July-September
2005 Entries
Opinions expressed by the participants
should not be interpreted as reflecting the opinion of EchodHaiti.com.
if Nahima is a real person HE?SHE should have head examined.
Stan
Green Meadows , MD United States - 09/30/2005 at 18:58
San blag, Nahima ki kote ou gwen news sa yo piti? "Prince Agi", kote kingdom li ya sitie menm? Se yon "Memoire" lap ye? Mezanmi, si'w koute kout pete mal bourik, wa tiye'l ak chay...
O!O!
United States - 09/30/2005 at 12:44
Congrats to Trankill and their website- I likes, I likes- Agimal, interesting star name, "Prince Agi"- where did it come from? Anyhow- I read that you are in the process of writing a book... can you tell us about it?
Nahima
United States - 09/30/2005 at 08:56
Léon Dimanche is alive and well.
Last weekend he did a great show in Miami.
He is one of the "hard to find" Haitian artists.He is in a class by it self now that Roger Colas, Ansy Dérose, Gerard Dupervil and Guy Durosier are dead.
Enjoy him while you can.
P.S -This $20.00 show and many other shows like System - Zin - Manzell-Lakol-509-Nu Look -Hangout-Nu Vice-Mizik Mizik-Dega-Kreyol La- Beethova Obas-Manno Charlemagne-Black Parents-Jacques Sauveur Jean and many other bands/artists playing with Trankill in the near future will be free or half price to all the Trankill Fan Club members.
Free food and drinks to the Platinum members.
Free drinks to the Gold members.
Many many more advantages by joining the fan club.
For more info visit:www.trankillmusic.com
STaFF PoZé <info@trankillmusic.com>
Wheaton, MD United States - 09/28/2005 at 19:09
DO you tape your shows? The other night I heard a great show with Mr Dayiti.
He is blowing the lid off the coup supporters against the democratically elected governemnt of Jean Bertrand Aristide. Keep speaking the truth brotha!
baraka
washington, dc United States - 09/28/2005 at 13:12
Leon Dimanche is still alive??
Stan
Green Meadows, MD United States - 09/28/2005 at 10:40
The legendary singer LEON DIMANCHE and the comedian/singer TONTON DEZIRAB will be in Washington on Sunday October 23 for a 7pm Kermesse style party with TRANKILL.
Place TBD.
$20.00 in advance.
To sponsor this event please call (240)463-7196 or send an e-mail to
info@trankillmusic.com
This $20.00 show will be FREE to the member of the trankill fan club.
To become a member visit our website www.trankillmusic.com and click on "fan club".
STaFF PoZé <info@trankillmusic.com>
Wheaton, MD United States - 09/27/2005 at 19:39
If we come together as one,Haitian forereal, with one mind, one heart,and one soul. I promise you we can overcome it all, because the answere is right infront of us its so clear. "L'UNION FAIT LA FORCE"....
fenolthepoet <fenol25@yahoo.com>
sanfransisco, ca United States - 09/26/2005 at 20:46
is it me, or is Simeus not on that list. Come on board lets sponsor a candidate.
I say: Guy Phillipe
Stan Joseph
Green Meadows, MD United States - 09/26/2005 at 16:33
Voici la liste des candidats retenus par le Cep:
Baker Charles H.J Marie, Bazin Mc. Louis, Bélizaire Casimir J-B Déjean, Borgella Joël, Buteau Philippe Jn Hénold, Claude Bonivert, Denis Paul, Deronceray Hubert, Destin Marc Antoine, Duplan Joseph Rigaud, Francisque Edouard, Georges Reynold, Gilles Serges, Gourgue Gérard, Jeune Jean Chavannes, Julien René, Justima Emmanuel, Manigat Lesly François, Mesadieu Luc, Mourra Samir Georges, Nicolas Evans, Paul Evans, Perpignan Frantz, Philippe Guy, Préval René, Rébu Himmler, Romain Franck François, Romain Charles Poisset, Roy Judie Joe C. Marie, Saint Louis Yves Maret, Sylvain Jn Jacques, Toussaint Dany.
O
United States - 09/26/2005 at 14:48
DJAKOUT MIZIK scheduled for October 1, 2005 has been postponed. We will keep you posted on the new date.
CARIMI will perform at Hollywood Ballroom on Saturday November 12.
Thank you for your support.
CEEPCO RECORDS <sales@ceepco.com>
Silver Spring, MD United States - 09/25/2005 at 07:21
enfin mwen resi woue non candida mwen an paret,vle pa vle ce li kap president.am so happy that i see the web site.duplan president2006.plateforme justice net alle
natif natal
Haiti - 09/23/2005 at 00:39
futur president d'haiti JOSEPH RIGAUD DUPLAN .www.duplan4press.com so far is the only haitian whos running for presidency who doesn't have a bad pass,ill vote for him,and is doing really good rigth now,i heard a lot of people start talking about him.anyone check the web site www.duplan 4press.com
haitien red <pouccini@yahoo.com>
Haiti - 09/23/2005 at 00:27
didin't he and that chick say they should put there name on the list for pres.
listener
United States - 09/22/2005 at 20:45
which list?
list ki nan kan kan nannan yves dayiti ya mon cheri.
twal 99+1
United States - 09/22/2005 at 19:43
I think y'all forgettin' Yves dayiti on the list. Think he said he might put his name up.
Which list?
PR
United States - 09/22/2005 at 19:08
I think y'all forgettin' Yves dayiti on the list. Think he said he might put his name up.
listener
United States - 09/22/2005 at 18:29
"PR as PM" now there is a slogan I can live with.
I am curious about how echo would vote.
Map Swiv, Loune, ect.who would you vote for?
I am undecided, but it between Baker, Manigat, Simeus.
PR
United States - 09/22/2005 at 18:13
Please dont blame Preval. Yes he did not do anything in 5 years, but that was because Titid went into opposition mode when Preval would not let him have his way. Midred sided with Preval and Titid publicly gave her the back of his hand. Nice husband, nice guy.
Also dont forget Marc Bouzzin was a Minister under Duvalier, the PRIME MINISTER for years under Cedras, and a Minister for Aristide.
I vote for Samir Moura as President. He is a very competent guy who really wants what is good for Haiti. He is an Arab-Haitian who is light skinned and fulfills the current Haitian people's feeling that they no longer want "Neg noi pauve, ac ti zoreilles et bounda canelle"
Maybe he will take PR as PM!!
Enjoy
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Unsalted Top <None>
Wash, DC United States - 09/22/2005 at 17:58
I hear you, Loune.
It's a race to the dollar.It's a "get rich quick scheme." And that Mark Bazin character! But the one that shocked me the most isPreval. This a guy who admitedly a failure and just stopped short of walking out the job.
PR
United States - 09/22/2005 at 16:15
"Here is a good running mate PR: Z Z"
Need not apply!
PR
United States - 09/22/2005 at 15:38
Ala koze- PR pa blie candidat pou senat avek depite yo- Ti-cina, chank fin' fel fou, ti bef, ti cochon...
Seriously, are they for real? Who are they anyway? Kombyen moun ki nan pati politik sa yo? Paske mwen kwe majorite moun ayiti, ak nan peyi etranje pa konnin yo. Kisa yap defan'min'm. Kanta pou Mak Bazin yan, sa se yon kameleon.reprezantan lavalas...kiet... e Jean-Claude Duvalier, kom si mwen we yo komanse fe propagan pou li, Vive Divalierrrrrrrrrrrrrr... anmwey...
Loune
United States - 09/22/2005 at 15:28
Here is a good running mate PR: Z Z
ACTIVIST
United States - 09/22/2005 at 14:51
O!O!, I am still looking for a running mate. With the "right"letters in front of your Os, you would fit the "position" naturally.
But on a more serious note, there are 53 candidates! Se yon piyay.
PR
United States - 09/22/2005 at 13:37
PR, I like your party, who is your running mate, and which org. will be in charge of PR?
O! O!
United States - 09/22/2005 at 08:11
1- Joseph, Dominique - INDEPENDANT
2- Simeus, Dumarsais - TET ANSANM
3- Paul , Evans - ALYANS
4- Denis, Paul - OPL
5- Belizaire, Casimir Jean Baptiste Déjan - MNP28
6- Sylvain, Jean Jacques - PITACH
7- Georges, Reynold - ALLAH
8- Préval, René - ESPOIR
9- Francique, Edouard - UNITE
10- Rebu, Himler - GREH
11- Roy, Judith C. Marie - REPAREN
12- Evans, Nicolas - URN
13- Bazin, Marc Louis - LAVALAS
14- Delpe, Turnep - PNDH
15- Perpignan, Frantz - PDCH
16- Fleurinord, Luc - MIRN
17- Buteau, Philllipe Jean Reynold - MRN
18- Liberus, Raoul - MNPH
19- Dupuy, Elie - INDEPENDANT
20- Clotere, Senatus - INDEPENDANT
21- Cherestal, Jean Marie - PONT
22- Saint Louis, Yves Michel - PPPH
23- Denis, Arios Martin - INDEPENDANT
24- Boisrond, Jean Michel - INDEPENDANT
25- Lafortune, Joseph - INDEPENDANT
26- Nicolas, Pierre Phillipe Gabriel - INDEPENDANT
27- Guillaume, Jean Gilbert - INDEPENDANT
28- Paul, Arcelin - INDEPENDANT
29- Arnaud, Pierre - INDEPENDANT
30- Justima, Emmanuel - ACTION DEMOCRATIQUE
31- Gilles, Louis Gerald - FANMI LAVALAS
32- Guerrier, Calixte - INDEPENDANT
33- Jeune, Jean Chavannes - UNCRH
34- Arnold, Principal - INDEPENDANT
35- Duplan, Joseph Rigaud - JPDN
36- Romain, Franck Francois - PAKAPALLA
37- René, Julien - ADEBA
38- Deroncerai, Hubert - GFCD
39- Gilles, Serge - FUSION
40- Boniver, Claude - PSR
41- Belot, Jacques Ronald - INDEPENDANT
42- Destin, Marc Antoine - MADID
43- Toussaint, Danny - MODERE
44- Romain, Charles Poicin - FRONCIPH
45- Gourges, Gerard - MUPH
46- Samir, Mourra - MPH
47- Paul, Alexandre - INDEPENDANT
48- Manigat, Lesly François - RDNP
49- Mesadieu, Luc - MOCHRENA
50- Baker, Charles, Jean Marie - INDEPENDANT
51- Borgella, Joel - 0LAH
52- Phillipe, Guy - FRN
53- Bazille, Francoeur - ELAN DEMOCRATIQUE
54- Torchenot, Pierre-Richard - TET KREK
PR
United States - 09/21/2005 at 21:09
Lavalas is in a state of bemusement!
PR
United States - 09/21/2005 at 20:30
Any of the great Lavalassian minds and philosophers in Washington care to comment about how a great improvement to the World the following 2 Headlines???
Yves and Serge where are you?? You used to belittle the candidate so much, now he is your party's candidate:
De hauts cadres et membres de Lavalas avaient auparavant fait choix de Marc Bazin dans le cadre d'une alliance Lavalas/MIDH baptisée "Union pour Haïti".
Conflit entre les deux branches de Fanmi Lavalas sur le choix de Marc Bazin comme candidat à la présidence du parti
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Wash, DC United States - 09/21/2005 at 19:29
NU-LOOK
Saturday, October 1st, 2005
10:00 PM to 4:00 AM
Upscale Events Facility ( 6690 Roswell Road, Suite 2200)
Atlanta, Georgia
Admission 30 $ in Advance, 35$ at the door
Directions: From 285 East or West to Ga 400, exit 5-b Abernathy and Roswell Road , go up about 1 1/2 mile, turn right away after crossing the Roswell Road traffic light.
The place is upstair at suite 2200.
For more info and tickets, please contact Sunshine Production
@ 770-2658496, 770-352-9071, 770-993-4263, 770-815-0451
MARABOU7 <MARABOU7@NETZERO.COM>
ATLANTA, GEORGIA United States - 09/21/2005 at 19:09
about them skins.
wow!
heat
United States - 09/20/2005 at 18:03
10 yrs- Finally something to brag about...Go skins! Can't wait for them to play the Eagles...epi tout moun pral nan kokiye yo...
Loune
United States - 09/20/2005 at 12:54
Congrats to the Skins for ruining the Cowboys' night, and possibly their season.
The Cowboys fans were crying, just like Michael Irving, Emmitt Smith, and Troy Aikman.
It's all good!
Skin fan
United States - 09/20/2005 at 08:21
Gentlemen, in surfing your site this morning, I was blissfully fiberized to have read that the first EchodHaiti.com’s Pozitiv Image Award, which “seeks in a small way, to recognize those who are making or have made an exemplary contribution in freeing our minds”, has been presented to Marx Vilaire Aristide. Your choice could not be more deservedly judicious and meritorious
At this tumultuous crossroad in human society where moral values, honor, and profound ideological convictions are being superseded by greed, futility and the insatiable voluptuous desire to exhibit, acquire and exert power, it is delightedly comforting to notice that the capacity to both identify and recognize goodness and generousness in human beings still exists.
Marx indeed, was the embodiment of compassion, conviction, stoicism, and genuine political vision, whose selflessness and relentless struggle for human rights, state of law, constitutional rule, democracy, rights to education for all, and poverty eradication is surpassed only by his visceral love for Haiti.
In all of our communities, he was a symbol of selfless humanity, a standard-bearer for the rights of the voiceless; someone with a natural nobility and charisma.
One of the greatest tests of courage is to be able to credit and acknowledge one’s peers. I would conclude by borrowing Alexis de Tocqueville’s courageous thought «…a simple idea, but wrong, is easier to propagate than an idea, which is true, but complex» Jean Jean and Ginau, you have elevated the bar. Bon travail et mes admirations!
Rony GUITEAU
MD United States - 09/16/2005 at 15:25
It's too bad. it's only domestic. It would be great to send them to Haiti.
map swiv
United States - 09/16/2005 at 14:13
Supporter-You should have clicked on the actual stamp for more info. There you go: Approved for domestic use by the United States Postal Service, stamps are sold in sheets of 20 and are available in seven denominations. Each stamp measures 1.90" x 1.40" and the featured image measures 1.10" x 1.10".
Loune
United States - 09/15/2005 at 13:51
Juss need a clarification.
Is the Haitian stamp real? or just something Echo d'Haiti is selling to raise money?
supporter
United States - 09/15/2005 at 11:05
(I thought I should share this with members of Echo in Washington, a letter from Haitian presidential candidate Dumarsais Simeus. )
DUMARSAIS SIMÉUS
Good afternoon family and friends!
I hope this letter finds you well. As you all know, my campaign for President of the Republic of Haiti has great broadbased support! Every day more people support my message of change and hope for Haiti.
The politics of the last 200 years have failed. Haiti cries out for new leadership and new ideas that will bring all Haitians together. We’ve had the politics of division and hate, Haitian against Haitian…I want to be the bridge to bring Haitians together, to build the Haitian dream based on Haitian values…work, family, God and neighbors helping neighbors.
Those are the lessons I learned as a boy in the Artibonite Valley and those are values that I will use to bring education, jobs, access to capital, economic freedom, international recognition, and, perhaps most of all, pride in our country. Together, we can bring loved ones in Haiti security from violence and freedom from corruption so that our sons and daughters don’t have to leave as economic refugees, but can build their dreams at home.
I am a Haitian. As are you, regardless of where we currently reside. And like you, I carry our beautiful country with me wherever I go. That can never be taken away and our citizenship can never be negotiated. Once Haitian, we remain Haitian for life with all the rights to participate in the social and economic opportunities of the country, including running for political office.
We must support a fully democratic election process that values free competition of ideas and gives all people an equal chance to run. If Haiti is to emerge with a legitimate leader whom Haitians and the world community can feel good about, then we must have an open and transparent election process with a free exchange of ideas that allows the best candidate to win.
I can’t thank you enough for all of your support over the last days and weeks. Each one of you is so important to this campaign. With your help, we can change the future of our country and bring new hope to Haiti.
Right now, we need 100,000 signatures to ensure that I am on the ballot, so please call home and tell your loved ones to support Haiti’s native son, Dumarsais Siméus, and the changes I promise to bring.
I would like to take this opportunity to personally announce new key campaign positions here in the US. May and Serge Parisein will now serve as media spokespeople on my behalf when interview opportunities arise here in the US where I am unable to participate. Gary Jean Baptiste is the new Grassroots Director, handling, organizing and facilitating events and other Diaspora efforts. And Joe Baptiste is working diligently as Fundraising Director to raise much-needed funds for the campaign.
Thank you to each of the new campaign leaders, and to each of you. Your ongoing support, advice and loyalty is the reason I am here, and I look forward to working with you over the next few months to bring Haiti a new President!
Sincerely,
Dumarsais Siméus
Wilner Joseph
Poolesville, MD United States - 09/14/2005 at 16:26
NU VICE
I'm looking for that album
herold Jn Pierre
United States - 09/12/2005 at 15:23
Just to say that I'm fine.
Harold Charles told me last night about PSSS posting,and a friend just call me to find out if I was OK.
Thanks for caring.
My insurance is taking care of business,I should have my car back by next week.
Thanks to God, my nephew Ricky and I were not injured in the accident.
Agimal
Wheaton, MD United States - 09/11/2005 at 13:19
Sorry I wrote pulickly. It should be publicly.
Serge
serge <sbellegarde@comcast.net.net>
S.S, Md United States - 09/11/2005 at 11:38
Just a few words to publickly commend the webmaster for the piece on Marx Aristide. The tribute is well deserved, the choice of statement is excellent appropriate and the work is expertly done. Well done Ginau!
Serge
serge <sbellegarde@comcast.net>
S.S., Md United States - 09/11/2005 at 11:37
CEEPCO RECORDS and ZANZIBAR ON-THE-WATERFRONT invite you to FALLFEST 2005 tonight with T-VICE at ZANZIBAR, 700 Water Street, SW, Washington, DC. Doors open at 10:30PM until 4:00AM, tickets are $30 in advance and can be purchased at www.ceepcorecords.com or at the following outlets:
Yonyon 301-853-0404
Claude Barber 301-434-0821
Bobby Express 202-722-4925
CAM 202-291-2032
Esther Express/Unitransfer 301-588-3664
Simba Int'l Records 301-445-1670
It will be the first time T-Vice will perform with a live drummer in Washington.
CEEPCO RECORDS <sales@ceepco.com>
Silver Spring, MD United States - 09/10/2005 at 07:56
RAFRECHI will bring Kompa music for the very 1st time in Delaware, this Saturday October 10, 2005 at LA FONTERA NIGHT CLUB in Seaford.
A big cook-out in given during the day to welcome the group.
A bus will leave Columbia at 12 noon to Seaford, Delaware. If you are interested to be part of this big event, which is also "the celebration of 50 years of Kompa music", call 410-852-0457 for reservation.
Remember, the seats are limited.
Peace out,
RAFRECHI Love
Columbia, MD United States - 09/08/2005 at 19:23
EchodHaiti has to learn to toot its own horn like the other ones (eve dayiti) do.
Stan
United States - 09/08/2005 at 18:45
I saw Agimal Lexus with the tag Konpa being towed this morning.The car looks like it was in a very big accident,the whole front of the car is gone.
Does anyone has any information if Agi is O.K
Agi if you can read this,let us know if you are fine.
PSSSSSST
United States - 09/08/2005 at 17:09
Great move Echodhaiti- I likes, i likes...haitian stamps wow....much more stuff available online! Check it out folks...
Loune
United States - 09/08/2005 at 11:30
map swiv se pa swiv agimal ap swiv selman,agimal is a man with a plan.
we have to give that much credit to him.
i always like his answers,but this one is a bomb. he really put a lid on pakapala kap pren poz nouyorker li,ap vinn ba nou manti.
that guy pakapala should call himself papak*k*.
anyway i'm glad to see agimal's name back on echo,you know se acteur principal soap opera washington nan.
map swiv tou.
bali
United States - 09/07/2005 at 13:42
epa agimal ap swiv tou!
map swiv
United States - 09/07/2005 at 10:44
Natacha thnx 4 putting up the info about the PBS program. I thought it was very informative. I have a different feel now about Guy Phillipe.
Nancie
United States - 09/07/2005 at 10:17
Pakapala
Kay koulé ka twonpé soleil men li pa ka twonpé la pli.
Who do you think you are fooling by pretending that you live in Queens and that this is the first time you finding out about Trankill and the man in the poster.
Let me tell you that YOU don't live in Queens,and that you are a local HATER,and I can prove it.
I'm inviting you and all the other readers to go back and read another one of your negative posting right here on echodhaiti date 5/3/2005 at 10:40 AM.
That time you call me AGIMAL a man with no class,and today you are calling me ugly.
I will not sweat any of your accusation,since it's a matter of opinion.
What's important to me is the fact that while you went to N.Y to have some fun,the Trankill posters on the Parkway really put a sour taste in your life.It came to you as an unexpected low blow.-OUCH that''s hurting under the belt.That's why you are crying out loud today 6/6/2005 at 14:07 pm trying to make the world think that you live in Queens
So Pakapala ou fèk fè fot.
Let me tell you F.Y.I that my promotion went so well that I had a radio interview on Radio C-Well 95.1 in Queens on Saturday afternoon. I did another one Radio Soleil with Jean Robert Savaille and a T.V interview with Télé Citronelle (a New Jersey T.V show) with Roupy both on Monday.
The Trankill cd is now on the store shelves in N.Y and the cd is getting some radio airtime in New York,New Jersey & Florida for now.
Regarding the website, the rest of the information will soon be posted.It's still under construction.Anyone who is not a hater like you can understand that much.
SO LET ME TELL YOU AGAIN
PAKAPALA OU FEK FE FOT.
Agimal
United States - 09/06/2005 at 22:28
Haiti on PBS @ 9 p.m. tonight!
