New International Award for Dany Laferrière

Dany Laferrière recently won the International Prize for Literature awarded by the "Haus der Kulturen der Welt" for her novel "L’énigme du retour" already rewarded in 2009 by the Prix Medicis and the Grand Prix of Montreal Book ! Rendezvous on July 3 for the Award ceremony.

Laurent Lamothe welcomes the visit of the Vietnamese delegation

The head of government welcomed the visit of the Vietnamese delegation during its visit to Caracol Industrial Park https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-11454-haiti-news-some-news-here-and-there.html where a score of entrepreneurs explored investment opportunities in the region in various industrial sectors, including textiles and clothing, production of solar lamps and lighting and the manufacture of metal structures. https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-11443-haiti-economy-twenty-vietnamese-entrepreneurs-on-a-mission-to-haiti.html

The Minister Auguste and a delegation of MIT in visit...

Wednesday, Marie Carmelle Rose Anne Auguste, Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister, in charge of Human Rights and the Fight Against Extreme Poverty, accompanied by a delegation from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), visited the exhibition of the National Geo-Spatial Information Centre as well as the fresco being painted by wo painters of Kalfou Riches to Karibe Convention Center: Walgens Pierre Jean, of the current Folie Ouverte and Papouche Romélus, portrait painter evolving in Martissant.

Sad record

From 1 to 23 June 2014, 67 shot dead were recorded at the morgue in Port-au-Prince. For the first quarter of the year 269 violent deaths were reported across the country. The metropolitan area alone count 202 people died by bullets, according to Jocelyne Colas Noël, the Director of the National Episcopal Commission for Justice and Peace

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