Dear Colleagues, Please find below the mainstream news on Haiti ...
Dear Colleagues, Please find below the mainstream news on Haiti ... Dear Colleagues, Please find below the mainstream news on Haiti ...
After a boat washed ashore in Hallandale Beach earlier this year, Prime Minister Jacques-Edouard Alexis told The Miami Herald that stimulating Haiti's economy was one of hisbiggest challenges.He had hoped that international donors would fund a project aimed at creating jobs inseveral cities.When donors declined,
officials say that three weeks later,
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officials say that three weeks later, <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>y repatriated 37 <strong>Haiti</strong>an migrants after a boatattempted to land <strong>on</strong> May 28 in <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> British dependent territory, 150 miles from <strong>Haiti</strong>'snor<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>rn coast.The U.S. Coast Guard also intercepted and returned 50 <strong>Haiti</strong>ans in June. So far this year,<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> U.S. Coast Guard has intercepted 1,221 <strong>Haiti</strong>an migrants, more than <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> 1,198 for allof last year.A WOMAN'S SECRETFlorence Joachin, 25, didn't tell her mo<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>r that she was heading to Providenciales whenshe asked to borrow $285. Clairecida Osias recalls her daughter saying <strong>on</strong>ly that she was``leaving in search of a life.''''I thought she was headed to Port-au-Prince,'' says Osias, who borrowed <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> m<strong>on</strong>ey.``What was I to do? When you have a child who is trying to help you even though shehas her own two children to take care of, and she says she wants to go in search of a life,you are resigned to help her.''Osias learned <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> truth when some<strong>on</strong>e brought Joachin's crumpled passport to <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> houseand asked if <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> photo was of her daughter.As she recalled <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> moment, she stares at <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> mass grave, her eyes surveying <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> tinywhite wooden crosses standing atop <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> white slab. Osias' days are now c<strong>on</strong>sumed withgrief and worry over food and m<strong>on</strong>ey.''There is no m<strong>on</strong>ey, no work,'' Osias says. ``Things are worse now.''An expectant fa<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>r, Antoine JeanBaptiste, and his two best friends were am<strong>on</strong>g <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> 78survivors who managed to stay alive by stripping naked to prevent o<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>rs from pulling<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>m under.The three, like o<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>r survivors, accuse <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Turks and Caicos police patrol of ramming <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>wooden boat at least twice before towing it from shallow water and into <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> deep just as<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>y were preparing to disembark.The British government has launched an investigati<strong>on</strong> into <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> allegati<strong>on</strong>s and <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>accident, and is expected to issue a report next m<strong>on</strong>th.POOR CONDITIONS''Just look at <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> miserable c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>s in which people here are living,'' Jean-Baptistesays, walking through a neighborhood of rundown and unfinished houses with overgrownweeds and debris <strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> outskirts of Cap-<strong>Haiti</strong>en.
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