Sunday, October 11, 2015
The mandate of the Minustah renewed, should we rejoice?
The renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) is not new, even less a surprise. In the current context, it is the opposite that would surprise us. 11 years after its deployment to Haiti, renewing the mandate of the UN mission has become a ritual, a mere formality. 11 years after the creation of the UN force, the stabilization of Haiti is far from a reality. Except for Haitian authorities and foreign officials who want to feel good. While it is true that the Minustah has helped to dismantle some gangs who terrorized the population after 2004, most of the work remains to be done. Our institutions have been strengthened to ...
Election day on August 9, 2015
MENFP honors 10 teachers for their exemplary professionalism
Ten old hands of public education were honored this Friday by the Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training (MENFP) at the Mariott Hotel. Ernst Ulysses INNOCENT, 42-year career;Accivien SYLVAIN, 32; Ronald SAINT Surin, 35; Jean Michel PIERRE-LOUIS, 33; Jean Claude JOSEPH, 35; Mario PERARD, 36; Marie F. SAINTIL, 30; Joel MILIEN Serge, 36, Dieudonné YOUNG, 36; Pierre odne Jolivert, 36 and Dupcie ...
"One billion tourists a billion opportunities"
The Ministry of Tourism and Creative Industries organized Thursday, October 8, in the gardens of MUPANAH, a cozy cocktail on the occasion of World Tourism Day, celebrated every September 27. "One billion tourists Billion Opportunities" is the theme for this year. In the presence of Prime Minister Paul Evans, the Minister of Trade and Industry, Jude Hervey Day, and other state figures, the tourism minister expressed ...
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Nono candidate: The FHF positions
Ernst Nono Jean-Baptiste, one of the biggest names in the Victory Sports Club, former glory of the national team and former coach of the national football team, currently acts as Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Civic Action (MJSAC).The least that can be said about Ze Nono is that it works in the Haitian sports field, and that since his childhood. Having campaigned as a player, coach, manager, he dreams to run ...
Festive craft five questions
Le Nouvelliste: What's new for the 9th edition of Crafting party?Martine Blanchard: This year, we went to three villages: Noailles, Leogane and Jacmel. We arranged to put their works in front of the stage. Noailles and his cut metal; Léogâne and Jacmel and cut stone, its papier mache. These are inevitable places in the production of Haitian art. At national and international level, they represent our authentically craft. ...
Of the Haitian electoral institution
By Jean-Marie Beaudouin Democracy and modernity If we start from the traditional convention that the exercise of democracy is an approach that tends to implement a set of structures in the context of stability and political change, including the renewal of political staff at regular time, we see necessarily that the electoral institution is a key factor in modern democratic Thurs. Haitians staffing the country a ...
A prose to condemn October 17, 1806 in Pont-Rouge
Everything passes: years, seasons, months and days But our outrage caused by 17 October 1806 at Pont Rouge still exists. It is immutable, without wilting time. Every commemoration of October 17, 1806 our indignation lived three fairly different times. During the first time, beginning with stirrings of dawn, she always was on a eagle soaring over five hundred years of history, from the fifteenth to the nineteenth ...
Death to the president!
Two observations, among others deplorable, elections in Haiti are becoming more and more expensive and attract more and more candidates.Estimates of the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP), those of this year require more than sixty million US dollars (USD 60, 000,000), while nineteen million (USD 19, 000,000) were enough for the realization of games in 1995 . The ongoing elections see no less than fifty-four (54) people run ...
The "Grandet" Southeast between celebration and claims
The streets were Thiotte on Thursday, October 1, 2015, the scene of an unusual spectacle. People aged Thiotte were joined by those of Belle Anse, Grand Gosier, of Anse-à-Pitres, offering a parade that the whole city was applauded. October 1 is recognized and celebrated since 1991 as International Day of Older Persons. They were about 400 to tread the streets, men and women, placards in hand, armed with slogans and claims. It was close ...
Speech by outgoing President Robert Fritz St Paul
Mr. Prime Minister, Mr. President of the Court of Cassation and the Supreme Council of the Judiciary, Madam Chair of the Board of the Superior Court of Auditors and Administrative contieux (CSCCA), Distinguished members of the Board of CSCCA , Minister of Justice and Public Security, Mr. State University Rector of Haiti, members of the government, Mr. Secretary General of the Senate of ...
Apollo XI
Louis Etienne Le Islam July 16, 1969, the entire world has experienced an unprecedented event that caught the eye and the same curiosity of unbelievers. It was 9:32 am when the Saturn V launch vehicle weighing just over 3000 tonnes lifts off from Launch Complex 39, Cape Canaveral. The camera moves in low orbit around the earth to await the relative positioning of the rocket. Thirty Two hours later, after a revolution and a half around the earth, ...
Emilien Blaise, master of paper mache
Jacmel, a picturesque city that gave birth to so many artists and cultural effervescence. It is known for its carnival, crafts and in particular paper mache. The Sainte-Anne Street in this city is an artery cultural ferment. Several generations pass sublimating several disciplines including ceramics and papier mache. Blaise, since childhood, evolves in this ecosystem. A 3 or 4 years, his cronies at the time and it ...
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