NATACHA
MD United States - 09/06/2005 at 18:05
CEEPCO RECORDS and ZANZIBAR ON-THE-WATERFRONT invite you to FALLFEST 2005 this Saturday, September 10, 2005 with T-VICE at ZANZIBAR, 700 Water Street, SW, Washington, DC. Doors open at 10:30PM until 4:00AM, tickets are $30 in advance and can be purchased at www.ceepcorecords.com or at the following outlets:
Yonyon 301-853-0404
Claude Barber 301-434-0821
Bobby Express 202-722-4925
CAM 202-291-2032
Esther Express/Unitransfer 301-588-3664
Simba Int'l Records 301-445-1670
It will be the first time T-Vice will perform with a live drummer in Washington.
CEEPCO RECORDS <sales@ceepco.com>
Silver Spring, MD United States - 09/06/2005 at 15:49
rete, apa gin moun fou nan Washington. Mwen we nan kanaval-la sou Pakway-a, ou ban poste ou jazz yo rele 'Trankill" avek foto ou nom tou led ki di "men jazz kap jwe kompa". le ou gade figure misie, misie samble ou atache. mezanmi ki koze-sa? Mwen te we ou website. le mwen ale mwen sezi. Jazz-sa se ou grin moun li gin ladan'n. Apa foli pran ayisyen tout bon? pa gin lot moun nanjazz-sa?
Pakapala
Pakapala
Queens, NY United States - 09/06/2005 at 14:07
WALL STREET JOURNAL
More Questions About Aristide's Telecom Deals
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB112562834443929983,00.html?mod=opinion%5Fmain%5Ffeatured%5Fstories%5Fhs
By MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY
September 2, 2005 Wall Street Journal
For more than a year now, New Jersey-based IDT Corp. has been denying any wrongdoing involving the long-distance telephone contract it negotiated with the former Haitian government of Jean Bertrand Aristide in 2003.
But new revelations that surfaced in a lawsuit against the company in Newark's federal district court in July cast doubt on the company's claims of innocence. If the evidence holds up in court, IDT could be in very hot water. The company didn't return my calls asking for comments on the case.
The latest revelations also support allegations by the current interim government in Haiti that Mr. Aristide -- beloved Haitian messiah of Washington's Congressional Black Caucus and Joseph P. Kennedy II -- was extremely corrupt. Mr. Aristide, who California Congresswoman Maxine Waters calls "a close friend," was dipping quite liberally into the government till for his own personal gain, the new evidence suggests.
[for full article -http://www.archivex-ht.com/ - sitemgr]
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Washington, DC United States - 09/06/2005 at 13:08
Thank you Lavalasse movement for a job well done!!!!!!
As Far as we can see, the following are happening in 2005:
1) Surprising news from several people in Haiti about the popularity of Carlito Baker as Presidential Candidate. The guy led Operation GNB to topple Aristide and send him to exile. It seems the masses are all for him. Their correct reasoning is that every time they put a poor black person in power, their monies get stolen. This time they want a guy who is "rouge" and already has money. They think that their monies will not be stolen. Light Bourgeoisie back in power? They never left. Remember Mildred Aristide hired her people for Palace Work.
2) another disturbing article reports that Gallup poll organiztion has declared the murderer JC Duvalier to be the most popular leader of Haiti in the last 20 years.
This was the result of opinion polls of people inside Haiti. The article is below.
3) So I want to personally thank EACH AND EVERY Lavalasse member for leading us forward to a Haiti led by a rich and "rouge" Carlito Baker, or a return of JC Duvalier.
Under the last 15 years of Lavalasse, Haiti has done nothing but progress. You gave us 3 years of embargo, 2 Foreign occupations that will last another 10 years, and now a hatred of the masses for anyone black.
I know that you think that your jailed killer of Jacques Roche, the incomparable Pere Jn Juste, will lead you to victory, but why cant you give up and go away like the previous crazy priest in permanent exile in South Africa because no one elase wants him?
Thank you Lavalasse for a wonderful 15 years of great leadership, of immeasurable economic development, of improvement of the poor Haitian masses situation.
When all of you come back from the bamboche of the NY Carnival, THINK about what 15 years of Lavalasse has accomplished on the groung in Haiti.
PRIME CARE
L’ancien dictateur Jean-Claude Duvalier "élu" par les haïtiens "meilleur Président" des vingt dernières années, selon un sondage de l’institut Gallup
La même enquête place l’OPL en première position parmi les partis politiques haïtiens
Posté le lundi 5 septembre 2005
Par Radio Kiskeya
[for full article- http://www.radiokiskeya.com/ - sitemgr]
Prime Care <none>
Wash, DC United States - 09/06/2005 at 12:54
If I remember correctly, Jn-Claude left in early 1986. The past 20 years would be 1985*2005, which would mean one year of Jean Claude, several coup detats, and military rule.
I think Gallup needs to run that again.
Stan
Green Meadows, MD United States - 09/05/2005 at 21:40
L’ancien dictateur Jean-Claude Duvalier "élu" par les haïtiens "meilleur Président" des vingt dernières années, selon un sondage de l’institut Gallup.
http://www.radiokiskeya.com/
KTM
MD United States - 09/05/2005 at 11:09
Here is an article that you may find at least
interesting:
Réponse à l’article de Jean Erich René :
Lorsqu’on s’appelle Baker ! daté du 13 août 2005
par Bernard Miot
Après avoir pris lecture de cet article ignoble écrit par Jean Erich René,
j’ai, pour la première fois de ma vie, décidé de rendre publique une réponse
que je soumets à l’analyse des lecteurs. J’aurais préféré qu’un intellectuel
noir sérieux et honnête eut l’idée de donner à M. René une réponse en
bonne et due forme. Mais, ne l’ayant pas vu venir, je le fais moi-même.
Je souhaite qu’on ne me fera pas dire ce que je n’ai pas dit. Cette réponse
est un geste spontané et sincère qui, en aucune manière, ne devrait être
interprété comme une attaque contre les noirs bourgeois ou plus humbles
parmi lesquels je compte nombre d’amis et de connaissances pour qui j’ai
le plus grand respect. Ce respect doit être du à tous les gens qui recherchent
l’harmonie et la vraie unité entre haïtiens si nécessaire à l’avancement
de notre chère Haïti. Je m’excuse si, dans ce texte, je me rabaisse en
mentionnant les haïtiens par des appellations telles noir, mulâtre, bourgeois,
pauvre etc.….
[for full article -
http://www.archivex-ht.com/index.php?cat=1 - edited by sitemgr]
PR
United States - 09/03/2005 at 20:34
This rumor about Fabienne Colas of "Barikad" and/or Nice Simon of "I love you Anne" is:FALSE.
Fabienne is alive and well living in Canada.
Nice is alive and well living in Florida and Haiti.
The rumor starded because Nice characters died in her last two movies "Profonds Regrets" which is now playing and "La Victime" which will premiere this week.
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This week on Haiti A Suivre
Watch the last 15 minutes if V.I.P and the new videos of Black Parents,D'Sire as well as Kassav Live with special guest Shoubou,T.Vice live in Florida,Section Zouk and many more.This will be the last edition of Festy-Vacances 2005.We will resume with regular programming in September.
For show time, info,and sponsorship call
(240)463-7196
Thanks for your calls and mails.
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Remember you can now purchase your TRANKILL cd at Bobby Express,Chez Yonyon,Cam Transfer T.Claude Coiffeur,Simba Record and Esther Express.
You may send us a check or money order for $10.00 payable to JCV or JCV PRODUCTIONS at P.O BOX 2887 Silver Spring MD 20915 and we will mail you a TRANKILL live Vol 1 cd.
Many many thanks to all the fans and friends who already purchased their cds,after only one week the cd is doing very very well in terms of sales,comments and feedbacks.
J.C.V
United States - 08/28/2005 at 12:19
T-VICE WITH A LIVE DRUMMER AT ZANZIBAR, SEPTEMBER 10, 2005, 10:30AM - 4:00AM.
BRING YOUR SPECIAL SOMEONE TO THIS UNFORGETTABLE EVENT.
TICKETS - $30 IN ADVANCE AT CEEPCORECORDS.COM
CEEPCO RECORDS <sales@ceepco.com>
Silver Spring, MD United States - 08/28/2005 at 01:38
There has been a rumor in the haitian community that Fabienne Colas from Barikad committed suicide. It would ave been such a great loss. I am just double checking on the news. A concern fan
marie <ydorvilus@hotmail.com>
elmont, ny United States - 08/27/2005 at 16:54
Attention & Attention & Attention
When
Music Color, HIT.Ent., Kaliko Productions, Touchem Douce, Rockmasters present the " First Labor Day Kanaval- Fest".
Presents
Labor Day Kanaval-Fest 2005
With
Superb line up with the best konpa, racine, folklore, fashion, comedy, rara, hip hop..etc
With Live Performance By:
DJAKOUT- SYSTEM BAND - NU-LOOK - MICKY - ZIN- MIKERLINE DANCE TROUPE - KOUDJAY, Tantan, HangOUT, Zenglen, Mickerline Dance Co, Koudjay, etc....and many more to be added to the list.
Live Appearance By:
Buckley T. Michel With Miss Grenada & All The Contestants
Date: Saturday September 3rd, 2005
Location: Einsenhower Park in Long Island
Address: Hempstead Turnpique, East Meadow - Long Island NY.
Time: gates open at 12:00 PM
For more information:
New York: 917-939-2830,347-885-0983
Boston : 617-296-1300
Florida: 305-981-3611 (Touchem Douce)
Hotel Accommodations:
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Transportation to & from JFK Airport - 4 days & 3 nights accommodation at the Luxury Hilton Garden in Queens, NY
Double beds are available with 4 people maximum per room.
Admission ticket to the Knanaval-Fest
Admission ticket to both Saturday, and Sunday night party ALL FOR JUST $750.00
For reservation call: (917) 939-2830 OR (347) 885-0983 You can also buy your tickets at
www.kanavalfest.com
Vendors and sponsors, please call: 347-885-0983, 917-406-5535, or 718-341-9697
Online: http://www.kanavalfest.com/
Email: info@kanavalfest.com
Buckley Michel
East Meadow, NY United States - 08/27/2005 at 11:35
Campaign 2005 Family Day Event
When
Kompa Guide & DEMO Unity
Presents
"The First Annual "Canarsie Awareness Day"
With
Live Performance
BIGGA HAITIAN, Latin Jazz Sensation RESOLUTION, EARTHMAN, the President of Kompa, SWEET MICKEY, Loose Cannon and Omega.
Admission: Free
Place
AT CANARSIE PARK, Brooklyn
Seaview Ave & E. 80th Street
With Live Appearance By
District Attroney Charles J. Hynes & Men & Women Against Domestic Violence & Others Special Guest
For more information, please call (917) 553-3510 or (718) 949-7772
Free Giveway to the first 500 people from Men & Women Against Domestic Violence
Men & Women Against Domestic Violence Endorse Tamara Grandoit For Citycouncil District 46
[edited - sitemgr]
Buckley T. Michel <Teddylove3@hotmail.com>
Brooklyn, NY United States - 08/27/2005 at 11:28
AN OPEN LETTER
TO THE PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
June 30, 2005
President George W. Bush
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. President:
We have read a press release from the U.S. Embassy in Haiti further reducing the in-country personnel and sending them back home as a result of continued and accelerating violence in Haiti. While all of us haitians and haitian-Americans are very grateful to the United States for its repeated benevolent acts towards Haiti, we are respectfully asking you once more for additional help that only you can provide.
UN Peacekeeping Chief Jean-Marie Guehenno recently stated that parts of Haiti are far worse than the violent conditions in Darfur, and that the 1,000 additional troops assigned to Haiti will be insufficient to solve this crisis. United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has also stated that only the presence of U.S. troops working side-by-side with the U.N. will bring about peace and security.
We Haitians and haitian-Americans support the assertion of Mr. Kofi Annan that only the direct intervention of the United States will stem the flow of violence and bring about peace and security for all its citizens. As you know, there are at least 6-10 kidnappings daily in the country and citizens are living in a state of terrorism, full of fear and anxiety, afraid even to drive their kids to school.
May I urge you Mr. President, on behalf of Haitians everywhere, to consider direct action and help us provide security to our helpless brothers and sisters in Haiti.
Respectfully yours,
Dumas Simeus
Chairman & Founder, Simeus Foods International, Inc.
Co-Chair, national Organization for the Advancement of Haitians
Chairman, PromoCapital USA, the Haitian-American Investment Bank
Katia
United States - 08/26/2005 at 17:03
AN OPEN LETTER
TO DUMAS SIMEUS
OF REPRESENTACTION
June 7, 2005
Dumas M. Simeus
Chairman & Founder, Simeus Foods International, Inc. Co-Chair,
National Organization for the Advancement of Haitians Chairman,
PromoCapital USA, the Haitian-American Investment Bank
Dear Mr. Simeus:
It is with great consternation that I read your open letter dated June 30, 2005 asking the president of the United States of North
America, George W. Bush to consider sending U.S. troops to provide security to our “helpless brothers and sisters” in Haiti. You also stated in your letter that you are acting on “behalf of Haitianseverywhere”. Sir, it seems to me that you still do not understand the
roots of the problems in Haiti.
First let me tell you that you have not spoken on my behalf. Second, part of the problems of Haiti is and has always been the involvement of US policy makers in the internal affairs of this Caribbean country. US policy makers have never been interested in both the development of democracy in Haiti and the well being of the Haitian
mass. They have yet to prove me wrong.
You either do not know the history of the US interventions in Haiti. Or if you knew, you are simply ignoring it. In order to solve a problem, you have to understand the roots of its causes.
Dumas Simeus, I emphatically repeat that the US Embassy is one of the major causes of our problems in Haiti.
The majority of the Haitian people have made it clear that they want to be included in the affairs of their country. They want to be
considered as real citizens of Haiti but not second class human beings.
They want access to health care, education, opportunities, freedom to express, respect of their human rights, and especially respect for their rights to choose their elected representatives.
U.S. marines have never come to Haiti to guarantee those rights and to further advance those goals. Instead they always come to maintain the status quo, a status quo that the majority of Haitians have repudiated and will never accept. Furthermore, I would like to enumerate who those “helpless brothers and sisters” are that you are asking protections for?
Nevertheless, I have not heard you lending
your voice to those denouncing the despicable, barbaric acts of human rights violations (i.e. illegal and arbitrary arrests, prolonged detention without any charge, summary executions, rapes, beatings by the Haitian police while under arrest, etc) being committed by thecurrent de-facto Haitian government.
I would like to ask you if you are pleased with what is going on in the popular neighborhoods in Haiti and are you going to send an open letter to President Bush asking him to stop the bombings of innocent civilians in Cite Soleil?
Today instead what we need is a new national and patriotic vision for the country based on respect for one another without any outside interference while recognizing the harm that has been done and still plaguing the society to come up with a new consensus to make Haiti the country we all dream of.
You and I have had a chance to access
many opportunities in these United States of America. Otherwise, you and I would have been among one of those fighting for those
opportunities and those rights denied to millions in today’s Haiti.
Let us not forget that. We do not need any more boots including north-american to trample the aspirations and rights of the Haitian people.
Patriotically,
Jean Yves Point-du-Jour, Transportation Engineer Maryland, USA
Internet-Surfer-
United States - 08/26/2005 at 15:09
REUTERS. The U.N. mission in Haiti has launched an inquiry into the lynching of at least 20 people by vigilantes armed with machetes by haitian police last weekend, U.N. officials said on Wednesday.
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United States - 08/25/2005 at 11:02
the name is mistake not mistakei
mistake
United States - 08/25/2005 at 07:35
I think the site manager can create a new page for the news on the blue bar next to people culture,history,concert
.He/she may add news for us to check out,and leave the guestbook for us the guests/visitors/arien a faire/idiots/haters/bébé lala/ti crié/et cetera.
mistakei
United States - 08/25/2005 at 07:33
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – A jailed Roman Catholic priest says he is waiting for the backing of deposed leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide before he decides to run for president in the fall.
The Rev. Gerard Jean-Juste, who has been in jail since July without charges, has emerged as the most prominent member of Aristide's Lavalas Family movement, which is still the most popular political faction in this troubled nation.
[http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20050824-1337-haiti-jailedpriest.html - for full article-sitemgr]
NEWS
United States - 08/24/2005 at 18:03
PORT-AU-PRINCE - In the quiet green hills above this lawless city, a couple hundred of Haiti's well-to-do gathered last month in the upscale Hotel Montana to attend a daylong seminar. The subject: How to keep one's sanity under the constant threat of violence.
[http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/news/world/12424154.htm - for full article - sitemgr]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - (AP) -- Haiti presidential and legislative votes will be moved up one week and the local elections will be postponed until late December to allow the nation to better prepare for the vote, officials said Tuesday.
[http://www.ap.com- for full article - sitemgr]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - Renowned
poet and journalist Jacques Roche was visiting his younger brother last
month when gangs kidnapped him at gunpoint.
[http://news.yahoo.com/s/chitribts/20050805/ts_chicagotrib/haititenseaskeyelectionapproaches-
for full article - sitemgr]
NEWS
United States - 08/24/2005 at 07:04
former Haitian security official pleaded guilty Tuesday
to conspiracy to import cocaine.
Romaine Lestin, who was the police commander in Port-au-Prince, entered
the plea in U.S. District Court in Miami.
[http://www.wehaitians.com/december%202003%20news%20and%20analysis.html-
for full article - sitemgr]
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 23, 2005--Battered by hurricanes, embroiled
in political turmoil, overrun by armed gangs, and largely ignored by the
international community, Haiti is trying, yet again, to embrace democracy.
As our hemisphere's poorest country attempts to organize for presidential
elections in November, some hardened veterans of its endless cycle of
uprisings and downfalls are trading guns for voter registration cards,
warily giving the election process their support, while followers of exiled
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide take to the streets in protest.
Through the unfettered access provided by Haitian-based journalists to
political strongmen, gangsters turned presidential hopefuls, and ordinary
citizens, WIDE ANGLE reveals life on Haiti's streets and among its power-brokers
as the country endeavors to fashion a true representative government out
of a volatile failed state.
Unfinished Country premieres Tuesday, September 6 at 9 p.m. (ET) on PBS
(check local listings).
WIDE ANGLE anchor Bill Moyers' post-film interview will explore nation-building
in Haiti with James Dobbins, director of the RAND International Security
and Defense Policy Center and United States special envoy to Haiti during
the Clinton administration.
Unfinished Country writer Jane Regan was the Haiti correspondent for Reuters
TV and has been a freelance correspondent for The Miami Herald, Christian
Science Monitor, Boston Globe, and other news publications. Regan and
producer Daniel Morel received the North American Congress' Samuel Chavkin
Prize for Integrity in Latin American Journalism. Morel is one of Haiti's
leading photojournalists and the recipient of numerous awards, including
the Associated Press Award for Excellence and the Overseas Press Club
of America's Citation for Excellence. Director Whitney Dow co-produced
P.O.V.'s 2003 Two Towns of Jasper, which was awarded a duPont-Columbia
Award and a Peabody Award.
For additional information and photography, visit www.thirteen/pressroom/wideangle
or www.pbs.org/pressroom.
WIDE ANGLE is a production of Thirteen/WNET New York for PBS. Stephen
Segaller is executive producer. Pamela Hogan is series producer. Andy
Halper is senior producer. Unfinished Country is a production of Two-Tone
Productions for Thirteen/WNET and the Independent Television Service (ITVS).
Executive Producer for ITVS is Sally Jo Fifer.
NEWS
United States - 08/24/2005 at 06:56
Since Trankil did not answer,let me say that I think that the Rafreshi people are very childish and somehow that's getting a bad reflection on the band.
Always whinning like bebe lala,and quick with defensive answers showing their insecurity and lack of responsibility.
Let me also say that I know that you will blast me here under many different pseudos like you always do.Well you may do so, but don't expect me to play ping pong with you here on echo d'haiti.I am only making the point that "community efforts" like the Trankil cd as well as your cd should be appreciated regardless.
The reason I answer to your non sense is because what you are doing to Star One and to Trankil is bad,unethical and malicious.
Why is it always Rafreshi attacking the others?
To finish,? you wrote that"depi Rafreshi fi'n fe cd ya toute mou'n gin foli. ala ti pep rinmin copie sa".?, if you can recall as a band Trankil came out first last year in the community ;I don't recall any one from the Trankil camp saying that once Trankil came out tout moune guin foli band ala ti pep rinmin copie.
? your complaint is not attractive at all,as a matter of fact it's annoying.
Ray Ray
United States - 08/23/2005 at 17:58
Une cargaison d’armes et de munitions en route vers Haïti a été confisquée par l’Armée dominicaine.
http://www.radiokiskeya.com/
...
United States - 08/23/2005 at 12:07
Apre rafreshi fi'n soti cd yo a, tout mou'n gin foli. ala ti pep rinmin copie sa.
?
United States - 08/21/2005 at 22:24
Businessman returns to Haiti to run for president
By Danna Harman, The Christian Science Monitor
Dumarsais Siméus, the most successful Haitian-American businessman in the United States, is going home to run for president of Haiti.
"I wanted my fellow native sons and daughters of the Artibonite Valley to hear it from me first. ... I am a candidate for president of Haiti," Siméus, the son of illiterate peasants, announced Wednesday in his rural hometown of Pont-Sondé. "Today marks the start of a new beginning for our country ... in a time of crisis."
After months of speculation, the CEO of one of the largest black-owned businesses in the USA told supporters he will start campaigning for the November election, the first since Jean-Bertrand Aristide was ousted following a violent rebellion in February 2004.
"Running a country like Haiti, which is broke and in bankruptcy, takes many of the same skills as a successful businessman: leadership, knowing how to pick the right people to work for you, knowing how to create jobs for people," Siméus said in an interview.
"What a contender!" says James Morrell, director of the Haiti Democracy Project in Washington. "Here is the richest and most successful Haitian around — running to lead a country where nothing works. ... Here is evidence of someone who can get things done."
But the hurdles ahead are many. Siméus has no political experience, no name recognition and no party in Haiti. Then, there are the worsening problems of the hemisphere's poorest nation: gang violence, kidnappings and other crime now are such that it is unclear whether the elections will take place this fall.
