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Aristide party barred from Haiti's February ballot
Port-au-Prince :: Haiti | about 1 hour ago
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The political party of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide will be barred from legislative elections scheduled for February 28, Haitian elections officials said on Wednesday. The decision drew immediate criticism from Aristide, a onetime populist...
Tags: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, electoral council, lavalas family, Haitian, Haiti, Port-au-Prince, Elections in Haiti, Politics, Government of Haiti, Renￃﾩ Prￃﾩval, Fanmi Lavalas, Haitian general election, Lespwa
Students send toys to Haiti
Port-au-Prince :: Haiti | 2 days ago
Credibility Fran DeWine, a founder of the school with her husband, former U.S. Sen. Mike DeWine, said the gifts will likely be the only one many of these children receive for Christmas. The students learned that the children in Haiti are so poor that a beanie baby...
Tags: Haitian, Becky DeWine School, IAC, Haiti, Port-au-Prince, Finneytown Ohio, Springfield Ohio, Cedarville University, Mike DeWine, DeWine, Social Issues, Education
Spirit of Haiti comes to life in a box set from Alan Lomax
Port-au-Prince :: Haiti | 3 days ago
Credibility The remarkable voices, songs and images in the recently released box set Alan Lomax in Haiti are a stunning, delightful treasure, a vivid portrait of a time and place. On the set's 10 discs average people sing their everyday stories, berate corrupt politicians,...
Tags: Alan Lomax, Haitian, Anna Lomax Wood, Gage Averill, box set, Haiti, Port-au-Prince, Lomax, American folk music, Katherine Dunham, Entertainment Culture
Dictators have their plunder confiscated years after they were deposed
Zurich :: Switzerland | 4 days ago
Credibility It is 23 years since "Baby Doc" Duvalier was forced out of power in Haiti ; but in the next few weeks, a court in Lausanne, Switzerland will decide whether the kleptocratic dictator can finally get his hands on 7m Swiss francs (£4.2m) that has been frozen...
Tags: Haitian, Duvaliers, Adrian Fozzard, Mobutu Sese Seko, Switzerland, baby doc, tax havens, theirs plunder, Swiss, Valentin Zellweger, Zurich, International asset recovery, Haiti, Kleptocracy, Tax haven, Political corruption, Jean-Claude Duvalier, Duvalier
Amnesty presses Haiti to protect child domestic workers
Port-au-Prince :: Haiti | 5 days ago
Credibility Amnesty International has launched a campaign to press the government in Haiti to enact measures to protect child domestic workers from abuse, ill-treatment and exploitation. The human rights organisation wants authorities to enact legislation to protect...
Tags: Haitian, domestic worker, Amnesty International, Gerardo Ducos, child domestic, Haiti, Port-au-Prince, Latin America, Republics, Social Issues, Labor
HAITI: Shooting Incident Sparks Anger at U.N. Troops
Port-au-Prince :: Haiti | 5 days ago
Credibility Under a beating sun in the grassy field where two U.N. helicopters landed in Grand Goave last week, 19-year-old Benson Blanc moved his hands as if rapid-firing a gun into the ground in front of him and made a "tok-tok-tok-tok" sound...Residents of this...
Tags: Guatemalan U.N., U.N. Security Council, Haitian, Rinvil Jean Weldy, MINUSTAH, opened fired, Haiti, Port-au-Prince, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti, Citￃﾩ Soleil, Bureau des Avocats Internationaux, War Conflict
New Trier's Haitian link helps save island school
Petit Goâve :: Haiti | 5 days ago
Credibility Maurice Bonhomme and Jean Cayemitte grew up in the shadows of St...They picked passion fruit from trees in the courtyard and played soccer in the nearby fields...More than three decades and hundreds of miles later, the childhood friends and fellow security...
Tags: Maurice Bonhomme, Jean Cayemitte, New Trier, St. Joseph School, Haitian, Carolyn Muir, Haiti, Petit Goâve, Trier, New Trier High School, Winnetka Illinois, Education
Officials meet to mull energy theft prosecution
Santo Domingo :: Dominican Republic | 8 days ago
Credibility The Government aims to seriously prosecute energy theft while the multilateral financial organisms stress the elimination of the generalized subsidy and improved administrative efficiency to lower losses, of as high as 35%...The meeting seeks to curb...
Tags: Santo Domingo East, China, Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, Procrastination, Dominican peso, Republics, Vehicle registration plate, Lindsay Lohan, Amy Winehouse, Cocaine, Thieves, Probation, Criminal law, Crimes, Theft, Amet, Greater Santo Domingo Area, Prosecutor, Law Crime, Leonel Fernￃﾡndez, Politics, Business Finance, George W. Bush, Haitian, United Methodists, Decepticons, Ruckus, Miss Dominican Republic Universe
Neb. investment council adopts new guidelines
Port-au-Prince :: Haiti | 11 days ago
Credibility Cuban news agency's report on changes The Cuban Council of State released an official statement Monday informing of recent changes in the government. These follow President Raul Castro's remarks during the constituent session of the Cuban parliament on...
Tags: Haitian, Bill Clinton, U.N. Security Council, special session, United Nations Security Council, Cuban Council of State, Haiti, Port-au-Prince, Michￃﾨle Pierre-Louis, Outline of Haiti, Hￃﾩdi Annabi, Year of birth missing, Politics
Minister replaces sacked Haitian PM
Port-au-Prince :: Haiti | 26 days ago
Credibility Haiti's president has turned to a member of his Cabinet to replace the prime minister, who was abruptly removed by a Senate vote. Haiti's President Rene Preval designated planning minister Jean-Max Bellerive as the new prime minister Friday after Haitian...
Tags: Haitian, prime minister, Michele Pierre-Louis, Senate, U.S, president rene
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