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US Defeated Haiti 5-0 CANCUN, Mexico – Abby Wambach had the sixth hat trick of her international career, leading the United States over Haiti 5-0 last Thursday night in the Americans’ opening qualifier for next year’s Women’s World Cup. Defender Rachel Buehler put the U.S. ahead in the 8th minute, scoring her first international goal in her 43rd appearance. Wambach scored in the 15th minute, added a goal in first-half injury time and scored her third goal in the 62nd, raising her career total for the United States to 112.

Amy Rodriguez, making her 50th appearance, scored her ninth career goal in the 40th minute off a pass from Wambach.

Nicole Barnhart got the shutout for the U.S., which completes the first round against Guatemala on Saturday and Costa Rica on Monday.

In the night’s other Group B game, Costa Rica beat Guatemala 1-0.

Group A opens Friday, when Trinidad and Tobago plays Canada, and Mexico faces Guyana.

The top two teams in each group advance, and the semifinal winners qualify for next year’s tournament in Germany. The third-place squad meets Italy, the No. 5 team in Europe, for another berth.

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Haiti Wants Major Camp Evacuated Ahead of Storm PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – It was the jewel of Haiti's post-earthquake recovery: an organized relocation camp with thousands of tents billed as hurricane-resistant, lined up evenly on graded mountain soil.

Sweet Micky or Michel Martelly: Will the Real one Stand Up During his musical career, Michel “Sweet Micky” Martelly lived the quintessential life of sex, drugs and konpa. Martelly’s bad boy image pushed to its very limits Haiti’s stodgy and deeply conservative social mores.

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US Beats Costa Rica 4-0 in Women’s Qualifying CANCUN, Mexico – Abby Wambach scored for the third straight game and the United States beat Costa Rica 4-0 Monday night to win its first-round group in qualifying for next year’s Women’s World Cup. Wambach scored her tournament-leading sixth goal when she converted a penalty kick in the 32nd minute. Lauren Cheney added a goal in the 68th, and the Americans also got goals from Yael Averbuch in the 73rd and Alex Morgan in the 81st.

The U.S. (3-0) outscored opponents 18-0 in the first round and meets Canada or Mexico in the semifinals for a berth in next year’s Women’s World Cup in Germany.

Costa Rica (2-1) finished second in Group B and also advanced to the semifinals. It will play the Group A winner — Canada needs only a tie against Mexico on Tuesday to finish first.

The winner of the third-place match also qualifies for the tournament.

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A man stands by the rubbles.

What Are The Challenges?

A three-week investigation by Haiti Grassroots Watch revealed that – contrary to what the government’s silence might indicate – the non-governmental organizations (NGOs), multilateral agencies and foreign government assistance agencies do have a plan for what to do with the 1.3 million refugees living in the country’s 1,354 squalid camps.

This is Part 2 of a three part series and it takes a more in-depth look at the plan and its challenges How is it going?

A piece-meal, only vaguely coordinated, and as-yet unofficial “Return and Resettlement Strategy” for Haiti’s 1.3 million refugees appears to have been underway for the past month or two. Interviews, investigations in the field and internal documents obtained

by Haiti Grassroots Watch confirm the broad brushstrokes, and also the fact that it is not led by the Haitian government. Instead, agencies pursue their own projects with some loose coordination provided by UNorganized Shelter Cluster staff.

So far, a series of camps have been closed, while at others, committees have signed agreements for residents to deals in exchange for vacating the grounds (for

example, $63 per person at one camp, six weeks work at $5 a day at another.) Some people have been transferred to planned camps like Tabarre Issa and Corail-Celesse and about 15,000 families have recieved ”transitional shelters” or ”T-Shelters.”

In the meantime however, according to a

"While we do everything possible to improve the living conditions people, especially those in the tents, we also need to support the respect for private property." recent New York Times article, at least some impatient private property owners are threatening expulsion. (Many camps are located on private property.) Since March, the Times reported, 28,065 people have been kicked out of camps, and another 144,175 threat-

ened with expulsion.

And while the UN and other humanitarian agencies have repeatedly asked the Haitian government to declare a moratorium on all expulsions, which are illegal according to international conventions, the government doesn’t appear to be too interested in defending the rights of the displaced people.

“I think that while we do everything possible to improve the living conditions people, especially those in the tents, we also need to support the respect for private property,” Ronald Baudin, Minister of the Economy and Finances, and head of the Facilitation Committee for the Reconstruction of Downtown Port-au-Prince, told Haiti Grassroots Watch partner AlterPresse in late August.

And so, it appears that as the Shelter Cluster waits for official approval of the aforementioned strategy document from one or all representations of the Haitian government – the president, the various ministries or the non-elected Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission, the plan is moving forward.

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des résultats d’analyses établissant cette provenance et confirmant presque la piste népalaise, le ministre haïtien de la santé croit que l’origine exacte de la bactérie peut ne jamais être connue. Le Dr Alex Larsen croit en ce sens que « nous ne saurons jamais la provenance exacte de la souche qui a causé l’épidémie en Haïti ». « La souche a été transmise par des aliments ou de l’eau contaminés ou par une personne infectée », a ajouté le Dr Larsen.

La souche du choléra qui frappe actuellement Haïti pourrait bien provenir du Sud de l’Asie, selon le National Public Radio (NPR) base aux Etats-Unis. Des recherches menées en Haïti sous la supervision conjointe du Ministère haïtien de la Santé Publique et le Centre de Contrôle des Maladies et de Prévention (CDC, Atlanta, USA), établissent que la souche de la bactérie du choléra découverte en Haïti ressemble à celle généralement trouvée dans le Sud de l’Asie. Le National Public Radio (NPR) qui a fait état lundi des conclusions de ces recherches, précise que des investigations plus poussées doivent encore être menées afin d’identifier la souche de façon plus précise. L’analyse a isolé l’ADN des échantillons de la bactérie prélevés sur des victimes du choléra en Haïti.

Les 13 spécimens étaient identiques et montrent que la poussée épidémiologique enregistrée en Haïti provient d’une souche unique, indique NPR. Cependant en dépit

**** Les autorités sanitaires haïtiennes annoncent que le nouveau bilan de l'épidémie de choléra qui touche actuellement le pays est de 330 morts et de plus de 4 mille personnes atteintes de la maladie. Lors d'une nouvelle conférence de presse tenue ce vendredi, le directeur général du ministère de la santé publique, Gabriel Thimothé a indiqué que le nombre de décès est en nette augmentation alors que le nombre de personnes hospitalisées tend à la baisse.

Monsieur Thimothé a déclaré que toutes dispositions nécessaires sont déjà prises par les autorités sanitaires dans le but d'empêcher la propagation de l'épidémie.

Il a fait remarquer que le ministère de la santé et ses partenaires internationaux a déjà mis en place une campagne de sensibilisation et ont activité le plan de surveillance épidémiologique. Rappelons que, le directeur général du ministère de la Santé avait révélé que des analyses ont permis de

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déterminer que le premier cas de choléra avait été enregistré à Grand Boucan dans le département du Centre. Toutefois plus de 90 % des décès proviennent de la région limitrophe au fleuve de l'Artibonite. Les habitants de Drouin et Grande Saline ont payé le plus lourd tribut.

Carvajal et qui seraient l’œuvre, selon lui, de partisans de la plateforme officielle.

**** Distribution d’armes par le parti politique INITE dans le département du Centre, selon le coordonnateur du MPP/MPNKP, Chavannes Jean-Baptiste. Le coordonnateur du Mouvement des Paysans de Papaye (MPP) et du Mouvement National Paysan du Congrès de Papaye (MPNKP), au micro de la station locale Radio Kiskeya, a accusé des candidats de la plateforme gouvernementale INITE (Unité) d’avoir fait une vaste distribution d’armes à l’issue d’une rencontre mercredi dernier à Hinche (Centre). Une distribution d’armes aurait été également effectuée dans la commune de Maïssade (toujours dans le Centre) par l’ex-député Willo Joseph, selon le leader paysan. Il précise que des membres du MPP dans cette commune ont dénombré au moins 18 enfants détenteurs d’armes à feu. Exprimant des appréhensions sur les violences qui pourraient survenir à l’occasion des élections présidentielles et législatives prévues pour le 28 novembre, Mr Jean-Baptiste déplorent des incidents violents qui se sont déjà produits dans les communes de Maïssade et de Cerca-

C'est dans le département de l'Ouest que la plus rude bataille pour un siège au grand corps sera livrée. A l'instar des candidats à la magistrature suprême, ils sont 19 à briguer un siège vacant au sénat. Avec 20 communes qui représentent 40 % du corps électoral, la campagne dans l'Ouest peut être comparée aux travaux d'Hercule pour les candidats. Nombre d'entre eux s'activent à commencer par le sénateur sortant Rudy Heriveaux. Des ex- sénateurs dont Wesner Emmanuel et Evelyne Chéron, des ex-députés Jonas Coffi et Steven Benoît et même un chef de parti, Himmler Rébu sont également en piste.

L'ex député de Pétion ville qui a lancé sa campagne tambour battant ne bénéficie pas de l'appui de l'Alternative. Il assure avoir visité tous les communes de l'Ouest à l'exception de Cornillon. De son coté, Himmler Rébu, affairé à gérer les dossiers des candidats du Plap lancera sa campagne dans les prochains jours. Plusieurs candidats au sénat font cavalier seuls et choisissent eux-mêmes leurs candidats

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Revisiter la question de la création d’une Académie haïtienne de langue créole, Première partie

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J’ai écrit il y a environ deux ans, je crois, dans le cadre de cette chronique hebdomadaire « Du côté de chez Hugues » un article intitulé « Avons-nous besoin d’une Académie créole ? » Je l’avais écrit pour faire écho à une déclaration de M. James Darbouze de l’Université d’État d’Haïti qui avait souligné la nécessité de la création urgente d’une Académie de langue créole. Je vous renvoie à mon article de 2008 qui fait le point sur la notion d’Académie de langue, fait un bref historique de la plus célèbre d’entre elles, l’Académie française, et esquisse une comparaison entre ce que serait une Académie haïtienne de langue créole et l’Académie française telle qu’elle a existé de 1635 à nos jours. Je n’ai jamais rencontré M. Darbouze mais, sur la base de ses prises de position et de certaines vues qu’il a exprimées sur certains sujets qui me tiennent à cœur, j’estime que c’est quelqu’un qui sait de quoi il parle et qu’il travaille sincèrement pour la coexistence pacifique des deux langues officielles de notre pays, le français et le créole, ainsi que le proclame la Constitution de 1987. Un collègue vient de me faire parvenir le texte de la Déclaration du Comité d’Initiative pour l’établissement de l’Académie Haïtienne, (désormais Déclaration) texte dont M.

Darbouze est l’un des quatre signataires et qui a été soumis à AlterPresse le jeudi 28 octobre 2010 à l’occasion de la 28ème Journée Internationale de la Langue créole.

Cette Déclaration rappelle plusieurs choses. En particulier, l’appel à la création d’une Académie haïtienne de langue créole exprimé dans la Constitution de 1987 : Article 213 : Une Académie haïtienne est instituée en vue de fixer la langue créole et de permettre son développement scientifique et harmonieux.

Je ne veux chercher querelle à personne et j’insiste fort sur ce point mais je voudrais donner mon point de vue de linguiste sur ce point particulier. L’un des objectifs de l’institution de cette Académie haïtienne réclamée par l’Article 213 de la Constitution de 1987, c’est-à-dire « fixer la langue créole », me met mal à l’aise. « Fixer une langue », c’est la rendre stable et immobile étant entendu que toute langue est en constante évolution et change souvent.

Vouloir fixer la langue créole haïtienne, c’est empêcher son développement naturel tel qu’il se manifeste dans la bouche et l’usage de ses locuteurs et sous la plume de ses écrivains. Historiquement, le meilleur exemple que nous puissions fournir est celui de la création de l’Académie française en 1635 qui a favorisé une restriction sociolinguistique de l’usage français qui s’était grandement émancipé du latin et tendait même à le remplacer dans plusieurs domaines de l’activité humaine. Les innovations lexicales des brillants créateurs en langue créole haïtienne, en premier lieu Frankétienne, risqueraient alors dans la perspective d’une fixation de la langue

créole d’être étouffées.

En tant que linguiste dont les objectifs fondamentaux sont tout à fait opposés à ceux des grammairiens traditionnels (le premier fait de la description scientifique des langues, le second fait de la prescription normative de l’usage des locuteurs), je me méfie des académies et particulièrement d’une Académie haïtienne de langue créole. Certains compatriotes qui sont bien disposés à l’égard de la langue créole appellent de leurs vœux la création d’une telle Académie parce que, disent-ils, nous nageons en pleine inconsistance et la langue créole a besoin d’être régulée, c’est-à-dire contrôlée, normée. Évidemment, beaucoup de ces compatriotes prennent appui instinctivement sur l’héritage de la culture et de l’Académie françaises laquelle, dans l’article 24 de ses Statuts et Règlements, énonce comme principale fonction « de travailler avec tout le soin et toute la diligence possible à donner des règles certaines à notre langue et à la rendre pure, éloquente et capable de traiter les arts et les sciences. » La tradition grammaticale française est constituée d’un ensemble prescriptif plus ou moins rigide de normes à suivre dans la communication sociale. Or, toute langue se déploie à travers un arsenal de variations qui sont inévitables parce qu’elles représentent l’essence sociale de la langue. Ces variations peuvent être d’origine régionale, sociale, sexuelle, et même parfois ethnique. Dans leur désir de fixer la langue créole haïtienne, comment les membres de cette Académie s’y prendront-ils avec les nombreuses variations qui existent en

tant que dialecte, sociolecte, et idiolecte constitutifs de la langue ? Par exemple, sur le plan régional, nous savons tous qu’il y a trois grandes variétés de créole : celle qui est parlée dans le Nord du pays, le Cap et ses environs, celle qui est parlée dans l’Ouest et le Centre du pays dont Port-auPrince et ses environs et celle qui est parlée dans le Sud du pays. La variété du Nord est très marquée sur le plan phonologique, syntaxique et lexical et tout locuteur haïtien peut identifier facilement l’origine régionale de l’interlocuteur qui affiche ces marques dans son discours. Quelles seront les recommandations des membres d’une Académie haïtienne de langue créole en ce qui concerne ce point particulier ?

