PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti’s struggle to rebuild homes for hundreds of thousands of quake victims may be giving the impoverished nation something it has never had: loans to help people buy them. If efforts by international donors and local agencies succeed, at least a few members of Haiti’s small middle class will be able for the first time to get a mortgage. Some of the efforts reach even …
Haiti’s struggle to rebuild homes for hundreds of thousands of quake victims may be giving the impoverished nation something…
LES CAYES, Haiti — It is a legal spectacle unlike anything Haiti has seen: the government trying 13 of its own police officers — including high-ranking prison officials and riot squad members — on charges of murder, attempted murder or other crimes stemming from a prison massacre here last year.
Arnel Bélizaire a été arrêté à laéroport evans paul kaplume Gary Desrosiers, le Porte-parole adjoint de la Police Nationale dHaiti (PNH), Belizaire was elected to Haitis parliament in a March 20 runoff, a year and two months after the earthquake. Dozens of Belizaires supporters, including a handful of fellow deputies, showed up at the airport late Thursday to call for his release. Belizaire was driven to the very prison where he had been locked up since 2004 on an illegal weapons charge. Prime Minister Garry Conille, who went to the prison, said he did so to "make sure (Belizaires) rights have been respected. Belizaire belongs to Veye Yo, a political party that is aligned with former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The lawmaker has been openly critical of Haitian President Michel Martelly in recent weeks, and the two have lashed out at each other at the National Palace.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti is wooing Asian manufacturers, and its own diaspora, to inject investments and funds into the economy and create jobs to drive a recovery from last year’s earthquake, the foreign minister said on Thursday.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A Haitian lawmaker whose name surfaced on a list of inmates who fled the country’s main prison the day of last year’s earthquake was detained by police Thursday shortly after his flight from France landed at the capital’s airport. The detention of Dep. Arnel Belizaire marks a rare instance of a government official being jailed in Haiti. Read full article >>
A Haitian lawmaker whose name surfaced on a list of inmates who fled the country’s main prison the day of last year’s earthquake was detained by police Thursday shortly after his flight from France landed at the capital’s airport.
Five months into his administration, Haiti’s president, Michel Martelly, is looking to turn his country around. He also wants to reinstitute the country’s army, which was disbanded in 1995. But with an estimated half a million Haitians still living in makeshift tents, following the January 2010 earthquake, and Haiti’s new government just taking root, some [...]