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UN Admits Role in Haiti Cholera Outbreak for First Time Ever

PORT-AU-PRINCE , August 19, 2016- The United Nations has admitted for the first time that its peacekeepers in Haiti played a role in the outbreak of the cholera epidemic in the aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake that sent the poverty-stricken Caribbean nation into a tailspin.

August 19, 2016
Published in Health

Haiti's Finance Minister Yves Romain Bastien

Haiti to spend millions on electoral process

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Aug. 18, CMC – Haiti’s Electoral Council has announced plans t o spend over US$50 million on elections.

August 19, 2016
Published in Politics

Haiti records first case of microcephaly

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Aug 17, CMC – Haiti has recorded its first case of microcephaly, the birth defect that is linked to the mosquito-borne Zika virus.

August 17, 2016
Published in Health

Haiti’s Ambassador to the Bahamas, Jean Victor Généus, is calling on the United States and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to send observers to monitor the October 9 elections in his country.

Haitian diplomat wants Observers to monitor October polls

NASSAU, Bahamas, Aug 12, CMC – Haiti’s Ambassador to the Bahamas, Jean Victor Généus, is calling on the United States and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to send observers to monitor the October 9 elections in his country.

August 12, 2016
Published in CARICOM

OAS Secretary General, Luis Almagro, expressed deep concern over what he described as the demonstrated Inability of Haitian parliamentarians to meet in the National Assembly to decide on how best to guarantee institutional stability and encourage the continuation of the electoral process.

OAS urges action to guarantee elections in Haiti

WASHINGTON, Aug 12, CMC – The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) has called on all Haitian political and social actors to fully “assume their responsibilities and take all necessary measures to conclude the electoral process by holding free, fair and transparent elections on October 9.”

August 11, 2016
Published in Politics

President of the Dominican Republic Industries Association (ARID) Campos De Moya

Haiti’s ban on DR products is illegal says Industry official

SANTO DOMINGO- Dominican Republic, Jul. 31, CMC – President of the Dominican Republic Industries Association, has called a ban implemented by Haiti on over twenty products from the Dominican Republic – “illegal and contrary to the rules of the World Trade Organisation (WHO)”

July 30, 2016
Published in Latin America

Tackling Cholera in Haiti by building sanitary cordons

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Jul 27, CMC – “Wash my hands before eating and nursing the baby, wash my hands after relieving myself, use Aquatabs to purify the water…” and so, Sherline Deus lists the steps she must take to protect herself and her children from cholera in the town of Grand Bois, located in in north-eastern Haiti, near the country’s border with the Dominican Republic.

July 26, 2016
Published in Health

Human rights group claims more than 1, 300 killed in Haiti

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Jul 25, CMC – The National Defense Network Human Rights (RNDDH) says more than 1,300 people were killed during an 18 month period in the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country.

July 26, 2016
Published in Latin America

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