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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) --
Pator apologizes for sexual immorality. Less than 24 hours
after he was fired from the pulpit of the evangelical mega church
he founded, the Rev Ted Haggard confessed to his followers
Sunday that he was guilty of sexual immorality.
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Cuban
Medical Diplomacy: When the Left Has Got It Right.-Living
in a hostile neighborhood led Fidel to look for allies
elsewhere. Part of this process has included the conduct of
medical diplomacy, which is the collaboration between
countries to improve relations and simultaneously produce
health benefits
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PORT-AU-PRINCE
- Foreign diplomats say they are feverishly working
behind the scenes to mend a Haitian flap with China that could
jeopardize the U.N. peacekeeping force deployed here. Click
here to read this article.
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Haiti:
Latortue's legacy.-Last month, an alarming new report
on human rights abuses in Haiti under the interim Government, by
two social work scholars, Athena Kolbe and Dr. Royce Hutson of
Wayne State University, was published in the British medical
journal The Lancet.
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What
Future for Haiti? An Interview with Patrick Elie.-In
February 2004, U.S. Marines whisked away then-President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide from Haiti amid an armed rebellion led
by disgruntled former soldiers and paramilitary actors. |
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Boston
Medical Reserve Corps -
Be part of an organized effort to assist your community in
public health emergency response.
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Gang Fails to Disarm.-Gang leaders in Haiti's largest slum
said on Monday that they were putting disarmament plans on
hold due to raids by UN peacekeepers on the streets they
control. Read this article. |
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NEW PALTZ
— The town and gown joined to celebrate the written word when
"The Dew Breaker" author Ed-widge Danticat spoke at
the State University of New York at New Paltz. Click
here to read this article.
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Boston,MA.-Town Computer donated
funds to ODGH, to help the victims of Hurricane Jeanne in
Gonaives. The prsident and executive director of ODGH signed a
fat check of 4200 to himself. Because of poor
financial management of the non-profit , The Dorchester District
Court orders ODGH to pay back $437 to Town Computer. Click
here to see a copy of the judgment against ODGH.
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Is
there any chance for Haiti? Click here to see one of the
disturbing pieces of evidence that was presented to
Dorchester District Court during a trial against Michelot Youte
(Michael Youte) for mismanagement of non-profit funds. As you
can see, Michael Youte, the president of ODGH signed a check to
himself for $4200..
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Recount
confirms Wilkerson victory in Boston Senate race.-City
election workers, after a tense day painstakingly reviewing more
than 25,000 ballots under the scrutiny of campaign volunteers
and lawyers, declared Dianne Wilkerson the official Democratic
nominee in the Second Suffolk Senate race.
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Dems Use
Intel Report to Attack GOP.-Democrats
on Sunday seized on an intelligence assessment that said the
Iraq war has increased the terrorist threat, saying it was
further evidence that Americans should choose new leadership in
the November elections. Click here
to read this article.
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Man's
killing shows spread of violence across Haiti.-Hundreds of
people packed a Kendall funeral home Saturday to bid farewell to
a former commander of Haiti's army whose tragic killing 10 days
ago in an upscale Port-au-Prince suburb serves as a stark
reminder of Haiti's worsening violence..
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Haiti
qualifies for debt relief under IMF program.-Haiti
is eligible for debt relief under an Inter-national Monetary
Fund program a fund official said. The fund's executive board
earlier this month, in a debt sustainability analysis,
determined that the country was eligible for assistance,
Takatoshi Kato, deputy managing director of the fund, said in
a statement released Monday. Click
here to read this article |
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The Death of
the *RDNP
.-Haitian mob launches radio campaign
against
Caucasians and Jews on WUNR 1600 AM |
| Although
the members of ODGH bragged about their sympathy to Bin-Laden
and the local armed groups that are terrorizing the residents
of Haiti and kidnapping dozens of American citizens who travel
to the island, due to the low social and academic status of
its principal leaders, Haitians in Boston did not take *ODGH
seriously until the FBI dismantled an alleged local terrorist
group in Florida composed of young Haitian scum. Click
here to read this article |
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Miami-
At least 10 local journalists accepted U.S. government pay for
programs on Radio Martí or TV Martí. El Nuevo Herald fired
two of them Thursday for conflict of interest.
