Posted: 2012 Feb 01 at 1:17pm

Haïti/Politique : Evans Paul très remonté contre le permis de séjour exigé par le Ministère de l’intérieur

mardi 31 janvier 2012 à 16:13

Le
dirigeant du parti Konvansyon Inite demokratik qualifie « d’abusive »
la dernière mesure adoptée par le  ministère de l’intérieur exigeant un
permis de séjour aux ressortissants étrangers qui souhaitent séjourner
au pays pour plus de trois mois ou qui vivent sur le territoire
national.

Evans Paul estime que cette mesure a été adoptée sans tenir compte
d’une loi traitant de la question votée en 2002 sous l’administration
Aristide.

Posted: 2012 Feb 01 at 7:45pm

La loi Voltaire

Taille de la police:

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En 2002, sous le gouvernement Aristide- Neptune, ministre des
Haïtiens vivant à l'étranger, Leslie Voltaire a fait voter par les
deux Chambres une loi qui porte depuis son nom.
La loi Voltaire du
12 août 2002 accorde des faveurs aux Haïtiens d'origine jouissant d'une
autre nationalité et à leurs descendants.
Elle éclaire d'un jour différent l'édito d'hier et le communiqué du ministère de l'Intérieur qui l'avait en partie inspiré.

L'article 1 de la loi dispose que:
.- Tout haïtien d'origine jouissant d'une autre nationalité et ses descendants sont:
a) Dispensés de visa Haïtien pour entrer et sortir d'Haïti;
b) Dispensés de l'accomplissement des formalités du Permis de Séjour et du paiement des taxes y afférentes;

c) Dispensés de l'accomplissement des formalités du Permis de Travail,
du permis d'emploi et du paiement des taxes y afférentes;
d) Dispensés de l'accomplissement des formalités liées à la licence des Étrangers et du paiement des taxes y afférentes;

e) Éligibles tant à la fonction publique qu'au marché de l'emploi, sauf
dans les cas expressément interdits par la Constitution;
f) Dispensés de l'autorisation du Ministère de la Justice pour acquérir toutes propriétés immobilières;

g) Autorisés à acquérir en zone urbaine toute propriété immobilière
avec une superficie ne dépassant pas 3 ha 87, soit l'équivalent de
trois (3) carreaux de terre;
h) Habilités à jouir pleinement des mêmes droits sur la succession que tous les Haïtiens;

i) Autorisés, en cas de vente aux enchères par la voie parée, à se
proclamer adjudicataire de l'immeuble affecté au paiement de sa créance
et des déclarations de commandes peuvent être faites en sa faveur.
Dans ses considérants, la loi expliquait que:


"Considérant l'apport considérable des Haïtiens d'outre-mer à
l'économie nationale par l'aide régulière qu'ils fournissent à leurs
parents vivant en Haïti, par leur participation et leur implication
dans la réalisation d'oeuvres à caractère humanitaire et social dans
les régions les plus défavorisées du pays ;

Considérant leur
importante contribution à l'enrichissement du patrimoine culturel
national tant par l'exercice de leurs talents que par leurs créations
littéraires et artistiques, rehaussant et valorisant ainsi le prestige
et le rayonnement du pays à travers le monde;

Considérant que
c'est sous la pression de circonstances historiques particulières
qu'un grand nombre d'Haïtiens vivant actuellement à l'étranger ont dû,
au cours des décennies 60 - 70 et 80, fuir le pays et adopter, malgré
leur attachement au pays et à la nation, une nationalité étrangère, et
qu'ils se trouvent, à leur retour, assujettis sans considération
aucune, à l'obtention du Permis de Séjour exigé de tout étranger;


Considérant qu'en raison de leur qualité d'Haïtiens d'origine, ils
peuvent être, par privilège spécial, dispensés de l'accomplissement de
certaines formalités et ne plus être assujettis à certaines astreintes,
telle l'obligation qui leur est faite par l'Article 30 du Décret du 26
décembre 1978 sur l'Immigration et l'Emigration ;"

Cette loi,
oubliée de nous et non prise en compte expressément dans le communiqué
du ministère de l'Intérieur qui rappelle les dispositions sur le Permis
de Séjour, ne donne pas accès aux fonctions qui sont réservées par la
Constitution et les lois qu'aux Haïtiens d'origine qui n'ont jamais
renoncé à leur nationalité.
Cela est une autre affaire.

