September 22nd, 2021The 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 homes were destroyed or damaged, along with other infrastructure such as roads.
The...
September 21st, 2021
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 Nippes), struggling with financial difficulties related to the earthquake of August 14,...
September 21st, 2021Following 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 maximum coverage limit for benefits under the policy Haiti's parametric insurance for...
September 21st, 2021The 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 far Haiti has administered some 52,000 vaccines, many more people need to be...
September 16th, 2021In 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 economy will continue in 2022. Haiti will experience a third year of negative economic growth...
September 16th, 2021Marie 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 campaign against Covid-19 continues at the level of the 10 departments.
Consequently, all...
September 16th, 2021
On Monday, September 13, 2021, the Saint Marc police seized a new shipment of arms and ammunition concealed aboard a commercial goods transport boat, according to the Directorate General of the Judicial Police.
Details of the shipment have not yet been released and so far there have been no arrests in connection with the...
September 16th, 2021The earthquake of August 14, 2021 in the line of Matthew and the earthquake of 2010
With 2,248 dead, 53,000 homes destroyed and 83,000 damaged not to mention 127 schools, 60 religious buildings, 25 health facilities and hotels destroyed, one can expect a more disastrous economic toll than Matthew in October 2016.
The Economic...
September 16th, 20211.4 million euros in support for the universities of Haiti in the Great South
Friday September 10 Marie Lucie Joseph the Minister of National Education accompanied by the Rector of the University Agency of La Francophonie (AUF) Slim Khalbous, announced that the Agency, as part of a solidarity plan, was offering an aid of 1.4 million...