Haitian Internet Newsletter

I have to apologize to you for not reporting the news the past couple of weeks. It is because I've been sick. I hope to recover soon to continue to serve you better.

This morning, I heard a funeral procession going down the streets in the Haitian city where I live and the "fanfare" (the band) was singing the must unexpected song one would hear at a funeral...

Roger Richard Boncy, a 74 year old Haitian-American was charged Tuesday in a scheme to bribe Haitian government officials over the construction of an $84 million port project in Mȏle St. Nicolas, a city in northwest Haiti.

November 01 2018, All Saints' Day in Haiti was ruined this year. even the director of the Cimetière de Port-au-Prince was complaining on television because the crowd that was expected to come "fêter avec les morts au cimetière" (party with the dead, an annual ritual in Haiti) were disturbed by street protest and sporadic gun fire.

For all of you Haitians in the Diaspora who were waiting for "Pois Congo" season to come to Haiti, it's time to make your airline reservations. Pois Congo season 2018 is here!

Have you heard? Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean's Childhood in Haiti will soon be captured in a Netflix animated feature film.

Godson Orelus, the former Director General of the Haitian National Police force (PNH) was arrested and placed in custody in Saint-Marc Friday by the investigating judge in charge of the case of the seizure of weapons that were imported into Haiti illegally back in 2016.

Haitian singer Roody Petuel Dauphin, better known as Roody Roodboy, has just lost her mother. Marie Sanette Voltaire Dauphin died Monday, 22 October 2018.

Happening now... The top eight tennis players in the world are competing against each other at the WTA finals and Haitian-Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka in one of them.

I remember one time I was speaking to my son, little at the time, I was talking some sense into him. My father looked at me and he said: "Go ahead, put it in the bank."