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April 6, 2012

Delta Airlines flies from Atlanta, GA to Port-au-Prince, Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - After more than 20 years, Delta Air Lines made its first non-stop flight from Atlanta, Georgia to Port-au-Prince. At 11:15 AM, a Boeing 737 made the 3 hour flight at a cost of about $500.00 for First and Business Class, and $400 for Economy.

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February 29, 2012

Haiti seeks to rebuild, or just build, power grid

BOUCAN CARRE, Haiti (AP) — Sometimes it seems as though the people here have only the sun and moon: the blinding sun that bakes their mud homes and moonlight that with flickering gas lamps fights against the dark of night.

TRENTON DANIEL, Associated Press

February 22, 2012

Haiti Closer to Bringing Long-Term Democratic Governance to Its People

Haiti's Minister of the Interior, Thierry Mayard-Paul, speaking at Florida International University (FIU), stated that for the first time – perhaps in the history of Haiti – President Martelly's administration can close the gap between what people want from democracy and the government's ability to deliver on its promises and bring long term democratic governance to Haiti.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Feb. 22, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ -- Haiti's Minister of the Interior, Thierry Mayard-Paul, speaking at Florida International University (FIU), stated that for the first time – perhaps in the history of Haiti – President Martelly's administration can close the gap between what people want from democracy and the government's ability to deliver on its promises and bring long term democratic governance to Haiti.

February 1, 2012

Haiti Ambassador : Sean Penn at large

Actor Sean Penn named Haitian ambassador at large in a special ceremony at the national palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Actor Sean Penn has been named ambassador at large for Haiti in recognition of his humanitarian work since the 2010 earthquake. The Hollywood star received the honor from Haitian President Michel Martelly at a special ceremony Tuesday evening at the National Palace.

Martelly thanked Penn for keeping the spotlight on the Caribbean nation.

January 26, 2012

EU and Haiti sign deal to lengthen rural highway

EU and Haiti sign deal to lengthen rural highway . European Union/Haiti highway project will link Hinche and St. Raphael to Port-au-Prince

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- The Haitian government and European Union have signed an agreement for building a road to connect the capital with the country's second largest city.

The European Union will spend 40.7 million euros ($52.6 million) on a project that will first pave a dirt national highway linking the central towns of Hinche and St. Raphael. It is 27 miles (44-kilometer) long.

January 12, 2012

Haiti: businesses needed in the Republic of NGOs

Profiles Digicel and highlights 2 ways of doing business in Haiti as an example of how businesses can be a force for good in Haiti.

It has now been two years since an earthquake tore apart Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, and it’s obvious that there’s widespread dissatisfaction at the excruciatingly slow progress of reconstruction.

But amid all the desperation, there have been some successes, in which the private sector has exercised an important role. Ideally, it would play a much bigger part.

January 5, 2012

U.S. Department of Defense Helps Bolster Haiti's Disaster Response

Haiti's Civil Protection network received a substantial boost with the presentation of SUVs, trucks, boats, canoes, 11,000 solar radios, tents and other disaster-response equipment presented as gifts to the Government of Haiti by the U.S. Department of Defense.

January 3, 2012

Haiti Flights - Delta Airlines from Atlanta, GA to Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Delta Air Lines Inc. on April 7, 2012 is to launch a weekly flight from Atlanta to Haiti, the first nonstop air service to the country from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in at least two decades. Delta already flies nonstop from New York to the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, but that flight is mostly sustained by local demand.

December 31, 2011

Haiti leader paves way for new elections

Haitian President Michel Martelly fired members of a nine-person electoral council to make way for legislative and local elections planned for next year.

December 24, 2011

Haiti's Minister of Haitians Living Abroad, Daniel Supplice attacked in D.R.

A presidential adviser in Haiti says that government Minister of Haitians Living Abroad, Daniel Supplice was attacked while visiting the neighboring Dominican Republic.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- A presidential adviser in Haiti says that a government minister was attacked while visiting the neighboring Dominican Republic.Presidential adviser Damian Merlo said late Friday that Minister of Haitians Living Abroad Daniel Supplice is doing fine but he had no other details.