BY OSCAR CORRAL Click
here to read this article |
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Latortue's
disturbing legacy.-On
Feb. 29, 2004, former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was
forcibly removed from Haiti by the Bush administration.
Several days later, Gerard Latortue was airlifted into Haiti
and named the prime minister with barely a fig-leaf as a
process. Latortue was a radio announcer in Boca Raton.Click
here
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Haiti
Justice.-Demand
release of jailed democracy fighter Rene Civil!
Don't
let them silence the voices of Haiti's poor majority! -
Free Rene and
all political prisoners Click
here |
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Haiti's Political
Prisoners: Not Preval's Fault, But His Problem.-JURIST
Special Guest Columnist Brian
Concannon Jr., Director of the Institute for Justice and
Democracy in Haiti, says that although the political
prisoners lingering in Haiti's squalid jails are not the
byproduct of the policies of incoming President René Préval,
they are certainly his problem, drawing criticism with each
passing day. Click here to
read this article.
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| Canadian
troops in Haiti accused of making death, rape
threats.-MONTREAL --
Canadian troops and police with the United Nations in Haiti
made death threats during house raids and made sexual threats
against women while drunk and off-duty, according to Haitians
interviewed as part of a meticulous human-rights survey by
U.S. researchers in December 2005 published this week in the
British medical journal The Lancet.
Click here to read this article. |
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| Police
and political groups linked to Haiti sex attacks.-More
than 30,000 women and girls - half under the age of 18 - were
raped in Haiti's capital city in the chaotic two years
following the ousting of the country's democratically elected
president, a survey has suggested. About 8,000 people were
killed during the same period. Click
here to read this article |
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| Annette
Auguste.-Above all, Annette Auguste and her co-defendants
deserve our thanks and praise for insisting on justice through
the dark days of Haiti's brutal Interim Government, and the
frustratingly slow transition to democracy Read
this article |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE,
Haiti (Reuters) - Haiti's government threw down the gauntlet
to the impoverished and violent Caribbean nation's armed gangs
on Thursday, telling them to lay down their weapons or be
killed. Click here to read this
article. |
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The Return: Aristide, law
and democracy in Haiti.-Say
"the return" when discussing Haiti, and people who
follow events in the country know you are talking about former
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide returning from his exile
in South Africa..Click
here to read the article.
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| Festival
commemorates Haiti's independence from France. |
| By
Macollvie Jean-Francois |
| Fort
Lauderdale · For Edna Djakout, figuring out how to
celebrate the Haitian flag is a no-brainer: party
nonstop. Since Thursday, she has watched a Flag Day
parade, met friends from Naples, the Bahamas and Canada,
and attended a few live music parties, or bal in
Creole. |
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Today,
Djakout, of North Lauderdale, plans to drape her car in
Haiti's red-and-blue banner for the trip to Miami's
eighth annual Haitian Compas Festival at Bicentennial
Park, the highlight of the fun-filled cultural
celebration for many Haitians."This means more to
Haitians than Christmas," said Djakout, 21.
"Whether you're illegal, a resident or citizen,
everybody comes out that day. They're not worried about
anything. They just want to get out there and have
fun." Read this article. |
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| René
Préval: Haiti May Get One Last Chance in Spite of
Washington’s Best Efforts. |
| With
his official inauguration planned for May 14, Haitian
President-elect René Préval faces a Brobdingnagian
challenge in rebuilding his shattered country.
Succeeding a U.S.-installed de facto government
headed by Interim Prime Minister Gérard Latortue. Read
this article |
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| India-Brazil-South
Africa: The Southern Trade Powerhouse Makes its Debut |
| In
the face of mounting pressures to develop an alternative
option to globalization—one that emerges from a
developing world perspective and prioritizes egalitarian
advancement, technological cooperation, and an end to
global marginalization of the poor nations.-Read
this article |
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| A
united message to Haiti.-For more than a decade,
Washington has been bitterly divided on policy toward Haiti.
