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Affaire Sogener Haiti -- On November 25 2019, The government commissioner of Port-au-Prince issued arrest warrants against Dimitri Vorbe, Elizabeth Délatour Préval, Jean Marie Vorbe, Roger Lefèvre, Daniel Dorsainvil, Frantz Verela and Serge Raphaèl for forgery and use of forgery, in private writing, overcharging, illicit enrichment, association of criminals, to the detriment of the Haitian State.

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Here is a photo of Clifford Brandt after being incarcerated for many years for Kidnapping. Clifford Brandt has a very long white beard.

This photo was taken in January 2019 when Brandt's kidnapping case was being retried in a criminal court in Gonaives.

Read all about Clifford Brand and his high profile kidnapping case here.

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Here is a photo of prominent Haitian businessman Clifford Brandt in Handcuffs at a police station in Haiti on October 17, 2012, the day he was arrested on kidnapping charges.

Clifford Brandt was accused of the kidnapping and sequestration of Nicolas and Coralie Moscosso.

7 years after his arrest, in December 2019, Clifford Brandt sentenced to 20 years in jail.

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Today, in most parts of the Haiti, cholera is being defeated. There are still some suspect cases of cholera in the hard-to-reach areas of the Center and Artibonite departments. But even there, the diarrheal disease is about to be eliminated.

Watch thie video from UNICEF Haiti helping to rid Haiti of Cholera.

No cholera case has been confirmed since February 4, 2019.

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Look at this photo... Haiti on Fire, A satellite map of Haiti with a volcano in the background...

Gade photo saa... Haiti pran dife... yon carte geographique peyi Dayiti ak yon volcan deye do li...

Kisa ou panse de image saa?

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Here is a very old map of of Isle D'Hayti or Haiti Island as she was called before Isle de St Domingue during colonization and Hispaniola much later. Read this and learn.

A little bit of History about Isle D'Hayti or Haiti Island:

When Christopher Columbus arrived and took possession of the island in 1492, he named it Insula Hispana in Latin and La Isla Española in Spanish, with both meaning "the Spanish island".

Of course, Columbus the colonizer was Spanish!

Bartolomé de las Casas, Spanish colonist who was the only acting historian in the island back in the 16th-century shortened the name"La Isla Española" to simply "Española".

Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, Italian-born historian known by many names, was the first writer to use the word "Hispaniola" to refer to Isle D'Hayti or Haiti Island in his accounts of the island he wrote in Latin.

When Anghiera's work started being translated to Frencn and English, the name "Hispaniola" stuck.

How did the name Hispaniola became the permanent name of the Island?

Read this from Wikipedia:

In 1918, the United States occupation government, led by Harry Shepard Knapp, obliged the use of the name Hispaniola on the island, and recommended the use of that name to the National Geographic Society.

And the rest is history!

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Here is a of bannan miske being sold in Haiti. Bannann miske, or plantain in English, is used to make "Bannen Peze" (fried plantain) and sold as Fritay in Haiti.

Haitians consume a lot of bannan miske, more than another plant in the banana family.

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Mango season has just started in Haiti. I am going to eat as much mango as possible. With so many varieties of mangoes to chose from, it's going to be another fun mango season in Haiti

Sezon mango fek komanse an Haiti. Mwen pwal manje mango nèt!

Mwen sot achte kek mango Batis laa pa lo, 4 pou 10 goud... Mwen pwal manje mango nèt!

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Haiti Mangoes, bel mango fransik ki fet en Haiti...

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Haitian Mango - Fresh mangoes from Haiti. This type of mango is called Mango Baptiste.

It's the perfect mango for making mango juice.

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