Haiti's Consulate in Guadeloupe

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The Consulate General of the Republic of Haiti in Guadeloupe presents its sympathies to the family of Jean Wilfrid Etienne alias "Frédo", his close and friends, and to the entire Haitian community in Guadeloupe. "Frédo", a radio host who has dedicated his time and heart to the Haitian culture on Radio Gayak's microphone, in particular to the promotion of Haitian music. May his soul rests in peace.

Haiti's future army will fight terrorism

Hervé Denis, Minister of Defense on the new Haitian defense force said that the army will also have to fight terrorism even if it recognizes that Haiti is not on the road of terrorists, he stresses that Haiti has a regional responsibility "When you are a weak country, terrorists can take advantage of your weaknesses. We also have international responsibilities because we have signed international agreements and conventions that we must respect."

Mobilization of subcontracting workers

On Friday, the Superior Council of Salaries (CSS) recommended in its report that the daily minimum wage, which was 300 gourdes in 2016, increased to 335 gourdes https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-21461-haiti-flash-the-css-proposes-a-daily-minimum-wage-of-335-gourdes.html . For workers' unions claiming a daily minimum wage of 800 gourdes, their demands have not been taken into account and they announce that the workers will be mobilized on the streets on Monday 10, Tuesday 11 and Wednesday 12 July 2017, in order to force the authorities to meet their demands.

Haiti targets 1 million tourists in 2022

The first priority of Colombe Émilie Jessy Menos, the Minister of Tourism is to increase the number of tourists in Haiti by 2022, the Minister hopes that the country will be able to pass from nearly 500,000 tourists to 1 million tourists / stays https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-13278-haiti-tourism-good-news-more-than-$345m-investment-in-the-tourism-sector.html

42 arrests...

On Thursday, during a briefing balance sheet of June, the Chief Inspector Gary Desrosiers, Deputy Spokesman of the National Police of Haiti (PNH) announced the arrest of 42 people accused of various crimes including homicide, rape of minor, theft, drug trafficking, illegal possession of weapons. Moreover during this period the PNH seized 5 firearms, 11 Kg of marijuana, 5 vehicles and 4 motorcycles.

The Minister of Agriculture in Rome

Carmel André Béliard, Minister of Agriculture, attended the 40th Session of the Conference of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome, which ended on Saturday. This conference, which was devoted to a debate on the theme "Climate change, agriculture and food security", was attended by 70 ministers, 15 deputy ministers and a president, to review and vote on the work and the proposed budget and to engage in dialogue on issues related to food, food security, water shortages and agriculture.

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