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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haitian senators have taken a key first step toward replacing the prime minister they ousted a week ago. In a 22-0 vote Friday, lawmakers affirmed that planning and external cooperation minister Jean-Max Bellerive meets constitutional requirements to be prime minister.
The Haitian Senate unanimously approved a longtime technocrat as prime minister Friday, hoping that a man with long ties to Haiti's political power brokers and the international community can lead this nation through its fifth change of cabinets in five years.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti | Haitian lawmakers ousted the prime minister Friday in a power struggle that threatens to undermine a campaign to attract foreign investment to the impoverished country. Michele Pierre-Louis was removed when 18 of 29 senators voted for censure and dissolved the Cabinet. Most of the votes against the prime minister came from President Rene Preval's own Lespwa movement ...
The lower house of Haiti's parliament confirmed Jean-Max Bellerive as prime minister on Saturday, clearing the way for the economist and veteran politician to form a new government.
The Office star Rainn Wilson recently embarked on a charity trip to Haiti and kept a blog of his adventures for USA TODAY. Read about his voyage.
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HOMER CITY - On behalf of Mr. Rob Stossel's seventh-period economics class, in partnership with Indiana University of Pennsylvania as well as Partners in Progress in Haiti, we would like to announce the kick-off of the Homer-Center School District's Help for Haiti Shoe Drive.
MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - Nov. 5, 2009) - Majescor Resources Inc. ("Majescor" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:MJX) and partner SIMACT Alliance Copper Gold Inc. ("SACG") are pleased to report that drilling has commenced on the SOMINE copper-gold Property ("SOMINE Property") located in the North-East mineral district of Haiti. In total, this first phase of core drilling on the property will ...
MONTREAL, QUEBEC-- - Majescor Resources Inc. and partner SIMACT Alliance Copper Gold Inc. are pleased to report that drilling has commenced on the SOMINE copper-gold Property located in the North-East mineral district of Haiti.
(RTTNews) - The Haitian Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis has been voted out of power by the Senate Friday, according to reports from the capital, Port-au-Prince.
Photos of emaciated children and coffins of famine victims pierced Iva Presberry's heart as her eye drifted across another photo in "The Catholic Missourian" on Sept. 4.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - A Senate vote to remove Haiti's prime minister early Friday threatens to destabilize the political climate in the storm-torn nation and complicate efforts to attract much needed foreign investment.
Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Haiti's Senate on Friday sacked Prime Minister Michelle Pierre-Louis amid allegations of corruption, just one year after she took office in the empoverished Caribbean country. She had refused to appear before the upper chamber...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haiti's president turned Friday to a member of his former prime minister's freshly dissolved Cabinet to replace her, a day after she was abruptly removed by the Senate in a vote that reflects the country's deep political divisions.
Having spent 30 years treating local children as a New Iberia pediatrician, Dr. Mike Halphen and his wife, Tommye, are living proof that retirement can serve as an even better means of bringing help to those less fortunate than many locals could comprehend.
At a screening of his 2007 documentary about the Haitian revolution at the Watson Institute for International Studies last night, filmmaker Noland Walker discussed the implications of the momentous event in the context of human rights and slavery....
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