Sur quels critères se fonderont-ils pour prononcer leurs décisions ? Quelle sera la réaction des locuteurs des autres variétés de la langue quand l’Académie prendra telle ou telle décision ?

Autre point qui demandera peut-être à être fixé : le statut et l’utilisation des fameuses voyelles antérieures arrondies courantes en français et phonologiquement absentes dans l’usage des locuteurs unilingues haïtiens qui deviennent à cause de cela la risée de certains locuteurs bilingues français-créoles. Ces derniers assimilent ainsi les premiers à des analphabètes parce qu’ils n’arrivent pas à dire /eu / et se contentent de dire / e / ou disent /i / au lieu de /u / : (diri vs duri), (ble vs bleu).

Sur le plan pratique, une chose est de proposer des usages ou de légiférer linguistiquement, une autre est de les mettre en application. En France, en 1975, une see HUGUES on page 23

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Aid Groups in Haiti Prepare for Approaching Tomas PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Aid workers rushed Nov. 1 to prepare for a hurricane that forecasters said could hit Haiti this week. It's a formidable challenge in a nation already coping with a cholera epidemic and trying to help hundreds of thousands still living in tent camps nearly 10 months after a devastating earthquake.

Many people in the camps said they didn't know Tropical Storm Tomas might be coming, but that there was little they could do living in flimsy shelters to protect themselves from the elements. ”I didn't know about (the storm). Maybe somebody came by to say something yesterday when I was out,” said Florence Ramond, a 22-year-old mother and food vendor who is living on the Pétion- Ville Club golf course in a refugee camp managed by actor Sean Penn's relief organization.

Even knowing, Ramond said, she could do nothing to secure her home, a shack made of tarp, wood and a tin door. The roof blew off in an unnamed Sept. 24 storm that ripped through the capital, killing at least five people and destroying or damaging thousands of tents. ”They always go around and tell us to tie the tarps up, but I don't have a rope,” she said.

The family lost their home in the earthquake, which killed Ramond's niece. Her brother, Joel, is hospitalized with cholera in the Artibonite Valley — part of an epidemic that has killed more than 300 people and hospitalized more than 4,700.

Her infant son, Lovenson, has had bouts

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Plan: Move families back to original homes – Challenge: What about the rubble?

The capital and other cities affected by the earthquake are still encumbered with between 20 million and 30 million cubic meters of rubble. So far, only a small amount – estimates range from two to ten percent – has been removed. Delays in funding, and also the fact that there is no single agency coordinating rubble removal indicate that the rubble will be in the way for years to come. One humanitarian agency produced a video called “The Rubble Puzzle” but no agency or ministry has yet determined how to solve that puzzle.

Plan: Move families back to home – Challenge: Who will pay for “red” and “yellow” house removal or repairs?

According to the latest tallies from the International Organization for Migration and the Ministry of Public Works (TPTC), there are about 50,000 homes that were marked “red” and need to be destroyed and cleared, and another 54,000 to 64,000 marked “yellow,” meaning they need to be repaired.

Who will pay for and coordinate these two massive public works projects? As of September 24, NGOs had only about 15 percent of the funding needed for the repairs, according to Gehard Tauscher, head of the Shelter Cluster.

Plan: Move families into 135,000 T-Shelters – Challenge: Where to put the shelters?

There are over 300,000 families cur-

of diarrhea recently that she said are caused by mud flowing into their shelter. His first birthday was Nov. 1, which was also the first day of Haiti's Voodoo festival of the dead, Fet Gede. Ramond said she doesn't have money to celebrate either.

Those with more money have a better chance of being prepared. Leonide Paul said she had received news about the storm via an automated text message, and would go out and buy food, water and extra fuel to prepare.

Tomas would be the first major storm to strike Haiti since the Jan. 12 earthquake killed as many as 300,000 people and

rently in the camps. According to the IOM, 159,749 families rented their home prior to January 12. The other families say they own their land. NGOs don’t want to give a T-Shelters to a family that does not own the land or at least have a proper, longterm lease.

T-Shelters planned (red) and completed (green) as of September 14, 2010. Note that Léogane is slated to get more than Port-au-Prince. One Shelter Cluster staffer, who asked not to be identified, told Haiti Grassroots Watch NGOs prefer to work there was because ”it is easier to deal with the land issue there.”

However, Haiti’s land tenure system is “complete disorder that has been going on for 200 years,” according to Bernard Etheart, expert on Haitian land issues and the director of the National Institute of Agrarian Reform. Ever since Haiti’s independence, various dictators have stolen, sold or gaving away land to their families and allies. Haiti has no land registry.

The NGOs are therefore faced with people who say they “own” the land where they lived do not have proper titles, or if it is a good piece of land “there are usually three or four people who produce a title,” Léogane Shelter Cluster Information Manager Deborah Hyde told Haiti Grassroots Watch.

For a renter to get a T-Shelter, he or she needs to be able to produce a lease of at least a year and, ideally, more. Cluster Shelter and NGO staff say they are negotiating leases with the assistance of local elected officials in communities around see PLAN on page 5

forced millions from their homes. It would also be the first tropical storm or hurricane to hit since 2008, when the storms Fay, Gustav, Hanna and Ike battered Haiti in the space of a month, killing nearly 800 people and wiping out 15 percent of the economy.

Piles of rubble and partially collapsed buildings still fill the capital from the quake. Reconstruction is grinding along without promised aid funds, including $1.15 billion promised by the United States in March.

There are shortages of 150,000 tarps as well as soap, hygiene kits, field tents, radios and oral rehydration salts for treat-

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ing cholera, U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator Nigel Fisher said in a statement. ”We need emergency shelter. We need water and sanitation supplies. And we need as much of it as possible in place before Hurricane Tomas hits,” Fisher said.

Warehouses are being emptied of existing stocks of rope and tarp to help people in camps, said Imogen Wall, spokeswoman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

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Haiti Wants Major Camp Evacuated Ahead of Storm PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – It was the jewel of Haiti's post-earthquake recovery: an organized relocation camp with thousands of tents billed as hurricane-resistant, lined up evenly on graded mountain soil.

Now, staring down an expected hit later this week from a hurricane, officials say Corail-Cesselesse is not safe. On Nov.2, the government advised the estimated 7,850 residents of its primary relocation camp to ride out the storm somewhere else. ”We're asking people in Corail to voluntarily move from where they are and go to the houses of family or friends. The places the government has identified are churches and schools that are available for shelter from the storm,” civil protection official Abel Nazaire told The Associated Press.

Camp managers held a ”loudspeaker meeting” with megaphones to tell residents about the evacuation order, said Bryant Castro, the American Refugee Committee staffer managing the camp. Residents were told to seek any home they could find with relatives, friends or lovers.

A hurricane over the weekend, Tropical Storm Tomas was meandering its way through the central Caribbean on Tuesday with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 kph), according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami. Its center was about 385 miles (620 kilometers) southsouthwest of quake-devastated Port-auPrince and moving west near 14 mph (22 kph).

Forecasters predicted it will soon veer north toward Haiti and regain hurricane strength as it approaches, perhaps by Friday. A hurricane watch was issued for Jamaica, and the center said the storm could dump up to 8 inches (20 centimeters) of rain on Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao.

Aid workers are scrambling to prepare

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for a possible direct hit in Haiti, but are already short of supplies after dealing with the catastrophe of the Jan. 12 quake that left more than 1 million people with only a plastic tarp or tent to protect them.

Haiti has issued its highest-level storm warning to inform people they may need to evacuate — though most have nowhere to go.

Tomas would be the first big storm to strike Haiti since the earthquake killed as many as 300,000 people and forced millions from their homes. It would also be the first tropical storm or hurricane to hit since 2008, when the storms Fay, Gustav, Hanna and Ike battered Haiti in the space of a month, killing nearly 800 people and wiping out 15 percent of the economy.

A U.S. Navy vessel, the amphibious warship Iwo Jima, was steaming toward Haiti on Tuesday to provide disaster relief.

Tomas already killed at least 14 people in the eastern Caribbean nation of St. Lucia, where police said seven more were still missing.

The storm caused more than $37 million in damage as it battered Vieux Fort, the island's second-largest town, according to government estimates. Two bridges were left impassable, cutting the community off from the capital, Castries.

Noelia Joseph, who lives in Soufriere, said she lost three relatives who lived with her. ”I was in the living room when a great big wind accompanied by water swept through the house, washing me into a nearby street,” she said. ”I tried calling to my mother but couldn't hear a thing.

The top floor of the house came crashing down with my mother and two brothers still inside.”

Hurricane Kills 12 in Saint Lucia, Wipes out Crops CASTRIES, Saint Lucia (AFP) – A huge storm has ravaged the Caribbean paradise of Saint Lucia killing at least 12 people, wiping out the banana crop and causing millions of dollars in damage, officials said Tuesday.

Prime Minister Stephenson King declared a state of emergency on the tourist island, saying whole sections of the road network had vanished in landslides, and describing scenes of mayhem in the cut-off towns of Soufriere and Vieux Fort. ”We have 12 confirmed dead... unfortunately there are still people who are buried,” Tourism Minister Allen Chastanet said on local radio.

Tomas, which struck Saint Lucia as a category one hurricane on Saturday packing winds of 150 kilometers (90 miles) per hour, has since weakened to a tropical storm, but is expected to strengthen again and hit Haiti this weekend.

The island, which has a population of some 170,000, faces massive economic damages from the disaster -- King said up to 100 million dollars -- as apart from tourism it is almost completely reliant on its banana exports.

Many island communities were still without power and cut off after Tomas

downed trees and ripped the roofs of schools and at least one hospital. ”From the air, the southern town of Vieux Fort appeared to have received the brunt of Tomas's fury,” King said, adding that several people there were still unaccounted for. ”We will have to go into this area which was still blocked by landslides and virtually inaccessible to carry out a more detailed account of the damage,” he said.

The town of Soufriere ”is devastated, everyone is locked in and no one can leave or get in by road or by phone, so that there are persons who need help but cannot be reached.”

The situation in Soufriere ”is desperate,” said Harold Dalson, who represents the city in parliament. ”We have had hurricanes in the past but none to match that one, both in terms of physical damage and the number of deaths,” said Dalson.

The ”declaration of emergency” immediately triggers a regional and international appeal for help, King said.

Nearby St. Vincent and the Grenadines also suffered from Tomas. The storm blew off roofs, knocked down trees and seriously damaged some 1,200 homes.

The main road in the town of Hopewell

”has completely collapsed, having succumbed to the impact of the over-flowing river,” the country's embassy in Washington said.

Saint Lucia, part of the Lesser Antilles in the east of the Caribbean Sea became independent from Britain in 1979 but although it now has its own government it still recognizes Queen Elizabeth II as head of state.

Communications Minister Guy Joseph said the damage was ”worse than we could think of.” Authorities said schools would remain closed for the rest of the week, although the international airport reopened Tuesday.

Tomas weakened to a tropical storm after leaving Saint Lucia at the weekend, but was set to strengthen as it takes aim on Haiti, still recovering from a devastating January earthquake and struggling to halt a cholera outbreak.

At 1500 GMT Tuesday the center of Tomas was located 570 kilometers (355 miles) south of the Haitian capital PortAu-Prince, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center reported. ”Strengthening is forecast during the next 48 hours, and Tomas could regain hurricane strength on Wednesday,” the NHC warned.

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Rights Groups Testify Before Inter-American Commission and File Legal Request on Unlawful Forced Evictions in Haiti Washington, D.C. — For the 1.5 million people still living in displacement camps, forced evictions pose an immediate threat of grave and irreparable harm, according to a coalition of human rights advocates who testified last week before the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). In response to unlawful forced evictions being carried out in displacement camps across Haiti, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IDJH), Bureau des Avocates Internationaux, the International Human Rights Law Clinic at American University’s Washington College of Law and the disaster law center You.Me.We. filed a Request for Precautionary Measures with the IACHR today.

The legal request demands an immediate moratorium on forced evictions; an investigation into these violations; and the implementation of human rights monitoring mechanisms that will protect the rights of Haiti’s most vulnerable population.

“Forced expulsions of the internally displaced violate Haitian and international law,” said lawyer Mario Joseph with Bureau des Avocats Internationaux. “This is just the beginning of a problem we’ll be facing for years to come unless the Haitian government immediately puts a moratorium on forced expulsions, verifies land ownership titles and nationalizes by decree all empty and idle lands in the hands of purported landowners.”

The legal request, filed on behalf of five displacement camps, describes entire settlements that have been destroyed and the terrorization and brutality that camps’ residents who refuse to vacate face routinely. According to a recent New York Times article, 28,000 displaced Haitians have been evicted and 144,000 people have been subject to threats of eviction.

Most of the time, communities are left homeless again without any other place to go.

“Haitians living in the IDP camps are already in desperate conditions. People are hanging on by a thread and should be put into safer situations with access to water, food and employment. Instead the exact opposite is happening; unbelievably, many people are being forced out of the camps and into even more precarious situations, ” Bill Quigley, CCR Legal Director said. ”The housing crisis in Haiti is deepening and worsening and action is required on many levels but, at the very least, forced evictions must end immediately.”

“The Haitian government’s response to the housing crisis has been to assist landowners in evicting families from displacement camps without providing any alternative place to live, further exacerbating security issues. These forced evictions see TESTIFY on page 23

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Cuomo Defeats GOP to Take House Control: Tea Party Favorites Thrive, Though O'Donnell Trounced in Delaware Paladino in ‘Nasty’ Race NEW YORK CITY (AP) - Democrat Andrew Cuomo coasted past tea party Republican Carl Paladino after an exceedingly nasty race to win election Tuesday as governor of New York - the job his father, Mario, held in the 1980s and '90s.

Cuomo, 52, led in the polls from the start of his well-funded campaign and helped the combative and conservative Paladino sink himself by shifting the focus from economic issues to Paladino's opposition to abortion and gay marriage.

The Cuomos now join the exclusive club of father-and-son governors, whose members include the Browns, Edmund and Jerry, of California; the Romneys, George of Michigan and Mitt of Massachusetts; and the Folsoms, John Sr. and John Jr., of Alabama.

Paladino, a 64-year-old millionaire developer and political novice, made some major missteps during the campaign. He got into a shouting match with a newspaper reporter and hinted that the divorced Cuomo had had affairs while married accusations Paladino later backed away from.

He also created a furor when he said children shouldn't be ”brainwashed” into thinking homosexuality is acceptable. He said being gay is ”not the way God created us.”

