Haitian news: Haitian Immigrant’s Redemption Story Leaves ICE Cold

Can people change?

This question is at the heart of a fight between Homeland Security and Jean Montrevil. The answer has major implications for the reforms that lawmakers propose when they take up immigration reform after health care.

The feds charge that Montrevil is a hardened criminal alien. Montrevil claims he’s paid for past mistakes. He has a colorful rap sheet for crimes he committed 20 years ago. He’s now a community leader and the father of four American-born children, ages 2, 6, 11 and 19.

At a routine visit to Homeland Security on Dec. 30, 2009, Montrevil was arrested, pending deportation to Haiti. By New Year’s Day, a hundred gathered at his church to call for his release. U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler and other politicians rang Homeland Security round-the-clock with the same demand. Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania’s York County jail, Montrevil began a hunger strike.

Four days later, awaiting the government’s response, eight clergy were arrested by NYPD in a non-violent civil disobedience. Upping the ante, they demanded reform of the federal laws that put Montrevil into deportation in the first place. More actions are being planned.

Here’s the full story.

Montrevil at his religious supply store.

THE PAST

Jean Montrevil came to the United States legally with a green card. He and 12 siblings arrived from Haiti in 1986, after his U.S. citizen dad sponsored them. “We came to America to make it big,” Montrevil says. “Along the way, I got stupid.”

He stumbled into the taxi business. A fellow cabbie opened the door to drugs. “I started selling marijuana to passengers. From there, I took off.”

Montrevil didn’t get very far. In 1989, at age 20, he was arrested in New Jersey, driving down I-95. “No one told me it was a corridor,” Montrevil recalls. “Police stopped black guys driving nice cars all the time, looking for people like me.” Just months into selling, he was busted for cocaine.

Out on bail, he made another drug run to Virginia. A federal agent and deputy sheriff found an ounce of crack hidden in his car’s gas tank. Montrevil would’ve gotten five years under mandatory federal sentencing guidelines. But prosecuted in Virginia state court, he got 27 years. Inside, he caught an assault conviction for fighting with another inmate.

“1989 was a rough year,” Montrevil says. “Prison saved my life.” Released early for good behavior, he opened a store selling candles and religious supplies in Brooklyn in 2000. He believes that the 11 years he served kept him from getting killed in the underground drug trade.

Montrevil with an electronic ankle bracelet.

HOMELAND SECURITY

Nationwide, of the 2.3 million deported from 1997 to 2007, 37 percent have criminal records. Homeland Security spokesman Mike Gilhooly explains in an email, “One of ICE’s primary missions is to remove foreign national criminals from the United States.” ICE, or Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is the federal government’s deportation unit.

Montrevil charges that this mission is double jeopardy. “Why do I have to keep paying for crimes I already served time for? I feel marked for life.”

By chance, the feds didn’t deport Montrevil directly from prison. They got him in a sweep of New York parole offices in 2005. He’s been in deportation proceedings since then, reporting to Homeland Security offices when asked, and banking on legal appeals and political pressure to stay here. Haiti’s refusal to take U.S. deportees bought him time at different moments.

On Dec. 30, 2009, his luck ran out. He was detained during a routine check in. Haiti was taking people back, and he had no appeals left. But the holiday grab surprised his supporters. Months earlier they’d requested a meeting with the feds to discuss Montrevil’s case.

The agency can defer action on any deportation order. Montrevil’s attorney Joshua Bardavid explains, “My client is eligible for deferred action. ICE has not yet refused or granted it.” According to Montrevil’s minister, Reverend Dr. Donna Schaper of Judson Memorial Church, “Jean’s spirit is not junk. We just want one face-to-face meeting to explain how we know that.”

According to Gilhooly, "Jean Murat Montrevil is an aggravated felon with a significant criminal record who has a final order of removal from an immigration judge. Montrevil has exhausted all of his appeals and ICE will enforce the immigration judge’s order.” Homeland Security declined to comment on their policy for exercising discretion.

Nadler jumped on the phone New Year’s Eve, as soon as he heard about Montrevil’s detention. But Nadler hasn’t been able to convince Homeland Security to budge.

