Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 : The unbeaten USA face our Grenadières

This Tuesday, January 28, 2020 at the BBVA Stadium in Houston, the United States national women's selection, which has won 23 straight games without defeat, will face our Grenadières in the opening match of the last phase of the playoffs of the football tournament Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. Subsequently, our Grenadières in Group A will face Costa Rica on January 31 and they will finish this first group stage against Panama on February 3. See also : https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-29844-icihaiti-og-tokyo-2020-d-4-before-the-first-qualifying-match-against-the-usa.html

Pre-carnival, 2 gunshot wounded

Sunday in Port-au-Prince on the 2nd Sunday of pre-carnival activity, the Municipal Committee for Civil Protection reports 2 gunshot wounded (partial provisional assessment).

St-Marc : Police blunder

On the sidelines of the carnival activities of Saint-Marc (Artibonite), the arrest of two individuals known as Tchako and Zopoul from the "Base 7 secondes" provoked violent reactions from supporters who threw stones and bottles at the police who retaliated by making use of their weapons, while two waliking bands, Bon Bredjen and Fann Beton were performing in the neighborhood. Enock Pierre (16) was fatally injured and two other people Libelo Turin and Madsen Charles were injured and rushed to Saint Nicolas Hospital

USAID supports our women entrepreneurs

"The Embassy of the United States is proud to support via the American Agency for International Development (USAID - Haiti) the training of the Chamber of Commerce of Women Entrepreneurs of Haiti (CCFEH) since 2017 [...] because we know that investing in women's leadership and empowerment can help break the cycles of conflict and violence that threaten security and undermine development progress," said Garry Juste, Mission Director for USAID.

Martine Moïse in Belize

Monday the First Lady, Martine Moïse left the country for Belize to participate in a forum organized for young people around the theme : "Adolescents and young people committed to change and a sustainable future".

University scientific cooperation with Spain

The Embassy of Haiti to the Kingdom of Spain welcomes the very positive results of the meeting on Monday January 27, 2020 with officials from the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria University (ULPGC). The future of scientific cooperation between the State University of Haiti and the ULPGC is very promising. ULPGC will soon be welcoming our Haitian students and researchers and vice versa...

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