Even if the vote goes ahead, under the current interpretation of the Haitian constitution, Siméus would be ineligible to run. Article 135 states a presidential candidate must "be a native-born Haitian and never have renounced Haitian nationality," and have resided in the country for five consecutive years before the election.
Siméus, 65, has taken U.S. citizenship and has been living in the USA for 44 years. But he dismisses potential constitutional barriers. "I don't have anything to overcome in terms of the constitution or getting on the ballot. I never renounced my citizenship," he said. "I have been fortunate to have other homes and other citizenships, but I never gave up my Haitian ones."
Siméus, a father of three, is a Howard University graduate with an MBA from the University of Chicago. He has held management positions in companies such as Atari, Rockwell International, Bendix and PromoCapital, the first investment banking firm in Haiti. He served as CEO of TLC Beatrice Foods, a $2 billion multinational conglomerate.
Today, he is CEO of Siméus Foods International, based in Mansfield, Texas, the largest minority-owned businesses in that state, according to Black Enterprise magazine. It does some $160 million in yearly sales to such customers as Denny's, T.G.I. Friday's and Burger King.
He runs his own foundation, sending money to help poor communities in Haiti, and he sits on Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's Haiti Task Force. His parents, who once sold a plot of land to be able to send their eldest of 12 children to college in the USA, still live in Haiti.
An estimated 2 million Haitians live in the USA, but significantly, they cannot vote in Haiti. Siméus said he does not plan to put any of his own money into his Haitian campaign, but will rely on friends in the USA, Canada, France and Germany to help raise money.
"I am giving myself. My know-how, my desire to help and my patience," Siméus said. "That will be my contribution."
An interim government and a 7,400-member multinational U.N. force has been trying to keep order in Haiti since Aristide fled the country in 2004 and lawlessness engulfed the capital. But Siméus said he believes he can begin to change Haiti.
"We will create ... a country that can function properly and an environment for investment," he said. "I want to be realistic about how long this turnaround will take. It will take at least a generation, but within the first year, change will start taking off. We will start the rebuilding process."
Contributing: Harman is Latin America bureau chief for USA TODAY and The Christian Science Monitor.
PR
United States - 08/19/2005 at 21:21
CEEPCO Records presents T-VICE at ZANZIBAR on the waterfront (700 Water Street, SW Washington, DC) Saturday September 10, 2005. Tickets are $30 in advance and can be purchased at www.ceepcorecords.com. Doors open at 10:30PM.
IT WILL BE THE FIRST TIME T-VICE WILL PLAY ON STAGE WITH A LIVE DRUMMER IN WASHINGTON!!!
THAT IS BIG!!! THIS IS HUGE!!! PA KA PA LA!!!
Upcoming events:
DJAKOUT MIZIK - October 1, 2005
CARIMI - November 12, 2005
Thank you for your continued support
CEEPCO RECORDS <sales@ceepco.com>
silver spring, MD United States - 08/18/2005 at 22:59
This week on Haiti A Suivre
Watch the new video of JHANESTA and the song GONAIVES made for the victims of Hurricane Jeanne.
Gonaives is a song like "we are the world" featuring many stars like TI DJO ZENNY,SWEET MICKEY,ROBERTO,JUDE JEAN,DON KATO,ERICK CHARLES,JHANESTA,LUC MERVIL ETC...
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Watch also Manzell,Gracia Delva, Koudjay, V.I.P and the best of the 2005 Zouk.
For show time,video request,and more info call:(240)463-7196
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JCV also would like to let you know that the TRANKILL CD LIVE VOL.1 will be release on Monday August 22.
Many thanks to our sponsors: Presmy Home Improvement,All in One Super Market, JRG Electronic Tech,Dr Baptiste,VMT Education Center,
B-210 Auto Sales,Ceepco Contracting,and to all the fans and friends who made this project possible.
Now it's time for you to get your copy.
info:(240)463-7196
Thank you - Thank you - Thank you.
JCV
Wheaton, MD United States - 08/18/2005 at 19:59
FYI--This is the latest press release of the Haitian Carnival Association...
FOR IMMIDIATE RELEASE…
Contact: Karen Brice (718) 940-5277 HottiKa3@aol.com
Moses St. Louis (516) 322-8200 mosesstlouis@aol.com Muriel Fenton (718) 230-8700 manager@haitiantimes.com
In recent years, Haitians have become an integral part of the West Indian American Day Carnival in Brooklyn. Due to the sharp increase of our involvement, a group of concerned Haitians have joined together to help strengthen and bring Haitians as one collective unit to better represent Haiti at the West Indians American Day Carnival.
Haitian Carnival Association (HCA) and the West Indian American Day Carnival Association (WIADCA) have come together with a plan to help improve Haitian representation at this year’s carnival.
It is agreed upon by WIADCA that any Haitian band or floats that wish to partake in the Carnival, are advised to cooperate with HCA.
So far the Haitian bands that will participate this year officially are: Kreyol La, Tvice, Koudjay, Sweet Micky and Djakout Mizik.
All participating bands with HCA and WIADCA have agreed that in order for anyone to participate on the Parkway, one must either wear a costume or a specific T-shirt. Next week, we will release the locations where you can find costumes and T-shirts at a minimal price. T-shirts will be made available in Boston, Miami, Canada, and the tri-state area, including our Mas camps in Brooklyn. For the sake of unity, all bands have agreed to let their fans wear one t-shirt with one theme, which is “Haitian Unity on the Parkway 2005”.
The New York City Police Department, HCA and WIADCA are working together to ensure that we have an orderly plan of action for that day. We are asking everyone to cooperate with us, as we try to make this year one of the best Haitian participation for this 38th Annual West Indian Carnival on Eastern Parkway.
We are working tirelessly so everyone will have a good time on Sept 5th. For the first time we’ll have 5 top Haitian bands, together with beautiful floats that will display our rich culture. We are looking forward to seeing you on the Parkway.
If anyone wishes to participate or help as a volunteer, please feel free to contact the above numbers.
L
United States - 08/17/2005 at 19:38
Twa !!!!!!!! Ask your girlfriend how many Rafrechi CD she brought?
She would tell you (3 CDs):
1 for her bedroom, when making love to you.
1 for her car, for a smooth ride.
1 for back up, (when you are using one of her Rafrechi cd to take singing lessons, groove lessons, solo lessons, melody lessons, etc...
Devan Devan Net
United States - 08/17/2005 at 07:13
that's 3 more than Trankill
3 more than St*rone
3 more than you've sold
ra fan
United States - 08/16/2005 at 20:23
rafrechi cd give away = 71
rafrechi cd sold = 3
{the columbia inquirer}
twa
United States - 08/16/2005 at 18:57
Office Depot offers 5% back to local schools from School supplies sales. Save more money with Staples discount card.
Stan
Green Meadows, MD United States - 08/16/2005 at 17:46
e byen yo te gin anpil moun paske denye fwa mwen te tcheke, Trankil te gin 4.
Sink
Sink
Frederick, MD United States - 08/16/2005 at 17:15
5 mou'n - e bien te gin ampil mou'n ki te deplase pou yo fwa sa.
kat
United States - 08/16/2005 at 16:45
FYI--HAITIAN BANDS TO TAKE THE PARKWAY WITH PRIDE...
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Haitian Carnival Association made of representative of: (Tvice, Micky, Djakout, Koudjay and Kreyol La) and other concerned individuals and organizations within the HMI and WIADCA had a very positive meeting yesterday. We had a very fruitful discussion. We listened to their concerns and they listened to ours, and we both came to the conclusion that we must work together to make the Carnival much better.
At the end we agreed that all Haitian bands would participate with some requirements. Haitian Carnival Association’s members will meet very soon to come up with a press release of the rules and regulations and all the positive things we are planning to achieve this year together with WIADCA.
L
United States - 08/16/2005 at 13:45
5 zanmi pa Star One ki te la selman dimanch swa. Po diab!
Konpa
United States - 08/16/2005 at 07:25
look like Star one is learning the hard way.
tico
United States - 08/15/2005 at 16:40
echo! echo!!!!!E pa kominote ya pa sipote haitian anko.Nou pa konnen ke Starone ap jwe aswe ya nou vle pou tout moun lan washingtong D.C and Marland debake lan bal la .There are so many things to enjoy such as billards and other games. There will be a diversity of Spanish, Haitian, and more.
Adm $10 ladies free before 11pm .location: Cuzco Restaurant #2 2051 University Blvd, East Langley Park . Merge onto CAPITAL BELTWAY / I-495 Merge onto MD-650 S / NEW HAMPSHIRE AVE via EXIT 28B toward TAKOMA PARK Turn LEFT onto MD-193 E / UNIVERSITY BLVD E End at Hyattsville, MD 20783-4139
you may contact Richard for information: (443)801-2026
STARONE <aimeanco@yahoo.com>
columbia, Md United States - 08/14/2005 at 13:05
Excellent dedication. Keep up the good work!!
< What I bought: Week of 08/06/2005
I have challenged myself to spend up to $5 a week on this program. At the end of ten weeks, I will take inventory of what $5 a week was able to buy for school through retail sales.
Here's what I purchased this week:
Store: STAPLES (Rockville, MD)
10 School Grade Portfolio folders (.10 each)
2 boxes of colored pencils (Crayola 12ct .44 each)
5 boxes of yellow #2 pencils (Staples 12ct .12 each)
2 packs of Composition notebooks (Staples 100 sheets .74 each)
Store: Rite-Aid (Silver Spring, MD)
4 packs of notebook paper (Rite Aid 150 sheets 4 for $1.00)
Total Spent this week (tax included): $5.21
posted by GnoMath @ 6:18 AM 0 comments >>
visitor
United States - 08/12/2005 at 15:58
Don't you hear that haitians are killing haitians with machete? you want those savages in the carnival? I don't think so!!!Pretty soon, they are going to start doing the same thing here too!!! watch out!! Here they come!!! They are the pariah of the caribbean. They cannot govern themselves, they are killing each other, they are stealing each other, they make us look bad in the caribbean. Keep them out of the carnival!!!
Eugene
Eugene
L.I., NY United States - 08/11/2005 at 19:43
i dont know if any of you have herd about what's going on in new york. basicly the carnival board which is made up of trinidadians are trying to prevent the haitian band from participating on the park way this year. i want to know what can we do to mobolize the haitian community....check the story at the link below...
thank you
http://www.opamizik.com/Music_News.html
shango 001
United States - 08/11/2005 at 17:58
what's the deal with the new york carnival.
are we going to let the trinis prevent us from participating this year.
haitians have taken over that carnival since 94 now they are trying to exclude us.
are they serious
shango001 <presidenttitide@hotmail.com>
marietta, ga United States - 08/11/2005 at 17:49
It is being reported that haitian police with help from many civilian gangs are killing people with machete. Police has distributed machetes to people to kill other people. Boy, haitians are savages!!! Those people need to be civilized. What a shame!!!
Ayisha
Ayisha
Queens, NY United States - 08/11/2005 at 17:08
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - A moderate faction of ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's party has registered for general elections later this year, but it was unclear whether its radical members would participate.
The country's electoral officials also said on Tuesday that local government elections, due to be held on October 9, would be postponed -- a sign of the troubles that Haiti faces organizing a vote amid political and gang violence that has killed some 900 people since September.
But officials refused to delay legislative and presidential elections in November, which are seen by the United Nations as key to restoring democracy.
Aristide, a former priest credited with helping to end the Duvalier dictatorship, was ousted in February 2004 by an armed revolt, facing growing accusations of corruption and despotism and pressure from the United States and France to quit.
But many of Haiti's poor masses still support him and the country has been riven by violence since he fled, despite the presence of around 7,500 U.N. peacekeepers and police.
A win by his Lavalas Family party could be embarrassing for Washington, which spearheaded international opposition to Aristide. A victory would open the way for Aristide to return to Haiti. ADVERTISEMENT
"We registered to participate in the election, which we will win, in order to end the political persecutions, arbitrary arrests and detentions and the summary executions our members and sympathizers have been subject to," Rudy Herivaux, a spokesman for the Lavalas faction, said.
"It would have been totally absurd of us to refuse to participate in an election we can win," Herivaux told Reuters, saying victory would allow for the return of all political exiles, including Aristide, who is in South Africa.
Members of the moderate faction within Lavalas, led by former senator Yvon Feuille and others, said the decision to run in the election was not unanimous. But they are in discussion with more radical factions of Lavalas that have refused to participate unless Aristide is allowed to return.
Leaders of the radical group within Lavalas said they would meet on Wednesday to decide their position.
U.N. representative Juan Gabriel Valdes welcomed the decision for the Lavalas to run, and warned that any attempt to prevent anyone from participating in the elections would not be tolerated.
The legislative and presidential elections are set for November 13, with a runoff on December 18.
According to the latest figures released by the Electoral Council, 1.7 million out of Haiti's 4.5 million eligible voters have registered for the elections.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The United States will provide Haitian police with firearms and tear gas to aid the fight against militants ahead of elections this fall, the American ambassador said Friday.
The shipment is an exception to the arms embargo that the United States imposed on the Caribbean nation in 1991, U.S. Ambassador James Foley said.
"Given the state of insecurity in this country, the attempts to create chaos, we had to do our best to protect the people from the forces of insecurity and criminality," Foley said.
U.S. officials previously acknowledged giving 2,600 used firearms to the Haitian National Police last year to help re-equip and professionalize the force.
Haitian officials have claimed that police are outgunned by gangs and militants, some of whom are loyal to ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Human rights groups, however, have alleged that the force is corrupt and brutal and responsible for unjustified killings.
Foley did not specify the arrival date for the $1.9 million shipment, which officials said will include some 3,000 handguns, several hundred rifles and tear gas.
The United States imposed the embargo in 1991 when Aristide was overthrown the first time.
Aristide pleaded to have the embargo lifted after 20,000 U.S. troops returned him to power in 1994. But U.S. officials cited the police force's links to cocaine trafficking and the slaying of government opponents - charges still made by human rights groups.
Violence and kidnappings are a constant threat in Haiti, undermining efforts to organize the elections in October and November to replace the interim government that was put in place after an armed rebellion toppled Aristide in February 2004.
1111
United States - 08/10/2005 at 17:30
Yon Ban-n repòtè dezièm men
.
United States - 08/10/2005 at 15:17
Alex,
Your point is? tale m'pa di, m'santi ta di...anmwey men Alex, woy men Alex...
kite'm ekzese dwa'm tande papa
Mwa
United States - 08/10/2005 at 10:22
It is quite sad that each time I check this iste I find people posting articles which by the way could be bias, not reflective of what is actually going on in Haiti. How come they cannot have their own judgement to stimulate a respectful discussion on the topic or their point of view instead of hiding behind an article. You can be a macoute, de-facto, lavalas, so-called bourgeois (I don't know if what we have in Haiti can call themselves "bourgeois" when one looks at Haiti), Group 184, group 24, group 12 or Group 0, or even republican, democrat, but feel free to express yourself. This is the only way we can get out of the mess that we are in. Learn to talk respectfully and open up our mind.
Alex
Alex
Orlando, Fl United States - 08/10/2005 at 09:02
KI BAGAY?
"Le manager de "Djakout Mizik" bientôt au parquet de Port-au-Prince "
Depozit sa-a pat ka fet, li bloke nan rout...
Mwa
Washington, DC United States - 08/10/2005 at 07:39
Le ministre des Affaires sociales Franck Charles a déclaré mardi que la violence ne mènerait nulle part lors d'une rencontre avec des représentants de la Chambre du commerce et de l'industrie d'Haïti (CCIH).
« La violence ne mènera nulle part. Aucun secteur n'a intérêt à utiliser les armes. Il faut que la paix revienne dans les foyers », a indiqué le ministre Franck Charles. « J'ai la certitude que le secteur privé peut aider à atteindre ce but », a-t-il ajouté devant de plusieurs hommes d'affaires haïtiens.
M. Charles et Réginald Boulos, président du CCIH, ont présenté tour à tour leur lecture de l'insécurité à Port-au-Prince, lors de cette rencontre entre la chambre de commerce et des responsables du ministère des Affaires sociales autour de cette problématique. Ils ont identifié des points communs et proposé des pistes pour aider à améliorer les conditions de vie des personnes défavorisées.
« Nous sommes sur un même bateau qui menace de couler à cause du phénomène de l'insécurité qui ne cesse de se développer dans la capitale haïtienne. Mais, il faut se rendre compte que l'insécurité se développe sur un double aspect politique et social », a souligné le ministre Charles.
« L'oisiveté est la mère de tous les vices. Ventre affamé n'a pas d'oreilles », a-t-il argué, se défendant cependant de prendre la défense des fauteurs de troubles.
« Quand on a des gens qui crèvent de faim et vivent dans la crasse, cela ne peut provoquer que l'insécurité. Il est inconcevable qu'un individu passe trois à quatre jours sans trouver de quoi manger », a-t-il martelé. Dans la foulée, le ministre a lancé un appel aux membres du secteur privé pour qu'ils aident à résoudre le problème de « l'insécurité sociale », tout en condamnant les auteurs des violences.
Le ministre s'est réjoui de la collaboration des acteurs du privé pour réduire la violence. M. Charles, proche et représentant du parti du président déchu Jean Bertrand Aristide au sein de l'actuel gouvernement, a annoncé la réalisation prochaine par le public et le privé d'actions cohérentes.
« Peut-être, y a-t-il des différences ? Mais on se retrouve et on va travailler ensemble, main dans la main, pour aboutir à des résultats concrets », a rétorqué Dr Réginald Boulos. L'homme d'affaires s'est prononcé en faveur de la mise en place des structures institutionnelles prévues par la loi.
« Les commerçants du bas de la ville ont horreur de l'insécurité, du phénomène du kidnapping et attendent du ministre Charles qu'il intervienne auprès du gouvernement qui doit redoubler d'efforts pour lutter contre cette forme d'insécurité en traduisant les criminels devant la justice », a indiqué le président du CCIH.
M. Boulos a par ailleurs demandé que toutes les personnes impliquées dans la dilapidation des fonds publics soient punies.
Les différents partenaires qui ont participé à cette rencontre envisagent la création d'une commission de cogestion équitable de lutte contre la pauvreté. Ils prévoient également l'instauration d'une commission nationale du transport en commun.
Le ministre des Affaires sociales avait été vivement critiqué par des figures du secteur privé après l'assassinat du journaliste et poète jacques Roche mi-juillet.
Marie
United States - 08/10/2005 at 06:42
La police haïtienne, tout en jouant la carte de la prudence, a mis en garde contre la présence éventuelle de mercenaires sud-africains en Haïti.
« Je ne tiens ni à infirmer ni à confirmer que des mercenaires sud-africains sont en Haïti pour troubler l'ordre public. Je rappelle cependant que les complices sont punis d'une même peine que les auteurs », a déclaré mercredi Gessy Coicou, porte-parole de l'institution policière.
A propos de la présence de présumés mercenaires sud-africains, qui alimente l'actualité depuis plusieurs semaines, la porte-parole de la Police nationale d'Haïti (PNH) s'est contentée d'affirmer que « ceux qui les envoient, les hébergent ou parcourent les rues en leur compagnie sont des complices et seront punis comme la loi le prévoit. »
Certaines informations portaient à croire que des ressortissants de l'Afrique du Sud, à la solde de proches du régime de Jean Bertrand Aristide, exilé dans ce pays depuis l'année dernière, transiteraient par des pays d'Europe pour atteindre l'île d'Haïti par la République dominicaine. Ces présumés mercenaires sont accusés d'être responsables de plusieurs de dossiers louches enregistrés sur le continent africain
L'inspectrice générale de la police haïtienne a informé, lors de la conférence hebdomadaire de l'institution mercredi, que la PNH disposait de certaines informations qu'elle entendait « traiter comme il le faut au niveau qu'il faut ».
Mme Coicou a par la suite indiqué qu'un service d'intelligence travaillait actuellement sur ce dossier et a dénombré de nombreuses plaques d'immatriculation police sur des véhicules qui n'appartiendraient pas au corps.
Mme Coicou a invité les particuliers qui utiliseraient des plaques d'immatriculation appartenant à l'institution policière de les ramener. « Sinon la PNH entreprendra des poursuites légales pour récupérer ces plaques », a-t-elle averti, avant d'annoncer qu'en temps et lieu nécessaires toute la lumière sera faite sur l'origine des plaques que détiennent certains particuliers.
Par ailleurs, dans le cadre de son bilan hebdomadaire, la police haïtienne a indiqué qu'environ cinquante individus ont été arrêtés, plusieurs otages ont été libérés.
Marie
United States - 08/10/2005 at 06:41
C’est qu’a affirmé le porte-parole de la mission onusienne en Haïti, Damian Oncès Cardona, en éclairage à la récente déclaration du chef de la Minustah qui voudrait que la mission reste en Haïti pendant au moins 10 ans.
Le diplomate chilien Juan Gabriel Valdés, représentant du secrétaire général de l’Onu en Haïti, s’était prononcé en début de semaine en faveur du maintien de la mission des Nations unies en Haïti pour 10 ans. D’autres responsables onusiens ont même proposé 20 ans voire davantage.
M. Cardona a souligné la faiblesse de la police haïtienne (PNH) et la possibilité d’établir d’autres formes de coopération avec l’Onu, pour justifier une telle présence.
« Tout le monde est d’accord que la mission des Nations unies ne peut pas finir son travail après les élections », a déclaré jeudi le porte-parole de la Mission des Nations unies pour la stabilisation en Haïti. « La Mission peut changer de forme », a-t-il précisé.
M. Cardona a affirmé que « le prochain gouvernement », qui s’installera au lendemain des élections prévues pour cet automne « ne trouvera pas un pays complètement stabilisé ».
« Il est clair que la mission ne pourra rester de la même façon. Il y aura peut-être moins de militaires et de policiers », a-t-il argumenté.
M. Cardona s’est questionné sur la capacité réelle de la PNH d’assurer la sécurité sur le territoire avec un effectif aussi réduit. Ce corps compte quelque 4.000 policiers.
