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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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MADRID, Spain (AFP): Haitian Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis on Friday vowed to get to grips with corruption, along with violence a bane in the world's poorest country, saying he would fight "mercilessly" against it. Alexis urged Spanish firms to invest in his country. read more.. |
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MADRID, Spain (AFP): Haitian Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis issued a strong appeal here Thursday for international aid for his country, which he said was now at a crossroads in its development. Alexis has said a part of the aid should be reserved for the budgets of Haitian ministries. read more.. |
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| JACMEL, Haiti (Reuters): With the support of The World Food Programme (WFP), the internationally renowned hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean is this week convening the Yéle Fest – a one-week event that will use culture and the arts to engage Haitian youth in exploring ways to boost sustainable development in Haiti. read more.. |
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| MADRID, Spain (AFP): An international donor conference on Thursday welcomed reforms in Haiti which delegates said had cleared the path to debt relief, though they urged the impoverished Caribbean state to push ahead with further changes. read more.. |
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| MADRID, Spain (UPI): Haiti and 30 nations Thursday promised greater efficiency in the handling of money pledged for rebuilding the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation. read more.. |
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| BRUSSELS, Belgium (Reuters): An international donors meeting for Haiti should focus on helping it build a civil service to deal with the problems it faces after retreating from the brink of civil war, a senior United Nations official said on Tuesday. read more.. |
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| MADRID, Spain (AFP): Spain will host an international donor conference on Haiti Thursday with more than 90 delegations attending along with the Caribbean state's Prime Minister, Jacques Edouard Alexis, to coordinate the distribution of reconstruction aid for the impoverished nation. read more.. |
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters): Kidnappings and other violent crimes have increased in Haiti in recent weeks, and Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis on Monday blamed the surge partly on criminals deported by the United States. As many as 100 people have been kidnapped for ransom in November. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA: The World Bank's International Development Association (IDA) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have determined that Haiti qualifies for debt relief under the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative. read more.. |
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: The Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Albert Ramdin, on a working visit to Haiti, reiterated the hemispheric organization’s support for the country’s electoral process. He also met with the authorities to discuss future cooperation. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: The European Commission (EC) has chosen Haiti as an experimental partner to undertake common development programming. European development official, Louis Michel, made the announcement Sunday at the end of a 24-hour visit to Port-au-Prince. read more.. |
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| When the Americans invaded Baghdad and the citizens of that city descended onto the Museum to pilfer and steal documents and pieces that go back to the beginning of civilisation, I thought here we are again: the Iraqis and the Haitians are brothers under the skin. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters): Six months after President Rene Preval took office, little is changed in Haiti - gangs control parts of the capital, the economy is moribund and officials accused of corruption run government offices. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Three Filipino UN peacekeepers were attacked in the Haitian capital Saturday during a student protest against the United Nations presence in Haiti, according to an AFP reporter on the scene. read more.. |
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ROSEAU, Dominica: Dominica's Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has called on the international donor community to honour the pledges it has made to Haiti. The Dominican Leader issued the call at a press conference held recently in the aftermath of a Prime Ministerial Mission to Haiti. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (Bloomberg): The Inter-American Development Bank plans to forgive as much as $3.5 billion of debt owed by the five poorest countries in the Caribbean and Latin America, including Guyana and Haiti, the US Treasury said. read more.. |
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| UNITED NATIONS, (AFP): The Security Council on Thursday voiced deep regret over the deaths of two Jordanian UN peacekeepers last week and reiterated its support for the Haitian government and the UN mission there. read more.. |
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| GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AFP): Haiti is the lone Caribbean Community (CARICOM) nation not exempt from a common visa for cricket fans to travel in the region for the 2007 Cricket World Cup, officials said Wednesday. read more.. |
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| Every morning on or around 6:00 am, I walk in Marine Park for my soul and my health. Watching the sun come through the majestic trees as day breaks is enough to say, Amen, Alleluia! read more.. |
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| SECAUCUS, USA: With most players heading home this offseason to recover from a rigorous Major League Soccer season full of ups and downs, a handful of the New York Red Bulls soccer team will be utilising their time in a truly unique and philanthropic manner. read more.. |
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| LONDON, England (Reuters): "They like to shoot people in the hips so they will never walk again. They like to shoot people in the eyes so they can never see again," says Brian Moller, an Australian working at an emergency hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres in Haiti. read more.. |
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| PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (WFP): As the stereo blasts out music, the clowns enter the schoolyard. Some of the children have never seen such a sight and run to the nuns for comfort. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters): Gunmen killed two UN peacekeepers from Jordan in an ambush amid a rise in violence in the Haitian capital, the UN envoy to Haiti, said on Saturday. read more.. |
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WASHINGTON, USA: Noting the importance of stability on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, the president of the Dominican Republic has called international attention to the problems of Haiti, and has urged US President George W. Bush to "help Haiti in any way you can." read more.. |
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| STADE DE DILLON, Martinique: Haiti took the all important third-place play off position between themselves and Suriname, in Group I on goal difference, after a 1-1 draw on Sunday between the two sides. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: The director of Haiti's Financial Information Central Unit (FICU) has announced the implementation of a new reporting system in the fight against money laundering. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (UPI): Haiti says it will not accept back on its shores a Haitian man stripped of his US citizenship after serving a lengthy prison sentence for drug dealing. read more.. |
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| BERLIN, Germany (AFP): Haiti, Myanmar and Iraq are perceived as the most corrupt countries in the world while Finland is seen as the cleanest, a respected global graft watchdog reported Monday. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: A Haitian police inspector barely escaped an attack in Martissant, south of Port-au-Prince, in Haiti on Friday. The body of another occupant of the car, which the police officer drove, was later found burned. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters): A judge on Friday said he has ordered a top Haitian police chief arrested on suspicion of conspiring with kidnappers after the chief ignored a summons to appear before his court. read more.. |
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters): Haitians poured into cemeteries and danced in the streets on Thursday, as their strife-torn Caribbean nation wrapped up its annual two-day celebration of the dead, driven by voodoo and the widespread belief that the dead have supernatural powers. read more.. |
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Thousands of Haitians protested Friday in the streets of a Port-au-Prince district demanding the withdrawal of United Nations forces. The demonstration, in Cite Soleil, one of the most dangerous districts of the capital, was peaceful. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters): One of Haiti's top police officers will face arrest if he does not turn himself in after his indictment for complicity in kidnappings, a prosecutor said on Wednesday. read more.. |
