Showing articles 61 - 80 of 4214 (sorted by date).
| 61 |  | 2011-08-05: Two More Telecom Execs Guilty of Bribing Haitian Officials by Department of Justice, courtesy of corruption investigator Lucy Komisar |  |
| Convicted by a federal jury on all counts for their roles in a scheme to pay bribes to Haitian government officials at Teleco during Aristide presidency in return for sweetheart contracts. | Rating: 5 |
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| 62 |  | 2011-08-05: New Orthodoxy: Blaming Martelly for West’s Blunders by Economist | |
| Webmaster’s note: It was Western “policy,” if such erratic decision-making deserves the name, to correct the presidential vote while letting fraud dominate the parliamentary. Then when the new president is blocked by parliament, it is his fault. | Rating: 1 |
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| 63 |  | 2011-08-05: Loss of Haiti's Conscience, Jean-Claude Bajeux by Radio Kiskeya |  |
| Death of a giant, who articulated as no one else the "narrow door" through which Haiti must pass to achieve the rule of law and effective government. | Rating: 5 |
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| 64 |  | 2011-08-03: The Loser Is Not Bernard Gousse, it Is All Haiti by Emmanuelle Gilles | |
| The country has twice lost prime ministers worthy of the job. Gousse's letter reflected a level of refinement far above that of the riff-raff in that mafioso parliament. | Rating: 5 |
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| 65 |  | 2011-08-02: Should Canada Depend on American Thinktanks? by Carlo Dade, executive director of Canadian Foundation on the Americas, in the National Post | |
| Should Canada outsource its thinking on hemispheric issues to the Americans? Their thinktanks do provide thoughtful commentary, but always from a U.S. perspective. | Rating: 5 |
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| 66 | | 2011-08-01: Préval Members of Parliament on the Take from Government Ministry by National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) | |
| Scarfed up half a million dollars in "consulting fees" for doing nothing. Lends credence to opposition leaders who said their members defected to Unité for the money. | Rating: 5 |
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| 67 |  | 2011-07-27: Martelly Was Attacked by Paid Partisans of Violent Senator by Cyrus Sibert, Réseau Citadelle | |
| The bottles were thrown by Lavalas gangsters who had just finished fighting each other for Moïse Jean-Charles's money. Despite this desperate act of a few, the president and first lady stayed with the people and were protected by them. | Rating: 5 |
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| 68 | | 2011-07-27: Is Clinton about to Force Martelly to Admit Corruptionists into Government? by Robert Bénodin | |
| Don't the internationals understand the consequences of turning over the most heavily funded ministries to the corruptionists? Don't they see Aristide there looking for a way to fund his gangs? The attack against Martelly in Cap-Haïtien is a precursor. | Rating: 5 |
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| 69 |  | 2011-07-25: Ruling Out Withdrawal of Gousse Candidacy by President Martelly, on Radio Kiskeya | |
| Denies that he is thinking of eventually pulling the nomination. Criticizes members of parliament for blocking it. | Rating: 3 |
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| 70 |  | 2011-07-24: How To Throw Off Government of the Few over the Many by Sen. Rudolph H. Boulos, in Le Matin | |
| The private sector, the universities, the political parties, and the diaspora must get together in pressing the executive and legislature for a strong, modern and decentralized state working for all social sectors without exception. | Rating: 5 |
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| 71 |  | 2011-07-23: Last-Ditch Effort to Undermine Change by Stanley Lucas | |
| Préval's senate coalition still refuses to confirm the prime minister nominated by the president. This bloc gained most of its seats by electoral fraud during 2009-2011, but has only 2 percent approval among the Haitians. | Rating: 5 |
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| 72 | | 2011-07-23: More U.S. Indictments of Aristide-Era Teleco Officials by U.S. District Court in Miami, by courtesy of corruption investigator Lucy Komisar | |
| Federal grand jury finds probable cause that more Teleco officials took bribes in return for steering business to U.S.-based telecoms. | Rating: 5 |
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| 73 |  | 2011-07-23: Meeting the Constitutional Requirements by Bernard Gousse | |
| Born in Haiti of Haitian parents, member of Port-au-Prince bar since 1992, resident of Delmas for past 7 years, passed audit of previous government service. | Rating: 5 |
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| 74 | | 2011-07-22: Resisting the New President's Mandate for Change by Stanley Lucas | |
| Posted from June 23: Préval's illicitly elected bloc in parliament is refusing confirmation of prime ministers and tampering with the constitution to head off appointment of uncorrupt officials who would expose their theft of government resources. | Rating: 5 |
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| 75 | | 2011-07-17: Government for the Few over the Many by Sen. Rudolph H. Boulos, in Le Matin | |
| Government in Haiti consists of placing the public sector at the service of a single clan to assuage its wishes and well-being, to the detriment of the collective, national interest. | Rating: 5 |
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| 76 |  | 2011-06-07: Electoral Commission Chief Flees to Dominican Republic by Radio Metropole | |
| Webmaster: According to the National Human Rights Defense Network, he was aided in his escape by a senator who was wanted for murder at the time of his "election" in 2009. | Rating: 5 |
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| 77 |  | 2011-06-07: The Crime of Lèse-Constitution: Will it Also Go Unpunished? by Robert Bénodin, Radio Classique Inter | |
| The new president has annulled the doctored version of the constitution bequeathed to him by Préval. According to Senator Benoit, it was Préval and three senators who did the doctoring. Will we again say in Haiti, a political crime is not a crime? | Rating: 5 |
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| 78 | | 2011-06-06: No Slicing Up the Cake with Corrupt Parliamentarians by President Martelly, in Cyrus Sibert's Réseau Citadelle | |
| "If the state is a cake, it should go back to the people." -- President Martelly. He would rather go down fighting than revert to the corrupt practices denounced by the entire population. | Rating: 5 |
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| 79 |  | 2011-06-06: Stitching Together a Country Torn Into a Thousand Pieces by Daly Valet, in Le Matin | |
| Préval left Haiti in a thousand pieces. It was more than incompetence, he seemed to do it deliberately. He leaves this poisoned inheritance to his successor Michel Martelly. | Rating: 5 |
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| 80 | | 2011-06-06: Don't Give in to Blackmail of Unité Parliamentarians by Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, on Radio Metropole | |
| Don't let them exact a price for confirming your prime minister. Choose the best-qualified personnel available. | Rating: 5 |
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