In 1994 the Clinton administration, over virulent Republican
opposition, sent U.S. troops into Haiti to restore President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power.Read
this article |
| Bot
Software - How to Protect Your PC-While
the computer |
| and
Internet security experts are concerned about viruses,
worms and Trojans, the bot software are quietly taking
over almost every computer connected to the Internet. Read
This Article |
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Election Chief Flees Country- He Will Face Justice Soon or
later-The head of Haiti's electoral council fled the
country after opponents threatened his life and burned down
his farmhouse nearly two weeks after disputed elections, an
official said Monday. Read
this article |
| UN
Security Council calls for stability in post-election Haiti.-UNITED
NATIONS, Feb. 15 (Xinhuanet) -- The UN Security Council on
Wednesday called on all the Haitian people to refrain from
violence as the results of the election are tabulated and
reviewed. Read
this article |
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The
Kama Sutra Worm –A Real
Threat
By:
Jacques Dady Jean
“Although
Microsoft posted a security advisory warning the world about
the Kama sutra/Blackmail/Mywife , they will not issue a
removal tool until February 14 almost 2 weeks after the
malicious software began to make victims, meanwhile their
anti-virus security partners were busy promoting
their latest anti-virus and internet security
software.” Read this article |
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| Haitian
Americans call for a Probe of Romney's Pick
- Did Pierre Imbert obtain any financial, sexual or any
special treatment to allow payroll fraud scheme by
tolerating one of his managers to assist a woman to
obtain Massachusetts Transitional Assistance unlawfully
while she lived and worked in Canada? |
Aristide
party threatents to boycott Haiti poll - The
party of ousted Haitian president Jean-Bertrand
Aristide said on Monday it would boycott elections
later this year if a parish priest it views as its
likely presidential candidate is not released from
jail.
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| US
Urges Haiti to Respect Human Rights - With
parliamentary and presidential elections in Haiti on the
horizon, possibly in November, there are indications of
significant shifts in policies , both in Washington and
Port au Prince... |
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Haitians
are being killed for their political believes - When
United Nations troops kill residents of the Haitian slum
Cité Soleil, friends and family often place photographs
of exiled president Jean-Bertrand Aristide on their
bodies. The photographs silently insist that there is a
method to the madness raging in Port-au-Prince. Poor
Haitians are being slaughtered not for being
"violent," as we so often hear, but for being
militant; for daring to demand the return of their
elected president. |
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| Justice
for the Cuban Five - On
August 9, the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit Appellate Court
threw out the convictions of the Cuban Five, a stunning
acknowledgement of injustice committed in the
administration’s troubled fight against terrorism. |
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| Pierre
Imbert, Romney’s pick to lead the State Office of
Immigrant and Refugees has serious ethics problems
- An 11-year-old
,student of St. Angela Catholic School printed 17
controversial articles from MSN search engines about
Pierre Imbert’s lack of credibility while the governor
of Massachusetts seems to ignore the facts and hires
Pierre Imbert to lead a State agency. |
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| No
Local Elections In Haiti, at Least Until Winter
-PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Local elections
scheduled for this fall will be postponed until after
legislative and presidential elections, Haitian
officials said Tuesday. |
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Imbert
Chosen to Lead Refugee and Immigrant Agency
-Governor Mitt Romney today swore in Pierre Imbert
as the Director of the Massachusetts Office of Refugees
and Immigrants.
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| Robot
rolls around Children's Hospital
-Gizmo" has been working at Children's Hospital
Boston for almost three years without a vacation or even
a coffee break... |
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| No
Justice for Haiti's Jean-Juste
Interim government jails an opposition
leader
-Haiti's interim government, led by a prime
minister hand-picked and hand-fed by the Bush
administration, has seen fit to jail a potential
presidential candidate. |
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| US
Will Send Gun to Human Right Violators
-PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. officials
in Haiti acknowledged Friday the United States will
provide Haitian police with guns and riot control
equipment. |
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Haitian
American Political Action Committee
-The Haitian American Political Action Committee pledges
support to the members of the Lavalas Party and to all
Haitians who have independently taken the decision to
boycott the UN sponsored mock election in Haiti.