Cuomo - the state's attorney general and, before that, housing secretary in former President Bill Clinton's administration promised to clean up state government, control overspending and rein in some of the nation's highest property taxes. He styled himself a fiscally conservative new Democrat.

As attorney general, he helped bring about national reforms in the student loan industry, on Wall Street and in corporate boardrooms. In Albany, he turned the public integrity unit he created into a force to be reckoned with.

The top job in New York opened up for Cuomo earlier this year when Democratic Gov. David Paterson dropped his election bid amid an investigation into whether he interfered in a domestic violence case against a top aide. No charges were filed.

Paterson took office in 2008 after Democratic Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned in a call girl scandal.

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the country, but there are 159,749 renter families currently in camps.

An October 4 Powerpoint prepared by the Shelter Cluster appeared to deplore the government’s lack of action, noting that “no land has been made available to host affected population in new camps/ housing areas; land ownership in former neighborhoods is extremely complex; lack of willingness to make unpopular decisions.”

Plan: New, safer homes in better-planned neighborhoods – Challenge: As yet no building code, full funding lacking Various NGOs as well as the Haitian government have talked about new urban developments with safer homes and proper zoning, and some are moving head with

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WASHINGTON (AP) -Resurgent Republicans piled up gains in close pursuit of a House majority Tuesday night and added seats in the Senate, too, in midterm elections shadowed by recession and fueled by a rebellion of tea party conservatives. ”We've come to take our government back,” Sen.-elect Rand Paul told cheering supporters at a victory party in Bowling Green, Ky. Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas lost her seat, and House members in Florida, Indiana and Virginia were among the Republicans' victims. First-term Rep. Tom Perriello in Virginia was a casualty despite a late-campaign appearance on his behalf by President Barack Obama.

On a good night for Republicans, Paul and tea party favorite Marco Rubio in Florida coasted to easy Senate victories, overcoming months of withering Democratic attacks on their conservative views.

But Christine O'Donnell lost badly in Delaware.

Despite the Republicans' gains, a Senate majority seemed out of reach.

But the GOP brimmed with confidence that it would pick up the 40 seats needed to take control of the House and install Rep. John Boehner as the new speaker. ”This is going to be a big day,” he said as he voted near his home in West Chester, Ohio. For those who think the government is spending too much and bailing out too many, he said, ”This is their opportunity to be heard.”

Democrats conceded nothing. ”Let's go out there and continue to fight,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi exhorted supporters in remarks before television cameras while the polls were still open in much of the country.

But not long after she spoke, Democratic incumbents in both houses began falling.

The first to go was Lincoln, defeated by Rep. John Boozman in her bid for a third term.

In the House, Republicans sent Rep. Rick Boucher and Perriello to defeat in Virginia; Suzanne Kosmas and Alan Grayson in Florida, too.

With the polls still open in much of the country, Republicans led for three dozen seats currently in Democratic hands.

Interviews with voters revealed an extraordinarily sour electorate, stressed

financially and poorly disposed toward the president, the political parties and the federal government.

About four in 10 voters said they were worse off financially than two years ago, according to preliminary exit poll results and pre-election surveys. More than one in three said their votes were an expression of opposition to Obama, but more than half expressed negative views about both political parties. Roughly 40 percent of voters considered themselves supporters of the conservative tea party movement.

By contrast, about three in four expressed negative views about the federal government. Less than half said they wanted the government to do more to solve problems.

The preliminary findings were based on Election Day and pre-election interviews with more than 9,000 voters.

All 435 seats in the House were on the ballot, plus 37 in the Senate. An additional 37 governors' races gave Republicans ample opportunity for further gains halfway through Obama's term, although Andrew Cuomo was elected in New York for the office his father once held.

Republicans picked up their first Senate seat of the night in Indiana, where former Sen. Dan Coats easily dispatched Rep. Brad Ellsworth to win back the seat he voluntarily gave up a dozen years ago.

Boozman's victory was their second, and

Gov. John Hoeven added a third, winning a seat held by a retiring Democrat in North Dakota.

But Democratic Gov. Joe Manchin won in West Virginia for the unexpired portion of the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd's term, and Attorney General Richard Blumenthal was victorious in Connecticut, dispatching Linda McMahon, former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment.

Paul's triumph in Kentucky completed an improbable rise for an eye surgeon who drew opposition from the Republican Party establishment when he first launched his bid, then struggled to adjust to a statewide race with Attorney General Jack Conway.

Rubio, also running with tea party support, was gaining about 50 percent of the vote in a three-way race in Florida, months after he forced Gov. Charlie Crist to leave the Republican Party and run as an independent. Democatic Rep. Kendrick Meek was running third.

Another tea party-backed candidate lost overwhelmingly, suggesting the energy and enthusiasm provided by the conservative activists came with a price.

O'Donnell, who went from a virtual unknown to primary winner to fodder for late-night comedians in the span of a few

small pilot projects. But hundreds of thousands of families need homes and the funding is not in place. Also, the Ministry of Planning has not yet produced the new building code for which NGOs are reportedly waiting. Most NGOs are loathe to design and build before seeing the code.

One NGO director told Haiti Grassroots Watch “now they are saying ‘November’” for its completion.

Plan: Move “leftover” people to the 7,000-hectare tract of land – Challenge: It is currently unsafe Because of its proximity to denuded mountains prone to mudslides and flooding, until some engineering work and modification is done, the 7,000-hectare piece of land north of the capital is unsafe for permanent settlements.

“They have plans for major camps but assessment of the area shows its not that

easy,” Tauscher told Haiti Grassroots Watch and he added that the land is also not ready from a legal standpoint, either.

“To declare it eminent domain is one step but the landowners have to be compensated, you know, so its more complex also on the land ownership side,” he said.

Hundreds of people have set up tents and shacks on the land since the government's announcement.

Plan: Coordinate policy and execution under one roof As of October 7, almost nine months after the earthquake, it still appears that no one agency or ministry is coordinating an overall plan for “return and resettlement.”

To make matters worse, the upcoming elections add another wrinkle.

“I don’t expect major decisions before the elections and I don’t expect them with the new government or whatever govern-

ment is in place in the very first weeks when the are in power,” Tauscher said.

In addition, in November the Red Cross will hand over Shelter Cluster coordination of the UN Habitat, a UN agency.

But an internal document from September 28 presented by Office of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) staffer Tania Bernath, an Inter-Cluster coordinator, indicates UN Habitat might not be up for the job.

“It is difficult to understand how a handover from the shelter cluster to UN Habitat will take place. They carry out completely different tasks and their approach to everything is different. UN Habitat has demonstrated almost no ability to coordinate perhaps the most important part of the response.

It is also not clear who is in charge of coordinating the yellow, green and red houses…”

The story was first published on haitigrassrootswatch.org

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Democracy in Auction On election day, yesterday, a TV commentator asked a woman, “Who is winning in that election?” Without hesitation, the woman answered, “The Media and the artists,” meaning those imaginative people who produced the thousands of outrageous visual pieces of garbage called campaign materials. Their conception and realization are highly paid, Their diffusions bring millions of dollars the Media by the minutes.

The main purpose of this deluge of ugliness is to influence the eventual voters’ minds, make them perceive the current president and those who cooperate with him as the sole responsible agents of each individual or family misfortunes.

The whole dirty propaganda promised on occasion the most brilliant future to these emotionally week citizens who don’t have the good sense to wonder about the possible reality behind the smoke screen of green promises.

If the president has done nothing during his first two years in office, how is it that his opponents want to undo what he has done with the participation of few of them.

They pretend to turn right what was done wrong. For them, the stimulus programs that prevented the lay-off of millions of workers, teachers, fire-fighters, and police men and women is a waste. Providing long overdue health care to 40 millions citizens

with some basic benefits is wrong? What about a number of essential nominations and initiatives that benefit the middle class that are in waiting in the Senate?

The leading senator of the opposition has publicly stated that his main purpose is to insure that Mr. Obama is a one time president. He did not say if it was the mandate he received from his constituents, his colleagues, or his hidden sponsors. He may continue to have an opulent life and bloc as many proposed laws favoring the middle class and the people as long as these very people do not come to claim the fruits of their supportive votes given free.

The Republican Party and the Tea Movement have made a tragic mocking of Democracy by depriving the people the opportunity to make freely their voting choice without fear and bitterness. The millions spent by interested concerns not necessarily for the future wellbeing of the poor voters could be used more profitably to provide work to a substantial number of those who are out of work or/and about to loose their homes.

Let’s hope that whatever this election’s results, members of the new House and the new Senate will accept to collaborate with President Obama in order to provide the United States People the quality of public service they deserve.

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Financing the Reconstruction Under The

Radar

By Max A. Joseph Jr.

In the seven months following the International Donors’ Conference of March 31st in NY, it has become apparent to most Haitians that the promised funds for the Reconstruction Project are subject to international intrigues and the tent cities will be around for decades, unless Haitians extricate themselves from this dependency. Moreover, with the government practically bankrupt, hence deprived of its constitutional prerogatives to formulate economic and social policies, and the disbursed funds going to the battalion of NGOs operating in Haiti, ingenuity rather than dependency may be the only way out of this inopportune situation. Forget about the IMF’s blueprint, which is attuned to creating an unregulated market for multinational corporations to unload their surplus or defective goods in Haiti, a policy which fosters the culture of dependency, hinders the country’s development and exacerbates its misery.

Indeed Haiti is experiencing an economic, social and political dysfunction which can only get worse as long as the culture of dependence on foreign assistance, channeled through foreign-administrated NGOs, is not tackled. Since it is inevitable that a sham election will be held this November and a winner will emerge out of the current crop of candidates/collaborators, the next constituted government should try to make the best out of an awkward situation. As a remedy, an economic emergency must be declared; it will enable the incoming government to recover the lost constitutional prerogatives, set the stage for sustained economic development and hasten the occupiers’ eventual departure.

At the Nazi Doctors’ trial at Nuremberg (1946-47), Karl Brandt, who oversaw a program to euthanize mentally ill Germans, callously declared “It may seem to have been inhuman…The underlying motive was the desire to help individuals who could not help themselves…

Such considerations cannot be regarded as inhuman. Nor did I ever feel it in any degree unethical or immoral.” Unfortunately, the U.N occupation of Haiti is based on the same principle: a twisted desire to save a helpless nation supposedly from itself. Accordingly, the thousands of deaths since 2004, the raping of young Haitian women by Sri Lankan soldiers who were swiftly repatriated, the random classification of opponents of the New Order as bandits, the marginalization of the vast majority of the population, and now a plague (Cholera), which has been absent in the country for a century, apparently caused by illegal dumping of Nepalese soldiers’ excrements in the Artibonite River are indicative that the end justifies the means. Since we are regarded by others as a diseased specie, (5.6 million Haitians were inoculated under a U.Nsponsored program three years ago), the Cholera epidemic certainly is not helping

matters. Could another round of inoculation be in the work and an apology, if one is ever offered, will come decades later?

Extricating Haiti from this untenable situation necessitates a national consensus that rejects the culture of dependency, through belt tightening, and other fiscal measures. To that end, the next government must circumvent the suffocating control of the colonial authority by adopting an economic program uniquely suited to Haiti’s perilous situation. Such initiative will facilitate the recovery of the government’s lost prerogatives and the country’s sovereignty.

Most importantly, this consensus offers a unique opportunity for Haitians to make peace with themselves and neutralize the impenitent collaborators and traitors who engineered the occupation of the country in the year of its bi-centennial, for Haiti is a crossroads and nothing less than its survival is at stake.

To that effect, five things must be done. Firstly: slapping a 10% tax on imports of essential goods and a 20% hike on non-essential goods to generate revenues. This will naturally discourage consumption of foreign goods, encourage local production and help build a nest of foreign currencies reserves, because even affluent countries living beyond their means, eventually get in financial trouble. Secondly: imposition of an indirect tax on the Haitian Diaspora that entails a 5% levy on remittances. Such levy could easily raise 80 to 100 millions of dollars annually, and will also be a remainder to the Diaspora that its never-ending albeit legitimate demand for privileges (dual citizenship) comes with obligations to the fatherland. Thirdly: an enforceable ban on the illegal circulation of U.S currencies outside of the banking system and a strict limit of 1000 U.S dollars that an individual can transfer or carry outside of Haiti for any 6 months period. Presently, many commercial establishments and private institutions of learning only accept U.S dollars as payment for goods, tuitions and books, an aberration which must end expeditiously. In 2002, in one week period, Jude Célestin, one of the frontrunners in the November 28 presidential election, purchased two homes in Dade County, FL. Needless to say, strict currency control could have prevented such occurrence. Fifthly: imposition of capital punishment for economic crimes involving corruption, willful tax evasion and hoarding of goods by speculators.

This approach works for China, so why not try it in Haiti, one of the most corrupt places in our planet.

We do not need to conform to the “divide and rule” politic of the occupiers, which is genocidal in nature, as the unsavory events taking place under the New Order illustrate. This parcel of land called Haiti belongs to us, the descendants of Dessalines, not foreign mercenaries and their local acolytes. Time is clearly not on our side, since Haiti runs the risk of having generations of thoroughly indoctrinated leaders seeing the country’s problems through the perspectives of the occupiers.

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Ineffective governance in Haiti Ilio's

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By Ilio Durandis

Leadership does not guarantee success, but good leadership can inspire people to do the unthinkable. At a crossroad between development and total failure, Haiti is reeling to find a way towards progress. The country is set to hold one of the most important elections in its history, but so far the aspirants have not been able to convince anyone that better days are ahead. Besides the aesthetics revolution that Haiti needs, we need leadership that can inspire. These elections should present us with this possibility, but with each passing days, the dream to hope of a better Haiti seems more like a never-ending nightmare.

Towards the path to progress, we must ask ourselves what these elections will mean for the future of our children, and exactly how the winners plan to govern the country. It is no secret that a lack of good governance has been the plague destroying the crust of Haitian society; at this point we need a clear and precise strategy for governing the country.

What is the model that the Haitian political class wants to instill? For so long, there have been talks about bringing Haiti on the road of the development, but few have taken the time to draft a plan of what that path would look like. We need to know if

we are going to be a country of imports, as we currently are or if we plan to produce most of the raw materials that we consume.

We need to know if we want to build physical infrastructure before we can truly invest in human capital.

