’une visite de cinq jours pour renforcer la coopération entre les deux pays à tous les niveaux : économie, commerce, défense, investissements… via Le Nouvelliste …
Twelve-year-old Judeline crouches at the feet of a much younger girl, lifting high a makeup kit so the little girl, Boubou, can apply a colored pencil to her brow. Boubou studies herself intently in the kit’s mirror; Judeline, hidden to her, stares at us with a look that seems both …
Comme chaque année depuis quinze ans, le Haitian Compas Festival a attiré encore une fois dans le nord de la Floride des milliers de participants. Du mercredi 15 au lundi 20 mai 2013, Noël et Cecibon ont tenu leur promesse d’amuser le public qui avait fait le déplacement. via Le …
Well, first of all, I’m from Haiti and I came here when I was approximately eight years old, so [my husband] and I grew up here. We have traveled to different places over the years and we love the Caribbean — so we’ve been to Jamaica, the Bahamas, Mexico and …
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 …
Dossier Haïti : La délicate situation des plantations face à la sécheresse exceptionnelle de cette année. Depuis quelques années, dans la plaine de l’Arcahaie (au nord de Port-au-Prince), les agriculteurs ont arrêté de s’entretuer -littéralement- pour l’eau, et se sont réunis pour la construction et la gestion de système d’irrigation. …
“The World Bank is supporting the Haitian government in improving the frameworks for mining, including legal provisions which are largely considered inadequate for current requirements,” Alexandre Abrantes, the World Bank special envoy to Haiti, wrote in a statement released from the agency’s press office. Abrantes also wrote that the World …
Famed fashion designer Donna Karan visited Miami’s Little Haiti Cultural Center on May 18 for a cocktail party and panel sponsored by Grey Goose as part of Haitian Heritage Month. Karan’s company Urban Zen features jewelry, decor and other artisanal pieces from Haiti and all over the world. “The beauty …
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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 ...
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 […]
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 ...
“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 ...
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 […]
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...