Posted: 2012 Feb 03 at 12:32pm

Non konn Antoine,Antoine nan Gonmier?Mandel sal wè pou peyia ak moun sayo. Tout moun gin radio pou yo voyé monté.

ANTOU K

Posted: 2012 Feb 04 at 3:58pm

Martelly ALBA

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Posted: 2012 Feb 11 at 2:16pm

Gabriel Fortuné démissione de son poste de Délégué.

Posted: 2012 Feb 11 at 3:05pm

Yon group de 40 moun ki te ale pou fè repòtaj sou kanaval Jacmel ak Les Cayes, resevwa gro desepsion:  

PA GEN GAZ POU TRANSPOTE YO JACMEL !

Sanble ke trènn gouvenmantal la konfiske tout ti gout gaz pou gro konvwa ki ale selebre avek zanmi yo nan vil zansèt mwen yo ! 

An pasan, eske se vanjans katel MJM, chef roz tet kale, kont medya ki pa nan danse kole avek SM ?   

Antouka, se drol ke chef ekip diaps sa, ki nan biznis  komunikasion nan peyi meriken, iyore ou bliye eta deplorabl, atitud lese grennen ki karakterize enstitision ak mantalite anplwaye publik  lakay.  

Petet ke yo pral kenbe kontak pi souvan avek zanmi ki byen souche nan pouvwa lakay, ki ka evite yo defisi finansye, san bliye chaj degou ke neglijans leta depoze sou kè yo fwa sa. 

Posted: 2012 Feb 11 at 3:21pm

La rareté de gazoline se fait sentir chaque jour un peu plus: L'anadipp s'en lave les mains 
10/02/2012 07:35:00

La rareté de gazoline constatée sur le marché local a dejà de serieuses conséquences sur le secteur du transport en commun.

Si officielement la pénurie concerne la gazoline (95 et 91). Mais il est difficile de s'approvisionner en diesel en raison des longue queus dans les stations-service et aussi parce que plusieurs secteurs se livrent au stockage de carburant.

De nombreux  automobilistes restent des heures, même une journée entière, dans les stations à essence, attendant le liquide précieux.

Ils  n'ont pas caché leur mecontentement face à ce qu’ils appellent le manque de planification des autorités haïtiennes qui ont la prérogative de placer les commandes de carburant à l’étranger.

"Il est anormal qu’on soit régulièrement exposé à des risques de rareté sur le marché, alors que le carburant est consommé  tous les jours", se sont-ils indignés, se demandant pourquoi aucune disposition n’a été adoptée pour prévenir de telles situations.

En tout cas le secrétaire général de l’Association Nationale des Distributeurs de Produits Pétroliers (ANADIPP), José Dalencourt s’en lave les mains.

Il a fait remarquer que les distributeurs n’ont pas la prérogative de placer des commandes à l’étranger.
 Au début,c’était la gazoline 95 qui manquait et tout le monde s’était rabattu sur le 91, mais maintenant, il n'y a pas une goutte de gazoline dans les pompes.

Le gouvernement avait promis de faire venir du carburant  de la République, en attendant une normalisation de la situation dès ce week end. Nous continuons d’attendre, a dit M. Dalencourt.

Il s'agit, en effet, de 300.000 gallons de gazoline commandée en Republique dominicaine, mais vraiment pas suffisants, même pour deux jours, puisque c'est tout le pays qui est confronte à cette situation.

AHP

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(Gasoline, amis rédacteurs et éditeurs.)

Posted: 2012 Feb 14 at 2:24pm

Haïti/Corruption Contrats gré-à-gré: Des zones d’ombre ont été relevées par la commission d’audit

lundi 13 février 2012 à 18:42

Le Premier ministre Garry Conille aurait du mal à obtenir tous les documents relatifs aux contrats gré-à-gré passés durant les derniers mois du gouvernement Préval-Bellerive. Mais, les premières vérifications d’un premier lot de documents ont révélé des zones d’ombre, indique Garry Conille.

Entre décembre 2010 et mai 2011, pas moins de 9 contrats ont été signés sans appel d’offre pour 42 millions de dollars, dont 80 pour cent accordés à une seule firme, révèle le Premier ministre, qui informe que trois personnalités haïtiennes dont deux de la diaspora ont déjà été contactées pour siéger à la commission d’audit sur ces contrats.