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YORK, July 29 /U.S. Newswire/
- In response to
the North American Fiqh Council's fatwa condemning
terrorism, American Jewish Congress President Paul S.
Miller issued the following statement: |
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Right Wing Uses Violence
To Push Their Political Agenda.-The
UN Peacekeeping Forces in Haiti revealed
Friday that they have gathered intelligence
about potential attacks planned by armed
fractions close to rightist groups aimed at
destabilizing the country and causing the
downfall of Prime Minister Latortue’s
government
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Red Cross Worker Killed In Haiti.-GENEVA,
Switzerland (AP) -- A worker for the
International Committee of the Red Cross
was kidnapped and killed in Haiti, the
humanitarian agency said Friday. Full
story |
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Man is 125 Years Old.-"I am
125 today," beamed Benito Martinez,
as he joined the birthday party at his
local old people's home in this central
Cuban city.
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Port au Prince, Haiti (HIP) -
Police (PNH) launched another bloody
attack in a poor neighborhood of Haiti's
capital today. The U.N. refused to comment
on the operation that reportedly led to the
deaths of three people and four people
wounded.
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CITY (AP) — Jewish leaders
urge restraint in Israeli-Vatican spat -
Jewish leaders urged the Vatican and
Israel to tone down the rhetoric in the escalating
dispute over papal pronouncements on terrorism, saying
Friday they feared the feud could do lasting damage to
relations. |
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| Release
Political Prisoner and Democracy Activist Fr. Gerard
Jean-Juste (Again)
- First the good news: Our mobilization is having an
impact. The grassroots outrage at the July 6
Cite Soleil shootings by UN Peacekeepers forced the UN
to abandon its claim of no civilian casualties, issue an
apology and even announce an investigation. |
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| Canada's
doubtful role in Haiti
- Recently
the Council of Sages, the Western-backed body that has
overseen Haiti's political affairs since the February
2004 ouster of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, made a
startling recommendation. |
"My
body is in prison, but my soul is
free."
-Fr.
Gerard Jean-Juste from prison
Fr. Gerard Jean-Juste is being held in
isolation in the Haitian National
Penitentiary.
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Priest Assaulted by Mob at Funeral and Falsely
Arrested for Murder.-On Thursday
July 21, 2005, Fr. Gerard Jean-Juste went to
St. Pierre's Catholic Church to be one of
the priests participating in the funeral of
Haitian journalist Jacques Roche |
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| A
Haitian Hero Killed.-Drèd Wilme was
reported assassinated by the UN occupation
forces in Haiti on Wednesday, July 7, 2005.
But he's been falsely reported dead before |
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| Final
Delegation Report on UN Massacre.-Growing
Evidence of a Massacre by UN Occupation
Forces in Port-au-Prince Neighborhood of
Cite Soleil. A Summary of Findings of the US
Labor and Human Rights Delegation to Haiti |
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MSF
asks armed groups to respect civilians.-Haiti
As violent attacks intensify and spread in
Haiti's capital Port au Prince, the
international medical humanitarian
organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins
Sans Frontières (MSF) |
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| Who
profits from Haiti's Crisis.-The
Haitian people have seen glimpses of
justice, freedom and liberty under the
Lavalas regimes, they will never accept to
live anymore in the darkness of fear. |
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| Outsiders
plan Haitian elections: No voters? No
problem.-Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom The elections
planned by the U.S. and its allies for Haiti
in the fall are a fiasco that is becoming
impossible to conceal |
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Haiti:
5 Killed in Hurricane Dennis -
Hurricane Dennis swept away a bridge and
peeled tin roofs off homes in Haiti, killing
at least five people as it strengthened to a
Category 4 storm and headed straight for
Cuba.
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Judge
Jails Times Reporter Over Source.-New
York Times reporter Judith Miller was jailed
Wednesday for refusing to divulge a
confidential source to a grand jury
investigating the Bush administration's leak
of an undercover CIA operative's name
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Police
and protesters clash near G8 summit-Riot
police clashed with protesters close to
the Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland on
Wednesday after a demonstration against
Group of Eight (G8) leaders ended in
chaos.