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| NEW YORK, USA (AFP): A US federal judge here sentenced the head of a disbanded Haitian paramilitary group living in New York to pay 19 million dollars in damages to three women raped by his men in the early 1990s. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Students protested near Haiti's presidential palace Tuesday against a United Nations force installed in the impoverished Caribbean nation. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Three people died in a gunbattle between UN forces and armed men in the capital's sprawling Cite Soleil slum, residents said Sunday, but UN officials said they could not confirm the deaths read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters): At least three people were killed in Haiti's largest and most dangerous slum on Thursday when a protest over the alleged destruction of homes by U.N. peacekeepers turned violent, witnesses said. read more.. |
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UNITED NATIONS, New York: Although the human rights situation in Haiti is cause for concern, there is room for optimism in light of the Government’s will to confront and resolve these problems, according to the top United Nations rights official, Louise Arbour. read more.. |
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| BASSETERRE, St Kitts: St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister and current Chairman of CARICOM, Dr Denzil Douglas, said the Prime Ministerial Mission to Haiti is aimed at consolidating that country’s re-entry into the integration movement and to assess its return to democracy. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (UPI): A US missionary has been kidnapped in northern Haiti, UN officials in the troubled Caribbean nation said Tuesday. read more.. |
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| GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AFP): The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will Wednesday mount a high-level good-will mission to Haiti, the hemisphere's poorest nation, the Guyana-based CARICOM headquarters said Monday. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA: The US Agency for International Development (USAID) signed a three-year agreement with the Haitian Government as part of ongoing United States Government efforts to assist Haiti in its progression towards stability and growth. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): The United States has partly lifted a 15-year-old arms embargo on Haiti so police, UN forces and others can obtain weapons and gear to protect themselves from "rampant criminality", an official said Wednesday. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA: The 2006 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award will be presented to Sonia Pierre, Director of the Movement for Dominican Women of Haitian Descent (MUDHA), next month. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: Haiti’s Civil Protection Agency (DPC) and PAHO/WHO have inaugurated a new Emergency Operations Center in Les Cayes. The new EOC will serve the Department of Sud. read more.. |
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| KINGSTON, Jamaica: Five goals from Shandel Samuel, including a second half hat-trick, ensured that St Vincent and the Grenadines surprisingly qualified for the next round of the 2006 Digicel Caribbean Cup with an 8-0 slaughtering of St Lucia. read more.. |
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| KINGSTON, Jamaica: Haitian head coach Carlo Marcelin was full of praise for his team after they hammered St Vincent and the Grenadines 4-0 in their opening Digicel Caribbean Cup Group D match at the National Stadium in Kingston. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters): A radio ad urging Haitians to reveal illegal weapons caches to the U.S. Embassy has angered politicians and fueled debate on whether the troubled Caribbean nation has become a tacit U.S. protectorate. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters): Haiti's prime minister has asked Washington to lift the 15-year-old arms embargo that bars the troubled Caribbean country from buying US weapons for its ill-equipped police force. read more.. |
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| SINGAPORE, (Reuters): Haiti qualifies for a debt write-off under the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative, the International Monetary Fund said. read more.. |
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| The commentary on restavec in Haiti is at best skewed or at worst misleading. The problem of Haiti is that country is inhospitable to its own people, whether you are from the middle class, the Diaspora, well off and in particular poor. read more.. |
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| SINGAPORE, (Reuters): Haiti would benefit from faster implementation of its aid programmes if it were assigned a larger UN peacekeeping force to ensure the safety of development workers, a top World Bank official said on Thursday. read more.. |
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| In Haiti, the institution of slavery survives in the form of restavec, a system of forced child labour. Restavec is the Haitian Creole term meaning "stay with" and has its origins in the legacy of slavery. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (UPI): The first naturalised US citizen in recent times to lose his citizenship after a criminal conviction has been ordered deported to his native Haiti. But Lionel Jean-Baptiste may still get to stay in the US if Haiti refuses to take him back. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (UPI): Haitian gang members handed over weapons to U.N. peacekeepers to kick off a U.N. effort to disarm the militant movement, Haitian radio reported Tuesday. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters): UN troops took over several areas that had been held by illegally armed gangs in the volatile slums of the Haitian capital on Monday, according to a UN official who pledged to bring gang leaders to justice. read more.. |
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MIAMI, USA (Reuters): Hurricane Ernesto weakened to a tropical storm as it hammered flood-prone Haiti on Sunday and Florida and Cuba started evacuations as the storm headed for the Gulf of Mexico a year after Hurricane Katrina swamped New Orleans. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters): Gang leaders in Haiti's largest slum said on Monday they were putting disarmament plans on hold due to raids by U.N. peacekeepers on the notoriously violent streets they control. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters): Armed gangs in Haiti's largest slum pledged on Thursday to hand over their weapons to the government next week, heeding President Rene Preval's call for a peaceful disarmament. read more.. |
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| LASCAHOBAS, Haiti (AFP): Outside the UN World Food Program warehouse, hungry Haitians form a line and wait for the rations coming to them as victims of tuberculosis or AIDS. read more.. |
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| UNITED NATIONS, (AFP): The Security Council on Tuesday extended a UN mission to Haiti by six months, with additional police and fewer soldiers. read more.. |
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CANGE, Haiti (AFP): "It hurts me to see children die before they even had a chance to live," says Estrella Torres, one of 600 Cuban doctors who work in Haiti, where life expectancy is only 52 years. Haiti, with a population of just eight million people, is the poorest country in western hemisphere. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA: The Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights asked a federal court on Tuesday to order the U.S. Treasury Department to reveal records of its role in suspending loans destined for vital public health projects in Haiti. read more.. |
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters): A well-known singer and supporter of ousted former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has been freed from prison where she was held on what she decried on Tuesday as politically motivated charges. Magistrate Fritzner Fils-Aime issued the release order. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters): Haiti's government threw down the gauntlet to the impoverished and violent Caribbean nation's armed gangs on Thursday, telling them to lay down their weapons or be killed. read more.. |
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| PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti: A well-known Haitian businessman was assassinated Monday morning, in Port-au-Prince. Guy Vitiello, originally from Italy, was beaten to death by bandits inside his residence in Musseau, east of the Haitian capital. read more.. |
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| SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AFP): UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said he will ask the United Nations Security Council to send dozens of crime experts to Haiti to help quell violence in the country. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters): A gang leader in Haiti's largest slum said on Friday that he and others would be willing to lay down their arms as part of a broader disarmament process in the impoverished and violent Caribbean nation. read more.. |
