Céant calls for a truce

Friday on the sidelines of the launch of the program Urbayiti https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-26411-haiti-politic-launch-of-urbayiti-a-42-billion-gourdes-program.html Prime Minister Jean-Henry Céant has launched a call to the truce to the opposition for the holiday season "I appeal to the patriotism of all, to surpass ourselves, so as to offer the population a climate of lull to allow him to approaching these feasts with more serenity [...] our divergences, whatever their motivations and legitimacy may be, have basically very little weight against the harsh reality of our collective dismay." This call joins the one signed by 40 political parties close to the Government https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-26395-haiti-news-zapping.html

The justice system threatened

Me Jules Cantave asks in a letter addressed to the Head of State to respect his promise made last November, deploring that in the draft budget 2018-2019 tabled in Parliament, only 1.5 billion gourdes were allocated to the judicial system, on the 10 billion requested. With such a small envelope, Cantave says that the entire functioning of the justice system is under threat.

Claudy Cassant takes the lead of the ULCC

Jovenel Moïse has appointed former Commissioner and Investigating Judge Claudy Cassant as the new Director General of the Anti-Corruption Unit (ULCC), Me Cassant, known for his impartiality and rigor, will have among task the leading of investigation into the PetroCaribe case, which should reassure some of the radical opposition to a PetroCaribe trial. He replaces Major David Basile in office since July 2017 https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-21490-haiti-news-zapping.html

Signing of a cooperation agreement with Spain

Within the framework of the program "UrbAyiti" https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-26411-haiti-politic-launch-of-urbayiti-a-42-billion-gourdes-program.html Ambassador of Spain Manuel Solano and EU Ambassador in Haiti Vincent Degert, in the presence of Prime Minister Jean-Henry Céant, signed a delegated cooperation agreement of the EU with the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development (AECID), for a communal water supply and sanitation program in the popular zone of Martissant.

"Yon Vil Pwòp pou yon nwèl san fatra"

Great Mobilization of the Office of the Deputy Jacques Beauvil of the Constituency of Carrefour, for the 6th edition "weekend of the Citizen" Organized by the City Council of Carrefour on 14,15 and 16 December 2018, around the theme "Yon Vil Pwòp pou yon nwèl san fatra".

Laureate of the Human Rights Text Contest

Esther Grégoire, Public Relations Manager of Kri Fanm Ayiti (KRIFA) won the First Prize of the 2nd Edition 2018 of the Human Rights Law Contest organized by the Office of Citizen Protection (OPC).

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