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A
Bar Mitzvah Year for Jewish Life North of
Boston
SWAMPSCOTT, MA —
Sunday, July 03, 2005-The
music is throbbing; the drums pound to a
crescendo as the
capacity crowd at the Coolidge Theatre
in Brookline, Massachusetts rise to their
feet for a final standing ovation.
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UN
Peacekeeping Chief: Haiti Worse than Sudan
- The head of U.N. peacekeeping operations
says conditions in parts of Haiti are worse
than in Sudan's devastated Darfur region.
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Haiti:
Jerry Narcis an Alleged Kidnapper Belongs
to Upper Class - Jerry Narcius, arrested
by the Haitian National Police for his
presumed implication in acts of kidnapping
in Port-au-Prince, is known as the son
of a powerful Haitian entrepreneur and a
resident of Thomassin 12, a very affluent
neighborhood near Petion-Ville.
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Aristide
backers march in Haiti
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They marched
through the capital, Port-au-Prince,
waving banners and listening to speeches
calling for Mr Aristide's return from
South Africa.
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Haiti-
A Civil War or a Clash Between the Rich
and the Poor
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UNITED NATIONS - The United States called
for major reform of Haiti's judicial
system Friday, saying the island has such
a backlog of cases that many suspects
languish in jail awaiting trial for longer
periods than if they had been convicted
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Urges Latortue to Make Change in Haiti's
Justice System
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Over
the past few years, the violence seemed to
target the Haiti’s affluent class.
Besides the different new cases of
abduction tar
getting
members of the business community,
yesterday a businessman narrowly escaped
from a murder attempt in the capital when
5-armed men opened fire on his vehicle
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UN
needs to intervene in Haiti, says SA
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Johannesburg -
South Africa's ruling African National
Congress party intensified its campaign on
Friday for the return to Haiti of ousted
leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide as part of a
drive to restore order and end bloodshed
in the Caribbean country.
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Our
Debt is Long Past Due
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The
Caribbean has now proved that it is even
more hopeless at diplomacy than it is at
cricket. And, as in cricket, those who are
considered guilty are not those at
the top but the foot-soldiers.Our gutless
leaders – unable to look a principle in
the face – are, as I write on
Friday, busy selling the Haitian people
down the river … again.
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Student
demonstrators shot by U.S./UN troops in
Haiti
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In an ironic
turn too late to help thousands dead since
the military overthrow of President
Aristide, some of the students in Haiti,
who had once stood with the Coup d'etat
contingent, took to the streets today
asking for a stop to the killings, arrests
and oppression; the resignation of the
U.S.-backed Latortue government; and,
yelling "Aba Charles Baker" -
down with Charles Baker and group 184.
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Demonstrations
Against Violence Take on Prime Minister
Latortue and Business Leader Andre Apaid
Junior:
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
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At
least one person was injured when a
violent incident erupted earlier today in
Port-Au-Prince during an anti-government
protest. The protesters urged the
departure of U.S. backed Prime Minister
Latortue and denounced the participation
of businessman Andre Apaid in the social
declining of the country,
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Chief
Justice toppled conviction of
killers
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Haiti's
one of the chief justice met the press to
announce that his court has overturned the
convictions of 38 army and paramilitary
leaders who were sentenced to life in
prison for their roles in mass killings
during the 1994 coup, human rights groups
have said
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An
Prensip .- By Brian Concannon Jr
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When Haitians
say "an prensip" (in principle)
to explain how something should work,
"an pratik," how it works in
actual practice, is rarely far behind.
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Yvon
Neptune Nears Death
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Yvon
Neptune's last meal may have been on April
17. Haiti's most recent constitutional
Prime Minister, now its most prominent
political prisoner, stopped eating
eighteen days ago to protest ten months of
illegal imprisonment
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Yvon
Neptune Ready to Die
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Too weak to
stand and pounds lighter from a hunger
strike, Yvon Neptune, ousted president
Jean-Bertrand Aristide's prime minister,
did not eat for a 17th day yesterday and
is "ready to die", according to
a lawyer.
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Yvon
Neptune Ill, But Refuses to
leave Haiti.
