Protester shot dead

Friday, during a demonstration at Côte-Plage 16, in front of the Oméga police station (Commune de Carrefour) which demanded the release of Wolf Hall, owner of "Titi Loto borlette", kidnapped and sequestered since October 20 https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-32115-haiti-news-zapping.html , one of the demonstrators was fatally shot. Protesters accuse a police officer of the shooting. An investigation has been opened...

Moïse visits an electrical work site

On Saturday, President Moïse accompanied by Prime Minister Joseph Joute, Chancellor Claude Joseph and Taiwanese Ambassador Wen- jiann Ku, visited the substation under construction by the Taiwanese firm "Overseas Engineering & Construction Corp. LTDA. S.A." (OECC), to inquire about the progress of work aimed at the upcoming electrification of the metropolitan area.

1,874 road victims in 8 months

According to the Haitian organization Services Techniques et Opérationnels pour Pallier aux Accidents (STOP-Accidents) from March 9 to October 18, 2020, 765 road accidents killed 278 and injured 1,596.

Writer Yanick Lahens, 2020 Caribbean Carbet Prize

As part of the 30th anniversary of the Caribbean Carbet Prize 2020, this Prize was awarded this year to the Haitian writer Yanick Lahens "for all of her work" as well as to the Guyanese writers Élie Stephenson and the Martinican writer Alfred Alexandre.

Paris : Consul Wedlyne François Pierre in office

The Consulate General of the Republic of Haiti in Paris informs the general public and the Haitian community in particular that Ms. Wedlyne François Pierre officially took office of the Consul General on October 21. After completing studies in Public Administration, Administrative Sciences and graduated in International Relations, François Pierre began her diplomatic career at the Embassy of Haiti in Canada where she worked as second secretary for the period from 2012 to 2014. She then served at the Embassy of Haiti in the Dominican Republic as First Secretary from 2015 to 2019. In July 2019, she was transferred to the Consulate General of Haiti in Montreal as Consul, then Head of Post.

Moïse at the CSC/CA

Saturday, October 24 in downtown Port-au-Prince, President Moïse visited the brand new premises of the Superior Court of Accounts and Administrative Litigation (CSC/CA) https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-28326-haiti-justice-the-new-building-of-the-csc-ca-built-by-a-chinese-firm-is-completed.html

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