Corruption : The Industrial Development Fund singled out by the ULCC

According to the Anti-Corruption Unit (ULCC) the Industrial Development Fund (FDI) granted loans on the basis of political clientelism to 3 companies : La Réserve S.A, Port Lafito S.A and HL Construction S.A...

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-37503-haiti-news-zapping.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-37493-haiti-justice-the-ulcc-hands-over-evidence-of-corruption-representing-500-million-losses-for-the-state.html

Burn the banks, J-C Moïse clarifies

Moïse Jean Charles, leader of the radical opposition party "Pitit Dessalin" denies having launched a call to burn down the Haitian commercial banks, he specifies that his call was to close the doors of the banks if the exchange rate of the Gourde does not was not reduced to less than 80 Gourdes for a dollar. However, he recognizes that he had not corrected the words of the citizens who called for the banks to be set on fire...

"Scarcity creates the black market..."

"The consumption of petroleum products in Haiti averages 667,000 barrels per month. It is not the black market that creates the shortage, but it is the shortage that creates the black market," says the National Association of Petroleum Products Distributors (ANADOIPP)

BRH : 3rd injection of US$ in one week

On Friday August 27, the BRH injected 8.5 million US dollars into the foreign exchange market. This amount is distributed and sold according to the following conditions: 2.5 million for the import needs of oil companies and 6 million for other companies. Recall that this is the 3rd injection of dollars into the foreign exchange market this week. The day before the BRH had injected 10 million dollars https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-37496-haiti-news-zapping.html and Tuesday August 23 8.5 million. The injections of BRH on the foreign exchange market for this week, "will certainly have effects, but limited" according to economist Enomy Germain.

MCI : Prices inscpection tour

The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MCI) carried out inspection visits (August 25 and 26) to several supermarkets in the metropolitan area in order to assess the prices of products and control their quality, the MCI took the opportunity to announce additional drastic measures to enforce the law of December 20, 1946 on illicit speculation.

Former PM Claude Joseph calls for general mobilization

Claude Joseph, the former Prime Minister a.i. criticizes the silence and the inaction of the Governments and calls for a general mobilization to force the Prime Minister Ariel Henry to leave power, whom he criticizes for not having taken measures against the insecure...

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