CARICOM congratulates Jovenel Moïse

Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Secretary General of CARICOM, congratulated the elected President of Haiti, Jovenel Moise, who was declared the winner of the presidential elections of 20 November 2016 https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-19698-haiti-presidential-2016-final-results-jovenel-moise-58th-president.html

"The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) wishes to congratulate President-elect Jovenel Moise who was declared the outright winner following the publication on 3 January 2017 by the Haitian Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) of the final results of the first round of the presidential elections of 20 November 2016.

The Community looks forward to the inauguration of the President-elect on 7 February 2017 which would signal the return to constitutional governance and the continuation of the strengthening of Haitian democracy.

The Community has also taken note of the results of the partial legislative elections. It is hoped that the electoral cycle will be completed in a free, peaceful and timely manner thereby making whole the executive and legislative branches of government."

School fees law

The publication of the law on school fees published in the official journal Le Moniteur https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-19727-icihaiti-politics-publication-of-3-presidential-orders.html aims to relieve parents of the significant costs of tuition. According to this law, 50% of these expenses will have to be paid at the beginning of the school year, 25% at the beginning of the second quarter and the remainder at the beginning of the third quarter. These costs can only be increased every 4 years and the increase can not exceed 10%, according to article 4 of this law.

Rafael Correa at the investiture of Jovenel Moïse

On Saturday, President Rafael Correa announced his international agenda until the end of his government, among his traveling, the President of Ecuador on 7 February plans to attend the change of government in Haiti.

Youth Assembly at the United Nations

Joseph Max Veve, the Young Ambassador of the Youth Government of Haiti (GJH), will represent Haiti at the Youth Assembly at the United Nations in New York from 1 to 3 February 2017. He will be accompanied by four young Haitian professionals and Haitian students of the structure "Haiti Leve" to address issues related to the 2030 sustainable development goals.

Gifts for Haitian children in DR

On Sunday, was held the Graduation Ceremony for the first graduating class of the Annex of the school of law and economics of Les Cayes in Petit-Goâve. After 4 years of study in the legal sciences, 16 graduating students were able to obtain their certificate. The head of academic affairs, Me Marthel Jean Claude exhorted them to be examples, to change the world of the basoche and to flee corruption, concluding that "science without consciousness is only the ruin of the soul, honor is the most beautiful inheritance that can be left to posterity" IH/ iciHaiti / Guyto Mathieu (Correspondant Petit-Goâve)

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Graduation in legal sciences to Petit-Goâve