Mr. Pierre Robert Auguste, Director of National Press was installed yesterday, to replace Willem Edward who served for seven years. In his installation speech, the new Director promised among other things: a vocational school for the printing trades in January 2012.

"...from January [2012], I will introduce to the national press, a training school that will allow Haitians to learn the printing trades. I'll put a supervisory board within this school, which will be representative of publishers, printers and all other entities that are interested. Thus, when we will need a technician, as if happening today [...] to make the repair of a press, we are no longer obliged to bring it from Saint-Domingue.

We will establish, a representation of the national press in all provincial cities [...] we will introduce the CELEC [Centre of Reading and Writing], which will enable young people to have books at their disposal [...] we will teach them to write and also we will create a literary prize for them.

We also study the possibility, for people who have been literate, so there have not cut, to create a newspaper for them [...] A journal in which I wish there are sponsors, in order to distribute it for free, like it's done abroad..."

HL/ HaitiLibre