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U.S. Customs Bust Cocaine Smuggler Traveling from Haiti

Details: Created on Thursday, 17 May 2012 14:44; Published Date

NEW YORK, USA (defend.ht/NY Post) - Customs officers at JFK International Airport busted a drug smuggler traveling from Haiti who packed cocaine inside sticks of deodorant, ink markers and hundreds of buttons.

Haitian-American Electoral Victory in New Jersery

Details: Created on Thursday, 10 May 2012 08:09; Published Date

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IRVINGTON, NEW JERSEY (defend.ht/HAAPA PAC) - The Haitian American Association for Political Action (HAAPA PAC) is pleased to announce that Charnette Orelien has made history by becoming the first Haitian-American elected to the Westward City Council seat in Irvington, New Jersey. Orelien beat both rival candidates by a significant margin in a predominantly "minority" City, with a sizeable, growing Haitian population.

Haiti: Cholera Cases Increase In several Regions Due to The Rainy Season

Details: Created on Tuesday, 01 May 2012 10:34; Published Date

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - The number of cholera cases has tripled in the cholera treatment centers of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Port au Prince and Leogane in less than a month. According to the MSF report, 134 people in the town of Martissant at the end of April and nearly 400 in total in the different cholera treatment centers of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Port-au-Prince and Leogane.

Miami-Dade County Celebrates In May Haitian Heritage Cultural Month

Details: Created on Monday, 30 April 2012 21:07; Published Date

MIAMI, USA (defend.ht)-Miami-Dade celebrates, May 1 to 29, the Haitian Heritage Cultural Month which will be held this year on the theme "Rediscovering the Pearl of the Caribbean: Celebrating an Explosion of Culture. "Miami-Dade County Commissioner Jean Monestime, District 2, released Miami-Dade County’s official 2012 Haitian Heritage Cultural Month Event Calendar.

10 Dead and 7,000 Displaced After Heavy Rains Strike Haiti

Details: Created on Monday, 30 April 2012 17:31; Published Date

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht)-The Haitian authorities informed that 10 people were killed during the storms of the past week. Moreover, the Direction of the Civil Protection (DPC) announced that a person is missing and more than 7,600 families are affected.

Haiti: Charles Henry Baker Urges Haitian Government to Shed light on Corruption Charges

Details: Created on Friday, 27 April 2012 21:40; Published Date

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht)-The chairman of the political party “Respect”, Charles Henry Baker, is worried because of the many abuses of the Haitian authorities. He deplored the absence of head of state which gives opportunity to other abuses.

Haiti : President Martelly pretends having a near death experience

Details: Created on Wednesday, 25 April 2012 21:26; Published Date

MIAMI, USA (defend.ht)- Haitian President Michel Martelly pretended he had a near-death experience that led him to hospital in Miami. He says he’s feeling better, waiting for doctors to give him green light to return to Haiti. President was giving updates on his health status Wednesday April 25 during an exclusive interview on Radio Mega, a Haitian radio station in North Miami.

Haiti invites South Florida Diaspora to invest back home

Details: Created on Monday, 23 April 2012 20:03; Published Date

MIAMI, USA (defend.ht)- At a Miami Beach economic conference Monday April 23, 2012, top Haitian government officials are calling on Haitians in Diaspora to return home and invest in their country.

Haiti-Police-Murder: Strike and burning barricades in Port-au-Prince

Details: Created on Monday, 23 April 2012 18:00; Published Date

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht)- The traffic was almost blocked early in the morning of Monday, April 23, 2012, on National Road No. 2, through the municipality of Carrefour, south. At Delmas, north, in the afternoon, burning barricades were placed at several locations to protest against policeman murder last week.

Haiti: An advisor to President Martelly accused of murder

Details: Created on Friday, 20 April 2012 13:51; Published Date

FONDS-PARISIEN, Haiti (defend.ht)- The family members of Octanol Dérissaint, a resident of the border area of Fond Parisien (west), have accused an advisor to President Michel Martelly, Calixte Valentin, of having murdered Wednesday night that 32 year old salesman during an altercation between the two men.