Le porte-parole a également affirmé que « les Nations unies [déjà présentes en Haïti dans les années 1990] peuvent développer d’autres phases pour coopérer avec le pays au fur et à mesure. »
M. Cardona s’est par ailleurs réjoui de l’accalmie enregistrée durant ces derniers jours dans la capitale haïtienne. Il a renouvelé la volonté de la mission onusienne à travailler pour que la paix revienne en Haïti.
Boublbars Elouafi, porte-parole du contingent militaire onusien, en a profité pour lancer un appel aux membres des groupes armés pour qu’ils déposent les armes. Leur avenir, a-t-il souligné, est sans issue. Plusieurs de leurs anciens camarades ont été tués ou incarcérés, a-t-il illustré.
« S’ils prennent une autre direction, ils peuvent trouver une issue. Mais ils doivent savoir aussi que le temps presse » a-t-il précisé alors que la date des élections se rapproche. Pour le colonel marocain, le calme enregistré dans la capitale est le résultat d’un effort conjugué entre la Minustah et la police haïtienne.
Marie
United States - 08/10/2005 at 06:40
VEKELE- Mwen gin'w Cash Ki fek tombe- biye 5, biye 10, biye 20, biye 100, Cash la pil sou pil - gin dola, gin ero, giyin goud, pil sou pil....
Le manager de "Djakout Mizik" bientôt au parquet de Port-au-Prince
La porte-parole de la Police Nationale, Gessie cameau Coicou, a annoncé dimanche que le manager du groupe musical haïtien "Djakout Mizik", Woodley Ethéart, arrêté jeudi dernier à la frontière haïtiano-dominicaine, serait bientôt déféré au parquet de Port-au-Prince qui est déjà saisi du dossier.
La porte-parole a précisé que Mr Ethéart doit répondre des chefs d’accusation suivants : détention illégale d’armes à feu, d’argent et d’uniformes de police.
http://www.radiokiskeya.com/breve.
Arrestation par la Police nationale d’un présumé trafiquant de drogue
Un présumé trafiquant de drogue, Woodly Ethéart, a été arrêté cette semaine par la Police nationale d’Haiti à la frontière haïtiano-dominicaine. Selon les précisions de la porte-parole de la PNH, Gessie Cameau Coicou, le nommé Woodly Ethéart était en possession de 180 mille dollars américains au moment de son arrestation. M. Ethéart a été présenté à la presse par la Direction centrale de la Police judiciaire, vendredi après-midi.
http://www.metropolehaiti.com/metropole/archive
VEKELE
United States - 08/09/2005 at 20:49
PSSSSSSST Mistake - Are you sure you guys didn't get my point about the movie "Profonds Regrets" and the actress "Fabienne Colas"? It's all good!!! I meant to write "I want to" not "I was want" I also laughed it to myself after reading your comments. Okay, no hard feeling!
(I'm accepting the price of typing fast and not reading after myself).
Peace out!
DJ Woolado
Columbia, MD United States - 08/09/2005 at 20:36
Toute se volè,ti péyi ya kap soufri.
L.I don't see why you getting at PSSSSSSSSS,I feel that he was just being funny.
Epi tou "I was want" pas imparfait want,moune nan guin tout doi li pou li fe blag sou moun kap ekri tintin.
not everybody come here to write serious stuff or to be serious.
Some people come here for the fun of it.
No one should make them unwelcomed.Read and move on with your news,and your comments.
Toute moune ka branché nan poto echodayiti,poto a sé pa poto papaw li yé.
Epi siw pa daccor pann tète ou.
mistake
United States - 08/09/2005 at 18:35
I did not see in the report the amount that OPL received including Paul Denis. Can Jasmin check into that too?
Also can Paul Denis check into the fact that there are about 4000 police officers and there were 6000 checks issued every month? Who got those checks? who authorized them?
Bwa Kayiman
Bwa Kayiman
Miami, Fl United States - 08/09/2005 at 14:54
How Aristide & Co. plundered the Haitian Treasury
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 10:54:02 -0400
PAR JEAN CLAUDE JASMIN
How Aristide & Co. plundered the Haitian Treasury; Dark clouds on the Alexandre-Latortue government
The publication this week of the preliminary findings of the "Commission d'Enquête Administrative" (CEA), headed by former Senator Paul Denis, has uncovered a disturbing pattern of systematic looting of
the Treasury during the Jean-Bertrand Aristide presidency. We can only salute what is probably a first in Haitian history:
a) the commission did its work in secrecy and there were no leaks until the publication of the preliminary report;
b) the quality of the investigation is extremely good;
c) the report includes TRANSCRIPTS of key interviews with a number of former high level Lavalas dignitaries (probably a first in Haitian history)
d) the report also includes copies of correspondence, extensive documentation of financial shenanigans, etc.
What is striking to any observer is the sheer magnitude of the embezzlement concocted by Aristide and his cronies and the large number of individuals involved, starting with Aristide himself. Former Lavalas congressmen, ministers, and a number of Aristide relatives as well as businessmen figure on the long list of beneficiaries and/or thieves.
Coming on the heels of the UCREF report on the embezzlement at the Aristide Foundation for Democracy and a number of associated shell companies, a clearer picture of the
Aristide-directed looting of public funds has emerged.
Readers can access key elements of the report (in French) at the following websites:
http://www.ntsnews.com/bpm/commission_enquete.htm
http://www.ntsnews.com/bpm/commission_enquete_part_II.htm
http://www.ntsnews.com/bpm/commission_enquete_part_III.htm
http://www.ntsnews.com/bpm/commission_enquete_contrats.htm
The reports speak for themselves. I would like to draw your attention to a number of intriguing points:
Cooperation of Yvon Neptune
In what is sure to be a shock for many, former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune agreed to answer the questions of the investigators. And what an interview that was! We learn that:
1. Yvon Neptune had no real power as prime minister; he was deathly afraid of Finance Minister Faubert Gustave who was, in his words, a "super-minister" and who called the shots on all expenses, legitimate or illegal, that were undertaken on behalf of Aristide;
2. Neptune recognizes that Oriel Jean, Aristide's former security chief now in custody in the US on charges of drug smuggling, was receiving donations routinely from the Prime Minister's office "on the basis of his needs" (Neptune's own words.)
3. The much touted "Alpha Economique" plan of Aristide existed in name only.
The interview reveals that Neptune was certainly not the administrator that he was cracked up to be. We discover an average to below-average manager of people who had some integrity (let's call a spade a spade) but who certainly decided to roll over and let Aristide run roughshod over him. Quite a pitiful interview in the end as it demonstrated that Neptune was completely out of his league and should have remained the
good architect that he was.
While Aristide is in South Africa enjoying
his millions and managing his little guerilla warfare, poor Neptune is left holding the bag.
Cooperation of Jean-Jacques Valentin
Another shocker! For many years, Jean-Jacques Valentin was Aristide's man at Customs, where he oversaw a large bureaucracy which received the majority of the government's revenues. Valentin described very eloquently the pattern of embezzlement and deceit that Aristide and Faubert Gustave established to get around
administrative procedures and help their cronies circumvent customs duties. Two of the biggest beneficiaries of the scheme were none other than Lesly Lavelanet, brother-in-law of Aristide, who owes Customs over
US$1 million in unpaid customs duties and Dieuseul Tchokanté Joseph, a staples importer, who became a front man for Lavelanet as well as other rice importers associated to Aristide.
Finally, we must stress that the publication of this preliminary report has ruffled many feathers within the Alexandre-Latortue government.
Paul Denis stated that he received minimal cooperation from the National Palace. That is not surprising at all. The current
chief of staff, Michel Brunache, has close links with Gladys Lauture, a former "economic advisor" to Aristide who masterminded a number of embezzlement schemes. Brunache has actually blocked the investigations into the practices at the Palace for two reasons:
1. to protect Gladys Lauture, and by extension Brunache's former boss, attorney Gary Lissade, who is also implicated in a number of sordid schemes in the CEA/Paul Denis report;
2. to prevent investigators from uncovering Brunache's embezzlement scheme for the benefit of his father-in-law, Boniface Alexandre, and his own pockets of course. Brunache has continued the practice first
established by Aristide at the National Palace, which calls for minimal supervision and documentation (if at all) of expeditures. We must be vigilant. Aristide is the past, and we need to expose him for
what he was: a vulgar, blood-thirsty criminal who used the poor of Haiti to wage his war of hatred and enrich himself at the same time. But we also need to focus on the present and start investigating the crooked deals of the current administration. There are a few, and they are being perpetrated by people close to the current President and
Prime Minister.
We must also start asking the hard questions:
1. Why is Mr. Latortue's district attoney ("commissaire du gouvernment") so weak and ineffctive?
2. Why are the current "managers" of the National Palace and Teleco blocking the Paul Denis/CEA investigation?
3. When will Latortue get rid of the bad apples that are completely spoiling his current leadership? Or is he involved?
Haiti needs new leadership and a new beginning. The truth will set us all free ... finally.
Saltines <None>
Hyattsville, MD United States - 08/09/2005 at 13:55
"Map Swiv- Chapo ba- Se kritik, tripotaj, chien maje chien anyin anko. Le yon moun post yon bagay pozitif , moun pa repon' min le se pou defan'm koze pesonel, tout moun se intelektiel- yon bezwen fe Le Point. Ou mwen yo ta pran yon minute pou remesie Ginau pou travay li. Map Swiv mwen byen kontan ke wap swiv tou.
To PSSSSSSSSSt- Try Positive Critism next time, we can all benefit from that."
L, se point wap voye tou. Self-righteous bish
kokorat
United States - 08/09/2005 at 13:28
Ayisyen pa renmen ankouraje, si yo pap plenyen yo pa santi yo byen.
eko pran kouraj
kenbe la!
nan florid
Jacksonville, fl United States - 08/09/2005 at 10:55
It's a shame we don't comment more on what's officially written on this site, rather than on the board.
Gineau, there's a couple people who I know have taken your lead and are saving some school supplies.
Like the idea. If this board and this community is not a better, it's through no fault of yours.
map swiv
United States - 08/09/2005 at 06:56
By: AFP - 08/08/2005
Sept morts dans des violences à Port-au-Prince, un otage libéré
WASHINGTON, 8 août 2005 (AFP) - Sept personnes sont mortes ce week-end à Port-au-Prince, dont cinq lynchées par la population dans un bidonville de la capitale haïtienne, et un otage a été libéré, ont indiqué lundi la police haïtienne et la mission de stabilisation de l'Onu (Minustah).
Cinq criminels présumés ont été lynchés samedi par la population dans le quartier de Solino près du Bel Air, une zone dangereuse et considérée comme un des bastions des partisans armées de l'ex-président Jean Bertrand Aristide.
En outre, deux jeunes garçons âgés d'une vingtaine d'années ont été abattus ce week-end dans le même quartier au cours d'échanges de coups de feu avec une patrouille de la police haïtienne. "Ces gens sont des membres de gangs qui se livraient à des actes de violence et à des enlèvements", ont affirmé des riverains.
Par ailleurs, les Casques bleus brésiliens de la Minustah ont réussi à libérer un otage, André Beauséjour, retenu pendant près de quinze jours. L'ex-otage, Haïtien, affirme avoir été capturé alors qu'il tentait de verser une rançon de 6.500 dollars aux ravisseurs de sa belle-soeur.
La Minustah a également interpellé onze personnes. Le colonel El Ouafi Boulbars, porte-parole de la Minustah, avait affirmé jeudi que la sécurité s'était nettement améliorée dans la capitale haïtienne ces dernières semaines grâce aux efforts constants des Casques bleus de la Minustah et de la police nationale.
L'insécurité reste l'un des problèmes majeurs en Haïti, un pays extrêmement pauvre
boujou pwel
United States - 08/08/2005 at 23:48
I was want to tell you that......
ki mode angles sa yo.
sa sa vle di.
ki pawol sa yo,,,,see who?
de ki sa wap pale la,pawol ou yo pa structurer.
pito moune sa ekri an kreyol.
m'pa konprann anyen nan sa dj ya ap di la.
PSSSSSST
United States - 08/08/2005 at 22:02
Gineau,
I was want to tell you that "Profonds Regrets" is a movie that will take the Haitian Cinema to another level. It is the most expensive one by far, well-written, and well-directed, hosting stars from Canada, Haiti, Florida, Maryland.
Last weekend I was in Miami, Florida for 6 showings 2 Friday, 2 Saturday, 2 Sunday. It was something totally different than Maryland. Sunday night shows were packed to the max. People had to stand. Some people came to see the movie several times. I guess most people came to see RAFRECHI cameo role in the movie (Joke!!!).
Seriously, Maryland will have a chance to see her and some other female stars in the movie before the end of the year where we will gather more people to give her something special in the name of the community. Keep hope alive.
I am out! Keep on doing such a positive job for the community.
DJ Woolado
DJ Woolado <djwoolado@yahoo.com>
Columbia, MD United States - 08/08/2005 at 20:02
Rafrechi is actually auditionning for the music video of "Wap Pede Gade Mwen" If you are interested, please contact us on feedback or guest book. Better yet call 410-852-0457.www.Rafrechi.com
The video will be lik ...
steven
steven
United States - 08/08/2005 at 04:02
Hello everyone. Starone is playing in a nice club. I mean spanish club. It'a restaurant, sport, and dancing club.not everyone has a opportunity to play in a club like this, where they provide good security, police officers, and much more. Please, come enjoy a chow the big or huge starone giving for only 10 dollars. It was going to be free, but we have to pay the police officer so everyone could be safed. Come support your local artis for us to have more fun like this. There will be spanish people,people from New Jersey,New York, and so much more.
fifi <kerwood233@hotmail.com>
miami, Florida United States - 08/07/2005 at 17:50
Mezanmi pa bliye starone ap jwe pita,lap tout moun,gran moun san dan, ak dan,jen fanm ak gason.Pou info...Starting from August 7th 2005 at 10pm to 2am, Starone is going to play every Sunday night at Cuzco Restaurant #2 2051 University Blvd, East Langley Park . Merge onto CAPITAL BELTWAY / I-495 Merge onto MD-650 S / NEW HAMPSHIRE AVE via EXIT 28B toward TAKOMA PARK Turn LEFT onto MD-193 E / UNIVERSITY BLVD E End at Hyattsville, MD 20783-4139, US .Adm:$10 ladies free before 10:30.
You may contact Richard at (443)801-2026 or check our website Staronekompa.home.comcast.net
Similom <tibouqui@caramail.com>
United States - 08/07/2005 at 13:22
Journalist Michaëlle Jean to be new Governor General
Journalist Michaëlle Jean to be new Governor General
Last Updated Thu, 04 Aug 2005 08:35:16 EDT
CBC News
Prime Minister Paul Martin on Thursday will officially name journalist Michaëlle Jean as Canada's next governor general.
INDEPTH: Governor General
Michaëlle Jean (CBC Photo)
The official announcement is expected to come at 11 a.m. EDT in Ottawa.
Jean will be installed as Canada's 27th governor general Oct. 1.
At 48 years old, the award-winning journalist will become one of the youngest governors general ever, the third woman in the job and the first black person to call Rideau Hall home.
Jean's name surfaced after weeks of rumours about who would be replacing the current Gov. Gen. Adrienne Clarkson, who took up the post in 1999 and who is stepping down this fall.
Jean is probably best known to English-Canadians as the host of The Passionate Eye and Rough Cuts on CBC Newsworld.
She was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She left in 1968, her family fleeing the oppressive regime of François "Papa Doc" Duvalier, settling in Quebec with her family.
She has a six-year-old daughter whom she adopted from Haiti, and she is married to filmmaker Jean-Daniel Lafond. As well, she is fluent in five languages: French, English, Spanish, Italian and Haitian Creole.
Her television career began in Quebec, where she has worked as a journalist, producer and host for the CBC's French language services, SRC and RDI, since 1988.
She has worked as a correspondent for Le Point, hosted Le Monde ce soir, L'Edition quebecoise, Horizons francophones, le Journal RDI and RDI à l'écoute. Currently she is host of the French-language documentary series Grands Reportages.
In an interview with CBC Radio in 2001, Jean spoke of how she sees her role in the public eye, especially as a role model for children.
"Being a black journalist on TV – for many black children and Asian children and, I say, even native children – it's a symbol because when they see me they say, 'OK, something is possible,'" she said.
Jean has received many awards for her own documentary work, including the Amnesty International Journalism Award, the Anik Prize and the Galaxi Award for best information program host.
"It's obviously a very exciting appointment. Here's someone who's quite young, very dynamic, has a rapport with a lot of younger audience," said Paul Benoit of the Monarchist League of Canada.
Historian David Mitchell says Jean will play an important role, at a critical time in Canada's history.
"She will be a voice for Canada in Quebec and she will represent the new Quebec to the rest of Canada very effectively. She has that potential and that sense, this is an inspired choice."
INDEPTH: GOVERNOR GENERAL
Canada's Governor General
CBC News Online | September 30, 2003
Adrienne Clarkson became Canada’s 26th Governor General in 1999.
WHAT
Queen's representative in Canada and Canada's de facto head of state. (The Queen is the official head of state.)
Before 1926, the Governor General acted as the representative of the British government in Canada.
Until the 1950s, the Governor General was always British. Since then, the post has alternated between an English-Canadian and a French-Canadian.
Loune
United States - 08/04/2005 at 10:05
"L, good information. I know who you are now. Thus, would not that be called self promotion?
Moi"
Wow, kom' zot di, rete, apa se yon Psychic ou ye? Kisa map promote la'a ou ka di'm? Do not confuse me with anyone ok dear.
L.
Loune
United States - 08/04/2005 at 08:38
Thanks L for the info.
We (WACAHAPA) used to face the same problem with the D.C Trinis.
We had to flexxxx our muscles and raise our voices to make them understand that the parade is not a Trinadadian parade but a caribbean parade.
The Haitians and Jamaicans in N.Y will have to do the same - continue to fight to let the Trinis know that they can't force their culture on OTHERS.
The day (LABOR DAY)is a day for the people of the Caribbean to party in the street any which way they want to represent their own nation.
It's not Trinidad's Day,and the Trinis know that.
The requests to use the streets of N.Y or the street of D.C are granted by the cities in the name of the Caribbean, not in the name of a country in particular.
In our culture since the time of Nemous-Sicot(or may be before)fans wear their band's favorite colors and follow the truck.
In the Diaspora we Haitians like to wear our Red and Blue-EPI THAT'S IT.
I would like to see how they going to stop 100.000 Haitians on Eastern Parkway following SWEET MIKEY,DJAKOUT,T.VICE AND THIS YEAR KOUDJAY.
What the Trinis are affraid of is the fact that more and more they are being out numbered.
Wacahapa
United States - 08/03/2005 at 19:43
L, good information. I know who you are now. Thus, would not that be called self promotion?
Moi
Silver Spring, MD United States - 08/03/2005 at 18:35
FYI--
Daily News (ww.nydailynews.com)
By LESLIE CASIMIR
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Friday, July 29th, 2005
The feathers are already flying at the West Indian-American Day Carnival Parade and it's not even Labor Day.
The splashy Brooklyn event has banned marchers who aren't in costumes, the Daily News has learned.
That means virtually no Jamaicans, Haitians or Barbadians - who usually are represented by their country's top musical artists - will have a showcase on Eastern Parkway, critics of the new rules contend.
The organizers, many of whom are Trinidadians, say that the annual technicolor show is getting drab with all the "T-shirt bands" - revelers in T-shirts and regular clothes who follow flatbed trucks carrying musicians.
"It seems as if they're trying to weed out a lot of people. They're eliminating Jamaica and Haiti and other countries that don't see it as a costume event, but as a music-driven event," said Robert (Bobby) Clarke, president and CEO of Irie Jam radio station WTRN (93.5 FM).
But Jean Alexander, a spokeswoman for the West Indian-American Day Carnival Association, which organizes the annual Labor Day event, said there is no attempt to keep anyone out.
"We've been telling people this for the last three years, but they have never listened. The noncostumed bands have overtaken the carnival. It has destroyed carnival and we're through talking," Alexander said. "This rule is not meant to exclude, it is just forcing people to go back to their roots."
Millions of people gather annually for the celebration of West Indian culture. Many plunk down hundreds of dollars for elaborate costumes of sequins and feathers to be part of an organized procession, called Mas bands. But others just find their favorite bands and join the march, following the truck in street clothes.
"I respect them [the organizers], but at the same token they are being insensitive to the people who don't have the traditional aspect of costume," said Irwine Clare, an activist in the Jamaican community.
L
United States - 08/03/2005 at 14:05
Starone is back to business.
We invite everyone in the Haitian community to come celebrate with us in D.C and Marland. Please don't miss this opportunity because you are going to enjoy this live band .There are so many things to enjoy such as billards and games. There will be a diversity of Spanish, Haitian, and more.
Starting from August 7th 2005 at 10pm to 2am, Starone is going to play every Sunday night at Cuzco Restaurant #2 2051 University Blvd, East Langley Park . Merge onto CAPITAL BELTWAY / I-495 Merge onto MD-650 S / NEW HAMPSHIRE AVE via EXIT 28B toward TAKOMA PARK Turn LEFT onto MD-193 E / UNIVERSITY BLVD E End at Hyattsville, MD 20783-4139, US .Adm:$10 ladies free before 10:30.
You may contact Richard at (443)801-2026 or check our website Staronekompa.home.comcast.net
STARONE <Staronekompa.home.comcast.net >
Columbia, Md United States - 08/03/2005 at 09:31
Haïtiens frè'm ak sè'm yo kijan nou yé?
Osner Chery <ochery1@yahoo.com>
Silver Spring, MD United States - 08/02/2005 at 20:14
Bali.