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Political
prisoner Yvon Neptune, seriously ill and
on day 16 of a hunger strike, remains
incarcerated in Haiti despite persistent
reports in the Haitian and international
press that he has been flown out of the
country.
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Haiti
Ex-Prime minister Yvon Neptune Fled
Into Exile
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PORT-AU-PRINCE,
Haiti (AP) - The former prime minister of
ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide,
ailing from a hunger strike to protest his
prolonged detention, is leaving Haiti for
medical care, a Dominican official and a
Western diplomat reported Sunday
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Haiti
Bid to Rejoin Caribbean Group Lags
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Haiti's bid to
return to the Caribbean Community appears
to be failing, with officials telling its
visiting interim foreign minister this
week that the violence-plagued nation must
first have fair elections before it can
rejoin.
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Credit
Suisse drops a name: First Boston -
First Boston was once a powerhouse on Wall
Street. Next year, it will join a list of
U.S. investment banking names that have
bitten the dust.
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Haiti’s
Right Wing Uses Violence To Push Their
Political Agenda - The UN Peacekeeping
Forces in Haiti revealed Friday that they
have gathered intelligence about potential
attacks planned by armed fractions close to
rightist groups aimed at destabilizing the
country and causing the downfall of Prime
Minister Latortue’s government.
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Haiti
Continues to Fumble Along - According to
contrasting reports from Port-au-Prince,
another police raid on Bel Air and other
pro-Aristide neighborhoods of the capital
city has left anywhere from two to 23 dead,
with over 35 reported missing.
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A
New Library for Mattapan is Announced -
Mayor Thomas M. Menino announced that a site
on Blue Hill Avenue has been selected for a
new library in Mattapan, pushing closer to
reality a project in the works for almost a
decade.
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Haiti:
Police killed at least 5 peaceful
protesters
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Haitian
Political prisoner Annette Auguste speaks
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Port au Prince, Haiti (HIP) - I am Annette
Auguste, who has
been unjustly imprisoned and held without
charges in Haiti since May 10, 2004. U.S.
Marines arrested me in a violent invasion of
my home causing harm to my family
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Justice
Dodged, Part II
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On April 21,
2005 the Cour de Cassation, Haiti's highest
court, threw out the convictions of sixteen
people found guilty by a jury in the
Raboteau massacre case, Haiti's most
celebrated trial ever. The
decision of the Cour de Cassation is a
remarkable document because it not only
reverses a famous, and closely watched
trial, but it also invalidates an entire
article of the 1987 Constitution
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PORT-AU-PRINCE,
Haiti (Reuters) - At least five people
were killed by gunfire during a political
demonstration on Wednesday in Haiti, which
is preparing for elections in the autumn
to replace its interim government.
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No
Elections Without National Healing
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This was the
theme of a press conference yesterday,
4/21/05, held at the Sweety Restaurant in
the Port-Au-Prince neighborhood of Delmas
29.
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Haitian
Leaders Arrested by police
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Ginette
Apollon, President of the National
Commission of Women Workers (CNFT) was
illegally arrested on April 19, 2005 at
the Port-au-Prince International Airport
upon her return from the Encuentro Mundial
de Solidaridad Con la Revolucion
Bolivariana in Venezuela
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The
crucifixion of Emmanuel "Dread"
Wilme by U.N. Troops: a historical
perspective by: Marguerite Laurent
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In a staged
attack, on the night of Oct. 30 -31, 1919,
a U.S. soldier named Hanneken,
assassinated Charlemagne Peralte, a hero
known to all Haitians living today. But
that was not the case in 1919
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Would Jesus Be
a Democrat or a
Republican?
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Law Students
And Attorneys Lodge Complaint With
International Commission On Behalf
Of Former Haitian Prime Minister Yvon
Neptune held in prison without charges
since June 2004.
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The
UN Security Council Goes To Haiti To
Stop The Call For Resignation Of The
Latortue Regime.-By
Marguerite Laurent
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All 15 members
of the United Nations Security Council are
in Haiti from April 12 to April 16, 2005
to, according to their press release on
the matter, "review progress achieved
in areas such as security, development,
the political transition, human rights,
institution-building and the humanitarian
situation."
