North West: Back to school delayed

Because of the rain, the back to classes that was scheduled for January 8 is postponed in the North West Department until new announcement of the Departmental Delegation of North-West.

Decrease in exports, increase in imports

Jean Baden Dubois, the Governor of BRH, informed that Haiti's imports for goods and services during the past fiscal year reached $ 4.7 billion, compared to $ 4 billion for 2015-2017. While the country's exports in the same year fell 5% to $980 million.

France : Haiti 3rd in TOP 5 asylum seekers

In 2017, Albania was the first asylum seeker in France with 7,630 requests, 2nd Afghanistan 5,987 requests (+ 6%), 3rd Haiti 4,934 (due to the large number of Haitians in French Guiana https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-22402-haiti-flash-large-scale-haitian-migratory-wave-in-french-guiana.html https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-22525-haiti-flash-illegal-young-haitian-students-in-guyana-threatened-with-deportation.html ), 4th Sudan 4,486 and 5th Guinea with 3,780 applicants.

Donation of 8 million dollars from Taiwan

On Friday, Chen-Hao Hu, the Ambassador of Taiwan (Republic of China) in Haiti and André Carmel Beliard, the Minister of Agriculture initialed a memorandum of understanding as part of a project to strengthen the production of rice in the plain of Les Cayes, financed by Taiwan to the tune of 8 million dollars. At the end of this four-year project, the Haitian-Taiwanese cooperation expects an increase in annual production of about 10 metric tons of rice per hectare over an area of about 1,200 hectares.

Collapse in Port-de-Paix, 9 victims

The Directorate of Civil Protection informs us of the collapse, Sunday morning, three houses in the neighborhood of Deux Mélisses, Port-de-Paix, who made three slight injuries. In addition, the wall of the Brothers' library collapsed on two small houses in Miryam (a neighborhood of Port-de-Paix), killing a man in his twenties, Peeterson Darcile, and injuring 5 others between 18 at 20 years. The latter are treated at the Beraca hospital where they were transported.

Moïse generous with young people

As part of the closing of the Forum of Local Youth Committees https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-23187-icihaiti-social-forum-for-innovation-and-socio-professional-integration-of-young-people.html President Jovenel Moïse distributed to the various local committees; a laptop, a USB key, a smartphone and a motorcycle to facilitate their development "To change sustainably the country or the benefit of the greatest number, we must first believe that this is possible. This requires a firm commitment to help young people to face the challenges they face every day," or the benefit of the greatest number, we must first believe that this is possible. This requires a firm commitment to help young people to face the challenges they face every day, https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-23204-haiti-politic-intervention-of-jovenel-moise-at-the-youth-forum.html

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