A clear layout is important because it would help set the priority for those in positions of power to implement, and also set the expectations of the people, so they know where the country is going. We cannot continue to shoot in the darkness, and hope that by chance, we might hit the target.

We have to know the game plan before the game starts and sticks to it.

Our schools are still teaching our students that the country is an agricultural one, and yet our import of agricultural products far exceed our exports, then how do we continue to tell ourselves that we are an agricultural country. We seem to be very content to play with the words without realizing their true meanings.

A complete lack of policies, failures to set reachable goals, an avoidance to lay out clear objectives have been at the core of the mismanagement of the country. More than ever, we need leadership that can address these deficiencies, and set the country on the rail of progress that it has so longed for. How do we accomplish these task is no easy endeavor, but it is very much doable. It starts with sound leadership that believes in empowering every single individual.

Haiti must break completely from the past. Nothing that we have tried in the past sixty to a hundred has proven to be beneficial. From dictatorship, to military rules

and for the last twenty years with civilian or a so-called democratic rule, we have no precedence of success that we can duplicate to build our country anew. There is no doubt we have plenty to learn from our mistakes, but the inadequate situations that the people are forced to accept as normal are obvious signs that a new game plan is needed.

As it is currently in vogue to talk about the reconstruction of Haiti, maybe it’s time that those who are vying to occupy the highest public office in Haiti tell the rest of us how they plan to govern. Among the

Haiti is running the risk of becoming more fragmented at the end of the elections season than it already is. many presidential candidates few have any plan on how they will become a successful head of state for a country deeply marred in poverty.

The head of the executive without any doubt can enjoy great powers, but without a good working relationship with members of the parliament, there is no doubt that implementing any good plan won’t be as easy as those candidates might portray. Over the last few years, we have seen how crucial and powerful the parliament can be. They were able to censure two prime ministers in a span of less than two years, which literally means each time the government had to

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start over. For these current elections many of the presidential candidates are running a solo show, where their parties are weakly represented for the parliamentary elections, which by all means cannot be good news as far as governing is concerned.

Haiti is running the risk of becoming more fragmented at the end of the elections season than it already is. Not only that the legitimacy of any winner will be questioned by the population and many foreign countries, but the risk of a president with weak representation at the parliament is a recipe for disaster. Again, we are observing a lack of leadership from many of the presidential candidates for they have not spent enough time to think of a strategy of how they will govern, if elected.

Many of those candidates might be talking the talk of change, but few of them are offering anything that looks like change.

Most of them simply want to become president, so that they can continue the policy of the status quo and infiltrate the system with their close friends by giving them jobs that they are not qualified to do.

We are so far away from effective governance that I cringe each time I hear the word elections or a candidate claims to be the one who is going to make change happen. I am optimistic by nature, but lately I am having a hard time convincing myself that real change is near. Until I see a leader who is ready to inspire and empower the people, I would remain skeptical of progressive change taking place in Haiti.

Contact Ilio at Ilio@zanmi.com.

Sweet Micky or Michel Martelly: Letter From Haiti Ten months after the earthquake, a nation of tent cities Will the Real one Stand Up struggles against false hope and to separate reality from rumor.

By Garry Pierre-Pierre

During his musical career, Michel “Sweet Micky” Martelly lived the quintessential life of sex, drugs and konpa. Martelly’s bad boy image pushed to its very limits Haiti’s stodgy and deeply conservative social mores.

We all remember that pink skirt and the language that makes even the most liberal person cringe. He was controversial to the core lyrically and made no apologies.

Michel Martelly with Bill Clinton

Along the way, Martelly became a handsomely rich person and has done some philanthropic work for the poor in Haiti.

Sweet Micky, which Martelly disbanded after announcing his candidacy for the presidency of Haiti in August, was one of the most successful bands to come out of Haiti in years. T-vice and Djakout Mizik are the only other bands to have attained such success and both of them haven’t been at it as long as Martelly.

But there are some darker sides to the musical life of Sweet Micky, lawsuits, civil and criminals have been filed against Martelly personally and his treatment of his band members leaves lots to be desired.

These are all part of the strapings and pitfalls of being a celebrity and few in the entertainment business, particularly the Haitian Music Industry, can escape unscathed.

Martelly’s presidential candidacy is as controversial as his musical career. There are many people who are focusing on the vulgarities he became known for and his mooning of the public, including then Prime Minister Gerard Latortue during carnival procession on Champs de Mars.

Latortue was with Taiwan’s Prime Minister at the time, enjoying the festivities on a reviewing stand when Martelly showed him his derriere.

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By Yves Savain

From the first aerial views of Port-auPrince and then past the chaotic welcome of Haiti's only international airport, there are the blue-and-gray tent cities. More often, rather than camp tents, the structures are flimsy wood frames standing 6 feet or so, wrapped with vinyl tarps, everywhere you go. These carry the stamps of USAID or the Canadian maple leaf, emblems of UNICEF or other United Nations organizations. Milling about the enclosed spaces of 30 to 50 square feet are children and adults - washing, playing, transacting and erecting more structures.

The tarps were to have been handed out at no cost. But the fiercely efficient distribution system of the informal economy has priced them. And in stalls along crowded and muddy streets, tarps hang for sale, brand new and neatly folded, right next to shower curtains and vinyl tablecloths.

Heading south out of the city, you cannot miss still more tarp-covered shelters clustered in the highway median, the same structures that have so moved Deborah Sontag of The New York Times.

There begins the unavoidable two-mile stretch to exit Port-au-Prince that takes nearly two hours to navigate in each direction. So dense is the traffic of cars, trucks, motorbikes and pedestrians in the narrow two-way lane that vehicles can only inch

along. This is also true for the original Carrefour road, dangerously potholed, as are nearly all streets in the capital; in other towns the roads are rarely paved at all.

Blue-gray clusters of shelters repeat occasionally along the route, interrupting the eventually soothing green scenery all the way to Miragoane, 50 miles away.

Heading north on the coastal road, Nationale #1, past the city dump, eight miles or so from downtown Port-au-Prince, one encounters planned tent cities in neat rows adorned with fluttering flags of international organizations. And on the surrounding hills opposite Source Puante, the sulfur-emitting marshes that delimit the metropolitan expanse from the beach-house region, more tents have sprouted on ad hoc lots, scattered in no particular pattern, as if breaking free from the tidy organization below.

The environment is dry and barren. There is no water or utilities of any sort. There are no schools or shops for miles around. Yet there exists the widespread belief that the clusters and shanties will soon be replaced by cinderblock buildings, that there will be a permanent improvement to the situation.

Temporary or Permanent?

The notion that international monies will rebuild the country and sustain it in years to come is a widely held opinion in Haiti.

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cerned Sweet Micky was at best an alter ego and at worst, a performer who was doing his thing.

I agree completely with this assessment and while we love to call Arnold Schwarzenegger “The Terminator” we never associate his roles as a character flaw. We are sophisticated to understand that he was an actor playing a part and that he wouldn’t unleash a reign of terror in California as governor of the United States largest state.

But where I take exception to Martelly is that he is pinning his campaign and his qualifications to be the next president of Haiti on his success as a musician. Martelly was in New York recently and his aides organized a black tie fundraiser in tony Great Neck. He spoke to me and other journalists about his aspirations and his vision for his beloved homeland.

I was deeply touched but not enough to want to vote for him as the leader of a country that needs to be completely rebuilt for it to become a functioning republic.

Martelly badly managed his band. For one thing, most of his associates were thugs who stole money from naïve promoters with the tacit approval of the musician. I remember one of his managers who came to our offices and proclaimed. “now I understand why Jojo is the way he is,” the manager said referring to Jojo Lorquet, Martelly’s New York rep for a long time.

“Michel pushes people to steal for him.”

Even the Haitian Times had its legal issues with Martelly. In 2000, we gave Lorquet a deposit for Kreyolfest when he knew that the band was booked in Miami

for that same date. When I asked for the deposit back, Lorquet refused and I called Martelly to explain the situation. He couldn’t care less and told me that it’s his manager and not him and too bad.

The Haitian Times sued and won a judgment in small claims courts and we never pursued the issue, although we could have put a lien on his property. We decided that winning the suit was more important because it sent a strong signal that the Haitian Times, which was barely two years old and a novice in the music industry would not play business as usual in the community.

Martelly pistol-whipped one of his musicians in public because of a dispute.

He has humiliated his musicians on stage when he felt they weren’t performing up to his satisfaction. The only millionaire to emerge out of Sweet Micky is the man himself. It’s not that he’s the most brilliant businessman; it is because the lion share of the money stayed with him.

Sadly to say, Martelly is one of the top candidates for the November 28 vote and may very well become president. I wouldn’t be too surprised because the list of past presidents is not too illustrious.

But I urge the Haitian people to think carefully before casting a vote for a person based on celebrity or notoriety. This election is perhaps one of the most important ones the Haitian people have faced in its embryonic democracy. There are billions at stake and the future of the country hangs in the balance. We need a leader that can garner respect in Haiti, the United States and the rest of the world.

I believe neither Sweet Micky nor Michel Martelly is up to the task.

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new 600- to 900-square-foot home -- bathroom and kitchen included -- in a wellplanned community. Dozens of architects from throughout the world have, in fact, visited the city. John McCaslan & Partners, a British architectural firm, has been retained to organize a design competition and housing ”expo” slated for later this year. Countless American, Canadian, French, British and Dutch websites display renderings of ideal communities and homes priced at $5,000 to $25,000. The expectation is that the Haitian government will contract out a mammoth housing-development project with money it does not presently have but expects imminently.

An estimate of the number of families to be relocated is in the tens of thousands. Before undertaking any construction -- however it is to be financed -- countless details ignored before the earthquake remain to be attended to. These include titles to land; financing for mortgages; and water, sewer and electricity service -- for starters. Moreover, there is much debate about the demographics of the tarp clusters. Are people there victims made newly indigent by the earthquake? Are they settlers staking out a claim for homes that may rise out of the land grab that followed the earthquake? Are they newcomers from the countryside? Are the young people in the camps orphaned and displaced, or are they unruly adolescents breaking away from parental supervision?

One line of thinking is that the population under tarps and in shanties is impermanent. By this reasoning, thousands will

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return to the countryside. Meanwhile, rural regions that have been ignored for years as completely as the shanties are truly in need of assistance. Pretty much on their own, Haitian farmers continue to provide fresh vegetables and fruits for domestic consumption. There is even a little left over for export: $5 million in mangoes, less in coffee and cacao. But to suggest that an economic revolution will spring from an energized rural landscape is as cynical a ploy as the promise of new suburbs for the homeless in Léogane, Jacmel and Port-au-Prince.

U.N. and World Bank data document that well over 50 percent of the 10 million Haitians live within and adjacent to the country's six major urban agglomerations.

The greater Port-au-Prince area is estimated to hold nearly 3 million people. The metropolitan areas of Cap Haitian, Gonaïves, Les Cayes, Jacmel and St. Marc are in the 250,000-to-1 million range. These 5 million-plus urbanites are firmly connected to the world via multilingual media and a global telecommunications system. Haiti's present critical mass -- the one likely to shape its political and social destiny -- is in the 2 million largely literate and young people who reside in the shanties and tarp cities of these agglomerations.

The argument regarding the country's urbanization could well have been settled 60 years ago when Making a Living in the Marbial Valley was published in 1951 (well known under its French title: L'homme et la terre dans la vallée de Marbial). The lead researcher, Alfred Metraux, was a widely respected anthropologist, born in Switzerland and raised in Argentina, who studied see LETTER on page 23

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Dèyè Ijyèn Kont Kolera (2) Pawòl Gen Pawòl Avèk Wozvèl Jan — Batis Men dezyèm pati videyo Doktè Pyè-Lwi a. Tankou m te di nou, youn nan rezon ki fè m tran­skri pawòl sa yo sou epidemi kolera a, se kesyon kreyòl pa ta ka sèvi pou pote langaj teknik … “…/…E otomatikman ou pran premye dòz tretman an, pwosesis la, sa vle di, fòs mi­kwòb la kò­man­se kraze, ou ap gen dyare a de mwenzanmwen, epi, tankou minis la te di, apre dezè, twazè d tan ou anfòm.

Donk pi enpòtan la a konnye a, se fè mwayen prevansyon yo pou nou kapab limite lè dega. Li­mi­te l non sèlman pou tèt ou ki ap malad la men pou pwoteje lòt moun ki a kote ou, lòt moun k ap viv nan anviwonnman ansanm avè ou. E nou te liste on ansanm de prekosyon ke on moun dwe pran lè… anfèt nan vi l an jeneral, se pa sèlman lè l malad, ni sèlman lè l nan ka epidemi, e m ap redi sa, nan tout ka epidemi an jeneral, se mezi d ijyèn. Men mezi d ijyèn lan dwe rete on eleman enpòtan nan vi nou, on reflèks ke n ap fè chak jou. Donk, ki sa l ye, se asire nou ke dlo n ap bwè e pi

patikilyèman nan moman sa a nan moman epidemi pwoblèm kolera ke nou genyen an pou n bwè dlo ki trete. E lè n di dlo ki trete, nou t ap ensiste sou dlo ki trete avèk klowòks, avèk klòr—m pa vle fè piblisite, men m konnen popilasyon an gen yon pwodui ke li konn abitye itilize pou l mete nan dlo. Li kapab se yon tablèt, paske gen enstitisyon, òganizasyon ki travay nan sektè sa yo, se grenn ke yo genyen, e se pa nenpòt ki grenn li ye; yo gen de grenn e y ap di ki jan pou n sèvi avè yo. Donk gen grenn lan.

Gen klowòks la likid la. Men “de grace” silvouplè, pa itilize klowòks an grenn ke nou itilize pou n fè lesiv la. Paske sa a nou pa p ka kontwole l, nou pa konnen ki pousantaj klò ki ladan l. E pou ki sa nou ensiste pou dlo a trete ak klowòks, paske klòr la, si mikwòb la, vibriyo kolere ke direktè jeneral la t ap pale a anndan dlo sa a, klòr la ap tiye l. L ap tiye mikwòb la. Si ou fè bouyi dlo a tou, ou mete dlo a bouyi, chalè ke ou bouyi dlo a ap de­twi mikwòb sa a.

Donk se pou sa nou di ke fò n pa panike.

Li grav, se vre, men nou gen mwayen nan men nou pou nou kapab jere sitiyasyon an.