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: The United Nations General Secretary concluded a short visit to Haiti Thursday evening. In a joint press conference with President Rene Préval before his departure, Annan admitted that the security climate is difficult in Haiti. But he talked of positive evolution. read more.. |
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| UNITED NATIONS, USA (Reuters): U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan delayed a visit to Haiti on Wednesday after the commercial aircraft he was to use experienced technical difficulties, the United Nations said. read more.. |
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| I am an entrepreneur in the Haitian community. I also moderate a forum called Debanasyonal on the Web. I am very much disappointed at the article by Dr Persaud. read more.. |
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| I've been reading Caribbean Magazine for many years now, since I was living in the USA. I've been living in Switzerland for five years now, getting news and purchasing products through Caribbean Magazine. read more.. |
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| UNITED NATIONS, (AFP): UN Secretary General Kofi Annan will on Wednesday start a two-day visit to Haiti, in a sign of international support amid a new resurgence of violence in the country, a spokeswoman said. read more.. |
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| The opposition political machinery consistently tries to portray Guyana as another Haiti. By doing this they hope to discourage Guyanese from acknowledging the enormous strides the country has made over the past twenty years. read more.. |
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WASHINGTON, USA: The Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Ambassador Albert R. Ramdin, has welcomed the release from prison of former Prime Minister of Haiti, Yvon Neptune. “This is a very positive development,” Ramdin said. read more.. |
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Former Haitian prime minister Yvon Neptune, jailed since 2004 for allegedly killing opponents of ex-president Jean Bertrand Aristide, walked free Thursday, a UN mission said. The UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) welcomed the release. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): International donors and lenders agreed Tuesday to extend to Haiti 750 million dollars over the next 15 months as they wrapped up a conference on aid to the Western Hemisphere's poorest state. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters): International donors pledged $750 million on Tuesday to help fund impoverished Haiti's economic recovery efforts for the next fiscal year. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Haitian President Rene Preval promised Tuesday to tackle the insecurity and violence prevailing in his country at an aid conference of international donors and lenders. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): International donors and lenders met Monday in Haiti, whose government aimed to raise some five billion dollars for one of the poorest countries in the Americas. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Residents of the Haitian capital have returned to System D after a week which saw a new wave of kidnappings and eight people killed in clashes with UN peacekeepers. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (AFP): Two US kidnapped US missionaries were released on payment of a ransom in Haiti Thursday, but a Haitian employee of the US embassy was still being held, US officials said. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters): At least two people were killed when U.N. troops exchanged gunfire with gangs in Haiti's capital on Wednesday, a witness said. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: While meeting in Paris with President Rene Garcia Préval, the French leader Jacques Chirac revealed plans to begin a co-development program in Haiti. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Hope is dimming two months into Haitian President Rene Preval's term that new blood can revive the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation as gang violence retakes the hard-pressed island in its violent grip. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Several thousand Haitian demonstrated peacefully Saturday under armed United Nations escort for the return of their deposed leader Jean Bertrand Aristide from South African exile. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: Hatian president, Rene Préval, announced the appointment last week of Luc-Eucher Joseph as the official Public Security State Secretary. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): More than 20 people were killed in Haiti in recent days amid escalating violence involving armed gangs in Martissant, the southern suburb of the capital, UN officials said. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: Once again, violence continues to escalate in Haiti when, last week, the district of Martissant erupted in violent chaos following a bloody confrontation between opposing rival groups, which left several dead. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, (AFP): At least 16 people were killed and three injured in a night of fighting between armed groups in the south of Haiti's capital, a United Nations official said Friday. read more.. |
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: President Rene Préval's visit to Paris has encouraged support for Haitian political parties. President Préval's delegates included several former presidential candidates, which many hope will enhance international cooperation and support. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (UPI): Jean-Bertrand Aristide, former priest and exiled former president of Haiti, is the target of a major U.S. drug investigation, The Miami-Herald said. read more.. |
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| PARIS, France (Reuters): French President Jacques Chirac said on Friday United Nations forces should remain in Haiti to continue their mission to help preserve order and pledged support for the impoverished Caribbean country. read more.. |
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| GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AFP): Haiti will mark its return to the Caribbean trade and development bloc CARICOM on Monday at a summit of the organization's member states in St Kitts and Nevis. read more.. |
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| KINGSTON, Jamaica: Proparco has signed a Credit Agreement with Unigestion Holding S.A. to finance the development of Digicel Haiti, a new mobile telecommunication operator. read more.. |
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| GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Haiti’s development will depend largely on the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) institutional support, according to the Prime Minister of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit. read more.. |
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| BRUSSELS, (Reuters): The European Union announced an increase in development aid for Haiti on Tuesday, in a show of support for visiting President Rene Preval and his newly elected government. read more.. |
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| René Préval has an enormous task ahead of him, as he picks up the reins of a battered and demoralized nation. Reforming the Haitian judicial system, however, is perhaps the most critical of his multiple burdens. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: The United States plans to assist the Haitian government, the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) and the Organisation of American States (OAS) in "the completion of local elections". read more.. |
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| GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Rio Group members are advocating an extended life and mandate of the United Nations (UN) Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: Newly elected President of Haiti, René Preval has expressed delight at Haiti's resumption of formal arrangements with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters): A Canadian missionary held by kidnappers in Haiti for almost a week was freed after a $2,000 ransom was paid, a Haitian police official said on Sunday. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): A Canadian missionary was kidnapped from an orphanage he heads in Port-au-Prince, and his captors are demanding a ransom, police and witnesses said Wednesday. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): About 100 police officers have been shot dead in the past two years, a human rights organization said Tuesday, warning of a resurgence of violence in Haiti. read more.. |
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| PARIS, France: VoluBill on Monday announced the successful launch of its latest versions of Charge it™ for Browsing, Charge It™ for Delivery and Charge it™ for IP solutions in Digicel’s mobile network operations in Trinidad & Tobago and Haiti. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): The IMF said Haiti has a "unique historical opportunity" to improve its political and economic situation, as talks opened here on a three-year aid program for the Caribbean nation. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): A top lawmaker from Haiti's recently installed parliament was shot several times while driving in Port-au-Prince this week, the chamber of deputies' president said late Tuesday. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters): Haitian Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis and a coalition Cabinet meant to help unite the fractious Caribbean nation were sworn into office on Friday. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Two armed gangs clashed over control of a generator to see the World Cup, leaving six people dead, sources close to the United Nations mission in Haiti said last week. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters): UN troops and gangs exchanged gunfire in Haiti's largest slum in the first such clash in months, and witnesses said on Thursday that three people were killed. read more.. |
