Haiti – News: Zapping…

Haiti – News: Zapping…
August 28, 2024 11:41:26

Caribbean Airlines Latest News
On August 22, 2024, the Embassy of Haiti in France held an important working meeting with Christine Ourmières-Widener, President and CEO of Caribbean Airlines. The discussion focused on the operation of the Paris/Port-au-Prince route, the need to promote and market Haitian products on Caribbean Airlines flights, and the dissatisfaction expressed by the Haitian community in France against the airline.

Rev. Jeremy Lemaker dies
On Tuesday, August 27, 2024, Rev. Jérémy Lemec, director of the Haitian Adventist Media Center, which includes “Radio Voix de l’Espérance” and “Hope Media Haiti”, died at the age of 54 at the Dikini Adventist Hospital after suffering a stroke.

Haiti requests files on sanctioned individuals
On Tuesday, August 27, the Minister of Justice, Mr. Carlos Hercule, announced that he had written on behalf of the Government to the Ambassadors of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and the Dominican Republic, asking them to transfer to Haiti the list of persons subject to sanctions, as well as the charges and evidence on which the sanctions are based. Minister Hercule said: “Some countries have had sanctions in place for a long time. We believe that the Government must address this issue in order to review the regime and scope of these sanctions in order to adopt the necessary measures at the national level.” Formal requests provide inconclusive answers…To be continued…

Follow-up to the Prime Minister’s Northern Tour
Prime Minister Gary Cornille convened the ministers of foreign affairs, public works and agriculture to follow up on the government’s tour of the northern and northeastern provinces last week. “The development of the regions must be an integral part of the government’s strategy and comprehensive action plan,” Prime Minister Cornille stressed at the meeting.

3 presidential advisers questioned by ULCC
On Tuesday, August 27, the former chairman of the board of directors of the National Credit Bank (BNC) was charged in connection with the 100 million gourdes scandal. https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-42866-haiti-flash-3-presidential-advisers-in-turmoil-scandal-or-conspiracy.html Presidential advisers Smith Augustine, Emmanuel Vitiller and Louis Gerard Gilles, accompanied by their lawyers, answered questions from investigators of the Anti-Corruption Unit (ULCC). Let us recall that the three advisers had previously denied the allegations and denounced a conspiracy…

Gary Victor is one of five finalists in the Prix Ivoire
Haitian author Gary Victor is one of five finalists for the Ivory Prize for French-language African literature for his novel Adrian’s Violin.

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