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| UNITED NATIONS, (AFP): The Security Council was set to vote Thursday on an eight-month extension of a UN force mission in Haiti that calls for a more aggressive crackdown on criminal armed gangs preying on slums. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Three months ago, a UN military mission with government backing took aim at Haiti's armed gangs, thanks to residents who blamed the blue helmets for taking a passive stance toward crime. read more.. |
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| LIMA, Peru (AFP): Peru called for a one-year extension of the UN stabilisation force in Haiti (MINUSTAH) as representatives from nine Latin American countries on Monday discussed the future of the security operation. read more.. |
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| LIMA, Peru (AFP): Latin American officials will meet in Lima Monday to discuss their countries' participation in the United Nations stabilisation force in Haiti. read more.. |
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NEW YORK, USA (Bloomberg):  "The leader of the only successful slave revolution in recorded history" ended his days, according to Madison Smartt Bell, imprisoned "behind five heavy double doors" in the innermost cell of a fortress "ringed by five concentric walls and three moats. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (UPI): Backers of former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide protested outside the UN peacekeeping mission calling for his return. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters): Hundreds of UN soldiers stormed a slum neighborhood in Haiti's capital on Friday to try to wrest control from a criminal gang, prompting a gunfight that killed one person and wounded several others, including two peacekeepers read more.. |
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WASHINGTON, USA:  The Organization of American States (OAS), in response to a request from the government of Haiti, has pledged to help that country update its tourism master plan to spur economic development and opportunity. OAS support would also focus on raising awareness among Haitians. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (UPI): FBI hostage negotiators have been sent to Haiti to help secure the release of a kidnapped American missionary, the Miami Herald has reported. Nathan Jean-Dieubonne, 58, was abducted this week. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA: Supporting an initiative to improve education in Haiti, the Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Ambassador Albert R. Ramdin, advocated a twin-track approach that would include both short- and long-term objectives. read more.. |
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| OTTAWA, Canada (AFP): Canada will contribute 10 million Canadian dollars (8.45 million US) to help reform Haiti's national police and curb violence in the Caribbean's poorest nation, officials said Monday. read more.. |
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| UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK: Peru has asked the UN Security Council to extend for another year the international UN stabilization force MINUSTAH that has been in Haiti since 2004, the UN announced. read more.. |
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| GEORGETOWN, Guyana: The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has welcomed last week's announcement by the World Bank that its Board of Executive Directors had discussed a new Interim Strategy for Haiti which projects financial assistance of up to US$82 million. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: In Haiti, agriculture represents 25% of gross domestic product (GDP) and it constitutes the main activity of the rural people. An urban and peripheral urban agriculture develops alongside towns, but faces all kinds of difficulties. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (UPI): Canada has dropped an investigation into allegations its troops harassed Haitian civilians, Canadian military officials said Friday. The allegations against Canadian forces were made anonymously so they could not be followed up by investigators. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (UPI): An additional 350 troops have been added to the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti, the United Nations said. The Nepalese forces join some 7,000 multi-national troops led by Brazilian forces already in the embattled Caribbean nation. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): Haiti's top priority in 2007 is reforming its judicial system, the UN's special representative for Haiti, Edmond Mulet, said Wednesday during a visit to Washington. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): The international contact group for Haiti endorsed on Thursday a 12-month extension of the UN military mission which has led the battle against rampant gang violence in the capital, Port-au-Prince. read more.. |
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WASHINGTON, USA:  OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza on Wednesday reiterated the importance of a joint effort by international organisations to tackle the challenge of strengthening Haiti’s institutions. “It is crucial for all international cooperation agencies to coordinate their efforts,” he said. read more.. |
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| UNITED NATIONS, (AFP): UN peacekeepers in Haiti will keep up pressure on violent gangs in Port-au-Prince, the UN special representative for Haiti said Monday. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: A high-level delegation from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has just returned from an official visit to Haiti. The mission, led by CDB President, Dr Compton Bourne, met with representatives of key government ministries. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Twenty-four hours of clashes between UN forces and armed gangs in the Haitian capital's sprawling slum of Cite Soleil have left at least five people dead and 12 wounded by gunfire, the UN mission in Haiti said Thursday. read more.. |