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| GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AFP): Haiti has been officially readmitted to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) after being kicked out in 2004, according to the headquarters here of the Caribbean trade and economic development bloc. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): The Haitian Senate approved late Tuesday a coalition cabinet under new Prime Minister Jacques-Edouard Alexis, who pledged to re-establish the rule of law in the impoverished Caribbean country. read more.. |
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| SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP): President Michelle Bachelet leaves Wednesday for a tour of Haiti, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic and a visit to the United States, where she will meet with President George W. Bush, Chile's foreign ministry said. read more.. |
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| BASSETERRE, St Kitts: Heads of State and Governments of Haiti, Jamaica and Montserrat will be among the new faces when the 27th Conference of Caribbean Heads of Government convenes in St Kitts next month. read more.. |
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) : Haitian Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis unveiled his cabinet on Tuesday and vowed to deal with the burning issue of political prisoners. Alexis went before the Senate to outline his plan for governing as part of the formal process of installing a new government. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: The visa dispute between Ottawa and Haitian Prime Ministerial nominee, Jacques Edouard Alexis, is reportedly on the way to being solved, according to Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister. read more.. |
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| BRASILIA, Brazil (UPI): Brazil has sent an additional 280 troops to Haiti, where the South American nation leads the UN peacekeeping mission, Brazilian officials said Friday. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): The new representative of UN chief Kofi Annan in Haiti, Guatemalan diplomat Edmond Mulet, arrived Friday in Port-au-Prince to head the UN peacekeeping mission in the troubled country. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: Haiti’s Deputies Chamber endorsed Jacques Edouard Alexis for Prime Minister last week, thus conforming their choice with that of the Senate. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Haiti's Senate on Wednesday voted to endorse the nomination of Jacques-Edouard Alexis as Haiti's new prime minister, a post he held from 1999-2001. read more.. |
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“The Haitians are a proud and energetic people, and given the tools they can do the job of their own development”. This is the view of Cecil Pilgrim, a former Caribbean diplomat, who observed the Haitian Presidential and Parliamentary elections. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (UPI): A Haitian gang took a Brazilian colonel hostage but released him after two hours, O Globo reported Friday. The colonel -- who only gave his last name, Odair -- was taken hostage Thursday. read more.. |
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| UNITED NATIONS, (AFP): Donors and countries contributing troops to the United Nations mission in Haiti will meet in Brasilia next Tuesday to marshal funds to assist newly elected Haitian President Rene Preval, the outgoing head of the mission said Friday. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Haiti's newly elected President Rene Preval nominated on Wednesday former minister Jacques-Edouard Alexis for the post of prime minister, officials close to the president said. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: Early Sunday morning, prisoners gathered on the roof of the National Penitentiary in Haiti, displaying the lifeless body of a gunshot victim. Several waved t-shirts covered in blood and raised signs marked with protest slogans. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: On Monday evening, Michaelle Jean, the governor general of Canada, reflected her Haitian roots while expressing hope for Haiti's future to members of Parliament and representatives of the outgoing government. read more.. |
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| UNITED NATIONS, (AFP): Guatemala's ambassador to the European Union has been appointed as the new head of the UN mission in Haiti, the UN said in a statement. read more.. |
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| PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (UPI): Canada's Governor General, Michaelle Jean, has begun a four-day trip to Haiti, returning to her birth country for the first time since her 2005 appointment. read more.. |
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| UNITED NATIONS, (AFP): The UN Security Council on Monday urged Haiti's executive and legislative branches to work together in a constructive manner following the swearing-in of President Rene Preval. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: Specialized units of the Haitian police force are now wearing new khaki uniforms, which may prevent armed gangs from using police uniforms while committing crimes. read more.. |
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| With his official inauguration on May 14, Haitian President-elect René Préval faces a Brobdingnagian challenge in rebuilding his shattered country. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (UPI): A chance spotting of a man wanted for murder in the United States led to his arrest in the Haitian capital, The Miami Herald reported Saturday. read more.. |
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Rene Preval, a 63-year-old agronomist seen as a champion of the poor, was sworn in as president of Haiti on Sunday, two years after Jean Bertrand Aristide fled the impoverished Caribbean nation. The moderate leftist took the oath of office for a five-year term. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (UPI): One-third of Haitians are unemployed and less than half of the country's school-age children attend primary school, said a U.N. survey released Wednesday. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): After a one-day delay, Haiti's newly elected parliament started work Tuesday in its first session since 2003. The inauguration had been delayed for 24 hours due to technical problems. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): The opening session of Haiti's newly-elected parliament, initially set for Monday, has been delayed until Tuesday, according to an official source. read more.. |
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| PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti: On Wednesday, Digicel will officially launch its mobile phone service in Haiti. The company will be giving away free phones for those customers willing to terminate service with existing providers. read more.. |
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| OTTAWA, Canada (AFP): Ottawa boosted its financial aid to Haiti Monday as Haitian president-elect Rene Preval wrapped up "working meetings" with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other top officials here. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): The United States applauded Haiti Monday for successfully holding a second round of parliamentary elections, the first since former president Jean Bertrand Aristide fled an uprising. read more.. |
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| TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP): Taiwan said Sunday that rival China had blocked Taiwanese Premier Su Tseng-chang's planned visit to Haiti by threatening to veto the mandate of the United Nations peacekeeping force in the Caribbean country. read more.. |
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP): Venezuela invited Haiti to join a program offering cut-rate oil to Caribbean nations as Haitian president-elect Rene Preval met Monday with President Hugo Chavez in Caracas. Chavez announced that Haiti would be added to his Petrocaribe program. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): The party of Haitian president-elect Rene Preval has taken the lead in the second round of legislative elections held last week, according to partial results released Monday. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: Giant posters of candidates and controversial commercials disseminated throughout the media by the Provisional Electoral Council (PEC) are the components of the current, dull electoral atmosphere in Haiti. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Haitian president-elect Rene Preval was to embark Monday on a 24 hour visit to Venezuela where he is due to meet President Hugo Chavez, Preval's office told AFP. read more.. |
