Iron market : A witness would have seen the authors of the fire

Davidson Saint-Louis, 26, who pretend to be a security agent of the Hyppolite Market, was arrested Tuesday afternoon by police of Saint-Marc and transferred to the Central Directorate of Judicial Police (DCPJ) to be interrogated. He claimed to have be witnessed of the Iron market fire on the night of 12 to 13 February https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-23556-haiti-flash-the-iron-market-ravaged-by-a-fire.html and have seen the arsonists. According to his testimony, he would have fled to Saint Marc for fear of his life... See also : https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-23613-haiti-news-zapping.html https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-23578-haiti-iron-market-fire-probably-accidental-according-to-the-president-of-digicel.html

Claim RN2 blocked

Tuesday, the national road #2 was blocked at the locality of Chabanne at the southern entrance of the city of Petit-Goâve. The inhabitants of Barettes and Vialet, supported by the coordinator of the Communal Section Council (CASEC) of the first Plain, demanded the cleaning of the rivers. A long line of vehicles, from the South and Port-au-Prince, , was observed on the public road, the police were on the scene. HL/ HaitiLibre / Guyto Mathieu (Correspondant Petit-Goâve).

The Nobel Prize for literature in Cap-Haitien

Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel literature, aged 83, will be received Saturday, February 24, 2018, in Cap Haitien, by the City Mayor Jean-Claude Mondesir. He should then go to the Regina Assumpta College around 5.30 pm where he will meet about 500 young people for a conference. See also : https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-23627-icihaiti-culture-exhibition-wole-soyinka-at-the-national-bureau-of-ethnology.html https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-23616-haiti-politic-moise-decorates-of-the-national-order-the-nobel-wole-soyinka.html

Canada : Identification of streets in Petit-Goâve

Launch by the town hall of Petit-Goâve of a project of identification of streets in the municipality, funded by the Federation of Municipalities of Canada for an amount of 47,000 US dollars.

Irrigation in the Nippes and the Goâve region

Brandy Eugene, the Director General of the Ministry of Agriculture, visited on Tuesday several achievements of the Small Irrigation and Market Access Project. This project concerns the irrigation of several perimeters in the Nippes and in the Goâve region. He took the opportunity to discuss with the donor of the project the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) responsible for the management of the fund and with the various firms contracted for the project.

Diaspora and Politour at Historical National Park

This week, the Politour North Detachment led a group of 16 Haitian-Canadian tourists visiting the National Historic Park. These compatriots who have left the country for a long time for the most part have been able to discover safely and guided another image of their Haiti Chérie.

HL/ HaitiLibre