Par rapport à l’ampleur que prend ce dossier et sur ordre de son équipe de sécurité, les dispositifs de sécurité dans l’entourage du Premier ministre ont été renforcés, a-t-il fait savoir.

Posted: 2012 Feb 18 at 10:12am

Dajabon, DR.– The new Dajabon market on the border with Haiti, inaugurated by Dominican and Haitian authorities this week, will boost trade between the two countries once it starts operating early next month.

According to province governor Esther Ramirez, this work represents the definite takeoff of the province and its inhabitants, and progress towards sustainable development, "because for over 30 years we have been longing for a work of this nature."

"This is a masterpiece that will make history, for it will benefit thousands of Dominicans and our province will grow more, because this is the largest of the 14 markets on the Dominican Republic border area," Ramirez pointed out.

The market, whose facilities were built with a donation of more than RD$278.0 million by the European Union, includes 2,264 internal and external modules, including those built in the site’s esplanade. It will help foster economic development in both Dajabon and Ouanaminthe (Haitian side).

Posted: 2012 Feb 26 at 8:43am

The myth of the eight-hour sleep

We often worry about lying awake in the middle of the night - but it could be good for you. A growing body of evidence from both science and history suggests that the eight-hour sleep may be unnatural.

In the early 1990s, psychiatrist Thomas Wehr conducted an experiment in which a group of people were plunged into darkness for 14 hours every day for a month.

It took some time for their sleep to regulate but by the fourth week the subjects had settled into a very distinct sleeping pattern. They slept first for four hours, then woke for one or two hours before falling into a second four-hour sleep.

Though sleep scientists were impressed by the study, among the general public the idea that we must sleep for eight consecutive hours persists.

In 2001, historian Roger Ekirch of Virginia Tech published a seminal paper, drawn from 16 years of research, revealing a wealth of historical evidence that humans used to sleep in two distinct chunks.

His book At Day's Close: Night in Times Past, published four years later, unearths more than 500 references to a segmented sleeping pattern - in diaries, court records, medical books and literature, from Homer's Odyssey to an anthropological account of modern tribes in Nigeria.

Roger Ekirch says this 1595 engraving by Jan Saenredam is evidence of activity at night

Much like the experience of Wehr's subjects, these references describe a first sleep which began about two hours after dusk, followed by waking period of one or two hours and then a second sleep.

"It's not just the number of references - it is the way they refer to it, as if it was common knowledge," Ekirch says.

During this waking period people were quite active. They often got up, went to the toilet or smoked tobacco and some even visited neighbours. Most people stayed in bed, read, wrote and often prayed. Countless prayer manuals from the late 15th Century offered special prayers for the hours in between sleeps.

And these hours weren't entirely solitary - people often chatted to bed-fellows or had sex.

A doctor's manual from 16th Century France even advised couples that the best time to conceive was not at the end of a long day's labour but "after the first sleep", when "they have more enjoyment" and "do it better".

Ekirch found that references to the first and second sleep started to disappear during the late 17th Century. This started among the urban upper classes in northern Europe and over the course of the next 200 years filtered down to the rest of Western society.

By the 1920s the idea of a first and second sleep had receded entirely from our social consciousness.

He attributes the initial shift to improvements in street lighting, domestic lighting and a surge in coffee houses - which were sometimes open all night. As the night became a place for legitimate activity and as that activity increased, the length of time people could dedicate to rest dwindled.

In his new book, Evening's Empire, historian Craig Koslofsky puts forward an account of how this happened.

"Associations with night before the 17th Century were not good," he says. The night was a place populated by people of disrepute - criminals, prostitutes and drunks.

"Even the wealthy, who could afford candlelight, had better things to spend their money on. There was no prestige or social value associated with staying up all night."

That changed in the wake of the Reformation and the counter-Reformation. Protestants and Catholics became accustomed to holding secret services at night, during periods of persecution. If earlier the night had belonged to reprobates, now respectable people became accustomed to exploiting the hours of darkness.

This trend migrated to the social sphere too, but only for those who could afford to live by candlelight. With the advent of street lighting, however, socialising at night began to filter down through the classes.

In 1667, Paris became the first city in the world to light its streets, using wax candles in glass lamps. It was followed by Lille in the same year and Amsterdam two years later, where a much more efficient oil-powered lamp was developed.

London didn't join their ranks until 1684 but by the end of the century, more than 50 of Europe's major towns and cities were lit at night.