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| CITE SOLEIL, Haiti (UPI): "Gunfire has been the soundtrack of Cite Soleil since I arrived," said Loris De Filippi, head of mission for Medicins Sans Frontiers, the international medical relief agency which operates two facilities in the heart of what is arguably the worst slum in the Americas. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Balloting was light but tempers ran high in Haiti's parliamentary run-off Friday, as a man was killed in a fight between partisans, officials said. read more.. |
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| OTTAWA, Canada (AFP): Canada's governor general will return to her country of birth next month to attend the inauguration of Haiti's new president, Rene Preval, in Port-au-Prince, her spokeswoman told AFP Tuesday. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Haitian President-elect Rene Preval met Cuban President Fidel Castro late Thursday to discuss new ways for improving bilateral cooperation. Preval, visiting Cuba with a delegation that includes future members of his government, earlier praised Cuban-trained doctors. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: The Haitian Olympic soccer team, which qualified for the final phase of the Central American games to be held this July in Cartagena, Colombia, on Monday paid a visit to the Interim Prime Minister. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: According to US Ambassador Janet Sanderson, there will be no significant changes in American policy towards the future government of Haiti. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (AFP): A Haitian woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to illegally bringing human remains into the United States after a head was found in her luggage for use in a voodoo ritual, a federal prosecutor's office said. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Haitian President-elect Rene Preval praised Cuba's medical help for impoverished Haiti and called for closer ties ahead of a meeting with President Fidel Castro, the official Granma newspaper reported Thursday. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: On Sunday, April 9, Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council (PEC) organised a simulation of the electoral day scheduled to occur on April 21, 2006. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): The United Nations mission in Haiti Friday called on the Haitian government to strengthen law enforcement as a key building block of democracy in the impoverished country. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: Six years after the double assassination of renowned Haitian journalist Jean Dominique and his guard Jean Claude Louissaint, the investigation is still in deadlock. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: By publicly laying the foundation for the roads to be built, the provisional Haitian Prime Minister launched a road reconstruction project which will connect the capital of Haiti to the city of Mirebalais (Center). read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): The UN, the European Union and Canada have joined forces to raise awareness about AIDS in Haiti, the Caribbean country hardest hit by the pandemic, by funding a film titled "Does The Band Leader Have AIDS?" read more.. |
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| RABAT, Morocco (AFP): About one week after withdrawing their joint military contingent from Haiti, Morocco and Spain plan to contribute police forces to the United Nations mission in the Caribbean nation, officials in both countries said Thursday. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: The atmosphere during the recent anniversary of the Haitian constitution differed considerably from the peaceful nineteenth anniversary of the constitution on March 29, 1987. read more.. |
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| PRETORIA, South Africa (AFP): South Africa is in no hurry to send ousted president Jean Bertrand Aristide back to Haiti without first securing agreement from the new president, the foreign minister said Monday. read more.. |
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| In the middle of May, after a number of electoral processes take place, Rene Preval, the only democratically-elected Haitian president to serve out his full five year presidential term and peacefully hand over power to the succeeding administration, will once again assume the presidential mantle. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): The United Nations mission in Haiti on Friday expressed concern about overcrowding in the country's prisons, where the majority of inmates have not been convicted and are being held in preventive detention. read more.. |
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| VIENNA, Austria: The repercussions of the armed revolt and collapse of the Lavalas Family party government in early 2004 continued to be felt, as armed groups, many of them with political affiliations, challenged the authority of the interim government. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (AFP): Haiti's President-elect Rene Preval on Wednesday urged the United Nations to focus on bolstering Haiti's police force, rather than on the UN military mission in the Caribbean country. read more.. |
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WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): Haiti's president-elect Rene Preval on Tuesday met briefly with US President George W. Bush, a White House official said, as part of a three-day visit to Washington. Bush "again congratulated Preval and noted that he was looking forward to working with the president-elect," read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA: Calling for immediate actions to ease suffering and build hope in Haiti, the Organization of American States (OAS) Assistant Secretary General, Albert R. Ramdin, said Monday that long-term institution-building and investment in infrastructure and economic activity are indispensable to a viable future for Haiti. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): The inauguration of Haitian president-elect Rene Preval will take place May 14, nearly two months after it was delayed due to the postponement of legislative elections, the government said Sunday. read more.. |
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Eleven human skulls were found Monday on a rubbish dump in the Haitian capital, two days after 17 skulls were discovered in a nearby suburb, according to an AFP reporter at the scene. No official explanation has been given for the macabre discovery of the skulls. read more.. |
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UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK (AFP): Haiti president-elect Rene Preval on Monday pressed for more international long-term aid to boost economic recovery and prop up democratic institutions in his impoverished country. Addressing an open debate on Haiti in the UN Security Council. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Rene Preval on Sunday begins a three-day visit to the United States -- his first as Haiti's president-elect -- for talks with US President George W. Bush and officials from various international organizations. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (UPI): Haitian and United Nations police are investigating 17 human skulls found littered around a wooded suburb of the country's capital, Port-au-Prince. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: Haiti and the Dominican Republic are preparing for the second edition of the ecological, tourist and production exhibition christened "Let us protect our frontier rivers." read more.. |
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| NASSAU, Bahamas (AFP): The United States and its Caribbean neighbors on Wednesday patched up their differences over Haiti and issued a joint call for more international help for the politically turbulent, impoverished nation. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): A runoff in Haiti's parliamentary elections is set for April 21, electoral officials said here Friday. Sixty Senate candidates and 187 hopefuls for the Chamber of Deputies will stand in the second round of voting. read more.. |
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| René Garcia Préval has become the 51st President of the Haitian Republic. When he was declared the Presidential winner in the early morning hours of February 17, 2006 thousands of his supporters poured into the streets of Port au Prince. read more.. |
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| BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AFP): Visiting Haitian president-elect Rene Preval urged Tuesday that UN forces be kept on in his troubled Caribbean nation. read more.. |
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| PARAMARIBO, Suriname: Police in Suriname have detained six Haitian nationals who tried to enter the country illegally. They arrived at the international airport on Saturday along with 125 fellow-countrymen who entered legally. read more.. |
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| BRASILIA, Brazil (UPI): Brazilian forces will remain in Haiti as long as they are needed by the country's new government, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Monday. read more.. |