Nadler connects Montrevil’s case to the call for immigration reform. “The practice of deporting people for minor crimes committed many years in the past when they have been law-abiding ever since makes no sense and is blatantly unfair,” Nadler says.

U.S. Rep. Nydia Velasquez, chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, echoed the sentiment in a letter to Homeland Security in 2008.

Prior to Montrevil’s detention, these supporters were hopeful. The feds had removed an electronic monitor from his ankle, thereby reducing his risk-level. His regular visits to Behavioral Interventions, a private security firm subcontracted by Homeland Security, were uneventful. “I complied with whatever they asked of me,” Montrevil says. “Why lock me up during my kids’ Christmas holidays?”

Montrevil kissing his newborn daughter Jamyah in 2007.


FAMILY

“I was still nursing our son when they took Jean in 2005,” says his wife Janay Montrevil. an African-American school teacher from Brooklyn. Janay, 31, met her husband on a blind date. She says, “When I fell in love, I didn’t know Jean could be taken from me.”

Montrevil told her he was locked up for crimes. But neither expected his deportation. The couple got married, each bringing a child from a prior relationship into their union. “I can’t believe President Obama would turn me into another single mother,” she says.

Montrevil is the family cook. “I tried making my kids oatmeal the morning after they took him,” Janay recalls. “But I don’t know how to do all that stuff with the milk and fruits. I just boil water. When I gave it to my kids, they looked horrified, like, ‘are we gonna starve now that dad’s gone?’” Montrevil just began a hunger strike to protest the deportation system.

Six-year-old Jahsiah seems the hardest hit by his father’s absence. An asthmatic who’s legally disabled, he’s wetting his bed and leaving voicemails on Montrevil’s cell phone.

Montrevil’s mom died in Haiti when he was Jahsiah’s age. He doesn’t think much of his own father, now deceased. “He beat us and ran around with other women. I promised myself I’d be a good father to my kids. What’ll happen to them without me?”

Montrevil speaking to staffers of Congressman Ed Towns in 2006.

IMMIGRATION REFORM
The Montrevils made their case into a campaign to change the laws. Whether you think the border wall is too high or too porous, everyone agrees the immigration system is broken. Today, pro-immigration activists are lobbying President Obama to pass legalization right after health care.

But that fix wouldn’t help Montrevil. He came here as a legal permanent resident. Homeland Security wants to de-legalize him. “Families like mine have to change the deportation system,” he says.

In 1996, under President Bill Clinton, the United States passed sweeping immigration laws that made detention and deportation mandatory for most immigrants with any brush with the law. Although Montrevil’s crimes occurred before their passage, they’ve been applied to him retroactively.

In 2006, Montrevil donated a passenger van from his small transportation business to Families for Freedom. The New York non-profit was shuttling families like his to Washington, D.C. Montrevil led one delegation to talk directly with lawmakers. “I’d never been in Congress before,” he recalls. “I was so excited.”

In response to these efforts, U.S. Rep. José Serrano introduced a bill. "Jean Montrevil's case is precisely why we need to see the provisions of the Child Citizen Protection Act passed into law,” says Serrano. “We cannot continue to allow inflexible deportation guidelines to separate families with U.S. citizen children."

Currently, immigration judges can’t consider the well-being of American children before deporting a parent. Serrano’s proposal, now part of a larger House immigration reform bill, would untie judges’ hands. New York advocates are asking U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer to include the proposal in the Senate. Montrevil could be put on a plane to Haiti before the bill he inspired is considered.

Reverend Bob Coleman commits to join a hunger fast.
SANCTUARY

While Homeland Security takes Montrevil’s time in prison as proof of his criminality, his supporters take it as a measure of his redemption. “Eleven years is a long time to be locked up,” says Reverend Bob Coleman. “Jean represents a restored life. Who benefits by stripping him of his legal status?”

Rev. Coleman is the minister of the historic Riverside Church, a spiritual home to the political elite. Montrevil has spoken from the church’s pulpit on several occasions. Shuttling through the city’s houses of worship, bearing witness three or four days a week, he moved them and others to join New York’s New Sanctuary Coalition.