Lave men nou chak fwa n pral manje. Ou te mèt te fenk sot la­ve men ou, ou te soti, ou manyen on pòt, ou pase on kote, kou ou pral manje, ou pa ko sèten ke men ou pwòp; ou lave men ou, ou fini, ou soti ak men ou kanpe kon sa, ou pa manyen anyen, epi ou al sou tab la. Se lè sa a ou asire ou ke men ou pwòp. E n apral fè sòti tou pou tout pop-

ilasyon an “technique de lavage des mains” ki deja dayè sou on postè.

Pa watè bò rivyè yo, paske nou konnen poupou, watè, sèl, defekasyon, kèlkeswa jan nou vle rele l, se yo menm ki genyen mikwòb la ladan l. Donk lè on moun ap twalèt a tè oubyen l twalèt nan rivyè, li trennen mikwòb sa a dirèkteman nan dlo.

E moun k ap bwè dlo nan rivyè a, li eg­zak­ teman ekspoze a maladi a. Ni nan rivyè, ni nan sous dlo. Nou konnen gen on pakèt kote nan peyi a, moun yo se nan sous yo pran dlo. Tout anviwónman sous dlo a dwe pwoteje. Lontan nan peyi a, tout moun te respekte anviwónman sous, men konnye la a gen anpil moun ki konstwi kay bò sous dlo yo. Sa konstitiye on gwo ris pou popilasyon an. Paske lè moun lan abite nan zòn sous la, e se nan zòn sous la tou li fè bezwen l.

Fò nou byen kuit tou sa n ap manje, men ann Ayiti sa a pa tèlman on gwo pwoblèm, paske nou pa tèlman konn manje manje k pa twò byen kuit. Vyann nou, nou byen kuit li. Diri nou byen kuit. Sòs pwa a bouyi jiskaske l byen [pa klè], byen redui.

Donk “quelque part” kontinye menm teknik sa a, e menm sa nou konn manje ki manke bouyi, kite yo byen kuit epi nou pa p gen okenn ris de kontaminasyon.

Konnye la a, gen de z eleman ki enpòtan nan nitrisyon on moun se sa k rele fwi ak legim, men fwi ak legim yo, nou pral manje yo kri, oubyen n ap manje yo

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konsa. Enbyen nou asire nou, nou te gen on dlo ki klore, menm dlo pou n bwè a, nou byen fwote, byen lave, tout fwi ki gen ti espas bwose menm, nou gendwa gen on bwòs pou sa, byen bwose l, ou lave l, epi ou manje fwi ou. Paske nou konnen ki enpòtans sa genyen opwendevi nitrisyon nan lavi on moun.

Donk Ministè Sante Piblik avèk tout lòt sektè yo, gen direksyon Pwoteksyon Sivil, OMS, UNICEF, nou deja mete sou pye on sou komite anndan komite k ap jere kriz sa a pou travay sou zafè mesaj. Aktyèlman ekip la ap travay. Gen mesaj ki soti deja, ki pral pran laprès. E n ap kon­ti­nye travay sou lòt mesaj. Sa m ta renmen nan lòt mesaj “à venir” yo, m ta renmen ensiste sou za­fè kadav la. E la n ap konte anpil sou laprès pou fè mesaj sa a, pou l ka rive, e pou l ka rive byen lwen. Kolera a, li atrap fasilman de yon moun a yon lòt. Nou kòmanse konprann sa, paske rapid­man gen anpil moun ki enfekte. Donk lè on moun mouri, nòm kòd d ijyèn lan di gen on fason es­pe­syal pou yo antere moun sa a. Donk nou pral fè mesaj la soti. Fason espesyal, sa vle di fò ka­dav la dezenfekte; lojikman, yo ta sipoze mete moun sa yo nan fòs komin. Men mwen konnen sa sa vle di mò pou fanmi ayisyèn, nou pral chita ansanm pou n gade ki jan nou pral mete enfòma­syon an nan popilasyon an.

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in Europe and, on occasion, lectured at Yale and other universities.

Months of intense field investigation between 1947 and 1949 led to the realization that to ”maintain a tolerable standard of life, the Marbial peasant needed to cultivate ever-increasing areas of land.” But for quite some time, the report noted, ”there has been no more virgin soil available.” The hilly terrain and customary inheritance rules yielded ever smaller holdings on ever steeper hills. The net effect was that soil nutrients washed away, and any new farm equipment introduced was ”out of all proportion to the actual level of profits.”

It is still the case today in Haiti that except for rare crops and in certain locations, modern planting techniques are both impractical and unaffordable. The garden-size rice paddies along the Artibonite River cannot match the economies of scale achieved in rice fields that meet the horizon beyond the Arkansas banks of the Mississippi River.

By the mid-20th century, the residents of the Marbial Valley confronted conditions that Metraux suspected prevailed throughout the country. ”The flight of starving and landless peasants to the towns should be a grave warning,” he explained. ”Uprooted and unable to draw a living from the land, these unfortunates swell the urban proletariat and will sooner or later become a formidable social danger.”

Meanwhile, Downtown There are more lots cleared of debris in downtown Port-au-Prince than one would expect, especially those facing well-traveled streets. Throughout the city, private removal operations proceed with equipment of varying sizes and types. Men equipped

with hacksaws and sledgehammers pry out of the national economy. steel-reinforcing bars at every turn, destined Poor Haitians have always responded to for metal recyclers. The straight bars find the economy with their feet. Residents of their way into new construction projects. tarp cities are likely kin to those who began It is clear that the earthquake has not streaming out of the country's Marbial Valso much created new challenges as it has ley in earnest in the 1960s and at a faster shone a very bright light on those that have rate in the 1970s. Once in Port-au-Prince, piled up over a long time. On the radio, on displaced peasants grabbed what land they blogs, through the incessant chatter about le could on steep hills, on the edge of ravines pays (the country) and its trials, one hears and wherever a lot proved to be without evident ownership. the refrain that there is ”no leadership.”

Some cunning large landowners faciliPeople at all levels feel tated the construction helpless and limit their It is clear that the interventions to small of slums and grew acts of charity and look extracting earthquake has not so wealthy rents for substandard after themselves, their family and their inter- much created new chal- housing.

But even as their ests. Such helplessness is compounded by lenges as it has shone numbers grew, resithe fact that the faildents of shanties a very bright light on ings of the society are remained largely invisible.

When, routinely diagnosed, and known solutions those that have piled up on occasion, they secured employ-- especially those that over a long time. ment in the capital compel political action -- are at once doable as domestic workand permanently out of ers and laborers, reach. they continued to be ignored. Nothing in Take, for example, the slow and quixotic management of the the conduct of government agencies and in nation's principal port. For nearly every- the shape of social and commercial instione wanting to pull a container out of the tutions accounted for their presence. The Port-au-Prince port, it takes walking the public infrastructures -- health care and documents from office to office to secure utilities facilities -- that might have served an unspecified number of signatures. The them were built with barely 100,000 human exercise can last three, four weeks, some- beings in mind during and shortly after the times more. The uncertainty, the high cost American military occupation of 1915 to of legitimate and illicit duties, and the 1934. And these structures became largely charges from the shipping companies for non-operational after the earthquake.

In their daily pronouncements, governfailing to free the container in a fixed period -- about 10 days -- constitute a substantial ment officials speak of billions of dollars and arbitrary financial drain on all sectors and euros that the international community will deliver to Haiti. Some seeking office in the forthcoming November elections echo the conviction that world philanthropy is the country's way out of poverty. Of course, the detailed plans and budgets that multilateral

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banks and foreign aid agencies have requested have yet to be supplied. No matter, many insist, money will be provided anyway.

Those who share this perspective also relish making fools of others who insist that sustainable prosperity requires hard work, effective planning, and the production of goods and services that people around the world need and want. And then there is a long pending list of legal and regulatory reforms that a duly elected parliament must enact. The profile of a nation of 10 million relegated to the status of an international welfare case is a very poor risk even for the most intrepid of institutional investors.

In June 2009, the IMF and the World Bank forgave $1.2 billion of Haiti's debt.

The widely applauded decision will actually worsen Haiti's credit rating and make it nearly impossible to raise capital for infrastructure projects in the $500 million-to-$1 billion range, such as the modern industrial parks, port facilities and airports that can take advantage of trade preferences like the HOPE Act, enacted four years ago by the U.S. Congress. Properly implemented, HOPE is intended to spur the development of world-class industrial parks where work for 150,000 in apparel and electric wiring assembly can materialize in less than a decade.

Much of this sounds like déjà vu. What is new is that the old misery index bumped up in January and continues to rise. Meantime, the hills are denuded. Free cash from remittances will not flow forever. The population grows yearly. The old peasants in blue denim, straw hat and clay pipe depicted in countless paintings are all but gone. The people who matter at the moment are the millions of residents in urban shanties and under blue-and-gray tarps. They are invisible no more and can never be again.

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Halloween Parade 2010

By Darlie Gervais The Haitian Times Staff

Masqueraders gather around the Voudon figures Baron Samedi and La Grann Brigitte, made by Didier Civil at the start of the Greenwich Village Halloween parade.

Wilking Davaud, center, dancing up 6th avenue in the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade.

Revelers propelled by the rara rhythms of Djarara dancing up 6th avenue in the Greenwich Village Halloween parade sunday night.

La Grann Brigitte, made

by Didier Civil, waiting to march up 6th avenue.

Masqueraders pulling Baron Samedi wielding the gavel of justice, made by Didier Civil up 6th avenue in the Greenwich Village Halloween parade.

All photos by William Farrington

Famous Vodou Figures ‘Bawon Samdi’ and Gran Brigit March Down The Halloween Parade.

Costumes of all genres filled the Sixth Avenue in Manhattan as participants dressed up as all sorts of people and things for the 38th annual Halloween parade. The Greenwich Village parade which combined creative costumes, vibrant music and an infectious energy had a Haitian flair this year.

This year the parade hosted Haitian Carnival artist and painter Didier Civil who has been working the entire month of October, creating two well- known Haiti voodoo figures ‘Bawon Samdi’, a voodoo doctor who can raise the dead; and his wife, ‘Gran Brigitte’, who protects gravestones and drinks hot peppers. They went down Sixth Avenue as 16-foot-tall papier-mache puppets among Haitian followers who danced to the drum and trumpet of Rara band Djarara.

Civil has gained notice in recent years both for his representation of his home city of Jacmel’s preeminence as a cultural hotspot in his recently earthquake-ravaged country as well as for his teaching and exhibition record, reaching from Montserrat College near Boston to shows in Geneva, Switzerland and other sites throughout Europe.

The parade featured also dead puppets and a festive funeral cortege drawn by galloping nightmares, an illuminated Ghost Train and a dozen brand-new dancing Calaveras skeletons designed by master puppeteers Alex Kahn and Sophia Michahelles.

Haitian Rara band Djarara leading masqueraders up 6th avenue in the Greenwich Village Halloween parade.

Magali Regis, and Makani Armand, who said she was excited and proud to represent Haiti in the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade led thousands marching up 6th avenue sunday night.

Didier Civil, center, mask maker and painter from Jacmel, Haiti in the midst of the revelry, dancing with masqueraders to the rara rhythms of Djarara in the Greenwich Village Halloween parade as it moved up 6th avenue.

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Prescription

By Dr. Gerald W. Deas

Don't Gum it Up That velvety, pink tissue that overlays the upper and lower jawbone gingerly embracing the teeth, is known as the gums.

This wonderful tissue is not dumb—it knows exactly what it needs to remain healthy.

Halloween is over, yet the concentrations of sugar demons still raise their ugly heads in children’s mouths, causing gum disease and decayed teeth. When I was a kid, I often put a penny in the gumball machine at Mr. Goodman’s candy store located on the corner of my block in Brooklyn. Little did I know that my gums weren’t happy to be bathed in a solution of sugar and a host of chemicals from those brightly colored balls of sweetness. I am sure that I was having a ball, but my gums, to say the least, were not enjoying it.

To stay healthy, gums need many nutrients. My South Carolinian grandmother used to prepare a dish known as gumbo (gum-bo). In that savory dish were many vegetables containing nutrients that ensured good, healthy gums. Here’s a recipe that’s good for you and your gums: Luscious yellow corn contains an ample amount of beta-carotene, vitamin B1 (thiamin), and a host of other minerals.

Lima beans loaded with folate, iron, vitamin B1 and many phytochemicals that ward off cancer. And, my Lord, don’t forget…

Onions that give the gumbo flavor and are full of vitamin C and vitamin A. Wonderful green and red peppers make the gumbo jump with vitamin C and betacarotene, an anti-oxidant that wards off cancer.

Tomatoes give the gumbo some oomph.

They add not only flavor but also a chemical known as lycopene, which is a powerful anti-oxidant and protects not only gums but also the prostate. This wonderful red fruit is loaded with vitamin C, A, and potassium. And last, but not least…

Plenty of garlic, which lowers cholesterol and contains many natural antibiotics

that kill germs that can cause gingivitis (gum disease).

After simmering all these delicious vegetables and herbs, my grandmother sometimes added shrimp. The protein from this sea animal ensured good healthy gums.

But gumbo is not the only way to prevent gum disease. Here are some other ways to keep your gums healthy: Brush and massage your gums daily with your toothbrush to rid them of plaque and other debris.

Eat a raw vegetable daily.

Be careful not to work around toxic chemicals. If you can taste the chemicals, you can be sure that it is in your mouth and doing damage.

Rinse daily with the following solutions: sodium bicarbonate (1 teaspoon in 6 ounces of water). A mixture of hydrogen peroxide and water mixed equally. One half teaspoon of salt in 6 ounces of water.

Use these solutions one at a time following each other.

Reduce the amount of sugar-laden foods in your diet. (The average person drinks 450 cans of soda a year—that’s not healthy.)

Alcohol and smoking are dangerous to gums.

Avoid mouthwashes with high alcohol content.

Just remember, gums are smarter than you think and will enjoy good health if you don’t gum them up with bad habits and poor choices. And don’t forget to go to the dentist for annual checkups and cleanings.

Unfortunately, the dental profession is lacking enough African American dentists to practice in underserved communities.

New York University College of Dentistry has established the Gerald W. Deas Scholarship, which provides $100 thousand toward a dental education for students who meet the academic and financial need requirements. For further information, call my office at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, 718-270-4735.

Alcohol more Lethal than Heroin, Cocaine LONDON – Alcohol is more dangerous than illegal drugs like heroin and crack cocaine, according to a new study.

