Serious accident on Route #9

Sunday a serious accident occurred on Route #9 in Cite Soleil, involving 4 vehicles, where people found themselves trapped. The final toll is two dead, two men and several wounded. Management teams of Civil Protection and the Red Cross had immediately went to the site.

Success of the article "Investing in Haiti" of Financial Times

This weekend, the successful article "Investing in Haiti" of the Financial Times the British financial newspaper of international renown, has been widely distributed at the meetings of the World Bank and of International Monetary Fund in Washington DC. As a reminder, this article is a summary of business opportunities in Haiti, written by tenors journalists of this newspaper, who recently visited the country for a week. https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-13465-haiti-news-some-news-here-and-there.html

Security of Dominican truckers

Blas Peralta, the President of the Dominican Federation of Transport (Fenatrado), warned that affiliates drivers (over 100 unions and over 80,000 trucks) will not come into Haiti, unless each unit is guarded by soldiers of MINUSTAH, adding that "the life of a Dominican driver who comes into Haiti is worthless, he knows he is safe only when it returns to the Dominican Republic. Note that every day more than 150 Dominican trucks enter in Haiti deliver goods https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-13620-haiti-security-maximo-delgado-accuses-haiti-of-violating-the-truckers-protection-agreement.html

Agriculture, constructive bilateral meeting

After the meeting of the National Advisory Committee of project to Strengthens the International Quarantine held in Santo Domingo last Thursday Fresner Dorcin, the Minister of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development met his Dominican counterpart, Angel Estévez. The two ministers discussed the establishment of a system of health protection between the two countries, of monitoring of the fight against the Mediterranean fly, of the support to the establishment of the National Agricultural Development Bank and the export of agricultural products to the Dominican Republic. The Minister Dorcin invited the Dominican Minister to visit Haiti in the coming days.

Week of intellectual property

From 20 to 24 April 2015, the Haitian Copyright Office (BHDA) present the week of the Intellectual Property, under the theme "Intellectual Property and economics of cultural industries" On this occasion will be held meetings, exhibitions, conferences, debates and scholarship awards. Tuesday from 0:00 am to noon "peer to peer download, mobile ringtone, streaming and Copyright" at BHDA Haitian Copyright Office (BHDA) 31 Cheriez Street, Canapé-vert / Phone (509) 28-11-56-26 - Wednesday, April 22: Exhibition of Noailles artisans at the same location.

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