Night became fashionable and spending hours lying in bed was considered a waste of time.

A small city like Leipzig in central Germany employed 100 men to tend to 700 lamps

"People were becoming increasingly time-conscious and sensitive to efficiency, certainly before the 19th Century," says Roger Ekirch. "But the industrial revolution intensified that attitude by leaps and bounds."

Strong evidence of this shifting attitude is contained in a medical journal from 1829 which urged parents to force their children out of a pattern of first and second sleep.

"If no disease or accident there intervene, they will need no further repose than that obtained in their first sleep, which custom will have caused to terminate by itself just at the usual hour.

"And then, if they turn upon their ear to take a second nap, they will be taught to look upon it as an intemperance not at all redounding to their credit."

Today, most people seem to have adapted quite well to the eight-hour sleep, but Ekirch believes many sleeping problems may have roots in the human body's natural preference for segmented sleep as well as the ubiquity of artificial light.

This could be the root of a condition called sleep maintenance insomnia, where people wake during the night and have trouble getting back to sleep, he suggests.

The condition first appears in literature at the end of the 19th Century, at the same time as accounts of segmented sleep disappear.

"For most of evolution we slept a certain way," says sleep psychologist Gregg Jacobs. "Waking up during the night is part of normal human physiology."

The idea that we must sleep in a consolidated block could be damaging, he says, if it makes people who wake up at night anxious, as this anxiety can itself prohibit sleeps and is likely to seep into waking life too.

Russell Foster, a professor of circadian [body clock] neuroscience at Oxford, shares this point of view.

"Many people wake up at night and panic," he says. "I tell them that what they are experiencing is a throwback to the bi-modal sleep pattern."

But the majority of doctors still fail to acknowledge that a consolidated eight-hour sleep may be unnatural.

"Over 30% of the medical problems that doctors are faced with stem directly or indirectly from sleep. But sleep has been ignored in medical training and there are very few centres where sleep is studied," he says.

Jacobs suggests that the waking period between sleeps, when people were forced into periods of rest and relaxation, could have played an important part in the human capacity to regulate stress naturally.

In many historic accounts, Ekirch found that people used the time to meditate on their dreams.

"Today we spend less time doing those things," says Dr Jacobs. "It's not a coincidence that, in modern life, the number of people who report anxiety, stress, depression, alcoholism and drug abuse has gone up."

So the next time you wake up in the middle of the night, think of your pre-industrial ancestors and relax. Lying awake could be good for you.

Craig Koslofsky and Russell Foster appeared on The Forum from the BBC World Service. Listen to the programme here.

Posted: 2012 March 22 at 8:02am

Pourquoi l’hypertension tue les Haïtiens ?

Jean Erich René

erichrene@bell.net

21mars 2012

Les Hommes haïtiens aiment la bonne bouffe. Ils éprouvent un réel plaisir à manger à ventre déboutonné. Ils ne dépensent pas vraiment  toute l’énergie accumulée. De plus, les aliments haïtiens sont reconnus pour leur forte teneur en protéines qui demeurent en excès non seulement parce qu’ils ne sont pas tous utilisés mais encore parce qu’ils ne peuvent pas être tous éliminés par les reins dans l’urine sous forme d’acides uriques qui, en une telle occurrence, épaississent le sang et augmentent la pression artérielle. A partir de 40 ans les Haïtiens devraient changer de diète alimentaire et pratiquer des activités physiques adéquates. Ils mangent plus que leurs besoins quotidiens surtout lorsqu’ils ont plusieurs maitresses. Souvent ils tombent raides morts, sans aucun signe apparent d’une quelconque maladie. Ipso facto, on accuse le vodou et le cercle des loups-garous : Se dyab ki manjel ! Yo pranl vivan ! Li pa tann te ! Se yon kout poud ! Pourtant ce tueur silencieux et proche  c’est l’hypertension.

Pour vous prouver que l’homme haïtien qui mange trop, au delà de 40 ans ne fait que creuser sa tombe, nous allons faire appel à la Méthode  Scientifique des Mesures Physiologiques (Fortin 2010) : prélèvement sanguin, mesure de la tension artérielle, tests de laboratoire et électrocardiogramme (ECG). Notons que les apports conseillés en protéines sont de 50 grammes avec un maximum de tolérance de 180 grammes. En prenant ce plafond comme témoin et en nous basant sur le fait que le taux d’acide urique responsable du niveau de pression artérielle augmente avec la richesse en protéines  de la diète alimentaire, notre recherche vise  à relever le niveau d’acide urique dans le sang d’un échantillon de 15 Haïtiens de 40 a 65 ans. Nous prenons comme témoin la teneur en protéines des aliments que nous mangeons chaque jour.