British experts evaluated substances including alcohol, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and marijuana, ranking them based on how destructive they are to the individual who takes them and to society as a whole.

Researchers analyzed how addictive a drug is and how it harms the human body, in addition to other criteria like environmental damage caused by the drug, its role in breaking up families and its economic costs, such as health care, social services, and prison.

Heroin, crack cocaine and methamphetamine, or crystal meth, were the most lethal to individuals. When considering their wider social effects, alcohol, heroin and crack cocaine were the deadliest.

But overall, alcohol outranked all other substances, followed by heroin and crack cocaine. Marijuana, ecstasy and LSD scored far lower.

The study was paid for by Britain's Centre for Crime and Justice Studies and was published online Monday in the medical journal, Lancet.

Experts said alcohol scored so high because it is so widely used and has devastating consequences not only for drinkers but for those around them. ”Just think about what happens (with alcohol) at every football game,” said Wim van den Brink, a professor of psychiatry

and addiction at the University of Amsterdam. He was not linked to the study and co-authored a commentary in the Lancet.

When drunk in excess, alcohol damages nearly all organ systems. It is also connected to higher death rates and is involved in a greater percentage of crime than most other drugs, including heroin.

But experts said it would be impractical and incorrect to outlaw alcohol. ”We cannot return to the days of prohibition,” said Leslie King, an adviser to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and one of the study's authors. ”Alcohol is too embedded in our culture and it won't go away.”

King said countries should target problem drinkers, not the vast majority of people who indulge in a drink or two. He said governments should consider more education programs and raising the price of alcohol so it isn't as widely available.

Experts said the study should prompt countries to reconsider how they classify drugs. For example, last year in Britain, the government increased its penalties for the possession of marijuana. One of its senior advisers, David Nutt - the lead author on the Lancet study - was fired after he criticized the British decision. ”What governments decide is illegal is not always based on science,” said van den Brink. He said considersee ALCOHOL on page 23

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Cholera Outbreak Raises The Stakes At Haiti Health Conference Special to The Haitian Times

Port-au-Prince, Haiti - In the midst of a three-day health conference in Haiti sponsored by the National-Haitian American Health Alliance (NHAHA), the news of a cholera outbreak broke as the day was winding down. The conference provided a rare opportunity for the Diaspora, the international community and the Ministry of Health to present their views, share their efforts and challenges and look at system change.

NHAHA's mission is to improve the health and welfare of Haitians through coordinated resources, information sharing and capacity building.

200 people including the Minister of Health and key members of his staff, along with the Minister of the Diaspora participated at The 7th annual NHAHA. Policymakers, service providers and researchers, both from Haiti and the US, also gathered to discuss strategies for improving Haiti’s health system.

Incidentally, the conference highlighted the need for a coordinated country-wide plan to build a solid infrastructure in Haiti to bring adequate housing, clean water, and functional sewage system and health access to all Haitians including the ones living in the most rural areas, referred to as ”sections

rurales”.

“Unless the country’s infrastructure as a whole is improved, and the capacity of the Ministry of Health is strengthened, we will continue to put out fires and our fellow Haitians will continue to die in the same conditions,” said NHAHA executive Director Yannick Eveillard.

While there are many successes, and good intentions, the conference revealed that Haiti has a disjointed, dysfunctional health system of care incapable of responding to the needs of the Haitian population, with a “mish mosh” of service providers and services unequal, and uneven. Programs and clinics operate under disparate accountability measures with a lack of central oversight and data collection at the country level.

At the October conference the Ministry of Health plan provides a blueprint for the future that addresses some of these issues but the organizers felt it lacks the necessary elements to give hope that something will change in the near future.

“We believe that a 25-year service delivery plan with specific timeframes, level of funding and person responsible should be spearheaded by MSPP to align existing services, identify gaps and allocate resources with the assistance of the international community and the Haitian Diaspora,” Eveillard said.

Haitian Diaspora Conference Reports on Haitian Immigrants with AIDS Special to The Haitian Times

The National Haitian-American Health Alliance recently held their 7th Annual conference in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and reported findings from their new study showing that the AIDS rate amongst Haitian immigrants is similar to that for African-Americans, which challenges previous notions that Haitians have a higher rate of AIDS than all other groups.

The study, titled “HIV among Haitian-born persons in the United States, 1985-2007,” is the first to report on HIV surveillance and AIDS trends for Haitians compared to the U.S. population and African-Americans. It was conceptualized by the National Haitian-American Health Alliance (NHAHA) in collaboration with researchers from Harvard Medical School, the Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard-affiliated health system.

Led by Dr. Linda Marc-Clerisme, a social epidemiologist who specializes in the psychosocial aspects of HIV/AIDS at the Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research at Cambridge Health Alliance, the researchers analyzed CDC surveillance data from 1985-2007, for Haitian-born adults and adolescents living in the United States diagnosed with AIDS. Cases were identified by the designation of ‘Haiti’ as place of birth on the CDC case report form. The population denominators used to compute AIDS rates comparing African-American and Haitian communities were based on data from both the U.S. Census Bureau and Haitian Consulates.

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vide disaster relief in case Tomas does hit.

The ship had to cut short a humanitarian mission in Suriname.

After weakening back to a tropical storm Sunday evening, Tomas was swirling westward in the middle of the Caribbean and wasn't an immediate threat to land. But the storm is expected to regain power and veer toward Haiti late in the week. ”Right now they just need to stay tuned,”

can Health Alliance is a membership organization based in New York which mission is to improve the health and welfare of Haitians by enhancing communication, promoting and facilitating collaborative projects.

In 2007, Haitian immigrants constitute 1.2% of the total US AIDS cases. When the research team used Census denominators to calculate the AIDS rate among Haitian immigrants, findings showed that per every 100,000, 78 persons from this community were diagnosed with AIDS, which suggests a seven-fold over-representation in the CDC surveillance database. But when population estimates from the Haitian Consulates were used, the AIDS rate ranged from 35 to 46 diagnoses per every 100,000 Haitian immigrant, which is similar to the four-fold over-representation for African-Americans

said John Cangialosi at the U.S. Hurricane Center in Miami. ”This is the stage to be aware.”

Monday evening, Tomas had maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (75 kph) and was centered about 400 miles (640 kilometers) south-southeast of Haiti's quakeravaged capital, Port-au-Prince. It was moving west at 12 mph (19 kph).

As a hurricane Saturday, Tomas was blamed for at least 14 deaths in a cluster of islands in the eastern Caribbean, causing damage that St. Vincent Prime Minister

in the CDC AIDS surveillance database.

“The US Census Bureau acknowledges that foreign-born populations are often ‘hard-tocount’ if they are undocumented,” said Dr. Marc-Clerisme.

“This may explain the difference in the population estimates used and the resulting discrepancy in AIDS rates.”

Dr. Marc-Clerisme’s research and knowledge of the Haitian community resulted in a 2007 appointment to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Race & Ethnicity Advisory Committee on AfricanAmericans, where she serves as Vice-Chair. In 2007, the Census estimated there were 530,897 foreign-born Haitians living in the U.S., whereas Haitian Consulates estimated there were between 900,000 to 1.2 million Haitian-born persons living in the U.S. during this same time

Ralph Gonsalves described as ”the worst we have seen in living memory.”

Fields of bananas — a major export for St. Vincent — were flattened and roughly 300 homes were severely damaged. Hundreds of St. Vincent residents were treated in clinics for injuries, particularly in Sandy Bay on the island's northeast coast.

In St. Lucia, Tomas inflicted severe damage on southern areas, particularly Vieux Fort, the island's second-largest town and the home of the international airport. Two

period.

“The totals compiled by these two sources are quite disparate, and it is important to note that Consulates do not run nationally representative surveys or censuses to estimate, or count, the number of their nationals living in the U.S.,” added Dr. Marc-Clerisme.

“Their figures are based on the estimated number of services provided to the Haitian community across the U.S.” “Our findings also suggest a need to tailor culturally sensitive prevention and promotion campaigns for this population, as results from this study also show that both Haitian-born men and women are more likely to receive a late-stage diagnosis compared to African-Americans overall,” said Eustache Jean-Louis, MD, NHAHA Chair and study coauthor.

main bridges were left impassable with gaping holes, cutting the community off from the capital, Castries.

On Monday evening, Prime Minister Stephenson King said 14 people were confirmed dead in St. Lucia, most in the hard-hit southern town of Soufriere.

He did not disclose specifics of how the people died.

Tourism Minister Allen Chastanet told a St. Lucia radio station that Tomas triggered numerous landslides in Soufrière, which he said ”looks like a war zone.”

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-Helen B. Atkinson Health Center will be having mammogram check every First Monday of each month from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. In front of CHN's Helen B. Atkinson Health Center, 81 W. 115th Street, New York. These Mammograms will only be for women ages 40 and older, with or without insurance who are New York City residents.

Mobile mammogram unit provided by American Italian Cancer Foundation. To Make An Appointment: Call (212) 426-0088

& 11th Avenue in Manhattan) Haitian music, dance and art will fill all three floors of the stunning arts complex.

Central Harlem Health Revival (CHHR), Patricia Butts, Co-Chair, CHHR and First Lady, The Abyssinian Baptist Church, Dr. Olajide Williams, Harlem Hospital, Council Member Inez E. Dickens, DJ Envy, the Cold Crush Brothers and invited guests: Congressman Charles B. Rangel, Assemblyman Keith L.T. Wright and Senator Bill Perkins. WHAT: Health Walk – It’s A Health Thing! & 5th Anniversary Health Festival DATE: Sunday, September 26, 2010 ● 1:00p.m. for a press Conference at

-The Men's Health Clinic at Helen B. Atkinson Health Center will offer Primary health care services for men in a male-centered environment every first and fourth Saturday of every month from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m at the CHN's Helen B. Atkinson Health Center, 81 W. 115th Street, New York. To Make An Appointment: Call (212) 426-0088 A free festival of Haitian music, dance and art will take place on Saturday, October 16, 2010, 12 p.m.—6 p.m. Affirmation Arts and Haiti Cultural Exchange invite the community to experience and celebrate the rich cultural heritage of Haiti at Selebrasyon!, a free, all-day festival that will bring the sights and sounds of Haiti to Manhattan’s west side. An event for all ages, Selebrasyon! revolves around Saving Grace: A Celebration of Haitian Art, an exhibition that consists of more than 50 artworks including sculpture, paintings, and works on paper. Most of the artwork has never been seen outside of Haiti, and two pieces were recovered and restored from the January 12, 2010 earthquake. The program is as followed: Haitian Jazz Bands Markus Schwartz and Lakou Brooklyn, as well as Buyu Ambroise & The Blues in Red Band, featuring soulful jazz singer Melanie Charles.

Artist Workshops for children of all ages conducted

by Haitian artists Klode Garoute, Cybil Charlier, Shakespeare Guirand and others.

Storytelling by Jennifer Celestin of classic Haitian tales.

Haitian Dancers performing lively works to traditional Haitian music.

Film Screening of “Maestro Issa,” a 52-minute documentary tracing the evolution of Haitian music in the 1930's and 1940's through the career of a Haitian musician of Lebanese origin.

Gallery Tours by Saving Grace: A Celebration of Haitian Art curator Gérald Alexis and Affirmation Arts director Marla Goldwasser.

Events will take place at Affirmation Arts, 523 West 37th Street, New York, NY 10018 (Between 10th Avenue

2:45p.m. at 148th Street and Bradhurst Avenue. A Festiva lwill directly follow the 5th Anniversary Health Festival.

Celebration of Haitian Art is on display at Affirmation Arts from October 1—November 24, 2010.

Queens

The Queens Museum of Art, at New York City Building, located at Flushing Meadows Corona Park Queens, invite people to its celebratory 5th Anniversary Cocktail Reception on October 7th at 6pm. The museum provides convenient access, either on site or nearby, to everything visitors from the publishing and editorial industry might want or need, from restaurants, hotel rooms and entertainment, to a quick trip to the Flushing Meadow Park. For more information about V Book Fair Expo New York 2010 please contact: (917) 238-3155 Waldo Guevara at 516.884.2037.

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The United Community Centers, a Brooklyn, New York non-profit, needs your help in spreading the word to garner the public’s vote to become one of five organizations to receive $20,000 in project sponsorship through the Tom’s of Maine’s “50 States for Good” initiative. Focused on grassroots projects that bring positive, lasting change to communities, the “50 States for Good” program also asks organizations to share what their volunteer needs are to help get important projects started or to broaden their reach. If named a winner, United Community Centers will use the funds to expand their healthy living project by implementing a new curriculum that will train the twenty-four youth in their paid internship program to cook nutritious meals using fresh, local produce. Following the training, the young people will take the lead in organizing six Community Meals. for information contact Susan Dewhirst at sdewhirst@tomsofmaine.com or call (207) 467-2406.

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Charles Buford, a disabled veteran and his organization Make a Wish Veterans are leading a global humanitarian effort on Tuesday, September 28th 2pm sharp Mr. Charles Buford This year, Charles Buford will be hosting Christmas for Haiti. Mr. Buford and his organization are gathering sleeping bags, toys for the children, tents and many other needed supplies. Two airplanes have been donated

by Florida Air Transport and an airdrop will take place on Christmas Eve with receiving agents already in place. For contact information visit www.christmasforhaiti.org

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Cholera Outbreak Raises The Stakes At Haiti Health Conference Special to The Haitian Times

Port-au-Prince, Haiti - In the midst of a three-day health conference in Haiti sponsored by the National-Haitian American Health Alliance (NHAHA), the news of a cholera outbreak broke as the day was winding down. The conference provided a rare opportunity for the Diaspora, the international community and the Ministry of Health to present their views, share their efforts and challenges and look at system change.

NHAHA's mission is to improve the health and welfare of Haitians through coordinated resources, information sharing and capacity building.

200 people including the Minister of Health and key members of his staff, along with the Minister of the Diaspora participated at The 7th annual NHAHA. Policymakers, service providers and researchers, both from Haiti and the US, also gathered to discuss strategies for improving Haiti’s health system.

Incidentally, the conference highlighted the need for a coordinated country-wide plan to build a solid infrastructure in Haiti to bring adequate housing, clean water, and functional sewage system and health access to all Haitians including the ones living in the most rural areas, referred to as ”sections rurales”.

“Unless the country’s infrastructure as a whole is improved, and the capacity

of the Ministry of Health is strengthened, we will continue to put out fires and our fellow Haitians will continue to die in the same conditions,” said NHAHA executive Director Yannick Eveillard.