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VALPARAISO, Chile (AFP): Haitian president-elect Rene Preval held talks here Saturday with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on economic and security issues in his country, officials said. Preval met with Rice, and separately with South African President Tabo Mbeki. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA: Prime Minister P.J. Patterson of Jamaica, speaking in Washington on Thursday, stressed that the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will do “everything in its power” to ensure that Haiti is no longer isolated. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Haitian president-elect Rene Preval announced Thursday he will travel to the United States this month to meet with US President George W. Bush. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Haiti's interim president on Tuesday denounced a recent agreement between Haiti and the UN peacekeeping mission on police reform, saying it violated the country's Constitution. read more.. |
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WASHINGTON, USA (UPI): Haiti's beloved and detested former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide intends to return home, a prospect U.S. officials and analysts say could subvert efforts to hoist the western hemisphere's poorest country from the brink of total breakdown. read more.. |
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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AFP): Haitian president-elect Rene Preval arrived Thursday in the neighboring Dominican Republic to discuss the plight of Haitian migrants here in his first foreign trip since his election. Preval noted the friendly bond shared by the neighboring countries. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: Carnival was revealed to be once again the greatest of Haitian popular festivities. Hundreds of thousands of people danced in the streets of Port-au-Prince, forgetting their concerns, from February 26 to February 28, to the sound of their favorite musical groups. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Just one candidate gained enough votes in Haiti's parliamentary elections earlier this month to take up a seat in the country's assembly, according to the electoral council (CEP) Tuesday. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): The UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti said Thursday the security situation in Port-au-Prince had improved due to help from police, and noted a sharp drop in crimes and kidnappings. read more.. |
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Haitian president-elect Rene Preval left the door open Wednesday for former president Jean Bertrand Aristide to return to Haiti from exile in South Africa two years after he was forced from power. Preval said the Caribbean nation's constitution allows its citizens to freely leave and return to their homeland. read more.. |
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| JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP): Exiled Haitian leader Jean Bertrand Aristide said Tuesday he plans to return to his country "as soon as possible" following elections in the Caribbean nation. read more.. |
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The victory by Rene Préval in Haiti’s presidential elections poses challenges for the member countries of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM). It was well known that the regional grouping was divided on how to treat with Haiti. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Haiti and the UN Development Program signed Monday a 1.15 million dollar program to prepare for natural disasters, such as floods, that have killed thousands in the Caribbean nation. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): One of Haiti's top elections official has fled to the United States after coming under threat, the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) said Monday. read more.. |
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| GEORGETOWN, Guyana: The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has welcomed the news of the election of a new President of Haiti, Mr. René Preval after a review was undertaken of the vote count process in the face of troubling allegations of manipulation and other grave irregularities. read more.. |
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| GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AFP): The 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) called Friday for international backing for Haiti after Rene Preval was declared the winner of the impoverished nation's presidential election. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): The United States has expressed confidence the new president of Haiti will step up the fight against drugs in the Caribbean nation, which is a major transhipment route for cocaine. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): President-elect Rene Preval has launched political consultations to build a parliamentary coalition in Haiti as he faces daunting challenges in the hemisphere's poorest country read more.. |
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| SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AFP): The Dominican Republic will be the first country visited by Haitian president-elect Rene Preval since he was declared the winner of Haiti's election, the Dominican Republic president said Sunday. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: It is time is for celebration among the supporters of Rene Préval. Most of them stayed all night long, from Wednesday to Thursday, around the Presidential Palace, waiting for the proclamation of their candidate's victory. Joyous demonstrations continued throughout the day Thursday. read more.. |
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Haitians celebrated in the streets Thursday after Rene Preval was declared president following a reshuffling of blank ballots, in a internationally brokered deal over fraud claims. While crowds danced and sang in the streets of Port-au-Prince, the second placed candidate said Preval's victory was a "reward for violence." read more.. |
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Foreign diplomats in Haiti Wednesday considered proposals that would give Rene Preval his claimed presidential election victory, as his supporters again demonstrated against alleged fraud. Further delaying the outcome of the February 7 vote, a commission was formed to probe claims of "massive fraud." read more.. |
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (UPI): Haitian presidential frontrunner Rene Preval has been anointed the troubled country's new leader, Haitian radio reported Thursday. Preval appeared to have soundly defeated the competition in last week's election. However, as the ballot count continued, his lead diminished to below the 50-percent threshold. read more.. |
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| UNITED NATIONS, (AFP): The UN Security Council on Tuesday unanimously voted to renew the mandate of the UN force in Haiti (Minustah) for for at least another six months, as the impoverished Caribbean nation awaited presidential poll results. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Dominican Republic military pilots Tuesday airlifted former South African Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu from the Haitian capital after unrest caused the cancelation of commercial flights. read more.. |
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Frontrunner Rene Preval on Tuesday decried "massive fraud or gross errors" in Haiti's presidential election, insisted he won outright, and urged supporters to continue protesting. The presidency promptly announced the formation of a commission to investigate the claims. read more.. |
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I must admit that I do not know who amongst the motley crew of 34 candidates in last week’s presidential elections offered the best leadership prospects for Haiti. I have felt that Haiti does not need a president so much as a prolonged period of (enforceable) martial law. read more.. |
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| The so-called democratic white capitalist world is trying to deny the Haitian people the right to govern themselves because they are black and free from mental slavery. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): An eruption of gunfire left one person dead Monday in Port-au-Prince, amid protests over the result of Haiti's presidential election. read more.. |
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| KINGSTOWN, St Vincent: The government of the eastern Caribbean nation of St Vincent and the Grenadines said it would once again recognise a government in Haiti if it is satisfied that last Tuesday’s elections were free and fair and there is ongoing respect for human rights. read more.. |
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Former South African Anglican archbishop and Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu Sunday preached his message of reconciliation in volatile Haiti, where voters awaited the outcome of presidential elections. "The people of Haiti say yes to peace ... no to revenge," he said in a sermon. read more.. |
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| MADRID, Spain (AFP): The Spanish defence ministry said Sunday that Madrid has decided to withdraw its troops from the United Nations Mission in Haiti (Minustah). read more.. |
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): More than 10,000 people demonstrated in the Haitian capital Sunday demanding Rene Preval be declared president, despite partial results that put him just shy of the 50 percent needed to win the election outright. Results announced earlier in the day showed that Preval, a former president, had 49.1 percent of the vote. read more.. |