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| NEW YORK, USA: A newly released investigation into the deadly scourge of beri-beri in Haiti's National Penitentiary has uncovered evidence of a clash between the manufacturing process used in US processed rice and the traditional Haitian rice cooking method. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): UN forces raided the Haitian capital's largest shantytown Wednesday to seize a gang's house in an operation that left six people with gunshot wounds, witnesses and UN officials said. read more.. |
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| He was murdered on January 14, 2005, shortly after finishing his lunch near his home in the Village de Dieu slum. The killing of Abdias Jean, a young Haitian journalist who reported from Haiti for WKAT radio in Florida, was quickly condemned by Amnesty International, read more.. |
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| , : After the toughest route to the final, playing more qualification games than any other team, Haiti lifted the Digicel Caribbean Cup after defeating Trinidad & Tobago 2-1 in a thrilling final. read more.. |
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| PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti: Freelance photographer Jean-Rémy Badio has been murdered in the southern Port-au-Prince district of Martissant. He was reportedly shot dead in his home on the afternoon of 19 January by members of a gang he had photographed a few days before. read more.. |
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| PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Haiti, who have played more games than other country in this year's Digicel Caribbean Cup are now close to the end of their journey, as they qualified to meet Trinidad and Tobago in the Digicel Caribbean Cup final on Tuesday, January 23. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (Reuters): Exploitative migrant labour agreements and years of unregulated migration have created a permanent underclass of people of Haitian descent in the Caribbean, including in the Dominican Republic. read more.. |
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| FORT LAUDERDALE, USA: Spirit Airlines has announced a new nonstop service from its Fort Lauderdale hub to Haiti, beginning March 22, 2007. Spirit will initially offer service three times weekly to Port-au-Prince. read more.. |
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| ROAD TOWN, BVI: The vigilance of immigration and surveillance officers at the Terrence B. Lettsome International Airport in the British Virgin Islands has been credited with the recent interception of six Haitians who attempted to enter the Territory with fraudulent documents. read more.. |
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| PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Haiti may have taken the longest route possible to get to the Digicel Caribbean Cup Finals but they were the first team to qualify for the semi finals when they defeated Barbados by one goal to nil in the home of the Soca warriors. read more.. |
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| PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Haiti opened their Digicel Caribbean Cup Finals tournament with a 1-0 win over the French West Indies side Martinique after a hard fought 90 minutes in the Hasley Crawford stadium. read more.. |
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| COUVA, Trinidad: Haiti clinched the last spot in the eight-team Digicel Caribbean Cup finals tournament in Trinidad January 12-23, following a 3-0 victory over Bermuda in the second leg of the final qualifying play-off. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA: Countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), and others such as the United States and Canada, could make a vital contribution to Haiti by helping to train the Haitian National Police, according to Assistant Secretary General Albert R. Ramdin of the OAS. read more.. |
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| KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS): Prime Minister of Jamaica, Portia Simpson Miller, last week reaffirmed Jamaica and CARICOM's commitment to assist Haiti to achieve its development goals. read more.. |
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| PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Haiti stormed to victory against Bermuda on Sunday with a 2-0 win in the Group J opening match in Ato Boldon stadium, Trinidad. Haiti, supported by a loyal band of vocal supporters, dominated the opening minutes of the match. read more.. |
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KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS):  Jamaican Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller, has described her recent talks with Haitian president Rene Preval as a further step in deepening the diplomatic relations between Jamaica and Haiti. She said both leaders applauded the establishment of the Single Market. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters): Haiti's prisons have grown so crowded prisoners must take turns sleeping as police step up arrests of alleged gangsters blamed for a wave of violence and kidnappings, government and human rights officials said on Friday. read more.. |
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters):  Haitian President Rene Preval has appointed Haitian-born hip-hop star Wyclef Jean as a roving ambassador to promote the troubled country's image abroad, government officials said on Wednesday. Jean moved to New York when he was nine. read more.. |
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| UNITED NATIONS, New York: Citing “significant challenges” for Haiti’s Government, the United Nations Secretary-General has recommended extending the world body’s mission in the impoverished country for a further 12 months until February 2008. read more.. |