OH
I MEAN
Bayo
bali
United States - 08/02/2005 at 19:42
moune icit, si sé pa younn sé lott yap ataké kan menm.
nap palé chimè,makout etc...gadé bien pou nou wè sa nou yé nou menm.
les chimères d'echodhaiti,des diaspo-makout.
dépi diskisyion an twop pou nou nou voyé pié sou sa kap palé politik yo.
dépi jalouzi nou monté nou,nou attaké pwomotè yo.
lè yo wè sa pa asé yo menm ataké echodhaiti.
ayisyen pap chanjé non mézanmi.
bbb
United States - 08/02/2005 at 17:53
Poukisa nou pa jan'm komante sou lot bagay pozitif ke echodhaiti efri yo. Anou pran pou ekzanp, Ede timoun haiti avek rentre lekol, ede ti moune Sassier (jeremi). Poukisa se toujou yon ban' diskisyon ki pap abouti a anyin. ELE KEKE PEPE!
L
United States - 08/02/2005 at 16:28
[edited - sitemgr]
Mezanmi
Rockville, MD United States - 08/02/2005 at 11:30
This week on Haiti A Suivre
Watch the new videos of
Wiclef Jean (24hrs à vivre)
Magnum Band (Ambiance Tropicale)
Also watch the new segment (Section Zouk) with the best of the new (2004-2005)Zouk hits.
And many more Konpa.
Info,show time & video request(240)463-7196
JCV <jcvivens@mris.com>
Wheaton, MD United States - 08/01/2005 at 20:31
ANKOR! ALA TRAKA! ANKOR MIN'M. AJIMAL, POZE NON TIPAPA. I HAVE A VERY GOOD PIECE OF ADVISE FOR YOU TONTON: GIVE UP TONTON.
JC
Silver Spring, Spring United States - 08/01/2005 at 20:27
Many thanks to the fans and friends who attended the party last Saturday at the Sahara Oasis.
Once again this weekend Saturday August 6 TRANKILL will be at the Sahara Oasis at 10 pm.
Ladies freeeeeeeeeeeeee B-4 Midnight
Men $10.00
ONFO: (240)463-7196
STaFF PoZé
United States - 08/01/2005 at 18:46
Bling! Bling !
so hot, so fresh
What's up everybody
Starone is back to business.
We invite everyone in the Haitian community to come celebrate with us in D.C and Marland. Please don't miss this opportunity because you are going to enjoy this live band .
Starting from August 7th 2005 at 10pm to 2am, Starone is going to play every Sunday night at Cuzco Restaurant #2 2051 University Blvd, East Langley Park . Merge onto CAPITAL BELTWAY / I-495 Merge onto MD-650 S / NEW HAMPSHIRE AVE via EXIT 28B toward TAKOMA PARK Turn LEFT onto MD-193 E / UNIVERSITY BLVD E End at Hyattsville, MD 20783-4139, US .Adm:$10 ladies free before 10:30.
starone <staronekompa2005@yahoo.com>
columbia, Md United States - 08/01/2005 at 15:35
Hooray to you Ginau, great initiative my friend. You're truly a class act.
"EchodHaiti.com
"Back to School"
Retail Education Program"
Others should do the same instead of using the board to write long rhetorics, which don't contribute to anything in particular. Ginau keep up the good work!
L
United States - 08/01/2005 at 12:06
Le rapport De Paul Denis,,,Si gen yon neg ke yon moun dwe kondane lan tout koze saa, se pa sitou Paul Denis, se pito Gerard Latortue. Sepandan ann fe yon kout je sou Paul Denis. Ansyen Senate de larepiblik Paul Denis, yon pesonaj ke Aristide met sou moun daye, te toujou konsidere tet li kom yon moun ki rayi Aristide tankou pwemye kazak ke-l te met sou li. Se yon neg ki pa jan pedi yon okazyon pou-l fe soti hèn an pwofode li genyen pou chef pati lavalas la ni lan kozman li konn bay lan radyo, ni lan prezantasyon li konn fe lan televizyon; lan yon pwen tel ke si misye tap viv lan yon peyi serye, yo te ka mennen-l lan yon sant sikatri pou yo ta verifye si tet misye ta dret. Si Paul Denis te gen desans, le yo lofri-l job saa, li ta dwe di:"mezanmi mwen pa kwe ke mwen kab fe yon anket serye sou yon administrasyon ke mwen rayi avek pasyon." Depi li pat fe saa, tout moun te ka konprann ansyen senate ya tap selman jwe wol "bay mimi veye makou." Vwalatilpa ke se neg saa pwemye minis defacto wa al chwazi pou ankete sou gouvenman Lavalas la. Latortue se yon pesonaj mesken, yon idividi ki tre mechan dan làm, yon moun ki iresponsab lan ajisman-l si-l ka we se Paul Denis pou-l mete lan plas silaa. Si-l te onet, li ta tyeke ak "Cour Superieure Des Comptes" pou-l ta pwoche pwoblem lan. Li pa fe sa. Kidonk si gen yon moun ki merite kondane se byen Gerard Latortue. I was one of those who had faith in Latortue with the hope he would bring a different form of leadership in Haiti... Ala ti peyi pa gen chans oooo
Janjan <Jerzeybabe2000@yahoo.com>
Jersey city, NJ United States - 08/01/2005 at 04:51
PR,
I agree with what except for one thing. There is enough evidence now to show that many are persecuted for being Lavalas. But I will not engage in an argument on this now; let us wait and see what happens in the next few months, when the "elections" will have taken place, then we probably will revisit the issue. Pou koulye a, nap swiv.
Serge
serge <sbellegarde@comcast.net>
S.S, Md United States - 07/31/2005 at 18:02
"Wap fe $$$$$$ - Pa bliye'm selman, JJ di'm ou manke 25 kob selman pou millione. Wa pase min pran'm.
DJ Woolado"
DJ Woolado,
"I did not tell you this to say it to PR. It was a secret. When will we have a chance to see the movie again. Respect
JJ"
Are you guys setting me up to be kidnapped? Good thing should I be kidnapped, I could always call my good friend Map Swiv, or smply say the universally recognized password: Rafreshi. Then it's VIP treatment.
PR
United States - 07/30/2005 at 20:14
Serge,
I think is safe to say that we unanimously condemn this massacre. But they facing a difficult situation. Fighting an unseen enemy that is deliberately using an over-populated area and endangering the lives of innocent people as strategy is though business.
But I strongly as I feel about the Minustah's unprofesionalism, I feel equaly disgusted with the lavalss party pushing this mishap to advance their agenda. Let's be clear about this: this a not a Lavalas persecution! This is an unfortunate situation resulting from a combination of a group of thugs using humans as sheilds and a group of trigger happy police force.
PR
United States - 07/30/2005 at 20:01
I apologize for a number of typos in the text. I pressed on the sent button by error and did not get a chance to proofread my text.
Serge
serge <sbellegarde@comcast.net>
S.S, Md United States - 07/30/2005 at 15:35
Indeed, PR, let us see how the so-called investigation about Jacques
Roches' assassination evolved. I have to say "so-called" because there are already are so many irregularities about the arrest of Father Jean-Juste.
First of all, the polie says taht he was arrested because of the "public clamor", a complete twisting of the concept. Secondly, since when does the police arrest someone first, then declare an investigation. Thirdly, the Ministre of Justice sais that he did not even know when Jean-Juste was being arrested, nor the reason why he was arrested. Fourthly, isn't it interesting that as soon as roches was killed, members of the Gvt. immediately accused Lavalas of being responsible, as if everything was choregraphed. I am really looking forward to the "conclusion "of this "investigation" so that the guilty, whoever he or she (or they) may be, can be brought to justice
serge <sbellegarde@comcast.net>
S.S, Md United States - 07/30/2005 at 15:33
jj, I will let you know, but it might be in October. Right now I am working on a gig for Rafrechi in Connecticut July 13 - New York, end of August - and bring Kompa for the very first time in Delaware on September 10.
Jazz la komanse ap met mileage!
DJ Woolado
Columbia, MD United States - 07/30/2005 at 15:30
For the information of the readers, I thought it was relevant to have you read this article dealing with the issue at discussion in the exchange we were having on this forum.
Serge
Peacekeepers accused after killings in Haiti
July 29, 2005
By: Andrew Buncombe
Independent, The
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Evidence is mounting that United Nations peacekeepers shot and killed unarmed civilians, including children, during a recent raid in Haiti. The UN said it was ready to investigate the alleged 'use of unnecessary force'.
Independent witnesses say up to 23 people were killed during the raid and that many were shot in the head. Video footage seen by The Independent shows the bodies of many killed in the capital, Port-au-Prince, and contains testimony from witnesses claiming the victims were killed by 'blue helmets' common parlance for UN peacekeepers.
In a statement, the UN Mission in Haiti (Minustah) said: '[UN forces] did not target civilians in the operation ... but the nature of such missions in densely populated urban areas is such that there is always a risk of civilian casualties. Minustah deeply regrets any injuries or loss of life during its operation.'
Yesterday, the most senior UN peacekeeping official appealed to the Security Council for specialised troops for Haiti admitting the forces available were not trained for such raids.
The footage of the aftermath of the 6 July raid in the Cité Soleil slum was taken by a team led by Haitian-based journalist Kevin Pina. Pina said: ' Numerous witnesses said the victims were killed by UN forces the Haitian National Police (HNP) were not even there. I think the fact the UN did not bring a single doctor or ambulance with them on this mission is extraordinary surely you would do that whether you were targeting criminal gangs or civilians? It is interesting that so many victims were shot in the head. I think the reason they did not bring ambulances is that they were not shooting to wound, they were shooting to kill.'
The raid took place against a backdrop of violence in Haiti ahead of autumn elections. Authorities say much of the violence is perpetrated by criminal gangs with links to the former president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
But since the ousting of the democratically elected Mr Aristide last year, human rights groups have detailed repression of his supporters by the US-backed interim government and the HNP. A report by the human rights programme at Harvard Law School said there were also 'credible allegations of human rights abuses perpetrated by Minustah'.
Minustah said its dawn raid, involving more than 400 troops, targeted the gang leader known as 'Dread Wilme', who is accused of murder and kidnapping. He and four alleged associates were killed.
But other independent witnesses support Pina's evidence that civilians werealso killed. David Welsh, of the US Labour/Human Rights Delegation to Haiti, was at a conference in Port-au-Prince that weekend. Delegation members interviewed witnesses and filmed the bodies of victims. He described the shooting as a "massacre": 'Based on witnesses' testimony and the number of bodies we were able to confirm, we believe that at least 23 people were killed,' he said.
Among the dead were four-year-old Stanley Romelus, who was shot in the head; his mother, Sonia, and his one-year-old brother, Nelson. The boy's father said they were killed in their house after UN forces threw smoke grenades. His testimony is to be included in a documentary Pina is producing based on the footage.
Christophe Fournier, Médecins Sans Frontières, which has a clinic close to Cité Soleil, said: "On that day we treated 27 people for gunshot wounds. Of them, around 20 were women under the age of 18."
Minustah claims it received 'unconfirmed information' that criminal gangs were seen killing civilians after its operation. It said: " Subsequently, these elements attributed these atrocious acts to Minustah."
At UN headquarters yesterday, Jean-Marie Guehenno, undersecretary-general for peacekeeping, asked for specialist troops for Haiti. 'I have to acknowledge the forces we have do not have the kind of very specialised capacity ... that makes absolutely sure that there will be zero civilian casualties in a densely populated environment.'
Original Link: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article302259.ece
serge <serge bellegarde>
S.S, Md United States - 07/30/2005 at 15:23
Wooley,
You are not the only one. My phone is working now- my charger was out of commision. Actually, I tried calling the other day. I need you to confirm something for me. Thanks.
PR
United States - 07/30/2005 at 11:09
Freind,
Latortue deserves all the flacks he his getting over this debacle. He decided to stay true to his name, a slow moving individual, and it is reflecting his government. He took too long to properly address these hoodlums carrying out the crimes and those issuing the orders. In all fairness I dont think he is responsible for the actions of "Operation Baghdad" operatives, but he responsible for letting it get to this magnitute. He should have turned down the job if he knew he did not have the stomach for it. Haitian leaders don't see the high seat as a crucial job, rather as position to savor perquisites.
This cycle has to end.
Another factor is the constant harasement from the lobbyers and lobbied: Waters, Goodman, Ira, ect.
Rumors have it that current and ongoing investigation is pointing fingers at Jean-Juste and Delva as possible authors of the death of Jacques Roche. Let's see how things unfold.
PR
United States - 07/30/2005 at 11:01
PR,
EWhat I am talking about is not shenanigan. Not at all. It is a matter of an experienced force from the UN with a mandate to maintain the peace and instead, coming in with brutal, indiscriminate force and creating unproportionned death in a community. This is what the problem is. The UN has been in Kosovo, in East Timor etc, where they have faced far, far more firepower and far more difficult situations. My point is that it has enough experience to know what it was getting into, study the situation and use approriate force. It is evident that it did not, becasue, as I said, it is only NOW looking at the possibility of bringing special forces to deal with this specific type of situations. In other words, where it not for the pictures and videos of Kevein Piña, the information might not have gotten out. My point is that innocent people are getting killed when many deaths couls have been avoided.
Friend, I do not remember saying what you suggested in terms of bringing down the walls. I totally agree that there are gangs in Cité Soleil, SOlino etc and that they have to be dealt with. My problem is , and that is what you and PR do not want to acknowledge, is that many defenseless human beings are killed for no reason at all.
Finally two things I will leave with. Food for thoughts.
Have you ever wondered why you have not heard anything about attempts by the UN forces to get those gang leaders alive? Labanyè, Dread Wilme, Ravix and so on. No discussion at all about whether anyone could have been caught alive. What a walth of information we could have learnt about what is going on, who else is involved, where are the hiding places, where do they get their weapons, the number of accomplices etc. etc.
Secondly, about the so-called Operation Baghdad. Interesting that no one talks about this anymore. The very first person to talk about it when no gang was talking about it was Jean-Claude Bajeux. Where did he get the name, no one knows to this day. The second person to refer to it was Latortue as he returned from a trip abroad. When the 4 policemen bodies were found, beheaded, a group of people, journalists and others asked the Gvt. for an autopsy to determine the circumstances of the beheadings. They even offered to pay for the expenses. The Gvt. refused and...cremated the bodies. Very strange. So we will never really know who had done the beheading, since no investigation as ever conducted and the evidence now went up in smoke...
Serge
serge <sbellegarde@comcast.net>
S.S, Md United States - 07/30/2005 at 11:00
DJ Woolado,
I did not tell you this to say it to PR. It was a secret. When will we have a chance to see the movie again. Respect
JJ
columbia, United States - 07/30/2005 at 10:49
Pierre Richard, where are you hiding? Your phone doesn't work - You never home - I did not see you at Rafrechi's CD release party nor the showing of Profonds Regrets.
Wap fe $$$$$$ - Pa bliye'm selman, JJ di'm ou manke 25 kob selman pou millione. Wa pase min pran'm.
DJ Woolado <djwoolado@yahoo.com>
Columbia, MD United States - 07/30/2005 at 10:19
Ayayaii, I like the way this board is going these days. Very informative stuffs!
Let's keep it up brothers and sisters...
By the way, I would like to thank everyone who were present at the showing of "Profonds Regrets" last weekend. The ones who were absent will have a chance to see it in the near future.
We will bring "Miracle de la foi", "11eme Commandement" soon.
DJ Woolado
Columbia, MD United States - 07/30/2005 at 10:13
PR,
This is exactly what I am trying to convey to Serge. The Police and UN are understandably nervous, therefore, you have a combination for maybe unecessary use of force. The notion that Serge advanced that the Police and UN troops could have kicked the walls down makes no sense. Serge, do you want the PNH to kick the walls down and face with a guy holding a gun? You and I would not do it, why do you want someone else to do it. What I meant by operate on their private part is that some guys who are in jail have been interviewed. The journalists found out these people inserted foreign object in the pennis, so that when they rape a woman, they can cause more damage. You can check the news and find out for yourself.
friend
columbia, United States - 07/30/2005 at 08:45
Rafrechi is actually auditionning for the music video of "Wap Pede Gade Mwen" If you are interested, please contact us on feedback or guest book. Better yet call 410-852-0457.www.Rafrechi.com
The video will be lik ...
steven
United States - 07/30/2005 at 01:28
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Un ballon dans mes mains ne vaut pas plus que 100 Gdes. dans les mains de
Michael Jordan, cela vaut 33millions $.
Tout dépend dans quelle main cela se trouve.
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les mains de Mc Gwire, elle vaut 19 millions $.
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Un équipement de golf dans mes mains est inutile, mais dans celles de
Tiger Wood cela signifie 4 championnats américain gagnés.
Tout dépend dans quelle main cela se trouve.
2 poissons et 5 pains dans mes mains représentent deux sandwichs, dans
les mais de Jésus, cela a permis de nourrir des milliers de personnes.
Tout dépend dans quelle main cela se trouve.
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mains de Jésus cela conduit au salut de l'humanité
Tout dépend dans quelle main cela se trouve.
Comme tu peux le voir, comme tu le constates "Tout dépend dans quelle
main cela se trouve."
Alors, mets toutes tes préoccupations, tes soucis, tes problèmes, tes
inquiétudes, tes péchés, tes frustrations, tes défauts, tes infirmités, tes
maladies, tes espoirs, tes rêves, toute ta famille, tous tes amis, toute la
nation entre les mains de Dieu, parce que ...
"TOUT DEPEND DANS QUELLE MAIN CELA SE TROUVE.''
ES
United States - 07/30/2005 at 00:48
Friend,
It is far too simple to characterize the action of the UN as a reaction from what people wanted. It is equally too simple to say that my aim was to show that the UN wanted to assassinate the population. Come on!. The UN got a mandate from the Security Council to maintain the peace. This is the title of the UN mission in Haiti. It should have acted on this from the very beginnning, and if it had, there would not have been such deterioration of the situation. Now, why it did not is another issue which would require much more pofound analysis and access to documents which, of course, are not available. So let us be clear: what I said is that the UN, in using force indiscriminately, caused the deaths of many innocent civilians who did not have to die.
How many people died? The UN says 5. Médecins sans frontières, a humanitarian insitution in Haiti reported receiving 27 people. Witnesses say that at least 50 people died. So this is not my opinion, I was not present. That is quite a bit, right?
By the way, I see that, like many other Haitians, you accuse the "Lavalasse[?] people" of terrorizing the population? I never knew they were so organized as to terrorize nearly 8 million people. even in Iraq, the insurgents are not this powerful.
"These people are so bad that they even operated on their private parts to hurt women".I am not quite sure of what you mean by this.
As far as your question about how these people were killed, even though I am not an expert, I can tell you the following.
Often in mass demonstrations here, the POlice is asked to shoot to disable, not to kill. This means they will shoot at the legs. In Cité Soleil and other areas, the Dvd shows quite a few bodies, their brains spilling on the ground, obviously shot in the head. And all the bodies showed the same thing: a gunshot to the head. I remember in Cité Soleil this guy crying because his wife and 2 kids had been shot by the UN forces . You will agree with me that these people were not hiolding guns and were not shooting at the soldiers. And this is frustrating part. The people themselves say that this brutality was not necessary, was uncalled for. SO if you want to learn more, yo need to see the DVD, that is all I can tell you.
I understand very well that the UN Forces have to react; that is why they were sent to Haiti in the first place. What is not acceptable is the blind force it uses , like a hammer to kille an ant..NO wonder then the UN itself is looking for specialised forces to deal with this situation.
Serge
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serge <sbellegarde@comcast.net>
S.S, Md United States - 07/30/2005 at 00:25
Serge wrote:"Are we in Iraq, where those guys have rocket launchers?" That is a very good question. Are we in Iraq, Serge?" You should ask the conceivers of "Operation Baghdad" that question.
Friend, I know you're able to see through this latest shenanigan. What have here is a classic police brutality case. Nervous, ill-trained police officers using excessive force in over-populated area. All the ingredients to cook up a serious disaster. But not a Lavalas hunt. They are using Pena's recordings to say that Lavalas sympathizers are being killed. They are trying to equate poor greiving people to Lavalas to push their agenda. They are still milking poor folks for everything. This is almost good as Rove's plan in reelecting Bush Jr. using 9/11.
PR
United States - 07/29/2005 at 23:45
Karen
This week yvedayiti is the superstar of the forum.May be I should ask him to play a some NU VICE for me on konbit lakay,since Haiti A Suivre did not play {Brasser nap brasser} these days.
heat
United States - 07/29/2005 at 21:08
Serge,
I do not know if you remember about six months ago I wrote that Latortue will need to take special actions to control the situation in Haiti. This is what he is now doing. Also, the UN did not take any action against the gangsters until the population started to get tired of the military not doing anything about the situation. Infact, they called the UN turista. Therefore, your point that is aimed to show that the UN wants to assassinate the population cannot hold. They were practcally forced to do something about the criminals who claimed the Cite. You talked about the UN shooting at people indiscriminately, how many people in your opinion got killed in the raid? Remember Cite Soleil is a very populated area, if the UN wanted to kill people just for killing them, we could easily endup with two to three hundreds of dead people. In addition, if the situation deteriorated to that point this is because of the lavalasse people who decided to terrorize the population. They have to pay for what they are doing. I feel bad about any innocent person who got killed. But as far as Dread Wilme and the RatPKK, they all need to be killed in public places. They have caused haiti to know unprecendented actions. These people are so bad that they even operated on their private parts to hurt women. This is unheard of. The UN may need to rethink their approach, but by all means, the UN needs to put an end to this situation NO MATTER what they have to do with these criminals. By the way can you explain why the tape did not show how most people got killed? Could it be that they got killed while shooting at the UN troops and the police. I reming you that the police and UN troops have the obligation to protect themselves also. You see, until these facts are known, we cannot talk about massacre.
Friend
Columbia, MD United States - 07/29/2005 at 20:48
Stan, if there is anything to be mad about, it is the number of people being killed unecessarily. That is my point. What I am saying, and you miss the point totally, the disucssion should not be about how many people attended an event, because between that and innocent people being killed, I believe you would agree that the human cost is more important.