Montrevil co-founded this faith-based group for immigration reform in 2007, along with his minister. Schaper says, “Everyone has a soul. Jean has it more deeply than others, because of all he’s suffered.”



NYPD arrests eight clergy and two supporters blocking federal vans
from delivering detainees into Homeland Security’s Lower Manhattan jail.

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

Before his detention, Schaper claimed without hesitation, “If we have to take him into the church, to keep him with his family, then we’ll do that.” Harboring a person in a church when the law says they must be deported is a federal crime.

On Tuesday, Schaper got arrested for a state misdemeanor. She was one of eight clergy and two supporters who formed a human chain to block prisoner vans from entering Homeland Security’s jail in Lower Manhattan.

“We’ve been forced into civil disobedience,” Schaper says minutes before two New York Police Department officers put white plastic handcuffs on her. “Jean is a person who changed. He’s being forced to pay over and over again for his sin, so we must show how wrong the law is.”

Beside her was Lulu Fogarty, the Montrevil children’s Sunday school teacher. She had a simpler reason for breaking the law. “I couldn’t look the kids in the eye if I didn’t do anything to bring their dad back.”

The old stone cap to L'Evêque spoke. A language of eternity.

The old stone cap to L'Evêque spoke. A language of eternity. Words of an intangible power that address humanity's eternal quest for freedom. They claimed the victory over time and chanted the glorious dream of Titan. They camped the Northern man, genius christophien in his vision of a country standing in one breath, carried by the winds of history everywhere. They rewrote the inescapable truth: human vertical touch the stars in thought and change the world by his actions.

The great hall of the Karibe Convention Center has put on his attire to receive Saturday, December 12, 2009 the grand gala fundraiser to benefit the Henry Citadel. In a spectacular setting of round tables dressed in royal blue and enhanced arrangements evoking the orchid-bearing branches of mountain peaks. Monique Rocourt and his team are unsurpassed for providing an exceptional evening.

Monique Rocourt highlighted the magic of the evening which saw the culmination of combined efforts of the consortium Logo More Haiti, Music Lab, Logo Plus USA, Grissom Company, the sister companies working in the field of literary production, photography and music at the educational, cultural and historical. The group capped two years of hard work to present a book worthy of the greatest monuments of our architectural heritage, historical work that has built a team in an amazing and extraordinary adventures.

The output of the Book "The Citadel Henry" brought together all sectors of Haitian life: government, private, trade, industry, tourism, education, media, the arts, that of transport and communication ... In a celebration and a final recognition of the great figures of our past and our present are joined for a common journey towards identity found. The result is tangible proof of what can be done when a dream fills the soul, when faith supports the approach in an uncertain path strewn with pitfalls. This movement rallying around the safeguarding of national heritage has attached a great assembly of people sensitive to the redevelopment of the ultimate symbol of Haitian identity, the Grande Dame, the Citadel Henry.

... the spirit of eternal rocks

Pin loyalty "The Citadel Henry Haiti Heritage" were pinned inside by the side support in a gesture to honor the spirit of eternal rocks.

The Institute for the Protection of National Heritage, independent technical body, is born by government decree of March 28, 1979 the upgrading of the historic preservation, government agency founded in 1972 by Albert Mangonès. Daniel Elias, Director of ISPAN, stressed the importance of the mission of the Institute for Scientific and Technical. It is an inventory and ranking of evidence in the national heritage, general studies and detailed project of restoration and enhancement of monuments and historical sites, provide leadership and supervision of work performance, help promotion and development of public or private business to safeguard the national heritage and disseminate all information and documentation relating to the architectural heritage and monuments, national and international.

Albert Mangonès in its ideological vision of heritage conservation has advocated the strengthening of national identity by establishing the historical and cultural values conveyed by our monuments, developing education and knowledge essential to the establishment of a sense of belonging. The social and economic values provided by the approach are the logical result of an intelligent and rational exploitation of this heritage. For Albert Mangonès, beyond the aesthetic, cultural, technical and economic, conservation of architectural heritage "must find his true purpose in seeking solutions to human problems raised by the sudden changes of living environment." He was "aware of an organized community has the right to exist in decent conditions, which must grow and why heritage should remain a key factor of social cohesion".