While there are many successes, and good intentions, the conference revealed that Haiti has a disjointed, dysfunctional health system of care incapable of responding to the needs of the Haitian population, with a “mish mosh” of service providers and services unequal, and uneven. Programs and clinics operate under disparate accountability measures with a lack of central oversight and data collection at the country level.

At the October conference the Ministry of Health plan provides a blueprint for the future that addresses some of these issues

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but the organizers felt it lacks the necessary elements to give hope that something will change in the near future.

“We believe that a 25-year service delivery plan with specific timeframes, level of funding and person responsible

should be spearheaded by MSPP to align existing services, identify gaps and allocate resources with the assistance of the international community and the Haitian Diaspora,” Eveillard said.

Clinton Lauds Digicel’s O’Brien for Haiti Initiative Denis O'Brien, one of the nominees for the Jamaica Observer 2010 Business Leader Award, came in for praise recently from former US President Bill Clinton.

Giving the address titled ”Embracing Our Common Humanity”, at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel last week, Clinton said that while politicians might dwell on the nature of a project and its cost, the most important question was how the project would be implemented.

He cited the work of O'Brien, the Digicel founder and chairman, in Haiti as an excellent example of ”a private citizen

trying to solve public problems and do public good”.

Clinton said that O' Brien ran a business consortium that aimed to promote development, arguing that ”we live in a profoundly unequal world”.

He noted that even before January's massive earthquake, 75 per cent of Haitians lived in dire poverty and 85 per cent had no power supply.

Clinton, who is in the forefront of the Haiti restoration effort, has been collaborating with O'Brien. Digicel was the first private corporation to commit extensive

G20 Leaders Must Fix Financial Sector: IMF Chief AGADIR, Morocco (AFP) – World leaders gathering at the Group of 20 summit must take action to fix the financial sector, International Monetary Fund director general Dominique Strauss-Kahn said on Monday. ”The world's people needs to hear them say they are going to fix” the financial sector and the problems of old economic models at the meeting in South Korea, StraussKahn said during his opening speech to the International Forum on Human Development. ”There is still more to do in terms of international regulation and supervision,” he said.

Strauss-Kahn said it was necessary to recast existing economic models, relying more on domestic demand.

The Frenchman said employment should be the priority of further globalisation. ”The world has lost 30 million jobs because of the global crisis,” he said. ”In the framework of the new globalisation, the first priority is employment, the second priority is employment and the third priority is employment,” he insisted.

More than 1,500 international experts are taking part in the forum, including the president of the Islamic Development Bank, Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed Ali.

support to the tune of US$20 million to the Haiti rebuilding programme immediately after the earthquake, according to the company.

Commenting on the work of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in Haiti, O'Brien said that he had been inspired by the compassion and commitment shown by Clinton towards the people of Haiti and that he shared his resolve that the country would emerge stronger after this setback because of the faith and resilience of the Haitian people.

In February of this year, O' Brien was declared a Goodwill Ambassador by the mayor of Port-au-Prince, Jean Yves Jason, who said that before Digicel's launch in

Haiti, back in 2006, O'Brien had been a huge supporter of the French-speaking country.

Jason said the Digicel head had worked ”tirelessly to ensure a better standard of living for our people through the provision of housing, educational facilities and programmes”.

In Jamaica, the Denis O'Brien-funded Digicel Foundation has sponsored multimillion dollar projects in every parish of Jamaica, in education, community development and sustainability.

The story was first published on jamaicaobserver.com.

Small Business Backs NinePoint Bank Plan Setting Opportunity In Motion For Our Customers, Community & Economy, small business has given lukewarm support for a federal Coalition plan to improve competition in the banking sector.

The nine-point plan, developed by opposition treasury spokesman Joe Hockey, was ”fine” and reflected what many people had been asking for years, Small Business Council executive director Peter Strong said. ”But nothing has ever happened,” he told ABC Radio this morning.

The council is calling on banks to publish data that shows how many small business are being denied access to credit and why. ”We don't have those figures,” Mr Strong said, adding the data would enable an informed debate about lending practices to take place. ”If we're all saying the banks are being horrible to small business for not looking after us and they've got figures to show that's not true, they need to get those figures and pass them on.”

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Didi Santana Has Joined Djakout #1

Guitarist Didi Santana, who was a member of Kadans for fifteen years, did his first gig last week with Djakout # 1.

The band which has released a new album last week, hooked up with the musician at the time their were working on the new project. At least he stands up when it comes to be a front man. So it's no surprise that Djakout #1 has recruited the hard-rocking guitarist to front the band in replacement of Cedric.

Thirty Thousands People Welcomed Kassav in Angola

Nearly thirty thousand people gathered Saturday night in Luanda to attend the fourth concert of Kassav at the Cidadela stadium in Luanda.

The group Kassav convinced once again the public that he began to conquer in 1985. Even in the rain, people rushed to applaud Jocelyne Beroard, Jacob Desvarieux, Jean-Philippe Marthely, Jean-Claude Naimro, Georges Decimus, and others. Yola Semedo, opened the show followed by Yannick, Yuri da Cunha, shortly before the most anticipated 22:22. On stage, the Caribbean group sang various songs known to the public as ”Di Mwen”, ”Kole Sere”, ”Yélélé”, ”Sie Bwa”, ”Anbalate”, ”Rete”, ”Solei”, ”Siwo” and others.

“Sortie 67” to Premier November 5th

Producer Jephte Bastien will show the public his first feature film “Sortie 67” on the big screen in Quebec. The director has a unique vision and the lens through which he views the world is influenced by his feeling. His fascination to that form of expression has led to a level of understanding that allows him to open his own window on the seventh art. “Sortie 67” is the story of the mulatto Haitian Québécois, whose childhood was rocked when, at age eight, he sees his father murder his mother, a crime he swears revenge.

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CHYANANM to Perform in Miami for the First Time

The all-percussion band CHAYNANM will embark on their first ever tour of the United States next month, with performances in Miami, West Palm Beach, Daytona Beach, and Sun City. With musical influences ranging from Racine Mapou de Azor, Mamady Keita, Caribbean, and African rhythms, fans will be able to enjoy Chaynanm's unique repertoire of hits that include songs such as ”Wondjale”, ”Banda”, and the ever popular ”Chaynanm Debake”. The tour will mark Chaynanm's first major live appearances in the United States. CHAYNANM is a music conscious percussions and Folkloric, World, traditional, and Voodoo music ensemble out of Haiti, and has performed across the Caribbean. Their repertoire is rich of Haitian folkloric, traditional, and Voodoo-Jazz music.

Iris Photo Collective to Show “Harlem to Haiti” in its “Speaker Series”

On November 20, The Iris Photo Collective Visual Lab will host their final “Speaker Series” for the year entitled “Harlem to Haiti” an evening of film, fundraising, music and dialogue. As part of the finale of a very successful ten weeks outreach program, IPC will be screening Haitian-American filmmaker, Rachelle Salnave-Gardner. Her piece titled ‘Harlem’s Mart 125: The American Dream’ is a documentary about the gentrification of Harlem. Iris Photo Collective Visual Lab is a partnership among Iris Foundation, Iris Photo Collective, and the Little Haiti Cultural Center. The ten-week program had explored storytelling; its main target audiences are both children and adults who are engaged and interested in enhancing their knowledge of the visual language of photojournalism. Through collaborative exercises, discussions, critiques, and lectures participants will develop the skills necessary to reveal a strong photographic narrative using their own visual voice. The Speaker Series is a semi-monthly discussion between Industry professional's and visionaries who share their experiences as a mean for inspiration to the students.

French Institute Opened a New

At a brand new premises built at the same address in Bois-Verna, Corinne Micaelli, the new director of the French Institute of Haiti, announced the schedule of activities for the next two months of the institution at a Press Conference October 29. The director took the opportunity to introduce the new staff of the Institute for the Press.

Alain Sauval, Sir Cultural Cooperation at the Embassy of France presented the action of his country as a whole during that meeting on the redesigned courtyard of the Institute. He said that the French Institute, along with six French Alliances constitutes an important step to enhance the French culture and to promote the Haitian culture locally and internationally.

Defunct Volo Volo to Perform in Martinique

Fans of old-time Compas music are programming the former band Volo Volo to perform its old Compas songs and producing their own fan videos. On November 26, Volo Volo will perform at the Atrium, in Fort-de-France, Martinique. Though reviews were favorable, the lineup the band presented will not to last, as pressures from personal life and needs, involvement in other projects had forced the departure of some musicians. As a band they do want to

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Brooklyn College Ends Flatbush Film Fest Brooklyn, NY – The yearlong Caribbean film festival, cariBBeing cult classics film fest, reached its culmination October 30 with Flatbush Film Fest at the Walt Whitman Theatre at Brooklyn College, 2900 Campus Road.. This year’s theme, United We Stand: Ayiti Then & Now, celebrated the unwavering spirit that embodies Haiti and all its people.

“The Flatbush community is underserved and hasn’t had a theatre in over 10 years and we thought it was time not only to bring cinema to the commu-

nity but more significantly, cinema that is reflective of the community’s rich cultural heritage,” said Brooklyn College Anthropology and Caribbean Studies alum, and Flatbush resident, Shelley Worrell, who co-produced this project.

The event included a panel and silent auction which featured works by local Haitian artists Samuel Augustin, Nicole Titus, and Jean Chery. Haitian Rara band Brother Hi among others entertained participants.

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perform live on a regular basis but those Compas stars will change their mind all the time when it comes to be at a rehearsal.

“There are only two reasons for Volo Volo to do that,” a younger fan said to Showbiz.

“For nostalgia or for money. I’m not big on nostalgia, but a number of people in Martinique are especially when they listen to “Caresse”, or “Riviem Simalo.” Several years ago, Volo Volo entered the pantheon of great disbanded bands you never expected to reunite, but they did it more than once, especially in the French territories. If ever a band never got a shot at reaching their huge potential, it would be them, which disbanded in 2004 after they released their fifth studio album “A Pa Nou”.

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Pain Patate Recipe

Right up there with, “can I get the recipe for those famous patties?”, is the request for pain patate recipe. Since the ‘pate’ secret will remain just that, a secret, I thought I’d offer a nice compromise: the recipe for Pain Patate. I am not a fan of making this dessert because I find the process of cooking and stirring the sweet potato mixture to be a bit tedious, however, there’s no getting around it, at least not without sacrificing quality. However, this dessert is absolutely delicious and is worth the arm workout.

Pain Patate (Sweet Potato Bread Pudding) 1 pound sweet white yams 16 oz of canned grated coconut 1 pound ripe bananas, peeled and mashed (about 5 bananas) 1/3 cup raisins 3/4 cup evaporated milk 2/3 cup condensed milk (add more or less to adjust to your sweetness level) 1/2 cup butter, melted, plus extra for buttering the pan 1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger 1 teaspoon grated fresh nutmeg

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract zest of 1 lime 1/8 teaspoon salt Peel and grate the sweet potatos into a large bowl. Mix in the coconut, bananas, raisins, evaporated milk, condensed milk, butter, ginger, nutmeg, vanilla, lime zest and salt. Pour the mixture into a large, heavybottom saucepan and cook over medium heat, stirring frequently, until it comes to a strong simmer. At about 30 minutes the sweet potato mixture is cooked.

Heat the Oven to 375 degrees. Pour the mixture into a buttered 8-inch square metal baking pan. Flatten the top with a spatula. Place in preheated oven and bake at 375 degrees for about 30-45 minutes or until top is dark brown.

Remove from the oven and cool to room temperature, then refrigerate until cold so the pudding can set.

When ready to serve, heat the pudding in the oven at 350 degrees until warmed through, about 15 minutes. You may enjoy alone or with ice cream.

Nadege Fleurimond is the owner & business manager of Fleurimond Catering, Inc., www.fgcatering.com, an off-premise catering firm serving the NY/ NJ/CT/MA areas. She is also the author of a Taste of Life: A Culinary Memoir, a humorous and heart warming compilation of recipes and funny anecdotes. (http://www.nadegefleurimond.com) For questions and comments you may write her at nadege1981@gmail.com.

Cocktail Corner Blackberry Crush Ingredients Serves 1 •4 blackberries •1 tablespoon lemon juice •1 tablespoon Simple Syrup •1 1/4 ounces vodka •Seltzer •Ice •Mint sprig Directions 1. In a glass, combine blackberries, lemon juice, and simple syrup; lightly crush berries to release their juice. Add ice and vodka; top with seltzer. Stir to combine. Garnish with a mint sprig.

Strawberry-Ginger Caipirosca

Ingredients Serves 2 •10 fresh strawberries, hulled and quartered •30 fresh mint leaves •1/4 lime, cut into 4 pieces •1 teaspoon freshly grated ginger •2 tablespoons sugar •2 cups cracked ice •1/2 cup vodka Directions 1. Place berries, mint, lime, and ginger in a cocktail shaker. Sprinkle sugar over top; muddle mixture with a long spoon until almost pureed.

Add ice and vodka; shake well. Divide between two glasses; serve.

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A Better You

By Onyi

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Hot Yoga

Here in the northeast we get both extremes of weather: very hot and very cold. Since we’re headed towards the colder weather, the debate over which extreme is better has naturally resurfaced. Constituents for Team Cold Weather argue that cold weather is better because you can always put more clothing on, but in hot weather there’s only so much you can take off.

While that is a valid argument, I’m definitely on Team Hot Weather. I hate being cold. I totally shut down when I’m cold. I just don’t want to do anything or go anywhere. I can’t sleep if I’m cold. I just can’t do anything when it’s cold.

I love heat. I like the way it feels on my skin. I feel alive. I guess that’s why I was naturally drawn to hot yoga. I know some of you are rolling your eyes at the mention of the word “yoga” and others are picturing people with their legs crossed upside-down indian-style chanting weird stuff, but hear me out.

First, there are so many different forms of yoga. The reason there are so many different forms is that there are so many different reasons for practicing yoga. You can practice yoga for strength or you can

Aquarius

Jan. 20 - Feb. 18

A new cycle is beginning for you in which you may find yourself throwing away old beliefs and mental processes, Aquarius. Out with the old and in with the new. This time of housecleaning is extremely important, for you will find that the same tired old speech that you've been working on is suddenly defunct. Pull your resources together and construct a new platform that makes you proud.