Now, I understand that different people have different priority. If you want to ne stuck on number, that is certainly your prerogative, but not mine. SO I will not discuss that. But Yves can speak for himself, but I will disagree with you when you "the way Yves made it to be on his show". He did not and I say that not to come to his defense, but because I SAW the evidence and Kevin Piña certainly did not not doctor the images, nor put words in the mouth of those witnesses. It comes down to one thing: go see for yourself, do not take anyone's word for it, the facts are there, undeniable facts.
Now Friend, indeed, when there is military action, innocent people get killed. But obviosly, in this particular case, you did not see the film, otherwise you would understant what I am saying. You must know about the concept of the use of proportional force to solve a problem. One way many innocent people were killed in Cité Soleil (where, by the way, the house walls are so flimsy that a solid kick can put them down)was when soldiers shot INDISCRIMINATELY, with bullets going through these walls and killing 4 year old, 19 month old, older people. A pastor was killed in his church some time ago. Why do helicopters had to fire from above indiscriminately? Are we in Iraq, where those guys have rocket launchers?
For your information, the UN has said that it is seeking specialised forces to conduct the kind of operations required in areas like Cité Soleil, SOlino etc. That is what it should have done in the beginning, so as to minimize as much as possible innocent casualties. No one disputes the facts that there are people committing these acts in Cité Soleil and other areas, no one. But yes, many question those ruthless tactics, including Amnisty International.
Cité Soleil, Martissant, Solino, Bel-Air etc are not populated only by "Dread and his cronies". The population of these areas is estimated (and this is only an estimation) at 800 000 people. Are you saying that they are all "Dread and his cronies"? Where is the fanatism in my statement? It is time to stop playing the ostrich and open your eyes and mind to the global picture of what is happening in Haiti. We are on the verge (some will say we are already in it) of the rise of fascism in Haiti and you and I will both be victims. In fact, we are already victims: go to Haiti now, try to go to a bank and withdraw money, try to enter into some financial transaction, try to obtain a passport and what will you get? Zip. Nada...unless you have your electoral card. Haitians without it will become non-persons. That is where we are. Do not tell me that this is fanatism, go check the facts for yourself. It pays to know the facts.
Serge
By the way, both you and Stan should read the latest Amnisty Report on Haiti. They might be interesting information.
serge <sbellegarde@comcast.net>
S.S, Md United States - 07/29/2005 at 20:15
Bon,
M kanpe la. There is a lack of logic in this discussion. Stan, your personal vendetta mirrors our political situation. You were not present at an event. Yet, you are making so many uninformed statements!Ok, Vent your anger! I love Konbit Lakay. And I support the video tape program. So, vent your anger....everybody.I'll watch silently.
Ayiti
United States - 07/29/2005 at 19:50
Serge You managed to C your way into an A B conversation.
The discussion was NOT about killing of people it was precisely about the numbers of "supporters" and followers of Yves' radio. I never denied that people died at Cite Soleil. I question that it was a "massacre" the way that Yves made it to be on his show.
You're just mad that I used your numbers to make my point. If any one of you were any "leaders" you'd have more than just "70 people" following you.
Stan Joseph
Green Meadows, MD United States - 07/29/2005 at 17:16
Pa gin lapriye ki pa gen Amen: Roger Noriega ale. Misye kite depatman deta. Amen! Amen!
Amen
Amen
United States - 07/29/2005 at 16:36
Serge,
You have made a disgraceful statement when you said that: the only reason being that they live in a area perceived as being pro-Lavalas.
Are you suggesting that there were/are no criminal acts being perpetrated by Dread Wilme and his cronies? People like you have no remedy! You are so burried in fanatism that you cannot even dare tell a complete story.
Friend
friend
columbia, md, United States - 07/29/2005 at 12:17
Serge,
You wrote the following: Meanwhile what you are doing may seem smart, but I am not buying into it. By getting people stuck on how many people were or were not there, you divert the discussion from the main issue: that is that there is a human tragedy going on right now. That is what Kevin Piña has carefully documented. (By the way he lives in Haiti, he has a Haitian wife and a kid, meaning that his life and that of his family are constantly in danger".
I understand when there is a military operation there are lot of opportunities to have collateral damages. This fact may be unfortunate, but it is a consequence of taking military actions. In the meanwhile, what do you suggest that the PNH and the military troops in Haiti do when they face the acts of terrorism being committed in Haiti? Remember, we need solution to a very bad problem. Saying that the PNH killed people does not change the fact that some of the people of Cite Soleil are committing acts of terrorism.
Friend
friend
columbia, md, MD United States - 07/29/2005 at 12:06
Stan, I do not wish to enter into a polemic into the numbers. What you are doing is fairly typical of too many of my compatriots: they do not have the facts, but they will argue on false hypothesis and go on and on. You were not there, the least you could do is not talk about facts you do not know.
Meanwhile what you are doing may seem smart, but I am not buying into it. By getting people stuck on how many people were or were not there, you divert the discussion from the main issue: that is that there is a human tragedy going on right now. That is what Kevin Piña has carefully documented. (By the way he lives in Haiti, he has a Haitian wife and a kid, meaning that his life and that of his family are constantly in danger.)
Poor people are getting savagely killed by powerful weapons, the only reason being that they live in a area perceived as being pro-Lavalas. Young kids, as I said, 4 years, 19 months, 12, 10 years old, women, young girls, a blind man, are having their houses destroyed; helicopters are shooting from the sky,like in Iraq. THIS is what is important to talk about, not how many people were there. Even if there were only 5 people present, each one of them could tell 10 others and that is how the words come out, because the main press, and people like you will play the ostrich, bury their heads into the sand and not talk about it. (By the way, as far as I could tell, I was the only one there to have brought 2 members of my family. So your comments about the presence of relatives being present as fillers were totally out place.)
Facts speak for themselves; the documentation is there and any attempt to cover them up will fail in the long run.
In short, let us stop talking about numbers, about personalities, and let us address the real issues that are that there is a systematic attempt on the part of a group of politicians and intellectuals along with their international allies to silence a large portion of the population of Haiti, and not only for political reason, but for social reasons as well, if you understand what I mean.
Serge
serge <sbellegarde@comcast.net>
S.S., Md United States - 07/29/2005 at 10:03
Serge,Thanks for proving my point.
I never said that I attended the viewing, so therefore only suggested that I could guest how many "supporters" were there. By you account I was right.
You listed about a dozen so called organizations, in other words "pro activists," people who get paid or are looking to be paid to be there. You listed congress woman and aids, Trinidadians, Americans, but, by your account, there could have been more Haitians.
You generously counted about 70 people, which means it actually was about 50 to 60 people, and when you take out you, yves, the presenters, their families and friends, the pro activists, you end up wiht less than a handfull of real interested Haitians. (period)
Stan Joseph
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Brooklyn, NY United States - 07/29/2005 at 01:01
Mwen tap eseye pa antre nan ti rale sa kap fèt sou fowòm lan, men mwne setoblije fè yon ti rale tou piti, paske lè nap diskite sou sa ki pa vre, tout rès diskisyon an vin pa bon anpatan.
Stan Joseph, si w oou pat la nan pwojeksyon dokimantè a nan lendi, ou pa ka di se yon ti ponyen moun sèlman ki te la. Mwen menm mwen te la, e mwen ka di w te gen Ayisyen, te gen Meriken, te gen panyòl, te gen Trinidadyen, antou, san mwen pa konte, mwen te ka di te dwe gen yon 70 moun nan legliz ki li menm, pa yon gwo legliz. Legliz la te sanble li te preske plen.
Byen ke te gen yon bon ti gwoup Ayisyen la, mwen pasne te dwe gen anpil lòt e sa se malere. Congressman Maxine Waters te la; gen reprezantan yon lòt Congressman ankò ki te la e mwen pa sonje non li. Yo rete jis lè bagay yo fini.
Sete plizyè òganizasyon ki te ranje pou eveneman sa: Black VOicies for Peace, Critical Resistance, D.C. Health Care Coalition, D.C. Metropolitan Chapter of NCOBRA, Oecumenical Program on Central America and the Caribbean (EPICA), Fondasyon Mapou, Left Turn D.C. , Organized Coup, Project South, Quixote Center/Haiti Reborn, TransAfrica Forum. Tout òganizasyon sa yo te apiye bagay sa. Kididonk, Stan Joseph, se pat yon ti bagay izole. Dayè, jou lendi, NasyonZini sante li tèlman jenen li mete yon kominike deyò pou chache kase fèy kouvri sa.
Map mete chapo ba devan Kevin Piña, jounalis ki fè dokimantè sa e ki mete vi li andanje chak jou pou dokimante sa la près ayisyen tankou etranje pa vle di: Ayisyen nan katye pòv yo ap tonbe anba bal polisye ayisyen ak solda MINUSTAH. Videyo paka bay manti. Lè wap wè kantite moun ki pran bal nan tèt, ti mou 4 an ak yon ti moun 19 mwa ak manman ki mouri sou kabann yo anba bal MINUSTAH, sa se pa manti. Lè ou wè yon moun kap ranpe atè a, mwatye nan machwè ale, sa se pa manti.
Nap eskize mwen ke mwen te blije bay deskripsyon sa konsa wi, men lè mwen wè Stan Joseph ap eseye fè konpran ke se yon bagay banal ki te pase nan lendi pase, mwen pate ka kite sa pase konsa.
Gen twòp bagay kap pase nan peyi a nan joune jodya pou nou rete endiferan. Kelkeswa sou ki bò ou ye, gen yon seri prensip inivèsèl ki fèt pou respekte e sa pasa nap wè la. Li lè pou nou tout louvri je nou, pou nou konpran sa kap pase la; li lè pou nou chache fouye pou nou jwen sa kap pase nan peyi a vre; pa rete tande sa la près la di nou sèlman, paske si se sa, nou pap janm konpran sa kap pase tout bon vre.
Serge
serge <sbellegarde@comcast.net>
S.S, Md United States - 07/28/2005 at 23:02
Ayiti you're fooling yourself about the radio show.
As for Haiti, when you have a team that can't win, even after several coaching changes, you must GET RID of the players. New players can't do any worse.
Haiti's ego must be cut down. revamp the whole gov't, education system. Get rid of YOU off the radio, replace with a new generation voice (can't do any worse).
You've been talking for 20years and have yet to come up with ONE good idea. How many organizations have you joined? formed? been associated with?
...and what have you accomplished with them.
NOTHING. What have you accomplished with the video tape? NOTHING.
With all your rhetoric have you changed one person's mind?
NOPE
Stan Joseph
Green Meadows, MD United States - 07/28/2005 at 22:07
Ayiti, why are you purposely misspelling your own name? Who are you fooling?
Le Neant
United States - 07/28/2005 at 21:25
Stan,
I thought that you were thinking about solutions for Haiti. You are free to like or dislike a radio program. The truth is that many people enjoy Konbit Lakay. And, they do pledge and share their opinions.I do hope that you will be able to respectfully share your opinion with Yvres. And, I sincerely hope that you will be able to share your opinion on Konbit Lakay. What I resent is the character assassination, the lack of civility both here and elsewhere.
Ayiti
United States - 07/28/2005 at 20:59
Latortu Pa serieux si vraiment li te besoin fait sorti yon raport ki credible, li pa tap bay Paul Denis, Un ennemi Farouche D'aristide Tache de dresser ce rapport, sa-a se yon kou kretin, cela aussi veut dire que Haiti perdu tout moune ki te kon ap penser pour ce pays
Moi
United States - 07/28/2005 at 19:41
Ayiti,
Here what I suggest. I suggest that Yves (Y.V.E.S) has no real following and that after all the noise he and his guest made of the Cite Soleil "massacre" only a handful of people were present. If you discount the usual "suspects" (the professional activists) there were less than 5 "supporters."
I also suggest that Yves (YVES) stop his self importance and give the people a voice on his show.
I also suggest that he stops those "tapes" of actual reports, that are from only ONE source and sounds like the same reporter every week.
I also suggest that he determines whether he will make the show a variety show or a news rhetoric. YVES is no Rush!!!
I suggest that he stops treating people like they are insignificant except at Pledge Week.
Take a lesson for this site. Give the poeple a voice and you might learn something.
Stan Joseph
Green Meadows, MD United States - 07/28/2005 at 19:23
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Le rapport de la Commission d'Enquêtes Administratives
Nous vous invitons a lire le rapport intérimaire de la Commission d'Enquêtes Administratives formée par Son Excellence, le Premier Ministre Gérard Latortue le 13 octobre 2004.
1 )http://www.ntsnews.com/bpm/commission_enquete.htm
1) http://www.ntsnews.com/bpm/commission_enquete_part_II.htm
3)http://www.ntsnews.com/bpm/commission_enquete_part_III.htm
4)
http://www.ntsnews.com/bpm/commission_enquete_contrats.htm
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Washington, DC United States - 07/28/2005 at 19:05
Stan,
I did not attend that event. So, I don't know.If you are interested in finding a solution for your beloved country, you may start by respecting your countrymen regardless of their point of view. For one,have enough respect not to change their names. Why don't you propose your solutions?Your rhetorical questions reveal a different group of"associates"
Ayiti
United States - 07/28/2005 at 18:42
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United States - 07/28/2005 at 16:51
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Langley Park, MD United States - 07/28/2005 at 10:35
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United States - 07/28/2005 at 09:59
I was told that Rony Guiteau's poem was the subject of a couple of radio programs in Haiti, especially Port-au-Prince and also in Monreal, Canada. We should be proud to have him as a member of this community. Bravo Rony!
Nadou Theagene
Bethesda, MD United States - 07/28/2005 at 09:43
My questions still stands. Ayiti, perhaps you were there. How many "non-activist" people attended the video tape showing? How many of Eve's supporters attended?
I'm trying to gage his impact on the community, or whether his and some of his associates tirades are just self serving.
Stan Joseph
Green Meadows, MD United States - 07/28/2005 at 09:28
Rony Guiteau's poem goes beyond de facto, Lavalas, Group 184 or whatever. To me, he's expressing his political and philosophical "vision/view". Read the words:
La tétanisation/terrorisation de l’âme doit cesser!
Le non-respect de la personne humaine
Doit céder le pas à une vision démocratique républicaine,
Garante de l’Etat de droit, et de l’équilibre social tant souhaité.
Le non-droit est un cancer “terminal”
Rongeant lentement les tissus générateurs
D’une société déjà engoncée avec vigueur,
Sans vergogne, dans la verdeur du marchandage cannibale.
La dialectique des armes est une vacuité;
Un faux-fuyant reposant sur un rapport de force
Factice, dépourvu de solides écorces
Aptes à contrebalancer les inimitiés et iniquités.
NATACHA
Potomac, MD United States - 07/28/2005 at 08:04
Le Neant,
I think the real idiot is you. You are very jealous.Even the haters listen to Yvres d'Haiti on Saturday night. That shows his popularity. He discusses any issue that he deems necessary. And, his audience supports him. The supporters of this illegitimate and criminal government of Latortue have their audience.It is simply not Konbit Lakay.To be associated with Yvres is an honor.I can care less if you or anyone else think I am Yvres or Jacques. I am a fan of Konbit Lakay.
Ayiti
United States - 07/27/2005 at 23:59
mezanmi sak guin la.
bali
United States - 07/27/2005 at 16:26
Stan,
Obviously, you aren't familiar with this retard. He has no real agenda. He is an idiot who finds himself in a position that he is not qualified for. What I mean by that is, he inherited an act of benevolence on the part of WPFW. He has no ethics, he has a sub-par intelligence for that office. His real merit lies in his dedication and uncanny ability to talk nonsense and insult a community. His is the quintessential figure for someone a with a so-called education but dumb as a wilderbeast.
PS: He posts under many pseudos: Ayiti, Ayisyen, DP, Karen, Colette,many many more.
Le Neant
United States - 07/26/2005 at 15:09
Brother Ronny Guteau I love your poem. Whether it's by de facto, chime,
lavalas, group 184, militaires demobilises or suspected foreign hands, rapes, no respect for human rights, rules of laws,
killings, kidnappings, have to stop in Haiti. Anmwey, let Haiti and its people live!
Lorette Seymour
White Plains, NY United States - 07/26/2005 at 11:53
Eve dAyiti last few shows have been about the "massacre" in Cite Soleil by the UN. Last night was supposed to be the showing of the smoking gun, "VIDEO TAPE."
Did anyone attend?? or should I ask, "did anyone besides the "usual suspects," attend?
And my question is, "now, what??" The UN has released a statement aknowledging some casualties. What is the next group or topic that Eve and his so called "activist" will embark on next?
When will he and his "guests" promote real solutions and dialogue?
Stan Joseph
Green Meadows, MD United States - 07/26/2005 at 08:31
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Wheaton, MD United States - 07/25/2005 at 20:25
Anywhere usa how do you know that jean-michel is good at that.stop putting your business out there,by the way why are you the only person getting upset about this matter,are you the one trashing him on the board.jean-michel doesn't have time for people like you, because you are a chicken head so go find yourself a book and get some knowledge and come on the board and talk about something interesting.
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Rockville, MD United States - 07/25/2005 at 19:05
De pi 1804 nap voye roche
de pi divalye nap voye roche
no voye sou milite
nou voye sou lavalas
nou voye sou chime
nou voye sou kidnape
Ayiti pa pwodi anyen
ke roche
An mete jak kanpe ak arisitd ak divalie ak milite, etc
epi an voye roche
po wet
United States - 07/25/2005 at 16:52
Beware it's a long "article" hopefully it will the fo
jounalists nan communaute nou yan-
TWISTING THE TRUTH ABOUT JACQUES ROCHE
Sunday, July 24, 2005 -
TWISTING THE TRUTH ABOUT JACQUES ROCHE
Gerard Jean-Juste and Bill Quigley Caught in a Lie; Marguerite Laurent,
Amy Goodman and John Maxwell Are Accomplices
Jacques Roche in happier moments
Once again, the nefarious pro-Aristide forces are conspiring to misinform
the public about the macabre role Reverend Jean-Juste and his kidnapping
squads have played in these past few weeks' horrible events, including
the assassination of journalist Jacques Roche. It is particularly telling
that the pro-Aristide camp, caught in its plot to have Jacques Roche killed
simply for having been associated to the "Groupe des 184", would then
unleash a public relations campaign for the purpose of whitewashing their
authorship, moral if not physical, of the Jacques Roche murder and then
bizarrely associating themselves with Jacques Roche once they realized
the magnitude of the gaffe their goons had committed.
In this respect, the total incompetence of the current provisional authorities
explains why there has been no attempt to discredit this malicious campaign
and why Rev. Jean-Juste is now able to portray himself as a victim once
again for having committed the "crime" of attending his "cousin" Jacques
Roche's funeral. Let us now examine the sequence of events that have led
to the arrest of Jean-Juste and to the flurry of emails from Aristide
apologists trying to deflect the attention away from their involvement
in Jacques Roche's murder:
July 14, 2005
The body of journalist Jacques Roche, who had been kidnapped on July 10
is found in Delmas 4. Jacques Roche had been tortured before being executed:
his arms were broken, his tongue had been ripped out, and his body bore
marks of extreme corporal punishment. He was killed by several gun shots
in the mouth. [1] [2] Jacques Roche was not simply a dedicated journalist;
he was also a talented poet and a passionate lover of Haiti. He believed
in social justice and had militated for many changes, including the unconditional
cancellation of Haiti's foreign debt and the fight against the free zone
established unilaterally by Aristide in Maribahoux (North East.)
Jacques Roche's body found in Delmas 4
According to press reports, his kidnappers took issue with his role to
host a radio show about civil society, sponsored by the "Groupe des 184."
This led to their decision to assassinate him despite his family having
made a partial payment of $10,000 on the ransom they had requested. [3]
He had become, in the eyes of his kidnappers, an enemy of Jean-Bertrand
Aristide and of Lavalas and therefore had to be eliminated.
July 17, 2005
In one of her signature diatribes, lawyer Marguerite Laurent, a pro-Aristide
apologist and his chief defender in the United States, puts in context
the death of Jacques Roche and explains why it was understandable; she
says in essence that the current wave of kidnappings are in retribution
for the kidnapping of "democracy" when Jean-Bertrand Aristide left power.
She writes:
The kidnappings in Haiti for political and economic purposes began with
the
kidnapping of Democracy by the powerful Coup D’etat nations of the US,
Canada and France, intent on imposing privatization, neoliberalism in
Haiti,
no matter the will of the people, the nation nor its duly elected
representative.
Last Thursday, July 14, 2005, Jacques Roche, a well-known cultural and
sport
news reporter for Le Matin, and television host of a show on "civil society"
issues for Group of 184, who had been kidnapped on July 10, 2005, was
found
dead. His tortured and bullet ridden body was found still handcuffed,
Let's begin by questioning WHY Jacques Roche was killed? In sum, Roche's
death is the fruit of a poison tree that must first be uprooted before
justice can ring in Haiti. It's the fruit of an ongoing international
crime of kidnapping democracy begun with the kidnapping of President Aristide
from Haiti.
As a friend wrote to me today, "The handcuffs (left on Roches body) already
told us WHO did it. I can't imagine slum dwellers possessing handcuffs,
and
if they did, having enough to leave them on a dead body. We are dealing
with
really evil people." Moreover, according to an AHP news report "People
close
to the cultural journalist condemned his execution and declared that if
they
had received support from some sectors they didn’t name, to complete the
ransom, the victim’s life would have probably been saved....One of his
collaborators, Roudy Sanon, who was involved in the negotiations with
the
kidnappers, declared that it was his work colleagues who helped to get
the
10.000 dollars given to the kidnappers. He also deplored that the Police
General Direction did not help to get Jacques Roche’s release, despite
the
fact that it had enough clues to help, he said. "This authority of the
police is therefore responsible on this level of his death, Roudy Sanon
said
on a private radio station of the capital." [4]
In a few paragraphs, Marguerite Laurent manages to mangle the truth, turn
the events of Jacques Roche's death on their head, and turn his employers
into the ones responsible for his death all in one fell swoop:
Lie #1: Slum dwellers do not possess handcuffs.