Régime alimentaire  haïtien par ordre décroissant en protéines. 

En prenant le taux d’acide urique comme indicateur que nous désignons par x nous allons regrouper notre série numérique suivant une distribution de fréquences en nombres de classes.

Calcul de l’étendue de la série :

E = X_mas – X_min =  160

K = 8

E/K = 20

Distribution de fréquences  

Analyse des résultats

Signalons que le maximum de tolérance est de 180 grammes. Dans le cadre de notre enquête  9 Haïtiens sur 15,  âgés de 40 a 65 ans, accusent un taux d’acides uriques supérieur à 180 grammes soit 60% de notre échantillon. La plus grande concentration est relevée  entre 200 et 220.

Calcul de la corrélation linéaire entre acide urique et fréquence cardiaque;

Y_i = Acide urique                 X_i = Fréquence cardiaque

N = Taille de l’échantillon    r^p = coefficient de corrélation

Calculons le coefficient de corrélation entre l’acide urique et la crise cardiaque provoquée sous l’effet de l’hypertension chez les Haïtiens

       N = 15     

       Pour  X_I    =    71,33                            Y_I  = 176,86

       Pour  X_I  - X =  - 53,96                      Y_I – Y = - 497.9

       Pour  (X_I  - X) ² =    2.911,68           (Y_I – Y)² = 247.904,41

Dans ce cas  la corrélation linéaire entre l’acide urique et la pression cardiaque est de :   r = +1

Représentation graphique

La pente de la droite est positive et  r = +1  signifie que la corrélation est parfaite entre la quantité d’acides uriques et la fréquence cardiaque. Par ricochet l’excès de protéines relevé dans la diète alimentaire haïtienne est responsable de la forte pression artérielle et du décès des hommes haïtiens suite à une crise cardiaque. Vous vous imaginez la quantité de protéines absorbées par l’homme haïtien  en mangeant 3 fois par jour. Rien que pour le diner un homme haïtien mange une banane verte, une patate douce et/ou un morceau d’igname soit avec de la viande de pintade, de dinde, du poulet frit, lambi, un plat de griot etc. En plus, une assiette de riz arrosée de pois noir ou rouge riches en protéines soit 31 mg pour 100 grammes etc. Parfois il boit tout un bol de pois bourré de protéines. Sans compter dans la matinée, il avait déjeuné un verre d’AK100 ou d’avoine au lait de vache, du pain, deux œufs frits etc. encore une bombe de protéines. Le soir, il ne va pas rater son souper. Déjà il dépasse le maximum de tolérance. Qui pis est il n’entreprend aucun exercice physique. Il va  à  son bureau et revient le soir pour jouer au domino avec ses amis ou s’asseoir devant son téléviseur pour savourer un roman savon et écouter les nouvelles. Il s’empoisonne ! L’hypertension doit être prise au sérieux par les Hommes haïtiens car ce tueur silencieux au moment où l’on s’attend le moins peut provoquer une Crise Cardiaque ou un Accident Cérébro-Vasculaire.

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erichrene@bell.net

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Posted: 2012 March 27 at 8:13am

A new investment fund hopes to create jobs, economic growth in Haiti

Jacqueline Charles
jcharles@MiamiHerald.com

Posted: 2012 April 02 at 2:19pm

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Posted: 2012 May 11 at 2:16am

18-month-old baby yanked from airplane for being on no-fly list

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Posted: 2012 May 13 at 1:30pm

Es la fotografía más nítida y clara que se ha tomado de la Tierra.

La foto nunca antes vista de la Tierra

CIUDAD DE MÉXICO - Esta fotografía es la imagen, con mayor resolución, que se tiene hasta el momento de la Tierra, donde se le ve muy clara y nítida.

Tiene una resolución de 121 megapíxeles y fue captada por el satélite ruso Elektro-L.

Los 121 megapíxles, supone que cada uno de los píxeles de la fotografía represente algo más de un kilómetro de la superficie del planeta, un motivo por el que ha llegado a ser calificada como la "foto definitiva de la Tierra", según recoge la web especializada en tecnología Gizmodo.