Pisces

Feb. 20 - March 19

Your actions may go against your rational thinking, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing, Pisces. Thoughts and feelings are apt to aggressively clash today, but that doesn't mean you have to be a victim of the resulting demolition.

Note the big pieces that survive after the initial impact. Recognize these as your strengths and work to build them back up while leaving the smaller pieces behind.

practice for flexibility. You can practice to heal an injury or for weight loss.

You can practice for meditation or for stress relief. Chances are there is a form of yoga that would work for you.

This piece would turn into a book if I wrote about all of the different forms of yoga so I’ll focus on the yoga I practice: Bikram Yoga. Bikram Yoga is the practice of 26 specific postures in a room that is maintains a temperature between 95 and 105 degrees Fahrenheit. Did I mention I love heat?

In India, where yoga originates, the temperature is generally around 100 degrees Fahrenheit. When the temperature is that high people benefit more from their yoga by being able to go deeper into their postures since the heat loosens the muscles. The sweating is another added benefit because sweat aids the body in detoxification.

Aries

March 20 - April 18

Someone has suddenly put the fan on high, Aries, and papers are blowing everywhere. Neat piles whisked into large swirls of chaos. Everyone is shouting opinions about what should be done about it.

Meanwhile, there are people making demands on you that you just can't handle. Slow down and communicate your situation to others.

They will understand and support your predicament. The wind will die down soon.

Taurus

April 19 - May 20

Try not to get tangled in other people's words, Taurus. It could be that you're accidentally misconstruing their statements because you aren't listening closely.

Rather, your mind is focused on your own thoughts, even though you snap to attention when something hits you wrong. Show respect by turning down the volume in your head when someone else has the floor, even if you don't agree with what they're saying.

Gemini

May 21 - June 20

There's a terrific expansive feeling to the day, Gemini, which you will appreciate more than anyone. For other people, this energy might expand into a headache. For you, it's apt to expand your feeling of success. It also might expand your stomach, so be careful that you don't overindulge.

Other than that, don't hold back on your activities. Whatever you do will be very productive.

Cancer

June 21 - July 22

There might be some unexpected communication coming from a long-lost friend or old roommate today, Cancer. You never know whom you might run into when you leave the house, so stay alert. An old teacher could be just around the corner. Perhaps a bizarre news story in the paper catches your attention, because there on the page is a photo of the kid who lived next door to your childhood home.

Unlike many other yoga practices, a Bikram Yoga class moves through the same exact poses every single class.

The 26 postures have been selected to optimize the body’s detoxification and healing processes. Other benefits to Bikram Yoga include weight loss, strength training and injury recovery.

Weight loss from yoga? Yes! Even though you’re not running around your heart rate definitely gets going. For weight loss all you need is to break a sweat and an elevated heart rate. You definitely get both in Bikram Yoga.

The postures also work on your metabolism by getting your internal systems working more in harmony.

But wait, there’s more! Bikram Yoga also helps to strengthen your joints, improve your posture, improve your breathing and strengthen your muscles. It’s especially good for your abdominal muscles. I know what you’re thinking: six pack for the summertime!

There is also a mental aspect to Bikram Yoga. It’s not what you think.

No chanting or anything like that. In order for your practice to be effective, you really need to focus only on what you are doing in each posture. This sounds easy, but it’s really not. At first, I dismissed it as hogwash. But I definitely notice that when I focus more I can hold the postures better and just have a better experience.

With all of the craziness and distraction we have in our lives, it’s definitely beneficial to be able to just really forget about everything else and focus on what you’re doing. It helps your

Leo

July 23 - Aug. 22

This is one of those days when you just can't wait for someone to stop talking so you can say something, Leo. It's likely you won't even wait.

Don't be surprised if friction results from such strongly held opposing views. People could blow things out of proportion, since everyone is convinced that they are right.

The interesting thing about this situation is that it could result in a productive time.

Virgo

Aug.23 - Sept.22

Your mind could be going in many directions, Virgo.

Direct your energy toward small projects that require intellect. Your energy is likely to come in waves, so use it wisely when you have it, and feel free to take a break when you don't. Tell your boss that you will be much more productive if you have a 20-minute break in the afternoon in order to recharge

November 3-9, 2010

mental clarity and makes your practice so much more effective. The mental focus that you practice also carries over into your everyday life. I know that I’ve benefited from it because I’m definitely easily distracted. I’ve found that I focus more and more in my daily life than I did before I began Bikram Yoga.

I am partial to Bikram Yoga because the benefits are all things that I’m looking for, but you can do some other type of yoga that suits you better. I go to a studio to practice since heating my house to 100 degrees Fahrenheit daily would probably ruin my hardwood floors. But you don’t have to do the same. You don’t have to go to a fancy studio to practice.

You can get a yoga video and practice in your living room. You can even look up yoga videos online. Yogatoday.com is a good start. They have a free class every week. Bikram practice is 90 minutes, but you can do other forms of yoga for just 15 minutes and get some benefits.

Today I’ll be starting a 30-day challenge where I’ll be practicing Bikram Yoga at least once a day, every day for 30 days. It won’t be easy, but I know I’ll be a new person at the end of it.

If you’ve never tried yoga this is a great time to give it a shot. Ask a friend, search online or buy a video.

You can even write me for some tips.

If you have tried yoga before, try it again. Or try a new form. Your body will thank you.

Until next time, cheers to a better you!

Libra

Sept.23 - Oct. 22

People will listen to you much more than usual, Libra.

Sometimes when you say something, people hear you but minutes later forget what you said. Today is different. Your words will penetrate more deeply and end up being disseminated much more widely than ever before. Don't be stingy with what you have to say. Give people your full opinion on the situation.

Your impact will be significant.

Scorpio

Oct. 21 - Nov 20

You're apt to disagree sharply with information you receive, Scorpio. Perhaps your attitude is a bit selfish, so you aren't able to appreciate ideas that are more humanitarian in nature.

Expand your way of thinking to include the people around you.

You will find that the more you offer yourself to others, the more respected and happy you will be overall.

Sagittarius

N o v. 2 2 - D e c . 2 1

Climactic events are apt to occur in your life, Sagittarius. It's time to condense and solidify your grand schemes and bright ideas in such a way that makes them more practical. Things may be spinning so quickly that you aren't quite sure where to jump on. Worry about that later. For now, what you need to do is express your ideas forcefully and succinctly.

Doors will open as a result.

Capricorn

Dec. 22 - Jan 19

It's time to take your communication to the next level, Capricorn. Expand outward and upward. For the last three weeks you've gone through a serious mental process that has helped you define what you stand for and believe in. Now you're in a phase that urges you to put these ideas into motion. The expansive quality of the day is profound, so take advantage of it and get moving.

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must stop immediately and a comprehensive resettlement plan protecting Haiti’s displaced population must be adopted,” Nicole Phillips, IJDH Staff Attorney and Assistant Director of Haiti Programs at the University of San Francisco School of Law said.

Kathleen Bergin, law professor and You. Me.We. Director, added that the group has conducted two fact finding missions to Haiti, and their team of lawyers in Port au Prince continues to receive reports of ongoing human rights violations. ”Our investigation shows that government agents are

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months, lost to Democrat Chris Coons in Delaware. It was a seat long in Democratic hands that Republicans had nevertheless virtually counted as their own this year, but that was before O'Donnell defeated veteran Rep. Mike Castle in a September primary.

Not all the Republican newcomers were party crashers.

In New Hampshire, Republican Kelly Ayotte won a Senate seat, defeating Democratic Rep. Paul Hodes. Former Bush administrration official Rob Portman won a seat in Ohio, and Rep. Jerry Moran in Kansas.

In a year of turmoil, there were incumbent senators in both parties who won with ease.

Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont was re-elected to his seventh term and Barbara Mikulski her fifth. New York Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand also won.

Republican Sen. Jim DeMint, who won a second term in South Carolina, has been working to establish a nationwide standing among conservatives. He was instrumental in supporting tea party challengers in several primaries this spring and summer at a time the GOP establishment was backing other candidates.

In Alabama, Sen. Richard Shelby was re-elected easily, as were Republican Sens.

Tom Coburn in Oklahoma, Richard Burr in North Carolina, John Thune in South Dakota and Johnny Isakson in Georgia.

Despite the national trend, the first House seat to change hands was in Delaware -- and it went to the Democrats.

There, John Carney easily won the seat that was Castle's for nearly two decades.

The president gave a series of radio interviews pleading with Democratic supporters not to sit on the sidelines. ”I know things are still tough out there, but we finally have job growth again,” he said in

forcing earthquake victims out of the camps with no place else to go, and that humanitarian aid, including food, water and medical care, are being withheld from camps targeted for eviction,” says Bergin. ”The police have bulldozed entire settlements, beaten and abused camp residents, and turned a blind-eye when thugs with machetes invaded the camps and assaulted the people inside.”

According to Laura Karr and Jennifer Goldsmith, Student Attorneys with the International Human Rights Law Clinic at American University’s Washington College of Law, by conducting and permitting forced evictions, Haiti has committed serious human rights abuses against IDPs

and put them at risk of irreparable harm.

Haitian IDPs urgently need the Commission's protection from these human rights violations.”

The groups hope that the hearing and legal request will prompt the Commission to take a leadership role in protecting the human rights of displaced Haitians.

For a copy of the filing, contact Nicole Phillips, IJDH at Nicole@ijdh.org or (510) 715-2855. An audio recording of the hearing is available at: http://www.cidh. oas.org/prensa/publichearings/Hearings. aspx?Lang=En&Session=120.

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one. ”It is all at risk if people don't turn out and vote today.”

While Obama's name was not on the ballot, his record and policies were. After nearly two years in power, he and congressional Democrats were saddled politically with ownership of an economy that was barely growing, 9.6 percent unemployment, a high rate of home foreclosures and personal bankruptcies, the residue of the worst recession since the 1930s. ”I will honestly say that I voted for him two years ago,” said Sally McCabe, 56, of Plymouth, Minn., stopping to cast her ballot on her way to work. ”And I want my vote back.”

In Cleveland, Tim Crews, 42, said he measures Obama's performance by the number of paying miles he drives in his delivery van. His miles have tripled to 9,000 a month. Crews said of the economy: ”It's moving. I know, because I'm moving it.” He voted accordingly.

Republicans needed to pick up 40 seats to regain a House majority they lost in 2006.

A Republican victory there would usher in an era of divided government, complicate Obama's ability to enact his proposals over the next two years and possibly force him to fight off attacks on health care legislation and other bills he has signed into law.

Some of the biggest states elected governors, including California, where Democrat Edmund G. Brown Jr., collided with Meg Whitman in his attempted return to the office he left more than a quartercentury ago.

In one of the year's marquee races, Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland faced a strong challenge from former Rep. John Kasich in his bid for a new term in Ohio.

With so many contested races, and a Supreme Court ruling removing restrictions on political activity by corporations and unions, the price tag for the elections ran to the billions.

Much of the money paid for television advertisements that attacked candidates

without letup, the sort of commercials that voters say they disdain but that polls find are effective.

Obama traveled to 14 states in the final month, some twice, in a bid to rekindle the enthusiasm of the young voters, liberals, blacks and independents whose ballots propelled him to the White House.

Not that Republicans didn't have problems of their own as the campaign began.

Their candidate recruitment was aimed at filling spots on the ballot with well-known, experienced office holders.

The voters had other ideas, and made it clear quickly. In the first of a series of

shock waves, tea party rebels dumped conservative three-term Sen. Bob Bennett at Utah's Republican convention in May. By the time the primaries were finished, six incumbents had fallen in both parties and both houses.

Senate Republicans made their peace with the rebels, necessary if they were to harness their energy for the fall campaign.

They worked to soften the edges of candidates who had advocated politically risky cuts in federal programs, questioned the wisdom of civil rights laws or doubted the separation of church and state.

A Travers Haiti

**** L’organisme de droits humains CARLI réclame des explications et des sanctions contre des policiers auteurs de ”l’assassinat” à Port-au-Prince d’un jeune étudiant en Droit. La police avait revendiqué la légitime défense concernant cet incident. Le Comité des Avocats pour le Respect des Libertés Individuelles (CARLI) dénonce dans un communiqué en date du 29 octobre, « l’assassinat » par

des policiers, le 18 octobre dernier à Portau-Prince, du jeune Frantzy Duverseau ,31 ans, étudiant en 4ème année à la Faculté de Droit de l’Université de Port-au-Prince.

L’organisme de droits humains précise que l’incident s’est produit en la résidence de la victime, à la rue Carmelot dans le quartier de Bois-Verna, à Port-au-Prince au moment où la victime tentait de s’opposer à des actes de violence exercés par le conjoint de sa sœur Fabienne Duverseau, le nommé Enold Florestal. Le CARLI indique qu’ à la requête de l’agresseur, les policiers, au nombre de quatre (4), arrivés sur les lieux à bord d’un véhicule immatriculé 1-147, ont tenté d’appréhender de force Frantzy Duverseau et d’autres membres de la famille. Devant la résistance de Frantzy Duverseau, l’un des policiers l’a alors froidement abattu. Le secrétaire général de l’organisme de droits humains, Me Renan Hédouville exige des explications sur cet assassinat et demande aux autorités judiciaires de mettre l’action publique en mouvement contre les auteurs de ce crime, conformément à la loi pénale et au respect du droit à la vie garanti par tous les instruments internationaux relatifs aux

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à la présidence. Steven Benoît, pourtant membre de Coreh, réclame des clarifications avant de supporter la candidature de Myrlande Manigat. Il évoque la candidature de M. Rébu du Plap, regroupement auquel adhèrent les candidats du RDNP. M. Rébu révèle de son coté que le Plap n'a pas encore opté pour un candidat. Par ailleurs, Jonas Coffi de Lavni n'apporte pas son appui au candidat à la présidence de son regroupement, Yves Christalin. M. Coffi invite ses électeurs à voter pour Yvon Neptune ( Ayisen pou Ayiti).

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loi avait été votée contre l’introduction excessive de mots anglais dans l’usage français et bannissait l’emploi de plusieurs termes anglais. Cependant, des décennies plus tard, rien n’a été changé. En fait, la création d’une académie pose mal le problème de l’usage de la langue dans une

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ations about revenue and taxation, like those garnered from the alcohol and tobacco industries, may influence decisions about which substances to regulate or outlaw. ”Drugs that are legal cause at least as much damage, if not more, than drugs that are illicit,” he said.