Marguerite Laurent chooses to ignore that a large number of Cite Soley
criminals were enlisted in the last two Haitian National Police classes
under Aristide (at his request) and were let go after his departure because
of their shameful criminal records. In addition, a number of policemen
linked to Lavalas have been arrested recently for their involvement in
kidnappings and murders. It is not that difficult to figure where the
handcuffs might have come from. And it is possible to buy handcuffs in
Haiti today from private shops. Dany Toussaint, another murderer linked
to Lavalas until he split with Aristide, sold such goodies at his store
recently.
Lie #2: Jacques Roche did not receive support from some sectors that might
have saved him.
Jacques Roche's kidnapping was not about ransom. The kidnappers went though
the masquerade to make it appear as such. His political death had been
pre-ordained, and no amount of money would have saved him from his certain
execution. Let's remember one clear point: Jacques Roche was assassinated
for having collaborated with "Groupe des 184", not because his family
could not come up with the ransom. The vast majority of kidnappings in
Haiti have been settled for much less than $10,000. So to pretend that
his employers could have saved him simply by contributing money is a lie.
Lie #3 - The Haitian Police is responsible for his death.
Roudy Sanon, AHP and Marguerite Laurent should hang their heads in shame
for propagating such a lie. The police explained very clearly that they
had leads, but not enough information to quickly react to the murder.
[5] This was confirmed when they arrested Roger Etienne, one of Jacques
Roche's murderers, who explained that he was constantly being moved.
Beyond the obvious lies, Marguerite Laurent's obvious message, though
the words of a "friend", is that only the "murderous" regime of Latortue
could have killed Jacques Roche, but certainly not the "peaceful" gangs
that are terrorizing the slum dwellers she was talking about. Even more
ominous is the message, subsequently picked up by Gerard Jean-Juste, that
the "kidnapping" of Aristide on February 29, 2004, justifies the wave
of such crimes in Haiti today and that only his return will end the wave.
If that is the case, then isn't it a clear acknowledgement of WHO is responsible
for the kidnappings? After all, it is such a poisonous tree ... but who
planted it in the first place?
July 20, 2005
In an interview on Radio Kiskeya, Rev. Jean-Juste picks up on the theme
of Aristide's kidnapping as being the first instance of this crime. His
message: since our leader was the victim of a kidnapping, we Lavalas certainly
cannot be responsible for this type of crime. But he went on to state
that the end of the violence from below depends on the end of the violence
from above. [6]
What is then the violence from below that he is referring to? Isn't it
the kidnappings, murders and rapes that the pro-Lavalas gangs have been
perpetrating, not only on Haitian society as a whole but especially on
the residents of the slums in which they have taken residence? We should
be under no illusion that, despite the class warfare message that is being
spread by Marguerite Laurent and Gerard Jean-Juste, the majority of the
victims of violence of any sort in Haiti today are poor. And contrary
to what they would have us believe, the perpetrators for the most part
are the pro-Lavalas gangs that were armed and trained by Aristide and
his henchmen, like Paul Raymond, René Civil, Hermione Leonard, et al from
2001 until his departure.
As a side note, what is most disingenuous from Marguerite Laurent is her
systematic silence on one of the worst crimes perpetrated by gangs like
that of the late Dred Wilme's: rape. The principal victims of crimes in
Site Soley, Solino, Bel Air, Delmas 2, Grande Ravine, etc. are women (primarily
young) and even in some cases pre-pubescent girls who are preyed upon
by depraved gang members who have turned to a new form of bodily mutilation
to inflict further pain on their rape victims: the incrustation of parts
of plastic or metal in their penises. [7] This was the case, for example,
of Dred Wilme's lieutenant Emmanuel Coriolan (aka "Dom Laj") who underwent
"surgery" while in jail to have his penis augmented with bits of plastic
and metal. He had it done to better torture any female kidnapping victim
that his gang would seize.
(see attachment)
July 21, 2005
Jacques Roche's funeral
Jacques Roche's funeral is marked by moving tributes from speakers from
all walks of life. But it will also be remembered for Rev. Jean-Juste's
audacious attempt to officiate at the ceremony - when he can be considered
as a moral author of Roche's murder - and the subsequent false statements
which have revealed his talent as a pathological liar and the unethical
lapses of a certain William Quigley, attorney-at-law.
Before the funeral, Jean-Juste had an interview with Amy Goodman of Democracy
Now! where he stated:
So right now, today I’m on my way to attend the funeral of Jacques Roche,
a prominent journalist who had been kidnapped and killed. And I'm going
to show myself because his parents are from my town, and at a certain
time, one of his relatives saved my life. I was being attacked by a mob,
and then Mrs. Roche came out, saw me, and get me off the gangs and sheltered
me at her house. So this is why I feel that I should be there regardless
that they keep accusing Lavalas people of participating in the killings.
[8]
What happened at the funeral? Rev. Jean-Juste and his attorney William
Quigley, decided to participate at the ceremony. Notwithstanding the gall
of Jean-Juste, the fact that he came dressed in full priest garb and had
every intention of officiating at the ceremony can only be interpreted
as an act of provocation or sheer folly or both. Soon after his arrival,
Jean-Juste is set upon by a group of incenses students (not 184 people
as falsely reported by Bill Quigley [9]) After a few minutes of mayhem,
Jean-Juste and Quigley are led away by a group of CIVPOL officers and
are then picked up by the Haitian police that take them to the Petionville
precinct. Jean-Juste will later be arrested, but not Quigley.
July 22, 2005
An article written by Bill Quigley and entitled "Haitian Priest Assaulted
by Mob at Funeral and Arrested for Murder " [10] is posted on www.commondreams.org.
Never mind the fact that Bill Quigley is not a journalist. Never mind
the fact that Bill Quigley is Jean-Juste's attorney. Why this "op-ed"
piece, at best, is posted as a news article is beyond me. However, what
is most striking is the number of lies and innuendos that Bill Quigley
manages to inject in such a short article:
1. Jean-Juste was beaten by 184 supporters.
2. Roche deserved to die because he worked with "the people calling themselves
the group of 184, who overthrew by force the democratically elected government
of President Aristide, the leader of the Lavalas party, in February 2004."
[11]
3. Jean-Juste is a cousin of Jacques Roche. In Quigley's words:
On Thursday July 21, 2005, Fr. Gerard Jean-Juste went to St. Pierre's
Catholic Church to be one of the priests participating in the funeral
of Haitian journalist Jacques Roche. Fr. Jean-Juste is a cousin of the
Roche family and members of the Roche family protected him from a mob
earlier in his life. He went to express spiritual comfort and reconciliation
to the family. [12]
Already, there is an obvious discrepancy between Jean-Juste and his attorney
on the exact relationship of Jean-Juste to Jacques Roche:
a) Jean-Juste: Roche's parents are from my town (Cavaillon)
b) Quigley: Jean-Juste is a cousin of Roche.
July 23, 2005
Jacques Roche's mother grieving
On Saturday, July 23, Jacques Roche's mother breaks her silence on Radio
Kiskeya to comment specifically on her so-called "relationship" to Rev.
Jean-Juste [13]. She refutes any kinship to the Reverend, thereby proving
that all of the comments made by Jean-Juste and Quigley were fabrications.
She specifically states that:
1. She has no relationship to Rev. Jean-Juste
2. She has never met Jean-Juste, neither now nor when he was a child.
2. While her husband was from Cavaillon, she is from Cap-haitien and has
never set foot in Cavaillon.
4. Therefore, she could not possibly have saved Jean-Juste from a mob
that attacked him and then sheltered him at her house when he was a child,
since she never lived in Cavaillon.
July 24, 2005
In his "Common Sense"column entitled "Extremism in defence of freedom
..." [14] , Jamaican journalist John Maxwell, an unabashed Aristide apologist,
writes the following:
Gerard Jean-Juste] was then arrested, charged with something that happened
in Haiti while he was in Miami, released, then beaten up when he attended
a funeral, re-arrested and thrown into prison, this time, allegedly, for
the murder of the journalist whose funeral he was attending.
In one cute sentence, John Maxwell has managed to take out of context
the meaning and importance of Jean-Juste's presence at the funeral of
Jacques Roche. More importantly, he has now conveyed to his unsuspecting
readers the incredible "injustice" meted out to the good Reverend. John
Maxwell, no lawyer he, conveniently forgets to explain to his readers
that there is such a thing in Haitian law as "accusation par la clameur
publique" [15] and that there are antecedents, given Jean-Juste's involvement
with the pro-Lavalas gangs that have been organizing these deadly kidnappings.
At least, Maxwell had the decency not to write about Jean-Juste's "close
family relationship" to Jacques Roche. And I am sure that his skilled
command of the English language (unlike mine) will carry in any discussion
about what he really meant. And I am doubly sure that the coterie of Aristide
friends that have formed the Dessalines-Boukman Society in Jamaica will
no doubt approve of Maxwell's journalistic (mis)carriage of justice.
One of the problems with all anglophone journalists, and with Marguerite
Laurent despite her Haitian ancestry and her work in Haiti, is that they
still do not have a good understanding (if at all) of the differences
between common law and Haitian law. It is high time they started learning
something positive to better defend their heroes.
Also, contrary to Maxwell's claim, Bill Quigley was not arrested. We must
wonder what Maxwell's sources are and whether he has a reliable network
of informants or whether he has decided to lower his journalistic standards
when it comes to news out of Haiti. If Maxwell did verify independently
the news that he received, he would not have included in his column what
is obviously false information, But then again, the end justifies the
means ...
In conclusion, the habitual liars and apologists have once again unmasked
themselves in protecting an individual who had no reason to attend the
funeral, nor any decency to stay away from the family of the man to whose
death he contributed, directly or indirectly. It is such a shame that
the Lavalas movement, which stood for justice and transparency, has been
overtaken by overzealous extremist who care not a wit about the Haitian
people. But who can blame them? Il faut bien défendre ses patates ...
Jean-Claude Jasmin
jasminjeanclaude@yahoo.com
July 24, 2005
NOTES AND REFERENCES
1] http://www.alterpresse.org/article.php3?id_article=2829
[2] http://www.metropolehaiti.com/metropole/archive.phtml?
action=full&keyword=jacques+roche&sid=0&critere=0&id=10315&p=3
[3] http://www.radiokiskeya.com/article.php3?id_article=985
[4] Marguerite Laurent email dated July 17, 2005 entitled "[ezilidanto]
Jacque Roche's death used by "Council of the Wise" to criminalize & bar
Lavalas from elections, Jean-Juste persecution increases, UN Massacre
continues, et al....."
[5] http://www.radiokiskeya.com/article.php3?id_article=992
[6] http://www.radiokiskeya.com/article.php3?id_article=1009
[7] http://www.metropolehaiti.com/metropole/full_une_fr.phtml?id=10363
[8] http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/21/1332235&mode=thread&tid=25
[9] http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0722-08.htm
[10] http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0722-08.htm
[11] http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0722-08.htm
[12] http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0722-08.htm
[13] http://www.radiokiskeya.com/article.php3?id_article=1024
[14] http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/html/20050723T190000-
0500_84721_OBS__EXTREMISM_IN_DEFENCE_OF_FREEDOM____.asp
[15] http://ledroitcriminel.free.fr/dictionnaire/lettre_c/lettre_c_ci.htm
- Droit positif. La clameur publique, faisant immédiatement suite à un
crime ou à un délit, fait naître une situation d’urgence qui justifie
l’ouverture d’une Enquête de flagrance* et autorise l’Arrestation* de
la personne poursuivie (art. 53 C.pr.pén.).
Garraud (Traité de l’instruction judiciaire) : La clameur publique, c’est
l’accusation jetée au public, l’appel qui lui est fait, n’y eût-il que
le blessé ou le premier témoin survenu qui poussât le cri.
Decocq Montreuil et Buisson (Le droit de la police) : La clameur publique
est constituée d’un cri (Au voleur, p.ex.), non pas d’une rumeur, mais
il n’est pas indispensable qu’elle contienne une accusation précise (le
cri : Arrêtez-le suffit). Le législateur voir en elle un indice suffisant
d’une présomption d’imputabilité d’une infraction flagrante.
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Loune
United States - 07/25/2005 at 16:37
Poukisa tout bla bla bla sa yo? Si yon moune li poem Ronny Guiteau an, yap we seyon homaj pou Jacques Roche kite yon poet, jounalis ke yo te kidnape epi touye. Lite poste sou Alterpresse yon site in Haiti. Se paste yo paste li sou EchodHaiti. Nou met di mesi Jean Michel avek Ginau kibay tout idyo nan Washington with a computer the opportunity pouyo voye monte. Yo pa konpran anye, pandan setan yo vle foure bouche yo nan bagay yopa konpran. Ala yon ti pep papa!
Geraldine Legrand-Forester
Washington, DC United States - 07/25/2005 at 16:13
Comme Loune a dit: komabo se pran nou pran. Mwen pa kwe tout moune ki genyen tet yo sou zepol yo ap fe reaksyon inbesil sou bagay Rony ekri yan. All I see in the poem is a comdemnation of violence. Someone who has a vision for democracy, the respect for human rights, country of laws etc.
I think he doesn't have to talk in details about the crimes in Cite Soleil or Bel-air. The richness of the words, the thought explain it all.
Ti mal, pa eseye reflechi sou bagay ki depase ti tet ou. Fok nou sage, nou pa dwe bay opinion nou sou bagay ke nou pa konpran ou byen pa konnen.
Jacques
United States - 07/25/2005 at 15:38
Bon sa nou ginyin nap bat ko nou konsa. Poukisa nou pa mande Rony pou li banou ou ti limye sou sa li ekri-a?
Poet-la
Poet-la
Silver Spring, MD United States - 07/25/2005 at 14:01
Gin moun ki pa konpran' anyin nan anyin, e malgre tou, yo bezwen bay opinyon yo. Yon moun sage tande, yon imbecil pale fo, fe bwi pou atire atensyon lot. God bless the Mathurin brothers for creating this medium kote tout pa itil kache deye yon odinate pou voye monte- Komabo- Se pran nou pran-
Loune
United States - 07/25/2005 at 12:48
Sa mwen ka di gen le jiska pesent moun kili moso Rony Guitau ekri a yo poko konpran li tres bien. Mwen pakwe parol yo sipote sa kap pase en haiti. Genyen ladan'n sibstans ki ale deye sa nou te kadi yo moun ki pou desod.
Karl
SilverSpring, MD United States - 07/25/2005 at 12:42
Mwen, mwen dako avek D.P. Li gin rezon. Mwen pa konpran reaksyion Marie-a.Ki fle, li voye-la. Men se sa, sa D.P. di-a.
Ayisyen
Ayisyen
Wheaton, MD United States - 07/25/2005 at 12:00
D.P. Mwen kwe ke si ou te pran tan li sa sa Romy Guiteau ekri konsenan lanmo Jacques Roche la ou pa ta voye kalte fle sa a. Take your time read it again you will see its deepness
Anne-Marie Nahoume
Columbia, MD United States - 07/25/2005 at 10:16
Sata bel tou si Rony Guiteau te ekri ou poem pou Abdias Jean ak tout moun kap mouri nan katye popile-yo, tout moun ke polis ak Minustha ap touye, ekzekite, arete san yo pa jam di pou ki sa. Rony, I am waiting to read your poem about all those people too. Maybe you knew Jacques Roche, but his life as well as the lives of all those people are also important.
D.P.
D.P
Columbia, MD United States - 07/24/2005 at 16:20
I thought you might be interested. Posted by alterpresse; from a member of the community.
http://www.alterpresse.org/article.php3?id_article=2915
Posté le samedi 23 juillet 2005
Par Rony Guiteau
Soumis à AlterPresse le 21 juillet 2005
Jacques Roche
Tu n’es pas parti vers “l’au-delà”!
Le vent de la liberté que tu as semé
Dans le parterre des terres desséchées
D’Haϊti, un jour très fortement soufflera.
Se déferlera avec lui, un océan pluivial
Qui lavera les cœurs endurcis,
Illuminera l’esprit atrophié des étourdis
Qui pensent que le crime est convivial.
La tétanisation/terrorisation de l’âme doit cesser!
Le non-respect de la personne humaine
Doit céder le pas à une vision démocratique républicaine,
Garante de l’Etat de droit, et de l’équilibre social tant souhaité.
Le non-droit est un cancer “terminal”
Rongeant lentement les tissus générateurs
D’une société déjà engoncée avec vigueur,
Sans vergogne, dans la verdeur du marchandage cannibale.
La dialectique des armes est une vacuité;
Un faux-fuyant reposant sur un rapport de force
Factice, dépourvu de solides écorces
Aptes à contrebalancer les inimitiés et iniquités.
Et oui, avec rigueur, le vent de la liberté
Ne se doit pas de s’amoindrir, de se taire,
Il doit continuer à gronder jusqu’à faire
Disparaître les valeurs opprimant la civilité.
Rony GUITEAU
Maryland, USA
07/21/005
_____________________
Jacques
Bethesda, MD United States - 07/23/2005 at 16:28
Sé pa ou gagann selman non,sa sé ou Goal oui.
le peuple ou palé parole d'or vié frè,sé granmounn ou yé.
Anyway like it or not NU VICE # 1.
And I will continue to applaud JCV everytime he plays NU VICE on Haiti A Suivre.
I was on the float last year with R.Charlot,I think he is a great individual and a very good musician,what ever the name of the band I will follow Charlot
NU VICE NU VICE NU VICE
Brassé nap brassé.
heat
United States - 07/22/2005 at 10:48
nap betize, jino ap mete gwo bet sou nou
nap betize
United States - 07/21/2005 at 22:04
Remember the best Haitian movie ever "PROFONDS REGRETS" playing at Northwestern High School, 7000 Adelphi Rd, Hyattsville, MD this Saturday July 23, 2005 from 6:30 PM.
If can't make it on Saturday, catch the movie on Sunday at St Camilus Church 5:30 PM
It's a family affair ... Subtitled in English.
See you
BEAUTIFUL PIECE ECHO ON THE FRONT PAGE!
Fabienne Colas read it and she is so happy.
Xpoze
Columbia, MD United States - 07/21/2005 at 19:47
An mwayyyyyyyyyyyy
Gadon gagann le peuple fout karen.
let's all keep on chasing these haters here out of echodhaiti so we can learn from each other instead of dissing each other like le peuple said.
Let them know that we will not wear their dirty laundry.
bbb
United States - 07/21/2005 at 18:12
Port-au-Prince, 15 juillet 2005 &endash;(AHP)- Le secrétaire général de l'Association des Journalistes Haïtiens (AJH), Guyler C. Delva, a exprimé vendredi son indignation face à l'assassinat de Jacques Roche retrouvé mort jeudi après son enlèvement dimanche.
Qualifiant cet acte de barbare et de dégradant Guyler C. Delva a appelé tous les secteurs au respect de la vie humaine.
De tels actes ne peuvent que nous pousser chaque jour un peu plus vers l'abîme. Les auteurs de ces actes sont déjà condamnés, a dit le secrétaire général de l'AJH.
Les souffrances que nous causent les sévices infligés à Jacques Roche, nous permettent de comprendre, a-t-il dit, la douleur de tous ceux qui sont éprouvés par la disparition violente d'êtres chers.
"La violence est condamnable d'où qu'elle vienne, a lancé M. Delva qui dit déplorer du même coup les violences commises dans les quartiers populaires lors d'opérations contre des gangs armés. " Souvent je constate dans mes reportages des corps de citoyens déchiquetés par des balles dans les corridors de quartiers comme Bel-air, Cité soleil, des gens qui gisent dans leur sang les tripes dehors et la tête éclatée sans pourtant faire partie des gens recherchés", a indiqué le responsable de l'AJH, faisant savoir que toutes ces violence ne peuvent qu'isoler et enterrer le pays davantage.
Guy Delva a souligné par ailleurs que Médecins sans frontières (MSF) a reçu 27 corps suite à l'opération conduite le 6 juillet dernier à Cité soleil. Trois quarts d'entre eux étaient des femmes et des enfants. Parmi les victimes se trouvait une femme enceinte dont le foetus a été tué, heureusement la mère a pu être sauvée après une intervention chirurgicale, a dit Delva, citant MSF.
Guy Delva appelle les partisans de lavalas, de la convergence, du Groupe des 184 et d'autres partis politiques à discuter dans le cadre d'un vrai dialogue national, pour que la paix puisse revenir. Sinon, tous seront perdants, prévient-il.
Le responsable de l'AJH a souligné enfin le rôle que les médias ont à jouer dans la promotion d'un climat de paix, de dialogue et de réconciliation pour aider le pays à sortir du bourbier.
USA
USA, USA United States - 07/19/2005 at 22:09
For Jacques: Your Death Will Not Go Unpunished
Raoul Peck, prizewinning filmmaker and former minister of culture, 2005-07-18
FOR JACQUES ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
We have just learned the death of our friend, poet, and companion of struggle, journalist and Haitian
citizen savagely assassinated by the mercenaries of former president Aristide.
Ayibobo Jacques!
Your death will not remain unpunished.
Today we say a sound no to the assassins.
We say no to the rapists
We say no to those murderers disguised in the robe of Lavalas priest, formers Lavalas deputies, in Lavalas
senators, in former Lavalas ministers.
We say no to these assassins disguised as a Florida lawyer, as American congressmen, as American
lobbyists.
We say No to all those who have murdered you Jacques Roche.
The Haitian people need to know that these people are cowards
The Haitian people need to know who they really are.
We sent Aristide away; justice will hunt down all those who are still doing his dirty deeds here at
home.
Justice will hunt down all the accomplices making believe they are pro-democracy while they continue to
make money from drug trafficking, kidnapping and dirty business.
Justice will pursue the assassins strangling the poor in the slums of Belair, Cite Soleil and Village Dieu.
They want us to believe that they are fighters
It's a lie!
They are just plain killers.
They want us to believe that they are political activists
It's a lie.
They are terrorists.
They want us to believe that they are bold
It's a lie
They are just cowards.
Cowards because they are attacking women, children, school teachers,
Because they are killing journalists, doctors and defenseless people.
