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Japan grants more than half a million dollars to UNICEF to meet water, hygiene and sanitation needs
The Government of Japan has granted UNICEF US $ 640,000 equivalent to over 70 million Japanese yen as emergency assistance to provide emergency water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services to respond to the needs of children and families affected...
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$187.3 million appeal from the United Nations (UN) to support people affected by earthquake
The funding will be used to provide shelter, water and sanitation, emergency healthcare, food, protection and early recovery. The 7.2 magnitude earthquake on 14 August killed more than 2,200 people and injured over 12,000 others. More than 130,000...
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Exceptional measures of ONA(National Insurance Office for Old Age)to help businesses in the Great South victims of the earthquake
In a note, Jemley Mare Jean Baptiste, Director General ai of the National Insurance Office for Old Age (ONA) informs that the Office has taken exceptional measures to support businesses in the Great South (South Department, Grand'Anse and...
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The CCRIF will pay nearly $40M compensation to Haiti
Following a devastating magnitude 7.2 earthquake that struck Haiti on August 14th CCRIF SPC (formerly the Catastrophe Caribbean Risk Insurance Facility) is preparing to make a payment to Haiti of approximately US$ 40 million, representing the...
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PAHO / WHO deplores the low vaccination rate in Haiti
The director of the Pan American Health Organization and the World Health Organization (PAHO / WHO), Dr Carissa Etienne, found the low rate of vaccination against Covid-19 in Haiti completely unacceptable, the newspaper reports. Miami Herald. “So...
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10 alleged gang members arrested
10 people were arrested by the Haitian Police in Croix-des-bouquets on September 4, 2021. Those people were arrested during a police operation in the area. Many stolen car keys were taken. One police officer and 10 alleged gang members were...
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Haiti in the midst of an economic recession
In an interview on the program Rendez-vous économique of our colleague Kesner Pharel on Radio Metropole on September 5, 2021, the governor of the Bank of the Republic of Haiti (BRH) Jean-Baden Dubois confirmed that the recession of the Haitian...
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Only 50,283 doses of COVID-19 vaccine injected in 2 months in Haiti…
Marie Greta Roy Clément, Minister of Public Health and Population reminds the population in general and priority groups (people with comorbidities, the elderly, health professionals, social workers, etc...) in particular that the vaccination...
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