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Filipino
Army soldier killed while doing civic
work in Haiti
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Make
a Difference for Haiti in Half an Hour A
Week
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Haiti.-
Protesters want democratically elected
president back. PORT-AU-PRINCE,
Haiti (AP) - Protesters demanding the
return of ousted president Jean-Bertrand
Aristide burned an effigy of Haiti's
interim leader
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Sunday, June 5, 2005;
THE NEW secretary general of the
Organization of American States, Jose
Miguel Insulza, has pledged to bring up
the subject of Haiti at the OAS general
assembly beginning tomorrow in Fort
Lauderdale, Fla. If so, it won't be a
moment too soon
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Haitian
Police Set Fire on Several Homes and Killed
25
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PORT-AU-PRINCE,
Haiti, June 4 (Reuters) - As many as 25
people were killed in police raids on Friday
and Saturday in the slums of Haiti's capital
after the government said it would get
tougher on gangs, morgue workers and
witnesses said.
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U.N.
Gives Haiti Forces Short Extension
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UNITED
NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council
on Tuesday extended the mandate of its
peacekeeping mission in Haiti until June
24, giving members more time to settle a
dispute with China over how long troops
should be stationed there.
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Haiti's
need for United Nations peacekeepers to
remain for an extended mandate suddenly
took on new complexity this week, when the
impoverished nation found itself entangled
in the diplomatic standoff between China
and Taiwan.
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Three
Unarmed Haitians Died from Bullets on
Haiti's Flag Day
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Three unarmed
Haitians died from bullets yesterday, May
18, 2005. This time, it wasn't the UN
soldiers who cold-bloodedly pumped bullets
into unarmed Haitians protesting the
ouster of President Aristide
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Aristide
backers march in Haiti
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They marched
through the capital, Port-au-Prince,
waving banners and listening to speeches
calling for Mr Aristide's return from
South Africa.
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Haiti-
A Civil War or a Clash Between the Rich
and the Poor
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UNITED NATIONS - The United States called
for major reform of Haiti's judicial
system Friday, saying the island has such
a backlog of cases that many suspects
languish in jail awaiting trial for longer
periods than if they had been convicted
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Urges Latortue to Make Change in Haiti's
Justice System
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Over
the past few years, the violence seemed to
target the Haiti’s affluent class.
Besides the different new cases of
abduction tar
getting
members of the business community,
yesterday a businessman narrowly escaped
from a murder attempt in the capital when
5-armed men opened fire on his vehicle
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UN
needs to intervene in Haiti, says SA
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Johannesburg -
South Africa's ruling African National
Congress party intensified its campaign on
Friday for the return to Haiti of ousted
leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide as part of a
drive to restore order and end bloodshed
in the Caribbean country.
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Our
Debt is Long Past Due
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The
Caribbean has now proved that it is even
more hopeless at diplomacy than it is at
cricket. And, as in cricket, those who are
considered guilty are not those at
the top but the foot-soldiers.Our gutless
leaders – unable to look a principle in
the face – are, as I write on
Friday, busy selling the Haitian people
down the river … again.
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Student
demonstrators shot by U.S./UN troops in
Haiti
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In an ironic
turn too late to help thousands dead since
the military overthrow of President
Aristide, some of the students in Haiti,
who had once stood with the Coup d'etat
contingent, took to the streets today
asking for a stop to the killings, arrests
and oppression; the resignation of the
U.S.-backed Latortue government; and,
yelling "Aba Charles Baker" -
down with Charles Baker and group 184.
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Demonstrations
Against Violence Take on Prime Minister
Latortue and Business Leader Andre Apaid
Junior:
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
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At
least one person was injured when a
violent incident erupted earlier today in
Port-Au-Prince during an anti-government
protest. The protesters urged the
departure of U.S. backed Prime Minister
Latortue and denounced the participation
of businessman Andre Apaid in the social
declining of the country,
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Chief
Justice toppled conviction of
killers
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Haiti's
one of the chief justice met the press to
announce that his court has overturned the
convictions of 38 army and paramilitary
leaders who were sentenced to life in
prison for their roles in mass killings
during the 1994 coup, human rights groups
have said
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An
Prensip .- By Brian Concannon Jr
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When Haitians
say "an prensip" (in principle)
to explain how something should work,
"an pratik," how it works in
actual practice, is rarely far behind.
