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While paying tribute to the Haitian Heroes of the Battle of Savannah Georgia, Haitian ambassador Brocchit Edmond insinuated that Haitians have been a part of U.S. history even before we were a nation.

We signed our names in U.S. history when we helped the Americans during the siege of Savannah, the second Battle of Savannah during the American Revolutionary War, in 1779, against the British.

Ambassador Brocchit paid tribute to Daniel Fils-Aime, the founder and chairman of the Haitian American Historical Society (HAHS) who helped build the great Haitian monument in Savannah Georgia.

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The US military will be deployed to Haiti for a Humanitarian mission, the US Embassy in Port-au-Prince said Thursday.

"The U.S. military is preparing to load materials to leave Camp Lejeune, in North Carolina. These soldiers will be deployed to support the Joint Intervention Group in Haiti (#JointTaskForceHaiti) as part of a humanitarian disaster relief mission."

Presently Haiti is a big mess.

More than 3,000 Haitians are dead in the aftermath of the August 14 2021 earthquake followed by a tropical storm two days later.

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Who would have thought going to New York would be a mistake? After living in Haiti for 8 years I decided to go spend some time in the United States and, of all places, I picked New York. right before it became the epicenter of covid-19, the coronavirus pandemic.

Now what have been the perfect time to go hide in a small farm deep in the woods in Haiti.

All of a sudden, for many Haitians, living in Haiti is not such a bad thing because going to New York right now you are more at risk of getting this deadly coronavirus than if you are in Haiti keeping your social distancing and staying safe.

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The U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince Haiti issued an alert of gunfire near its diplomatic compound Monday and quickly asked it staff to take shelter.

In a travel alert, Tue U.S. State Department complained that shots were fired near the rear entrance of to the Embassy.

"Haiti: Gunfire coming from the rear entrance to the Embassy. Shelter in place is in effect for the Embassy compound. If you are traveling to the Embassy, find a safe area to shelter in place," the message wrote on the Twitter page] for U.S. Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs.

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Read this... By the year 2035 more than half Haiti's species will be wiped out. Haiti is closer to losing its rich biodiversity than almost any other country in the world, says Temple University scientist Blair Hedges.

"Haiti is in the middle of a mass extinction," he said, "and it's already lost a large number of species because entire areas where unique species exist are no longer present."

Haiti has lost almost all its virgin forests. Using NASA satellite imagery to analyze the landscape, Hedges and his colleagues found the country has only about one percent of its primary forest left, as people have been cutting down trees to farm and to make charcoal for cooking.

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All Haitians living with TPS in the United States read this... A judge in San Francisco Califormia has blocked the Trump Administration from ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians and other immigrants from Sudan, Nicaragua and El Salvador.

According to the Los Angeles times, this ruling late Wednesday afternoon will relieve immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Sudan from the threat of deportation.

U.S. District Judge Edward Chen said this decision would cause "irreparable harm and great hardship."

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In a Facebook message posted from the page of "Malaika Martely" it appears the daughter of former Haitian president Michel Martelly had something to say about the the Petro Caribe money... Read all about it!

Here is a translation of the message that appears to have been from Malaika Martelly, ex president Martelly's daughter:

Every day you are writing to me asking me where is the PetroCaribe money. Let me tell you something: Before my dad became president he was able to provide everything for me. It is not the PetroCaribe money that made me who I am today.