"I shall be healed", promised Martelly out of hospital

Details: Created on Thursday, 19 April 2012 20:11; Published Date

MIAMI, USA (defend.ht)-Asserting that the country's situation is "under control", the head of state, who announced his return next week, has reported a "slight complication" that followed his surgery in his first message to Haitians since hospitalization in the United States. Senator Bastien, a doctor by profession, said he doubts pulmonary embolism officially announced.

Haiti: Demonstrators protest against policeman murder

Details: Created on Thursday, 19 April 2012 19:51; Published Date

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht)- The traffic was blocked on Thursday on a portion of the road from Carrefour, a southern suburb of Port-au-Prince, by demonstrators protesting against the killing on Tuesday of the policeman Walky Calixte, a resident of the area.

Haiti-insecurity: A policeman killed, his fellow threaten to go on strike

Details: Created on Wednesday, 18 April 2012 17:38; Published Date

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht)- A policeman's traffic service named Calixte Walky was shot Tuesday by unidentified gunmen. This assassination provoked the wrath of his colleagues who threaten to go on strike.

Manigat would have received an additional $ 300,000 from Dominican Senator Bautista

Details: Created on Tuesday, 17 April 2012 14:40; Published Date

MIAMI, USA (defend.ht)- The Dominican investigative journalist Nuria Pierra told that former presidential candidate of Haiti, Manigat, had received a further payment of 300,000 dollars from Dominican Senator Felix Bautista, in addition to 250 000 mentioned above.

Haiti-Immigration: Brazil allows 245 Haitian families

Details: Created on Monday, 16 April 2012 22:19; Published Date

BRASILA, Brazil (defend.ht)-245 Haitian families in irregular status were finally authorized to enter on the Brazilian territory. Our compatriots were blocked at the border between Peru and Brazil, from January 15, 2012, in the small Peruvian town of Iñapari.

Haiti : Diaspora’s week program unveiled

Details: Created on Monday, 16 April 2012 21:43; Published Date

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht)- The Ministry of Haitians Living Abroad (MHAVE), Daniel Supplice, officially launched Monday, April 16, 2012, the week of activities to celebrate the National Day of the Diaspora.

Haiti-Colombia: Haitian President absent from the Summit of the Americas

Details: Created on Monday, 16 April 2012 21:12; Published Date

CARTHAGENA, Columbia (defend.ht)- Haitian President Michel Martelly has not participated in the summit of heads of state of the Americas held on April 14 and 15 in Colombia where he was represented by Foreign Minister Laurent Lamothe, informed the Presidency.

Haiti-Politics: Martelly back to USA in emergency for treatment

Details: Created on Monday, 16 April 2012 20:54; Published Date

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht)- President Michel Martelly has left Port-au-Prince in emergency on Monday to get back in the U.S. where he must submit to treatment, informed the communications office of the Presidency of Haiti.

Haiti: Strong skepticism about the "conspiracy" against Martelly

Details: Created on Monday, 16 April 2012 20:11; Published Date

Port-au-Prince, Haiti (defend.ht)-The case of conspiracy against Martelly allegedly involving a former high-ranking army officer of Dominican Republic and a Haitian citizen continues to draw reactions in various media in Haiti, the majority of them expressing skepticism and concern relating to possible consequences of such a “plot”.

Haiti: Political Leaders Critical of PM Vote in the Senate

Details: Created on Thursday, 12 April 2012 20:40; Published Date

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) – Senators put personal interests ahead of those of the nation, declared Evans Paul, a leader of the United Democratic Convention (KID) and former Mayor of Port-au-Prince. Mr. Paul was reacting to the favorable vote in the upper house to ratify Laurent Lamothe to lead the Government of Haiti.