El satélite envía fotografías de todo el planeta cada 30 minutos a través de una conexión que varía entre 2,5 y 16,3 Megabits por segundo.

Posted: 2012 May 13 at 5:43pm

http://health.msn.com/mens-health/the-most-neglected-health- test-for-men

The Most Neglected Health Test For Men

By Molly Raisch, Men's Health

If you keep increasing the volume on your TV or catch yourself complaining about how everyone else keeps mumbling, listen up: A growing body of research shows that dwindling hearing could be an early tip-off of other conditions, from Alzheimer's to cardiovascular disease. And here's the scariest part: Many doctors don't regularly check their patients' hearing. A study from Virginia Commonwealth University shows that physicians skip nearly half of all regular evaluations at yearly checkups, and one of the most routinely missed tests is the hearing exam, it gets bypassed nearly 70 percent of the time. "It's so important to regularly get a hearing test because all too often people don't know that they have a problem," says Ellen Finkelstein, M.D., an audiologist in New York City. (You should also be sure to avoid The Biggest Threat to Your Hearing.)

Here are four reasons why you should speak up and ask for a hearing test at your next appointment:

Hearing loss can mean a higher risk of Alzheimer's. People who are hard of hearing are more likely to develop cognitive conditions like Alzheimer's and dementia, according to a study from the National Institute of Aging. And the worse your hearing is, the higher your risk: For every 10 decibels of hearing loss, the chance of developing Alzheimer's increases 20 percent. How come? Experts believe that hearing loss is a result of nerve damage in the body, and nerve damage in the ears can be a sign of damage in other places, like the brain. To protect yourself from the disease, check out the story, How to Ward Off Alzheimer's.

It could be a red flag for cardiovascular disease. Having trouble hearing low-frequency sounds could be a sign that something's not right with your heart. The inner ear is made up of tons of sensitive blood vessels that are so sensitive, in fact, that any changes with them, like hearing loss, could be an early sign of bigger blood vessel issues in the body, i.e., cardiovascular disease.

Problems with hearing can lead to depression. Italian researchers found that people ages 35 to 55 with mild to moderate symptoms of hearing loss were much more likely to experience psychological distress. And it doesn't stop there: Another survey of 2,300 adults over the age of 50 found that those with untreated hearing loss were much more likely to feel depressed, anxious, and alone. "Not being able to hear correctly has a profound effect on your body and your emotional well-being," says Dr. Finkelstein. When you can't hear, you tend to isolate yourself from the people and things you enjoy.

An exam could spot cancer. A hearing test isn't only important to catch issues with your hearing, but it can help spot tumors, too. "I can't tell you how many times I've found a suspect mole or precursor to skin cancer on or around the ear," says Dr. Finkelstein. It's hard to really examine your own ear or notice a new mole there, she says. (For more ways to tell if your bump, blemish, or mole is actually the big C, read This Is What Skin Cancer Looks Like.)

 

Posted: 2012 May 16 at 7:55am

Enfin Enfin Seraphin pied Fin. Latortue could have done, but he refused to do it with Brazilian money and help. Everything you want to do for free in Haiti, they will ask you: "How much is in it for me".

May 16, 2012, 12:01 am

In Haiti, a New Stadium Will Rise

From the rubble, literally, of the earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010, plans to build the first professional soccer stadium in the country are taking shape. The appropriately named Phoenix Stadium is set to rise in Cité Soleil, an area designated by the United Nations as a red zone — an impoverished town in desperate need of economic development.

The entire project, which has an estimated cost of $5 million, will have the majority of its financing provided by Delos LLC as part of the Clinton Global Initiative. Additional financing will be secured from corporations and individual donors. The stadium is only the first component of a project that will result in the construction of a youth soccer academy, an elementary and middle school (there are no public schools in Haiti), and infrastructure projects that will include agriculture, composting and water treatment.

Part of the impetus for the project came from the long-term efforts of Boby Duval, the founder of L’Athletique D’Haiti, a nonprofit youth development program that has been providing children with education through sports.

“This is like a dream come true,” Duval said in a telephone interview from Haiti. “This project will change people’s lives. I started this 18 years ago when I came back to Haiti from college in the States.”

He added: “I know this is working. We have more than 2,000 kids we’re serving here. They’ve gone to Brazil, the U.S., the women’s team were champions of the Homeless World Cup. Sports is the universal language. The kids may be poor and barefoot, but when they walk on the field I guarantee you, you don’t know who’s rich. For an hour on the field, they are people who make a difference. This is not rocket science.”

