Haiti
The new Haitian president, Michel Martelly, elected on 20 March, was sworn into office on Saturday 14 May. The very courteous handover of power between the former president, René Préval, and the new one is seen as quite a positive sign, as was the presence of a large contingent of members of the National Assembly, in which Martelly can only rely on the support of three...
The Venice Biennial of Contemporary Art saw four new countries presenting their own official pavilions this year: Andorra, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh and Haiti. The presence of these countries at the Biennial represented their participation in the most important global showcase of the contemporary art world. A year and half after its devastating earthquake, Haiti took up the challenge of asserting...
Interview with Dr Martin Uhomoibhi
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The recent holding of free and fair presidential elections, Nigeria’s role in conflict resolution in Africa, its global peace-keeping activities under a United Nations mandate and an average 7 per cent economic growth are all positives. The country is expected to achieve its development goals and become a...
Besides the apparent external damage, the earthquake has caused serious disasters in the psyche of the Haitian people. This is the opinion of the eminent Haitian scholar, Laennec Hurbon, current research director at CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research, France). He is a doctor of theology and sociology, an anthropologist, a philosopher, an epistemologist and a social scientist. Hurbon...
Ms Michaëlle Jean, special envoy of UNESCO, former Governor General of Canada (Head of State, Acting Vicereine) and Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian armed forces, is a symbol of the Haitian diaspora. She has recently taken part in a meeting of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC) in Port-au-Prince - on 15 February 2011 - and the conference on the same theme organized in Brussels on...
There is growing impatience in Haiti concerning the lack of promised construction standards. With the approach of the hurricane season, serious concerns are being expressed. The Haitian authorities are redoubling their efforts to create the foundations for true emergency preparedness.
Awaiting Standards
The slight tremor that occurred on 1 March in Haiti reminded everyone of the ever...
The international community had promised to dedicate 11 billion dollars to the reconstruction of Haiti. A little over a year later, about 1 billion dollars has been paid out, of which 359 million went into the Haiti Reconstruction Fund (HRF), under the authority of the Interim Commission for the Reconstruction of Haiti (ICRH). The first projects for the construction of houses for the homeless...
Léogâne - 29 km to the west of Port-au-Prince. First impressions are that nothing’s changed since last year. Tents, sheet-metal and wooden huts are still an eyesore in the birthplace of Anacaona, the Arawak queen famed for both her beauty and political insight and who was head of the Xaragua, one of the country’s five chiefdoms before the arrival of Christopher Columbus....
This questioning sums up the comments of two European ambassadors, Didier Le Bret of France and Jens Peter Voss of Germany, who shared with The Courier their analysis of the situation of Haiti a year after the earthquake. With some subtle differences of opinion. . .
For France, with its long shared history with Haiti, the 2010 earthquake was an opportunity to strengthen links with...
The experience of EFACAP*– a network of teacher training centres to which several primary schools are linked – is indicative of the ebband flow of the Haitian population after the earthquake. The Courier visited two training centers - Mirebalais and Lascahobas.
The Lascahobas centre’s director, Hope Saintil remembers how “many families flocked here. In our school alone,...
The new Haitian president, Michel Martelly, elected on 20 March, was sworn into office on Saturday 14 May. The very courteous handover of power between the former president, René Préval, and the new one is seen as quite a positive sign, as was the presence of a large contingent of members of the National Assembly, in which Martelly can only rely on the support of three...
The Venice Biennial of Contemporary Art saw four new countries presenting their own official pavilions this year: Andorra, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh and Haiti. The presence of these countries at the Biennial represented their participation in the most important global showcase of the contemporary art world. A year and half after its devastating earthquake, Haiti took up the challenge of asserting...
Interview with Dr Martin Uhomoibhi
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The recent holding of free and fair presidential elections, Nigeria’s role in conflict resolution in Africa, its global peace-keeping activities under a United Nations mandate and an average 7 per cent economic growth are all positives. The country is expected to achieve its development goals and become a...
Besides the apparent external damage, the earthquake has caused serious disasters in the psyche of the Haitian people. This is the opinion of the eminent Haitian scholar, Laennec Hurbon, current research director at CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research, France). He is a doctor of theology and sociology, an anthropologist, a philosopher, an epistemologist and a social scientist. Hurbon...
Ms Michaëlle Jean, special envoy of UNESCO, former Governor General of Canada (Head of State, Acting Vicereine) and Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian armed forces, is a symbol of the Haitian diaspora. She has recently taken part in a meeting of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC) in Port-au-Prince - on 15 February 2011 - and the conference on the same theme organized in Brussels on...
There is growing impatience in Haiti concerning the lack of promised construction standards. With the approach of the hurricane season, serious concerns are being expressed. The Haitian authorities are redoubling their efforts to create the foundations for true emergency preparedness.
Awaiting Standards
The slight tremor that occurred on 1 March in Haiti reminded everyone of the ever...
The international community had promised to dedicate 11 billion dollars to the reconstruction of Haiti. A little over a year later, about 1 billion dollars has been paid out, of which 359 million went into the Haiti Reconstruction Fund (HRF), under the authority of the Interim Commission for the Reconstruction of Haiti (ICRH). The first projects for the construction of houses for the homeless...
Léogâne - 29 km to the west of Port-au-Prince. First impressions are that nothing’s changed since last year. Tents, sheet-metal and wooden huts are still an eyesore in the birthplace of Anacaona, the Arawak queen famed for both her beauty and political insight and who was head of the Xaragua, one of the country’s five chiefdoms before the arrival of Christopher Columbus....
This questioning sums up the comments of two European ambassadors, Didier Le Bret of France and Jens Peter Voss of Germany, who shared with The Courier their analysis of the situation of Haiti a year after the earthquake. With some subtle differences of opinion. . .
For France, with its long shared history with Haiti, the 2010 earthquake was an opportunity to strengthen links with...
The experience of EFACAP*– a network of teacher training centres to which several primary schools are linked – is indicative of the ebband flow of the Haitian population after the earthquake. The Courier visited two training centers - Mirebalais and Lascahobas.
The Lascahobas centre’s director, Hope Saintil remembers how “many families flocked here. In our school alone,...
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