Executive

Haiti's Minister of the Interior Listening to Communities

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - November 19, 2011. In the spirit of the new campaign of proximity required by the President of the Republic, an approach aimed at bringing government actions to the needs of the population, led the Minister of Interior and Territorial Communities and National Defense, Mr. Thierry Mayard-Paul, to the far South. Several departments, including the Grande Anse, South and South-East have been affected.

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Late Minister Choiseul Henriquez, 51, Undelivered Inauguration Speech

OTTAWA, Canada (defend.ht) - The caretakers for late Minister of Culture and Communication, Choiseul Henriquez released the speech he would have given at his official installation ceremony. The funeral for the former minister is being held Saturday in Ottawa, Canada.

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Interior Minister Mayard-Paul Launches First International Summit of Haitian Coffee

FURCY, Haiti (defend.ht) - November 16, 2011. The Minister of the Interior, Mr. Thierry Mayard Paul opened in the mountains of Furcy the first International Summit of Haitian Coffee at "The Lodge" restaurant.

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"Cuban Haitian cooperation is in full gear," says Haiti Foreign Minister

HAVANA, Cuba (defend.ht) - The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Laurent Lamothe, after a meeting Wednesday with Cuban President Raul Castro and President Michel Martelly, said that cooperation between Haiti and Cuba is "in full gear”.

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Interior Secretary Racine Investigates Disappearance of 2 Dominican Farmers

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - November 16, 2011. A delegation headed by the State Secretary of the Interior, Georges Racine, was sent to the military post of Jimani as a goodwill gesture to show the interest of the Haitian government in the case of the alleged disappearance, on the side Haiti, Lake Azuei, of two Dominican farmers who had not returned to their respective homes since yesterday evening.

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Accompanying Victims of the Market Fire in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - November 16, 2011. The Ministry of the Interior, Local Authorities and National Defense (MICTDN) expresses its sympathies to the victims of the market in Croix-des-Bouquets following the fire of the night of Tuesday, November 15, 2011.

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$13,500,000[US] from the European Union to Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - On Monday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Religious Affairs, Laurent Lamothe, announced in the presence of Benoist Bazin, Head of Infrastructure Section of the Delegation of the European Union to Haiti and Price Pady, the national authorising officer of the European Development Fund, a donation of €10 million for Haiti, for the reconstruction of damaged or destroyed ministries on January 12, 2010.

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Minister of the Interior Responds to Market Fire in Croix-des-Bouquets

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - November 16, 2011. In the market of Croix-des-Bouquets, a fire broke out in the evening of Tuesday, November 15, "trois balles de tissus (pèpè) and immediately spread into the sections housing the goods of nearly two hundred merchants.

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Lamothe Exhausting Diplomatic Resources to Resolve Haitian-Dominican Violence in D.R.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - Monday, November 14, 2011. The Minister of Foreign and Religious Affairs (MAEC), His Excellency Laurent Lamothe, informs the public that diplomatic talks continue with authorities in the Dominican Republic, demanding their part of measures to protect Haitians living in the area of Descubierta, following acts of violence reported in this community.

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Visit of the Minister of the Interior to Jérémie

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - November 14, 2011. On Sunday, November 13, 2011, the Minister of the Interior, Local Authorities and National Defense issued a brief visit to the metropolis of Grand Anse (Jérémie).

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Haitian Ministers out of Danger following Emergency Landing of Helicopter

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - Saturday, November 12, 2011. After a successful day's work with the Cabinet of Ministers held in retirement at Club Indigo, Prime Minister Garry Conille accompanied by the Minister of the Interior, Local Authorities and National Defense Thierry Mayard-Paul and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Religion, Laurent Lamothe, took the helicopter towards the Montcel in Kenscoff for a meeting with the President of the Republic.

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Newly Appointed Haitian Minister of Culture Dies at 51

OTTAWA, Canada (defend.ht) - A newly appointed minister, the Minister of Culture and Communication, Choiseul Henriquez, passed away Friday at a hospital in Canada at the age of 51.

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Helicopter Transporting Haitian Ministers Makes Emergency Landing in Remote Crop Field

KENSCOFF, Haiti (defend.ht) - A United Nations helicopter carrying Prime Minister Garry Conille, Minister of the Interior, Thierry Mayard-Paul and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Laurent Lamothe was forced to make an emergency landing in a crop field around the hills of Belot, Kenscoff, Haiti.

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Bélizaire Case: Martelly-Conille Commission Report Misses Deadline

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - The presidential commission set up by Prime Minister Garry Conille to investigate the arbitrary detention of a functioning deputy did not submit its report on Friday as previously promised.

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PM Conille Satisfied with First Day of Government Retreat

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - Prime Minister Garry Conille is satisfied with the first of a two-day government retreat aimed to get members of his government on the same page concerning the pressing matters of the country.

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Haiti Considers Issuing Identification Cards to Diaspora

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - The Minister of Haitians Living Abroad (MHAVE), Daniel Supplice, met Ronald Covili, the Director General of the National Identification (ONI) to discuss the possibility of giving the Haitian Diaspora identification cards.

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Haitian Government “Retires” for 2 Days to Find Solutions

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - The Prime Minister's Office announced in a statement that Prime Minister Garry Conille will be on retreat Friday and Saturday with the ministers and secretaries of the state at Club Indigo (North of the capital) in hopes of finding cohesion and solutions to solving the country's problem.

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$700K Funding for Jeremie Hospital Aims to Decentralize Health Needs for Region

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - Wednesday, November 9, 2011. In the presence of representatives of the Ministry of Interior, Local Authorities and National Defense, the commune of Nantes-Métropole, the Central Univerisity Hospital of Nantes, Saint Antoine Hospital in Jeremie and the Mayor of Abricots, on behalf of the Association of Mayors of Grand Anse (AMAG), carried the signature of a convention as part of a joint cooperation between these different entities.

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Thailand Makes Million Dollar Donation to Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - Wednesday, November 9, 2011. The Ministry of Foreign and Religious Affairs of the Republic of Haiti informed that a delegation of the Government of the Kingdom of Thailand from Thai Embassy in Mexico, was received in Port-au-Prince from November 8 to 10, 2011.

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Bélizaire Case: Presidential Commission to Submit Report Friday

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - The Prime Minister has asked the presidential commission to begin work immediately to issue a report no later than Friday, November 11, we have heard.

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Book reviews

Haiti Noir

Book Review

The anthology edited by Edwidge Danticat puts a uniquely Haitian spin on the crime genre

"Danticat has succeeded in assembling a group portrait of Haitian culture and resilience that is cause for celebration." - Publishers Weekly