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Presidential Advisor Lambert says salacious photo was photoshopped
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- Created on Thursday, May 23, 2013 6:25 PM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - Presidential Advisor Joseph Lambert denied being the person shown in photos circulating around the internet of a man who looks like the former senator and a young woman.
Jean-Henry Ceant: Plea for full participation of the Diaspora in all elections
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- Created on Monday, May 13, 2013 4:24 PM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - Former Presidential Candidate Jean Henry Céant sent a letter to the provisional Transitory College of the Permanent Electoral Council (CTCEP) in which he called for the full participation of the Haitian Diaspora in Haiti's elections.
Fanmi Lavalas deplores attack on Radio Tele Ginen journalist
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- Created on Saturday, May 11, 2013 9:34 AM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - The Coordinator for Fanmi Lavalas, Dr. Maryse Narcisse, deplored the acts of aggression and vandalism by demonstrators against journalists of Radio Tele Ginen on Wednesday following a hearing of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide at the Palace of Justice in Port-au-Prince.
Haiti: Electoral council president meets with OAS head in Barbados
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- Created on Saturday, May 11, 2013 6:51 AM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - The President of Haiti's provisional electoral council, Emmanuel Ménard, had a meeting in Barbados with the Secretary General of the Organization of American States.
Morse: Aristide, Fanmi Lavalas are back
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- Created on Sunday, May 05, 2013 6:45 PM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - Former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is engaged in the return of Fanmi Lavalas to the political terrain in Haiti according to former Martelly Adviser Richard Morse who said he met with Aristide three times in the past two weeks.
Haiti: electoral council forms two commissions
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- Created on Friday, May 03, 2013 12:47 PM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - The President of the Haiti's provisional electoral council, who is tasked to only organize the upcoming senate and local elections, Emmanuel Menard, announced at the first press conference the formation of two commissions, a 3 member commission that will sit on the issue of the budget and administrative issues for elections and another of 6 members that will work on producing an electoral law.
FOPARK: Fanmi Lavalas' electoral campaign begins May 8
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- Created on Thursday, May 02, 2013 11:10 AM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - The different sectors of Fanmi Lavalas will converge on the Palace of Justice on Wendesday May 8 according to FOPARK representatives who declared the mobilization to accompany former President Jean Bertrand Aristide, the start of the campaign.
Haiti: Workshop for the development of a National Cultivation and Utility Program for Benzolive
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- Created on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 8:18 PM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - First Lady Sophia Martelly and the National Commission for the Fight against Hunger and Malnutrition in the Ministry of Public Health and Population opened a workshop on Tuesday for the development of the National Programme for the Promotion of Cultivation and Utilization in Haiti of the Moringa plant, commonly known Benzolive.
Haiti: Officials can't explain putting employee pensions in private banks
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- Created on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 10:59 PM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - Audio from Monday's Senate hearing reveals the Director of the National Office of Pensions (ONA), Bernard Degraff, avoiding to answer, unequivocally, questions on whether he put state workers' pensions into private accounts at the National Credit Bank (BNC), without their knowledge, without transparency and outside of the Constitution which requires that government funds be kept at the Central Bank.
Francois Duvalier's grandson hopes to rehabilitate grandfather's image
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- Created on Monday, April 29, 2013 9:10 AM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - Days before the 50th anniversary of President for Life Francois Duvalier's widespread massacre of innocent Haitian men, women and children, his grandson, the son of Jean Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier had published, in Le Nouvelliste, an editorial that hoped to re-wrap his grandfather's legacy.
"Surprise" guest expected at Association of Caribbean States Summit in Haiti
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- Created on Thursday, April 25, 2013 1:30 AM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - Perhaps Barack Obama will be in Haiti on Thursday. The Summit Coordinator of the Association of Caribbean States is hopeful that Thursday would bring an abundance of Heads of States and Governments to the Haitian capital to participate in the 5th Summit. So far, attendance by high ranking dignitaries has been roughly non-existent but coordinator, Watson Denis, ensured of high participation on the final day of the summit, Thursday, including a "surprise" guest on the final day of the summit.
Haiti: Richard Morse urged to file formal complaint against President Martelly
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- Created on Tuesday, April 23, 2013 9:33 PM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - Presidential Adviser Youri Latortue suggests that former Presidential Adviser Richard Morse bring his accusations of corruption and sabotage at the National Palace as a formal complaint in the courts, meanwhile, OPL Coordinator Sauveur Pierre-Etienne says the alleged acts of blocking up drainage channels for international aid amount to terrorism and treason.
Haiti Sources: Electoral council contaminated in 1st Week
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- Created on Tuesday, April 23, 2013 9:41 AM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - There is a reason why the Haitian Constitution requires provisional electoral council be chosen by civil society and not government officials. It is to avoid improprieties such as those alleged of April 15, when six of the nine electoral council members would go to meet privately at the residence of the Haitian Head of State Michel 'Sweet Micky' Martelly.
Haiti provisional electoral council members sworn-in
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- Created on Saturday, April 20, 2013 9:03 AM
Youri Latortue says electoral council will be sworn-in Friday
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- Created on Wednesday, April 17, 2013 10:01 PM
Richard Morse resigned because of corruption, sabotage in Haiti National Palace
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- Created on Monday, April 15, 2013 5:57 PM
Establishment of Electoral Council Complete
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- Created on Saturday, April 13, 2013 5:43 AM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - An executive decree, dated April 5, 2013 was published in Le Moniteur Issue #63, Thursday, April 11, 2013, naming 9 members to the provisional, Transitory College of the Permanent Electoral Council (CTCEP).
Groups meet in Gonaïves to organize alternative to Tèt Kale regime
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- Created on Sunday, April 07, 2013 4:28 PM
GONAIVES, Haiti (defend.ht) - A major conference of opposition parties are met on Sunday in the city of independence, Gonaïves, to organize a formidable alternative to the Tèt Kale regime.
Electoral council complete with three designated by Executive
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- Created on Friday, April 05, 2013 6:53 PM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - Emmanuel Ménard, Margareth Lamur and Chantal Raymond were designated as three electoral council members from the Executive to sit on the provisional electoral council tasked with organizing the next elections in Haiti that were due to be held in November of 2011.
Fanmi Lavalas plans return in upcoming elections
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- Created on Thursday, March 21, 2013 5:21 PM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - Fanmi Lavalas, of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is preparing for a return of the party to the public arena.