You can tell the guy who is giving you daily orders
From where he is in South Africa, we will hunt him down too.
The files on him and his accomplices are piling up.
You are chanting that you want him back?
We do too.
Because we will bring him to justice.
The former priest always wanted us to believe that he was defending the poor.
Now we know he was defending his own pockets.
The former priest always had a mouthful of beautiful words;
About the poor, about dignity, about progress.
The only poor people he knew was his family
Today they are all very rich.
The only dignity he was interested in
Were his own personal bourgeois ambitions
The only progress he knew
Was the progression of his wealth
Today we say enough
Today we say thieves, murderers and terrorists will no longer get away
Justice will prevail.
Jacques Roche
We will not forget you
We will not forget all those victims of the Lavalas regime.
Raoul Peck
PR
United States - 07/19/2005 at 20:06
zo pwasson sa ka kolé na ti gojètt ou wi.
seriously speaking i think you are wrong baby.you don't know crap, you are only assuming,and beleiving in your own
game.may be you are writing and answering to your self ,who knows,how will one ever know.no body is monitering this guestbook beside the web master.
jcv,harold,bernard will only come here to promote their shows or to say thanks & they are out.
that, my friend, is the only true pattern here.
they will not spend their time here to interact,chat or converse.the only time they will respond is when they can put a face to the name,like the confict lakay vs ceepco or alex sanon vs jcv.
heat,sassa,karen,le peuple,twiiiiiip,shango,map swiv,ayiti,psssst,colette,zorro,grandfemme,4 kanpé,mistake,loune can be anybody they choose to be on echodhaiti.
one time some body even sign as smooches and it wasn't our smooches,just to create some stupidity.
this is why i don't like people like you who only come here to write some nonsense on others.
at least when the promotors come here they can tell us of some activities that we didn't know about,but when a fool like you come here to tarnish the reputation of someone else, it's a disrespect to us the visitors of this forum.
this is a (guest) book,some of you are making it the (haters) book.that's not fair.jcv,heat,sassa,xpoze did not write anything negative.why are they getting negative responses from you.
it seems that you are looking for other haters to join you.however most of the other haters have learn their lessons here the hard way.
we the regulars here have learn to only put some weight on what is sign by the people/business who are not affraid to enter their real names and #s here.
your entries have no weight what so ever.
karen read back your entries and tell us what did we learn from them.
now let's go even further,let's say that you are right and that jcv was sassa and or heat, what difference would it make to me,you and others? who cares what are you going to do with your fish,fry it, boil it,eat it?
the only thing you are doing here is putting jcv back as this forum superstar.
by the way would you also think that i'm jcv, prt or smooches too since i'm always speaking for them ?
le peuple
United States - 07/19/2005 at 19:43
Damn, I am good!!! I knew "Heat" would respond. I am 200 per cent correct. It is JCV. I can bet money on that. I threw my nest with the bait and I caught the fish.
Karen
Karen
Columbia, MD United States - 07/19/2005 at 09:27
Karen saw guin la.Moun pa ka reponn icit la encor.Si moune reponn sa vle di yo nan zin.
grate kote ki grate ou.
You said that there is a pattern,I want to say that I'm one of the person in your so call pattern.
Anyway,I like Charlo,and I wanted to give NU VICE a shout out after I saw their video on Haiti A Suivre last Monday.I don't know about sasa or anyone else.
That was my first time here,one more word cherie don't turn the heat on,ou deja nan menopoz ou.
heat
United States - 07/18/2005 at 20:27
Xpoze, Do not waste your time answering Sassa, don't you notice that it is "JCV"? He keeps on doing the same thing. If you don't believe me, go back check the board and you will see the pattern.
karen
Karen
Columbia, MD United States - 07/18/2005 at 17:01
Hello Sassa, if you or anybody else would like to see the preview of "PROFONDS REGRETS" as well as other pictures regarding the movie, please visit www.profondsregrets.com
Thank you,
See you all this Saturday at 6:30 at NORTHWESTERN HIGH SCHOOL.
Xpoze
Columbia, MD United States - 07/18/2005 at 16:23
Thank you Sasa for your feedback.
For more info regarding Profonds Regrets,please call the promotor Wolado/Expose Magazine @ 1-410-852-0457.
JCV
Wheaton, MD United States - 07/16/2005 at 12:08
I really enjoyed HAITI A SUIVRE, the new videos, the little part of VIP, even if I already have the dvd. The film: Profonds Regrets seems very interesting and high scale, I can not wait to see it next Saturday. JCV is the dvd gonna be available as well Saturday?
Sasa
Silver Spring, MD United States - 07/16/2005 at 09:40
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sandra
United States - 07/15/2005 at 17:53
sweethaitian,
hahahahahh....Bon Bagay. I don't think you know what is REALLY BON BAGAY. You only get Jean Michel's back because she F** you hard and he's good at that. Wa gintan kon' Jorge. Just enjoy it while it lasts, babe...it won't last.
twiiippppp
anywhere, usa United States - 07/15/2005 at 13:23
Don't forget to watch the first 15 minutes of V.I.P tonight on Haiti A Suivre as well as the new video of NU VICE (brasser) and TOP ADLERMAN (problem mwen).
CH 13 MONT.CO.
Tonight at 5 & 10 pm
Friday at midnight
Saturday 4 & 10 pm
Sunday 9am
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On the new edition watch the 2nd 15 minutes of V.I.P as well as a preview of the movie PROFONDS REGRETS.
Watch also the new video of SEPTENTRIONAL (gasson djèdjè) - Kassav live au Zenith with special guest Shoubou.
Tantan (pam pam pam) and Misty Jean among others.
CH 19 Mont.CO.
Friday 9pm
Monday 9 pm
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Haiti A Suivre can also be seen in P.G County on Tuesdays at 10 pm on CH 76.
JCV
Wheaton, MD United States - 07/14/2005 at 17:11
By the way, how come they found the body of Jacques Roche this morning and they already gave a university his name? Who is behind this killing and why? They have already paid the amount of 10,000 dollars, can they trace that money? They killed him and dumped his body in Delmas 4 in a popular neighborhood so that Radio Metropole, Radio Vision 2000, the Group of 184 can point fingers at the "chimere lavalas". This one will not fly.
Colette
Colette
United States - 07/14/2005 at 16:12
Yes we condemn the death of Jacques Roche. But at the same time I do not see the postings of the many who are being killed in Cite Soleil, in BelAir by Minustha and Haitian police. Their lives are of the same value as that of Jacques Roche. We have to start condemning the violence no matter who is affected and no matter where it is coming from. The minute we start thinking and acting that way, we will solve the problem.
Colette
Colette
United States - 07/14/2005 at 16:05
So SAD- His family negociated with the kidnapers, paid them $10,000.00, instead of releasing him, they took him to another location and now that... I didn't know the man, his story is so touching. Anyway... thought you might want to read it-
From Radio Metropole
La presse haïtienne en deuil après l’assassinat de Jacques Roche
Jacques Roche, enlevé le 10 juillet 2005 à Port-au-Prince, a été tué par ses ravisseurs. Son corps sans vie a été retrouvé, jeudi matin, au niveau de Delmas 2.
La nouvelle est confirmée par la porte-parole de la Police nationale, Gessie Cameau Coicou. Elle précise que le cadavre du journaliste a été transporté à la morgue de l’hôpital général de Port-au-Prince. Les ravisseurs de Jacques Roche lui auraient enlevé la langue avant de l’exécuter de plusieurs balles dans la bouche.
Responsable de la rubrique culture du quotidien \"Le Matin\" et animateur d’une émission sur une chaîne de télévision, Roche a été enlevé, le matin du 10 juillet, alors qu’il circulait en voiture dans le quartier de Nazon à Port-au-Prince. Les ravisseurs ont fait savoir à la famille du journaliste qu’ils le relâcheraient moyennant la somme de 250 000 $US, faute de quoi ils le tueraient. Au cours de la conversation, Roche a signalé qu’il avait été torturé.
mimi
United States - 07/14/2005 at 13:33
I guess when they are not kidnapping or killing people, they are surfing the web.
Shango
Shango
United States - 07/14/2005 at 12:37
I just heard through a source in Haiti that this site is viewed by some high level people in Haiti.
Could that be true?what do they think of this board?
map swiv
United States - 07/14/2005 at 11:18
Smoo, Se sa li ye wi. It's not easy to make big things happen in our community, but we have faith and courage to do the job.
We are glad you like the CD. So far, the reception is good here in Maryland and elsewhere. Track #1, 2 and 5 are melting people outthere right now.
Kontinue Kore Djazz ou!
Map tan'n ou ak zot Samedi 23 Juillet Nan NorthWestern High School pou film "Profonds Regrets" a. Le ou we RAFRECHI KAP depoze nan film nan bo Fabienne, Nice, Mora, Ronsard, wap kontan net pitit.
Peace out!
RAFRECHI Love
Columbia, MD United States - 07/13/2005 at 21:37
Good evening all...
I want to take this time and congratulate the group Rafrechi on a job well done. WOW!!! Mesye mes compliments on your new release. No diol to talk. So far I've been getting some good vibe on this new CD. Kinbe la....FO....pa lage.
As far as the fanm baz.....you know I am with you all the way. Encore une fois.....FELICITATION!!!
Love you all
Fanm baz la!!!....pa gin de. Tout lot yo se fotokopi.
smoochees
United States - 07/13/2005 at 19:47
Dennis: au moins 40 morts en Haïti, selon un nouveau bilan
PORT-AU-PRINCE, 12 juil 2005 (AFP) - Au moins 40 personnes ont été tuées lors du passage jeudi du cyclone Dennis en Haïti, a annoncé mardi la protection civile haïtienne, en précisant qu'il s'agit d'un bilan toujours provisoire.
Le nombre des victimes recensées était jusqu'à présent de 11 morts et 8 disparus. Outre les 40 morts comptabilisés, la protection civile haïtienne a dénombré 16 disparus et 22 blessés, a indiqué à l'AFP le porte-parole de la protection haïtienne, Jeffe Delorges.
Vingt-trois corps ont été retrouvés dans la ville de Grand-Goâve (sud-ouest). La plupart des personnes ont été tuées lors de l'effondrement d'un pont, selon les autorités municipales, a précisé le porte-parole.
Dix personnes sont mortes dans la région de la Grande-Anse (sud-ouest), cinq dans le sud-est et deux dans la ville des Cayes (sud). La protection civile a aussi recensé 15.000 personnes sinistrées, 609 maisons détruites et 1.032 endommagées.
Le gouvernement haïtien avait annoncé lundi une aide d'urgence de 1,5 million de gourdes, soit environ 30.000 dollars, pour les victimes.
Le passage de Dennis, le premier cyclone de la saison dans l'Atlantique, a provoqué de nombreuses inondations meurtrières et destructrices pour les plantations. Ces inondations sont favorisées par la déforestation en Haïti, le pays le plus pauvre du continent américain.
Depuis la fin de l'ère Aristide, Haïti, où des élections générales sont prévues en fin d'année, souffre toujours d'une violence endémique et peine à reprendre pied en dépit d'une aide internationale militaire, civile et financière depuis plus d'un an.
Quelque 7.400 militaires et policiers de l'Onu sont déployés en Haïti. Ce pays avait déjà été très éprouvé par le passage de la tempête Jeanne en septembre 2004 qui avait provoqué 1.870 morts et quelque 850 disparus et fait d'énormes dégâts notamment dans la ville des Gonaïves (nord-ouest).
Article No. 20050712102842
SECOURS
WASHINGTON, DC United States - 07/12/2005 at 11:10
Good move JCV.It was so good to see the new videos of 2005.
Kudos to NU VICE.
About VIP I don't quite get it yet, banm swiv toujou.
heat
United States - 07/11/2005 at 23:34
Congrats rafreshi - keep up the good work.
I brought the CD, the sound is very refreshing. The group is getting better and better on stage. Last Saturday was very impressive, the group has a lot of spanish followers. They enjoyed themselves as much as the Haitians.
Very good marketing stratedy.
Liline
Silver Spring, MD United States - 07/11/2005 at 19:05
The group RAFRECHI would like to thank each and every single person who has make Saturday night a pure success. Once again, thank you for coming! We've tried our best to put up a good show; We hope we have delivered.
We are waiting impatiently for you guys at NORTHWESTERN HIGH SCHOOL on JULY 23rd at 6:30 PM for showing of the best Haitian movie ever "PROFONDS REGRETS / DEEP REGRETS" featuring some of biggest names in the movie industry: Nice Simon (I love you Anne), Fabienne Colas (Barikad, Protege-moi), Mora J. Etienne (Le choix de ma vie) and your local band RAFRECHI. It's a family affair!
If you miss the ultimate chance to hang out with some of the movie stars on Saturday, catch the movie on Sunday at 5:30 PM at St. Camelus Church.
Adults: $10
Children over 12 years of age: $5
RAFRECHI Love
Columbia, Md United States - 07/11/2005 at 16:36
Une dizaine de personnes tuées au Bel-Air lors d'une opération de la police nationale
Port-au-Prince, 8 juillet 2005 &endash;(AHP)- Une dizaine de personnes ont été abattues ce vendredi dans le quartier populaire du Bel-air lors d'une opération menée par des policiers montés à bord d'une Nissan patrol de couleur rouge.
La plupart des victimes ont été abattues à l'intérieur de leur maison, ont constaté des témoins et des reporters, affirmant que les policiers ont tiré de façon aveugle.
Les cadavres de 6 des victimes dont celui d'un fou prénommé Gérard, gisaient encore dans leur sang jusqu'en fin d'après-midi à la rue Macajoux.
Des parents et des proches ont dénoncé une nouvelle fois les exécutions sommaires dans les quartiers populaires.
Ils ont fait savoir que ces crimes injustifiés les déterminent davantage à poursuivre la mobilisation pacifique en faveur du retour à l'ordre démocratique rompu, ont-ils dit, le 29 février 2004 avec le départ précipité d'Aristide.
Aucune présence de la MINUSTHA n'avait été remarquée au cours de l'intervention des agents de la PNH.
Des responsables de la mission onusienne avaient indiqué en début de semaine quedepuis le vote de la résolution 1608 du conseil de sécurité, toutes les opérations de la PNH reçoivent l'aval de la MINUSTAH.
AHP 8 juillet 2005 1:45 PM
SECOUR, REPRESSION
WASHINGTON, DC United States - 07/11/2005 at 14:04
MID SUMMER PARTY WITH
TRANKILL
SATURDAY JULY 30,2005
SAHARA OASIS
3010 HAMILTON ST.HYATTSVILLE,MD
$10.00 LADIES FREE B-4 MIDNIGHT
TELL A FRIEND TO TELL A FRIEND.
CALL SOMEONE - SEND AN E-MAIL TO SOMEBODY.
AND CONGRATS TO RAFRECHI FOR A GOOD SHOW LAST NIGHT.
MARYLAND/DC SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL ARTISTS.
STaFF PoZé
United States - 07/10/2005 at 17:31
Rafrechi Playing tonight
good Im going
nadia
United States - 07/09/2005 at 12:16
We want to let everybody know that the "RAFRECHI CD PARTY" will be taken place at "EL BOQUERON" instead of MATAMAROS. The address is: 2311 Price Ave, Wheaton (Tel 301-933-4900)
From Georgia Ave -going to Wheaton: Turn right onto Prie Ave, EL BOQUERON will the right on the left hand side.
From University Blvd -going to Georgia Ave: Turn left onto the street (by Matamaros)before getting on Georgia, EL BOQUERON will be at the end of the street.
See you tonight!
Vi'n Kore djazz nou!
Rafrechi Love
Columbia, MD United States - 07/09/2005 at 10:04
NEXT WEEK ON HAITI A SUIVRE
Watch the new video of Top Adlerman (Pwoblem Mwen)
and the new video of Nu Vice
(Brasser nap brasser)
as well as Gracia Delva live in Haiti and some other videos like Hang Out.
During the summer months Haiti A Suivre will present 2 new videos on the special "FESTY VACANCES" editions.
Haiti A Suivre Festy Vacances 2005 is not only a festival of music, it's also a festival of Haitian movies.
We do it every summer,and this summer you can watch 15 minutes of the movie V.I.P at every new edition.
Once again Haiti A Suivre can be seen on Monday 9pm ch 19 Mont. Co.
Tuesday 10 pm ch 76 PG.Co
Thursday 5 & 10 pm ch 13 Mont. Co.
Friday 9 pm ch 19 Mont.Co.
Friday Midnight Ch 13 Mont.Co.
Saturday 4 & 10 pm ch 13 Mont.co.
Sunday 9 am ch 13 Mont.Co.
Feel free to call us at (240)463-7196 to request your favorite videos Konpa - Zouk -Twoubadou.
HAITI A SUIVRE 1990-2005
CELEBRATING 15 YEARS OF CREOLE CARIBBEAN MUSIC PROMOTION.
Don't forget also to listen to
"Radio Karayib Kréyol"
every Sunday morning from 9 am to 12 noon on WWW.CARIBBEANRADIO.NET
JCV
Wheaton, MD United States - 07/08/2005 at 20:04
Where is rafrechi playing tomorrow?
I brought their CD and it's really nice. This group has a bright future in the industry. I really hope they stay together.
Mademoiselle
Silver, Spring United States - 07/08/2005 at 16:51
Beanie- Thanks for replying to my post. Did you actually think Tabou would start at 7:30? Anyway, glad you had fun!
Have a great weekend!
loune
United States - 07/08/2005 at 15:29
Loune, I went to the Tabou concert at Zanzibar on friday, it was really nice. At first the people at Zanzibar kept telling us that they were going to start performing at 7:30, then they kept moving back the time. Finally, Tabou came on stage at 11:50pm. Imagine waiting all that time for them to come on, but it was worth it.
Beanie <sjbaronyc@aol.com>
Alexandria, VA United States - 07/08/2005 at 14:27
I send you my best wishes.It is indeed a privilege to be able to sign this guestbook.
I respect the Haitian Culture very much!
a Votre sante mes ami!
Chantez le bas!!!
Madam Primrose Marfona <dilly_117@hotmail.com>
Montevideo, Uruguay South America - 07/08/2005 at 08:50
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sandra
United States - 07/05/2005 at 20:16
Ala koze, another zin on the board? Se what Rosie? Intel intel ap batay min'm, mmmmmmmsezu
iiii
United States - 07/05/2005 at 18:59
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Rosie
United States - 07/05/2005 at 17:34
Did anyone go to Tabou Combo on Friday? How was it? Share with us, thanks!
Loune
United States - 07/05/2005 at 15:07
Where is the happening for July 3 and/or 4, 2005. I am new in town and would like some help in finding interesting events with my peeps. Thanks. RSVP
Flo <flojo007@comcast.net>
Silver Spring, MD United States - 07/03/2005 at 11:24
Jean Michel,
I would like you to help me find the guy that was part owner of Izora. I know you and he are friends. He has a travel company and I need his help. Can you forward me his information please. Thank you.
Marie
Bazin@yahoo.com
Marie <Bazin@yahoo.com>
Silver Spring, Maryland United States - 07/02/2005 at 19:52
COUP D'ETAT ONE WORD OF ADVISE FOR YOU STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM JEAN-MICHEL AND HIS FAMILY.FIRST OF ALL YOU HAVE NO CLASS TALKING ABOUT SOMEONE ON THE BOARD LIKE THAT YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO YOU ARE MESSING WITH,I UNDERSTAND IF YOU WANT TO SLEEP WITH JEAN-MICHEL AND HE REFUSES,THAT WILL GIVE ME A REASON TO BE ANGRY TOO,BUT NOT ENOUGH TO BE A LOW CLASS,ANYWAY JEAN-MICHEL PLEASE DON'T REPLY TO THESE COMMENTS LEAVE HER TO ME YOU KNOW THAT I ALWAYS HAVE YOUR BACK.GUESS WHO!!BON BAGAY BO ISIYA KI PA PE ANYEN
sweethaitian <sweethaitian23@yahoo.com>
rockville, md United States - 07/02/2005 at 18:00
COUP D'ETAT ONE WORD OF ADVISE STAY THE HELL AWAY FORM JEAN-MICHEL OR YOU WILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH ME,FIRST OF ALL YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.YOUR ARE A NO CLASS PERSON,I CAN'T CALL YOU A LADY BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT ACTING LIKE ONE.THE LITTLE GAME YOU ARE PLAYING IS JUST SO WEAK.PLEASE JEAN-MICHEL DON'T EVEN REPLY TO THIS COMMENTS JUST LEAVE IT TO ME YOU KNOW I ALWAYS HAVE YOUR BACK NO MATTER WHAT. GUESS WHO!!!!BON BAGAY BO ISIYA KI PA PE MOUN-N!!!!!LOL
sweethaitian <sweethaitian23@yahoo.com>
rockville, md United States - 07/02/2005 at 17:47
To Coup D'etat- I thought I would remind you of the rules of the site- Hopefully it will serve you next time!
Have a great weekend all! Be Safe!
Honor and Respect,
In Haitian culture, before entering a home, the visitor would yell, "onè," (honor), and the owner would respond, "respè" (respect). With that in mind, we welcome you with respect to EchodHaiti.com's board. We ask that you honor yourself and your culture with your comments. We graciously accept all comments and criticisms, but we reserve the right to edit or delete those comments that reflect poorly on ourselves and our culture.
Thank you
Loune
United States - 07/02/2005 at 13:18
I guess when people write about jean-michel or gino on this site, others are not suppose to read about it that's why my comments had been erased by the site manager.this board is not fair to others if you cannot express your opinion. I guess if you are not talking about politics or putting other people down but not jean-michel or his brother you are fine as long as it's someone else.
coupd'etat <cd2@aol.com>
silverspring, md United States - 07/02/2005 at 11:39
what's a shame,and what is sad is that more and more this guestbook and the radio show konbit lakay are being used as the trash cans and / or the latrines of this community.
anyone can come and dump.
Fifi
United States - 07/02/2005 at 11:22
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coupd'etat <cd2@aol.com>
silverspring, md United States - 07/02/2005 at 10:23