The National Telecommunications Council (CONATEL), by sake of transparency, indicated that under the National Fund for Education (FNE) for the period from 15 June 2011 to 27 January 2014, an amount of 71,426,818.28 U.S. dollars from surplus tariff on incoming calls in the country [0 5 cents per call] was collected or remains to be collected from phone companies.

Thus, CONATEL received: 4,960,173.11 dollars from Comcel, 63,500,919.97 dollars from Digicel and 2,718,258.02 dollars from Natcom, the latter must still pay the CONATEL 247,467.18 dollars.

Recall that these levies, collected in consultation with partners in telephony, are intended to finance the compulsory and free education for the most disadvantaged in Haiti.

Note that these million dollars, do not include the fees of $1.50 U.S. dollars, on incoming and outgoing transfers, which are collected by the Central Bank under the FNE. In August 2012, these transfer fee collected by the Central Bank amounted to $ 1.9 billion Gourdes [± U.S. $ 45,238,095]. Today this amount should be around 103,40 million [estimate] or an estimated total of $175 million, including the telephone tariff surplus.

After than 3 years that the FNE was launched, Parliament still did not ratify the Bill on the creation, organization and operation of FNE allowing the use of these funds for education. Note that the lower house passed the bill in August 2012 after amendments [15 months after the creation of the FNE] and transmitted it to the Senate for ratification in the same terms, before its promulgation in the official newspaper "Le Moniteur". Ratification which is still pending in the Senate.

Recall that in July 2013, the Prime Minister, Laurent Lamothe, Simon Dieuseul Desras, President of the Senate and Jean Tholbert Alexis, then President of the Chamber of Deputies, had held a joint press conference to present the public the priority bills https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-8941-haiti-politic-priority-bills-to-the-legislative-agenda.html The bill on the creation, organization and operation of FNE, topped the legislative agenda. That did not stop senators to totally ignore this priority...

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-9454-haiti-education-fne-nearly-$145-million-unusable.html

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