Since Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, sports has organically taken a back seat to the struggles to simply put food on the table, for many people. On the global soccer stage, Haiti has had meager success: the country has no national stadium (playing in Stade Sylvio Cator in Port-au-Prince), it has played in only one World Cup (1974 in West Germany) and its ability to field a credible national team has been hampered by little, if any, infrastructure on the youth level.

“They do have a national stadium, but it was built 60 years ago and it costs too much to see a game there,” said Morad Fareed, a New York-based businessman and former na

“I have seen how transformative sports can be in the most desperate places in the world. My company looks for high-impact, philanthropic projects, and this one is just bold enough. It has an exciting potential to have an impact on many people. Besides the essential infrastructure, we are trying to focus on simply enabling children to grow and develop character.”

The stadium (capacity 12,000, expandable to more than 20,000) will be part of the first phase of the development that builders hope will spread over more than 15 acres. The plan, put forward by the well-known architect Carlos Zapata — whose projects include the renovation of Soldier Field in Chicago and the design of the Bitexco Financial Tower in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam — will use rubble from the 2010 earthquake in the construction process.

CZ StudioCarlos Zapata, who designed the reboot of Soldier Field in Chicago, above, is on board as the architect the new stadium in Haiti.

“It’s a very unlikely project, if you think about it,” Zapata said. “Some people would say a soccer stadium in Haiti is something they don’t need. I’ve really been moved by this project. What they don’t need is another government building. We’re all in support of Boby, who is trying to give the kids a chance.”

In Zapata’s conception, the project will incorporate labor and materials from Haiti while also creating at least 500 jobs at the start, instead of “importing steel from Miami and a crew from Miami, to put it together and leave.” He said it is about using the current landscape, “the geometry of the land,” to mold the space and create hills for people to see the field.

“Architecture is poetry,” he said. “It goes beyond the basics of building. I believe it can be a beautiful place that doesn’t need to be compromised. It’s a new opportunity to build something that is an inspiration for everyone, not just Haiti. We aspire to do great things.”

When it came to redeveloping Soldier Field in Chicago, Zapata said it took some innovative thinking and planning.

“We did about six iterations in six different locations,” he said. “Some were done in an asymmetrical way because we needed to control costs. We started thinking a long time ago about contracting the footprint, doing it in pieces of a ring. That’s what were going to use in Haiti, first one stand, then lockers, all support the game, then the hills.

“Before Soldier Field, there was always a desire to take the N.F.L. module and just plop it on top, the footprint was way to wide. Some people proposed cutting the colonnade in half, or taking the whole thing down. It didn’t fly. The Bears at the time had to cut costs, as we do in Haiti. So you try and cut redundancies, and discover that the ring is unnecessary.”

Can a dose of world-class architecture give Haiti a crop of world-class players? The people, and the children of Haiti, are waiting for a beautiful surprise.

Follow Jack Bell on Twitter.tional team player for Palestine (making three appearances during qualifying for the 2006 World Cup). Fareed cofounded Delos, which bills itself as a builder of Wellness Real Estate. “This stadium is not for the national team,” he said. “It is intended for a new 10-team league run by Boby Duval.

Posted: 2012 June 19 at 12:48pm

Haïti/Amendement : Adieu la constitution de 1987

Le président Michel Martelly a officiellement ordonné ce
mardi matin la publication de la constitution amendée telle que votée
par l’Assemblée nationale  en présence, notamment, du premier ministre, 
du président de la cour de cassation et des  présidents de la Chambre
basse et du Sénat.

Le chef de l’Etat reconnait que « la nouvelle constitution comporte
beaucoup d’éléments nouveaux par rapport à l’ancienne, citant entre
autres l’indépendance du pouvoir judiciaire, le respect du quota d’au
moins 30% des femmes dans l’administration publique, la fin de la
querelle sur l’épineuse question de la nationalité … »

Une cérémonie s’est tenue  au Palais National pour la circonstance.

Rappelons que des rencontres ont eu lieu pendant toute la journée
d’hier lundi  sur la question entre Michel Martelly et des représentants
de plusieurs secteurs de la vie nationale.

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Posted: 2012 July 15 at 10:05pm

Understanding your credit score.

By Tatiana Morales

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