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 Some seven years after Haiti's bicentennial, and the bicentennial of the assassination of its founding father, it is fitting to stop, reflect and ponder on where Haiti has been, where it is now and where it is going. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): UN troops and Haitian police battled gangs Thursday as they tried to purge a kidnapping gang from a shantytown in the capital, leaving five people injured by gunfire, the United Nations said. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): UN special representative in Haiti Edmont Mulet said last week that he was "revolted" by the recent spate of kidnappings of schoolchildren in Haiti and that measure would be taken to stop the scourge. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): UN forces and Haitian police launched a joint operation in a shantytown in Haiti's capital early Friday, and at least a dozen people were killed and several others were wounded in clashes, sources said. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (UPI): United Nations officials said on Wednesday that they were alarmed by the increase in kidnappings in Haiti, where UN peacekeepers have been stationed for nearly three years. read more.. |
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| In this article, I am seeking to make brief historical remarks on the State of Haiti some years after its independence. Special attention is placed on the Monarchy in the north of the country and the Citadelle Laferrière. read more.. |
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| GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP): The United Nations announced Monday a 98-million-dollar appeal to help Haiti in its transition to stability after years of political violence. The appeal, for 2006-2007, aims to strengthen Haiti's government in the post-electoral transition period. read more.. |
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| MONTREAL, Canada: The International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development (ICHRDD) has strongly condemned last week’s kidnapping of school children by illegal armed groups in Port-au-Prince and the escalation in gang violence in Haiti’s capital. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters): Kidnappers freed seven children snatched two days ago from a school bus in the Haitian capital but several other children were abducted in the latest wave of kidnappings-for-ransom, police said on Friday. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters): Gunmen have abducted at least seven children in a suburb of Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, the latest in a wave of kidnappings for ransom in the poor Caribbean nation, police said on Thursday. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA: A $25 million fast-disbursing soft loan from the Inter-American Development Bank will support Haiti’s reforms to strengthen and raise the efficiency of its financial sector. read more.. |
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| PARIS, France (AFP): Government creditors in the Paris Club agreed Tuesday with Haitian officials to restructure the country's external public debt within the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative, the club said. read more.. |
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| Human Rights Day this past Sunday marks a time to commemorate the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but also an opportunity to look towards what challenges lie ahead for realizing human rights in even the world’s most difficult of situations. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (Reuters): US Lawmakers narrowly approved a raft of trade legislation on Friday, including the expansion of trade preferences for dirt-poor Haiti. The House of Representatives voted 212 to 184 for the trade package. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (PAHO): The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has launched a partnership to help alleviate poverty in Haiti and Guyana, as part of a partnership between the European Commission and the World Health Organization. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters): Washington has threatened to punish Haiti if the troubled Caribbean country refuses to accept criminals deported from the United States, Haiti's prime minister said on Friday. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (UPI): At least three people have been killed in western Haiti during the last two weeks of heavy rains and flooding, the Red Cross said in a statement Tuesday. The international aid organisation said it has aided hundreds of Haitians affected by the flooding. read more.. |
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| NEW YORK, USA (AFP): UN chief Kofi Annan on Monday recommitted the world body to "zero tolerance" of sexual exploitation and abuse by a minority of UN peacekeepers as he opened a high-level conference on the festering issue. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Four Haitians were killed during voting in municipal elections Sunday, while UN peacekeepers fired tear gas to quell a disturbance at one polling station. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: After the death of his father, Daniel was torn from his sobbing mother to work in Port-au-Prince to alleviate the family's extreme poverty. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Haitians went to the polls Sunday to elect mayors and local representatives as UN peacekeepers sought to maintain order, firing tear gas to quell a disturbance at one polling station. read more.. |
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| LONDON, England (AFP): The abuse of citizens of countries, including Haiti, where United Nations peacekeepers are stationed "is going on", the UN Assistant Secretary General for peacekeeping operations said on the BBC last week. read more.. |
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| MADRID, Spain: The Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary General, José Miguel Insulza, said Friday that supporting the process of rebuilding democracy in Haiti is “a long-term effort.” read more.. |
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| MADRID, Spain (Reuters): Security is improving in Haiti but Latin America's poorest country needs more police and training rather than foreign soldiers trying to establish peace, Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis said on Thursday. read more.. |
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| UNITED NATIONS, (AFP): The United Nations said Thursday it would hold a conference in New York next week on the issue of sexual exploitation by UN peacekeepers following new allegations of such abuses in Liberia and Haiti. read more.. |
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