December 20, 2011

Clinton Bush Haiti Fund grants Haiti $1.5 Million

The nonprofit created by former U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush said Tuesday it's given a $264,000 grant to the Oasis Foundation that seeks to train potential hotel workers in hospitality services.

December 16, 2011

CARICOM Develops Health Project in Haiti

Port-au-Prince, Dec 16 (Prensa Latina) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is developing a project to improve the healthcare infrastructure and raise Haitian residents'' awareness in the Brooklyn neighborhood, in the community of Cite Soleil, in this capital.

The project, called WASH, consists of personal hygiene and food safety practices, and is part of support for Haiti's national strategy to fight the epidemic of cholera, the website caribbeannewsnow.com reported on Friday.

December 8, 2011

Investment interest growing in Haiti

Invest in Haiti Forum, one of the largest meetings of its kind ever held in the Caribbean, underscoring the strong private sector interest in the country’s economic potential. Participants discussed concrete business opportunities in sectors such as apparel, tourism and agribusiness, as well as infrastructure projects related to Haiti’s reconstruction and long term development efforts.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haiti is still struggling to recover from the economic and ecological disasters wrought by last year’s massive earthquake but investors are still not counting out the Caribbean nation.

More than 1,000 businesspeople and government officials took part last week in the Invest in Haiti Forum, one of the largest meetings of its kind ever held in the Caribbean, underscoring the strong private sector interest in the country’s economic potential.

November 30, 2011

Haiti secures major investments

LS Cable & Systems, Marriott International, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Colombia's National Coffee Federation confirms major investments in Haiti at Invest-in-Haiti forum which highlighted various business opportunities in Haiti.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Wednesday November 30, 2011 – Several significant investments have been announced for the country, coinciding with a two-day conference that brings together government and business officials.

Marriott International has disclosed plans to open a 173-room hotel in 2014 valued at US$45 million - its first-ever in the capital.

Yesterday, LS Cable & Systems, one of the world's largest manufacturers of energy and telecommunications cables, signed an agreement with the government to promote infrastructure development.

November 30, 2011

President Michel Martelly to create 500K Jobs

President Michel Martelly wants to create 500,000 jobs in Haiti over the next three years. Some of the job opportunities will come from a new Marriott hotel planned for Port-au-Prince and a South Korean-run industrial park slated to open next year in the north, both championed by former U.S. President Bill Clinton this week on a two-day visit.

(AP) PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitian President Michel Martelly wants to create 500,000 jobs in Haiti over the next three years. Some of the job opportunities will come from a new Marriott hotel planned for Port-au-Prince and a South Korean-run industrial park slated to open next year in the north, both championed by former U.S. President Bill Clinton this week on a two-day visit.

"Haitians don't want a gift," Martelly told reporters at a news conference Tuesday. "They want work."

November 30, 2011

Servotel opened in front of Toussaint Louverture International airport

This is a hotel of 54 rooms the hotel group's largest country has just opened in front of the Toussaint Louverture International Airport. This investment of six million, the group owner and Kinam Karibe, offers an attractive setting in the first hotel that combines comfort to earthquake standards.

"It is a pride for us to be one of the first hotels to open its doors after the earthquake of January 12. For there are many hotels and many other investments that are being done in this area. " This is how the young CEO of Servotel, Jean-Sebastien Buteau, said on receiving the news this Tuesday morning at the reception of this new hotel located on Toussaint Louverture Boulevard, not far from Guy Malary Terminal, Cargo Area.

November 29, 2011

Haiti Business Opportunities Investment Forum

The two-day Invest in Haiti Forum in the capital, Port-au-Prince, is aimed at highlighting business opportunities in the country. The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) organized the event along with the Haitian government and the Clinton Foundation.

Business leaders are discussing new possibilities for Haiti at a conference designed to bring more money and jobs to the impoverished Caribbean nation.

Haitian President Michel Martelly said his government wants to create 500,000 jobs during the next three years.