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| UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK (UPI): Of the many challenges that will face Haiti's new president, a high-ranking United Nations official says, the most difficult may be a place where no ballots were cast in the country's first election in over five years. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (UPI): Street violence and organizational snafus did not mar Tuesday's Haitian presidential elections, roundly hailed a success by international monitors. But as the results are tallied in the coming days, some analysts say opponents of front-runner Rene Preval may thwart the country's best hope for recovery. read more.. |
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| PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Caricom leaders, who are in Port of Spain, Trinidad, for the 17th International Heads of Government Conference, are prepared to re-instate Haiti back into the Caricom community. read more.. |
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| CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AFP): South Africa will look into the possible return of deposed Haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide to his homeland once it is safe for him, the foreign minister said Thursday. read more.. |
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| BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP): President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Thursday that Brazilian peacekeepers will remain in Haiti until its new government sends them home. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): The US ambassador to Haiti said Thursday this week's elections demonstrated that former president Jean Bertrand Aristide, who fled the country with US help two years ago, "is a man of the past." read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Former president Rene Preval won about 61 percent of the vote in Haiti's presidential election, according to partial results based on 15 percent of the votes, a member of the electoral council told AFP Thursday. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Haitians on Wednesday anxiously awaited the outcome of the first elections since president Jean Bertrand Aristide resigned and fled the turmoil-wracked country two years ago. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Canada's ambassador to Haiti, Claude Boucher, Wednesday hailed the strong turnout in the turmoil-torn country's elections, saying it may have been the highest ever. read more.. |
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Four people were reported dead and dozens more were injured during presidential elections in volatile Haiti as angry crowds stormed voting centers that opened hours late. But by mid-afternoon, fears that fresh political violence could mar the elections did not materialize. read more.. |
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| On February 29, 2004, the democratically elected President of Haiti, Jean Bertrand Aristide was ousted. Most sectors of the Haitian society, in particular, the sectors who participated in the movement that overthrew Aristide, hoped that a new era for a real democratization process was opening its doors in Haiti. read more.. |
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| CITE SOLEIL, Haiti (UPI): Residents of one of the most dangerous slums in the Americas fear violence beyond its reaches and bemoan the long distances they must walk to vote Tuesday in Haiti's crucial presidential election. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): The United States on Monday urged Haitians to take part in the country's first elections since Jean Bertrand Aristide fled the country in 2004. read more.. |
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Trucks, helicopters and in some cases mules were deployed across Haiti Monday, one day before Haitians were set to pick their first elected president since Jean Bertrand Aristide fled the country. UN military and police troops took up their positions to protect voting centers and prevent a new flare-up of violence. read more.. |
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| GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AFP): The 15-nation Caribbean Community will send a team of observers to monitor the first round of Haiti's general election, the regional headquarters said Friday. read more.. |
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Haitian presidential favorite Rene Preval acknowledged there could be isolated incidents in Tuesday's elections, but said he was confident police and UN troops could deal with them. "There are risks of attempts to disrupt the elections by people linked to organized crime who do not want stability," Preval, 63, told AFP. read more.. |
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| CASTRIES, St Lucia: Saint Lucia says it will support Haiti’s request for re-entry into CARICOM, if the country’s upcoming elections are held in a “free and fair manner.” read more.. |
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Six blue-helmeted soldiers peer through the hatch of a UN armed personnel carrier, pointing their rifles as they scan the mean streets of Cite Soleil, a focus of concern ahead of Tuesday's elections in Haiti. They get nasty stares from residents of this Port-au-Prince slum notorious for its violent gangs. read more.. |
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PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti: Hundreds of supporters of former Haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide demonstrated Wednesday in Cité Soleil", north of Port-au-Prince, demanding the installation of polling stations inside this shantytown. Some of the demonstrators raised photographs of Aristide and presidential candidate René Préval. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (UPI): American Airlines has canceled flights to and from Haiti ahead of next week's elections for fear of escalated violence during the voting. read more.. |
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| Holding elections in a country as unstable, insecure and terrified as Haiti may seem impossible, but that is exactly what the U.S.-backed interim government intends to do on Tuesday, February 7. read more.. |
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Haiti's Prime Minister Gerard Latortue on Thursday promised stringent security for the country's landmark elections next week following recent attacks on United Nations peacekeepers. Latortue said security forces had been ordered to "get tough with all those who believe they could upset the elections". read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (UPI): UN peacekeepers in Haiti are on high alert ahead of elections scheduled for next week, Haitian radio reported Wednesday. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (AFP): Haitian priest and political opposition figure Gerard Jean-Juste was admitted to hospital here Monday for leukemia and pneumonia, a day after being released from jail in Haiti for treatment in the United States. read more.. |
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| PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AFP): Haiti's interim Prime Minister, Gerard Latorture, has extended an invitation to CARICOM leaders to send a ministerial team to monitor upcoming elections in the troubled Caribbean country. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): Upcoming elections in Haiti are an essential first step toward eradicating poverty and quelling the country's social unrest, the diplomat nominated to be America's envoy to Port-au-Prince told a Senate panel Wednesday. read more.. |
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| PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Haiti's interim Prime Minister, Gerard Latortue, who is on a three-day visit to Trinidad for meetings with Prime Minister Patrick Manning has called for Haiti to be reinstated as a CARICOM member country. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA: A high-level mission to Haiti assured that country’s authorities of the international community’s continued support for a process of democracy and stability, but stated that “it is the Haitians themselves who will have the responsibility and authority to decide how their democracy and governance can be strengthened.” read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): The United States sees no need to send troops to Haiti for peacekeeping duties ahead of elections scheduled in two weeks, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Tuesday. read more.. |
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| PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Haiti's interim Prime Minister, Gerard Latortue is in Trinidad for a three-day visit and is to hold high level talks with Prime Minister Patrick Manning. read more.. |
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WASHINGTON, USA: The Organization of American States’ (OAS) Assistant Secretary General, Albert R. Ramdin, has renewed the call by the international community for the country’s February 7 first-round elections to be held on schedule. He participated in a high-level international mission to Haiti along with several senior representatives. read more.. |
Authorities reassure, but fears remain concerning coming presidential poll in Haïti
01-24-2006
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti: Less than three weeks remain for the first round of the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections in Haiti and, in order to give voters confidence in the process, the Provisional electoral council (PEC) on Friday conducted a vote simulation exercise. read more..
