Fire to the Solomon market

Sunday, election day, an unknown original fire broke out at the market Salomon (Downtown Port-au-Prince), causing significant losses to several traders.

OCID sees an increase in participation !

While the actors on the ground, national and international, agree that the participation in Sunday's poll was very weak, Rosny Desroches of the Citizen's Observatory for the Institutionalization of Democracy (OCID) said that the turnout in the January 29 elections was 26.1 % With a margin of error of plus or minus 3% against 23.3% in November 2016 according to the OCID (and 21% according to the CEP). Note that so far, OCID is the only observing body to see an increase in voter turnout.

The Prime Minister satisfies but...

Prime Minister Enex Jean-Charles welcomes the election day on Sunday 29 January and would like to thank the Haitians, the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) and the Haitian National Police (PNH). These thanks also go to civil society organizations, political parties, the United Nations system for their invaluable support, their spontaneous mobilization and their active and sincere participation in the success and historic success of this electoral day. However, the Head of Government condemns the incidents that have affected the conduct of elections in certain voting centers and calls on the CEP, the judiciary and the PNH to take all necessary measures to prosecute and try the perpetrators of these acts.

Les Cayes under construction

The mayor of the city of Cayes, Gabriel Fortuné emphasizes that the organization of the national carnival in Les Cayes will be a palliative for several sites having lead in the wing "We will take advantage of the occasion to relaunch the construction of the Kay-Jeannot site, Simón Bolívar Square, Kay-Ciel Road, the first Gelée road, to rehabilitate the two main streets, among others," specifying that some of this work has already begun.

A Delegation of the DGI in France

As part of the installation in Haiti of an Infocentre or Call Center, to the Directorate General of Taxes (DGI), a project entirely financed by the European Union, via Expertise France, a Haitian delegation led by Miradin Morlan, Director General of the DGI, stayed in France last week to visit the services of the Directorate General of Public Finance (DGFIP) in Nancy and Paris.

Female polling station staff...

The proportion of women in the composition of polling station staff increased very slightly from 38.8 per cent to 39 per cent (31.9 per cent as President, 43.6 per cent as Vice-President and 42.5 per cent as Secretary).

HL/ HaitiLibre