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Haiti - FLASH : Address to the Nation of President Jovenel Moïse 28/04/2020 08:29:02
Extracts from the address to the Nation of President Jovenel Moïse : "[...] Haitian people, Brothers and Sisters across the country, [...] I have promised you that you will always get good information, in complete transparency, on everything the State does, particularly with regard to public expenditure. [...] We made the decision to help the workers in our factories. We have honored our commitment to the outsourcing industry. The State has paid more than 200 million Gourdes as promised to support the sector. 54,188 workers in all the industrial parks received the payment of their wages for 15 days that we promised. [...] We have promised to help 1.5 million families in need (March 27 https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-30405-haiti-covid-19-moise-promises-food-to-1-million-families-and-cash-to-15-million-others.html ). The information I received made me realize that people have not yet received this money. Today I want to be clear to everyone. When I asked the Minister of Economy and Finance to be diligent so these 1,500,000 families could get this money to help them in this difficult time. I am working to make sure that this money goes directly into their pocket. We prefer to delay along the way but bring good news. What remains is for the people, as I like to repeat. The program was initiated so that city dwellers get 3,000 Gourdes and people in the countryside get 2,000 Gourdes. Today, I made the decision so that everyone gets 3,000 Gourdes. Because there must be no difference between people in the countryside and those in the cities. We are all Haitians. I am announcing that there are people in the 4 geographic departments of the country who will receive their money at the beginning of this week. [...] As I have always told you, whatever the Government does, we want to do it transparently. The Government has ordered equipment and materials for the amount of 2 billion Gourdes https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-30395-haiti-covid-19-daily-bulletin-march-29-2020.html . The transport of this equipment and materials costs the State 900 million Gourdes. If the government had decided to ship this equipment by boat, it would not have cost all this money. But they were going to arrive in Haiti at the end of June. We would not have time to be ready to face the coronavirus. We couldn't take this chance. This is why we chose as an option to bring this equipment by plane. If there are no major difficulties, all of this equipment will arrive in the first half of May. And there will be an equivalent of 30 containers of medical equipment and materials. [...] As Head of State, I must ask myself what is the next step after the coronavirus ? It is obvious that there will be famine. We already have a lot of unemployment. The whole world is living in recession. All countries will strive to recapitalize their businesses at home. If we don't start taking steps to prepare for the post-coronavirus today, we will have a lot of problems. This is why I ask the Prime Minister to accelerate the formation of the economic unit which can allow us to think carefully with all the other sectors of the country, with a view to making good decisions on how the economic recovery should unfold. after the coronavirus. Regarding agricultural production, the Ministry of Agriculture has already started to plow land in several regions of the country and I will tell the Minister to provide farmers in these regions with good seeds to produce fast growing food [...] I would like to ask the Minister to start this plowing activity, to pay particular attention to the following agricultural areas: Plaine des Cayes, Plaine de Torbeck, Plaine de Chantal, Plaine de Camp-Perrin, Plaines de Les Anglais, Plaines d'Aquin, Plaines de Gommier, Plaine de Baconoix, the agricultural areas of the Haut-Plateau and Central Low -lands, The Plains of Ferrier, Terrier-rouge, Aux Pêches, Caracol and Trou du Nord. La Plaine du Nord, Acul du Nord, Limonade, Quartier Morin, Saint-Raphaël. All the agricultural land in the Trois Rivières valley, from Gros Morne to reach the mouth of Port-de-Paix. The Plain of the Bay of Mosquitoes and Jean-Rabel. All agricultural areas of Haut Artibonite and Bas-Artibonite. Without forgetting the plain of Tomazeaux, Croix-Des-Bouquets, Arcahaie, Cabaret, Léogâne and the 2nd plain of Petit-Goâve. I want to announce to everyone that, as soon as a group of planters can come together to gather 500 hectares of land, that is to say even if they have a hectare, half a hectare, a quarter of hectare, as long as they can come together to form a block of agricultural production, if they do not have water for watering, the State has the obligation to install a solar pump for them, which means that they won't have to buy gasoline. The first plowing must be done free of charge [...]" See also : https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-30405-haiti-covid-19-moise-promises-food-to-1-million-families-and-cash-to-15-million-others.html https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-30395-haiti-covid-19-daily-bulletin-march-29-2020.html HL/ HaitiLibre
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