November 15, 2011

Heineken owns 95 percent of major beer company in Haiti

Heineken says it already owned nearly 23 percent of Brasserie Nationale d’Haiti SA, known as Brana. The Dutch company says it sees room for growth in Haiti with the country’s increasing economic and political stability.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Dutch brewer Heineken NV says it will increase its stake in the dominant beer company in Haiti to 95 percent.

The deal is expected to be completed next month for undisclosed terms.

November 12, 2011

Haitian Culture Minister Choiseul Henriquez has died in Canada

Haitian Culture Minister Choiseul Henriquez has died while in Ottawa, Canada on Friday Noevember 12, 2011.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Former journalist and newly appointed Haitian Culture Minister Choiseul Henriquez has died while in Canada. He was 51. The office of President Michel Martelly said in a statement Saturday night that Henriquez died of a brain hemorrhage Friday while in Ottawa. It said he had suffered from diabetes and hypertension.

November 3, 2011

Haiti creating home loan system for middle class first time home buyers

Haiti's struggle to rebuild homes. A few members of Haiti's small middle class will be able for the first time to get a mortgage.Haitian President Michel Martelly has launched his own housing program. Dubbed Kay Pa'm — Haitian Creole for "my own house" — it aims to provide mortgages to first-time homeowners who belong to Haiti's middle class.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's struggle to rebuild homes for hundreds of thousands of quake victims may be giving the impoverished nation something it has never had: loans to help people buy them. If efforts by international donors and local agencies succeed, at least a few members of Haiti's small middle class will be able for the first time to get a mortgage. Some of the efforts reach even further, offering micro-mortgages for families who make as little as $150 a month.

November 3, 2011

Why Haiti Does Not Need a New $95 Million Army

As one of his first executive acts, Haiti’s new president, Michel Martelly, has asked donor nations to help him re-establish the army that was disbanded by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide 16 years ago. The initial cost: $95 million, which will go, Martelly says, to a starter force of 3,500.

At best, Martelly’s priorities are confused. At worst, they are ominous. He is proposing to spend a lot of money on a militia that Haiti doesn’t need when the country is still in shambles because of the 2010 earthquake. Worse, he is reconstituting an institution that was used, from the 1950s onwards, almost exclusively as a tool of oppression.

Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) -- As one of his first executive acts, Haiti’s new president, Michel Martelly, has asked donor nations to help him re-establish the army that was disbanded by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide 16 years ago. The initial cost: $95 million, which will go, Martelly says, to a starter force of 3,500.

November 1, 2011

Self-sustaining nutrition enterprise in Haiti

Big pharma companies such as Abbott Laboratories, the Illinois-based company is donating the time of dozens of workers with expertise in food sciences and engineering, in addition to $6.5 million cash, to build a charitable, self-sustaining nutrition enterprise in Haiti,

By DUFF WILSON

PHARMACEUTICAL companies around the globe are donating billions of dollars in free drugs to third world countries grappling with poverty and disease. Abbott Laboratories is taking its philanthropy a step further. The Illinois-based company is donating the time of dozens of workers with expertise in food sciences and engineering, in addition to $6.5 million cash, to build a charitable, self-sustaining nutrition enterprise in Haiti.

October 19, 2011

Partners in Health proposes cholera vaccine plan for Haiti

(Reuters) - A U.S. NGO plans to start a ground-breaking cholera vaccination campaign in Haiti in January, it said Wednesday, as experts warned that efforts to combat the year-old deadly epidemic were faltering badly.

October 13, 2011

Muhammad Yunus 2006 Nobel Prize Winner, talks 'social business' in Haiti

Yunus said the "social business" idea is different from the "microcredit" industry that he pioneered in the 1980s, when he gave tiny loans to poor people to help them start small businesses. "There's a business world. There's a charity world," "Why can't we take those ideas and try to make money and also solve (social) problems?"

BY TRENTON DANIEL,ASSOCIATED PRESS

October 8, 2011

Haiti Ranks 128 in Forbes Magazine's Best Places for Business 2011

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