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Yvon
Neptune Nears Death
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Yvon
Neptune's last meal may have been on April
17. Haiti's most recent constitutional
Prime Minister, now its most prominent
political prisoner, stopped eating
eighteen days ago to protest ten months of
illegal imprisonment
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Yvon
Neptune Ready to Die
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Too weak to
stand and pounds lighter from a hunger
strike, Yvon Neptune, ousted president
Jean-Bertrand Aristide's prime minister,
did not eat for a 17th day yesterday and
is "ready to die", according to
a lawyer.
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Yvon
Neptune Ill, But Refuses to
leave Haiti.
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Political
prisoner Yvon Neptune, seriously ill and
on day 16 of a hunger strike, remains
incarcerated in Haiti despite persistent
reports in the Haitian and international
press that he has been flown out of the
country.
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Haiti
Ex-Prime minister Yvon Neptune Fled
Into Exile
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PORT-AU-PRINCE,
Haiti (AP) - The former prime minister of
ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide,
ailing from a hunger strike to protest his
prolonged detention, is leaving Haiti for
medical care, a Dominican official and a
Western diplomat reported Sunday
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Haiti
Bid to Rejoin Caribbean Group Lags
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Haiti's bid to
return to the Caribbean Community appears
to be failing, with officials telling its
visiting interim foreign minister this
week that the violence-plagued nation must
first have fair elections before it can
rejoin.
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Haiti:
Police killed at least 5 peaceful
protesters
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PORT-AU-PRINCE,
Haiti (Reuters) - At least five people
were killed by gunfire during a political
demonstration on Wednesday in Haiti, which
is preparing for elections in the autumn
to replace its interim government.
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No
Elections Without National Healing
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This was the
theme of a press conference yesterday,
4/21/05, held at the Sweety Restaurant in
the Port-Au-Prince neighborhood of Delmas
29.
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Haitian
Leaders Arrested by police
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Ginette
Apollon, President of the National
Commission of Women Workers (CNFT) was
illegally arrested on April 19, 2005 at
the Port-au-Prince International Airport
upon her return from the Encuentro Mundial
de Solidaridad Con la Revolucion
Bolivariana in Venezuela
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The
crucifixion of Emmanuel "Dread"
Wilme by U.N. Troops: a historical
perspective by: Marguerite Laurent
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In a staged
attack, on the night of Oct. 30 -31, 1919,
a U.S. soldier named Hanneken,
assassinated Charlemagne Peralte, a hero
known to all Haitians living today. But
that was not the case in 1919
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Law Students
And Attorneys Lodge Complaint With
International Commission On Behalf
Of Former Haitian Prime Minister Yvon
Neptune held in prison without charges
since June 2004.
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The
UN Security Council Goes To Haiti To
Stop The Call For Resignation Of The
Latortue Regime.-By
Marguerite Laurent
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All 15 members
of the United Nations Security Council are
in Haiti from April 12 to April 16, 2005
to, according to their press release on
the matter, "review progress achieved
in areas such as security, development,
the political transition, human rights,
institution-building and the humanitarian
situation."
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Filipino
Army soldier killed while doing civic
work in Haiti
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Make
a Difference for Haiti in Half an Hour A
Week
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Haiti.-
Protesters want democratically elected
president back. PORT-AU-PRINCE,
Haiti (AP) - Protesters demanding the
return of ousted president Jean-Bertrand
Aristide burned an effigy of Haiti's
interim leader
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Gunmen
Ambush Police in Haiti's Capital.-PORT-AU-PRINCE,
Haiti - Gunmen
with assault rifles ambushed a group of
police in Haiti's capital on Monday
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Haiti
UN Warns Former Soldiers.-Haitian
gangs should accept a U.N. offer to disarm
and return to civilian life or else
peacekeepers will deal with them
"with firmness,"
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