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Haiti's elites must do more to help the poor, the frontrunner in Haiti's presidential race told AFP in an interview. read more.. |
Thursday, January 19, 2006
BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP): UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has named Brazilian General Jose Elito Carvalho Siqueira
to head the UN force in Haiti, after his predecessor committed suicide,
officials here said...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP):
Two Jordanian peacekeepers died in clashes in the Haitian capital Tuesday,
heightening tensions three weeks before the country's presidential election. One Jordanian soldier was killed instantly in a
gun battle in a notorious shanty district, while another died from his wounds in hospital...
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UN official confirms Haitian vote date
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AFP):
Special UN envoy to Haiti, Juan Gabriel Valdes, confirmed Monday that
presidential and parliamentary elections will be held in Haiti on February 7.
Haiti's interim government picked the new election date earlier this month after
coming under international pressure for postponing the vote a fourth time...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Last Friday, Angelina Jolie took a break from filming her latest movie
The Good Shepard (on location in the Dominican Republic) to visit Haiti
in her capacity as a United Nations roving ambassador of goodwill. In Haiti, where she was received like a visiting head of state, Jolie and her entourage visited a school funded by Wyclef
Jean...
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Monday, January 16, 2006
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti: The year 2006 started in Port-au-Prince, capital of
Haiti, under the sign of the blackout, as the last part of 2005 had ended.
Except for the zones known as priority, some districts of the metropolitan area
of Port-au-Prince get electricity only two hours every three days...
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Jolie and Pitt 'Clean Streets' alongside Wyclef Jean in
Haiti
Monday, January 16, 2006
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, Hollywood's couple du jour, choppered into Haiti Friday to join hip-hop star Wyclef
Jean's Clean Streets project for the impoverished Caribbean nation.
Dressed in black and sporting huge sunglasses, the two stars dropped in to
support the US-funded city cleanup project...
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Thursday, January 12, 2006
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AFP): Twenty-four Haitians died after
apparently being thrown from a truck carrying 50 illegal immigrants into the
Dominican Republic, a government official said Wednesday...
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Lula confers military honours on late UN Haiti commander
Thursday, January 12, 2006
BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP): President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva conferred military honours here Wednesday on the late Brazilian General Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar,
who led the UN force in Haiti until his apparent suicide last week. Bacellar,
58, was found dead in his hotel room in Port-au-Prince on Saturday from a
gunshot wound...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2006
BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP): The body of Brazilian General Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar,
who led the UN force in Haiti until his apparent suicide, was repatriated to
Brasilia on Tuesday, a Brazilian air force spokesman said...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2006
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Haitian business leaders led a general strike
backed by politicians Monday to urge the UN stabilization mission to restore
security in the violence-wracked Caribbean country...
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Monday, January 9, 2006
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Haiti's interim government has yielded to
international pressure and advanced the date set for national elections, setting
February 7 for an initial electoral round, with follow-up voting in March...
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UN commander in Haiti dead in apparent suicide
Monday, January 9, 2006
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): The Brazilian commander of the UN mission in Haiti
has been found dead in an apparent suicide, according to the mission, which is
struggling to bring security to the troubled Caribbean nation...
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Friday, January 6, 2006
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Haitian Prime Minister Gerard Latortue told AFP
Thursday he will step down on February 7, despite the country's elections being
postponed...
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Thursday, January 5, 2006
UNITED NATIONS (AFP): The UN Security Council is to meet Friday at Argentina's
request to discuss the situation in Haiti where general elections have once
again been postponed, the council president for this month said Wednesday...
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Wednesday, January 4, 2006
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Haitian presidential candidate Dany Toussaint has
been freed following his arrest by UN peacekeepers for carrying two guns without
a permit, his representative here said Tuesday...
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Tuesday, January 3, 2006
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Haiti's interim government confirmed Sunday that
general elections scheduled for January 8 would be postponed again, and did not
immediately set a new date for the vote...
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Monday, January 2, 2006
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): An electoral official indicated Friday that Haiti
will have to postpone its national elections for a fourth time as the
violence-wracked country was not prepared to hold the polls...
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Two kidnapped OAS staffers and wife freed in Haiti
Monday, January 2, 2006
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Two staff members of the Organization of American States kidnapped in the Haitian capital, as well as a spouse of one of them, were set free Saturday, a source at the OAS mission told AFP...
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