More and more Haitians are leaving the country...

Haitians are increasingly leaving the country to go to the Mexico/United States border via Nicaragua. According to ABC news, 260 charter flights carrying 31,000 Haitians have been recorded in recent months.

February 7, 2024 is not a deadline for Milrlande Manigat

Ms. Myrlande Manigat, President of the High Council of the Transition (HCT), does not see February 7, 2024 as a deadline. She considers that it is necessary to ensure that the prerequisites for the organization of credible elections are met : Voting for a new Constitution and forming a Provisional Electoral Council (CEP).

3 medals at the Pan American Games

At the Pan American Games in Santiago Haiti Cédrick Belony-Duliepre won the bronze medal after his defeat in the semi-final against Brazilian Wanderley Pereira De Souza. This is the third medal won by the Haitian delegation after the two medals of Ava Soon Lee (silver) and Aliyah Shipman (bronze) in taekwondo. We have to go back to 2003 to find such a number of medals for Haiti.

Congratulations from the PM

'I extend my congratulations to the Economic and Social Assistance Fund (FAES) for winning the IDB Development Superhero Competition https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-40837-haiti-society-haiti-one-of-the-2-winners-of-the-development-superheroes-2023-competition.html . I would like to salute the spirit of leadership, innovation, creativity, the sense of seriousness, the healthy, efficient and transparent management demonstrated by the FAES, within the framework of the government's social programs in favor of the most deprived. While congratulating the Director General, Paul Harry Voltaire and his entire team, I encourage the FAES to continue to work for the benefit of disadvantaged populations through sound management of social programs focused on results, Acting Prime Minister Ariel Henry.

Nearly 108,500 civil servants

Excluding contract workers, the Haitian public administration in 2023 has 108,463 civil servants (77,000 men, or 71%, and 31,079 women, or 29%) whose payroll amounts to 3 billion 982 million 291,304 gourdes according to Jean Michel Silin of the General Budget Directorate (DGB).

2 DINEPA vehicles riddled with bullets

DINEPA executives once again victims of growing insecurity in Bedet (Croix-des-Bouquets) for the sole reason of wanting to work to ensure drinking water flows into the taps of households in the country (rural and urban environment combined), 2 of the 3 vehicles leaving Belladere were again targeted by heavily armed individuals, bullet holes are visible on the vehicles...

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