The history of ISPAN is linked to the Citadel National Historic Park Sanssouci Ramiers, classified World Heritage by UNESCO since 1982. The institute has taken up the work begun by the Department of Conservation of Monuments, which consisted with the retirement of water, protection and stabilization of these historic buildings, with technical assistance from UNESCO and a UNDP funding and treasury. In undertaking this work, the ISPAN has used a multidisciplinary team of architects, engineers, but also sociologists, archaeologists, chemists, specialists in conservation of stone and metal, historians , photographers, specialists in regional planning, master carpenters, master builders and others. This adventure has been crowned with success in putting Henry Citadel and Palace of Sans-Souci out of danger and saved from destruction is irreversible.

The ISPAN has continued the first scientific and objective inventory of historical monuments of Haiti. Albert Mangonès has, in its generosity, enabling young people to grow in this business, coach, encourage them, its their lavish sound advice based on his long experience. The writings of historians such Madiou, Ardouin, Cabon, Debien, Pean, George Corvington, and the chronic period of Logbook of Christopher Columbus to chronic Edgard LaSelva, texts Labat, Moreau de Saint-Mery , Descourtilz were consulted to guide the search for ruins and ancient buildings.

The research archives were made by the team of the inventory. The identification and documentation of the defense system of the French colony of Saint Domingue, the network of fortifications erected in Haiti in the aftermath of 1804, the network of colonial sugar houses, historic centers of Cap-Haitien, Jacmel and Port - au-Prince, the site of the first voyage of Columbus on the north coast of Haiti was established.

Haiti rcihesse discovers his heritage
Haitian society now finds wealth, the vastness, the diversity of its cultural heritage. The prospects for tourism development become clearer. Youth is open questioning of its cultural identity. Our natural environment undergoes continuous degradation and alarming. Knowledge of our past should serve as a compass and leverage to build this sense of belonging to the land of our ancestors. The ISPAN is devoid of resources, financial resources reduced drastically since the Haitian state is forced to deal with other priorities. While remaining under its organic law, the institute has been forced to diversify its sources of funding. He had to call for international assistance to nongovernmental organizations and the private sector.

This approach has begun to bear fruit. The gala La Citadelle Henry is an outstanding example of collaboration between ISPAN and its generous patrons. Michèle Duvivier Pierre-Louis has encouraged and supported the draft publication of the ledger La Citadelle Henry.

The World Heritage Center, UNESCO agency responsible for management of properties inscribed on the World Heritage List, is currently updating the files and start the retrospective inventory of properties. The ISPAN will under this program, in agreement with the World Heritage Center, take the boundary of the National Historical Park covering 25 square kilometers, and its zoning regulations. It will assign a legal status, the build, within the World Heritage Convention ratified by the Republic of Haiti in 1980, a management structure and operation.

The ISPAN will speak on the historical monuments in order to complete the restoration work and complete the second phase of the project to organize and facilitate their visit. The development of the Museum of Citadel Henry will be a priority objective of the ISPAN, with the collaboration of the Musée du Pantheon National Haitien. This museum will showcase the finest collection of guns made in the ledger of Henry Citadel.

John Mac Aslan, representative of Aslan Mac Foundation, will support the study of museum Citadel Henry. He conveyed to the people of Haiti at the gala, the greetings and wishes of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, a mentor to the preservation of monuments in England, whose foundation also works with Mac Foundation Aslan.

The Minister of Culture and Communication, Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue, welcomed a very special presence in the room of family members of Albert Mangone and his friends. In recognition of a man who has traced a path through buildings, institutions and works that have enriched our humanity and our sense of memory, a certificate of decoration was awarded to Messrs Frederick and George Mangonès with these words:

Albert Mangonès, Grand Officier posthumously National Order of Honor and Merit

"On behalf of the Haitian government, on behalf of the Ministry of Culture and Communication, it is with humility, respect, we do the architect Albert Mangonès Grand Officer posthumously National Order of Honor and Merit, in recognition of its commitment to safeguarding the architectural heritage of Haiti. "

In her speech, Ms. Magali Comeau Denis, Special Advisor to the Minister Jocelyn Lassegue, honored the memory of both builders and designers, King Henry Christophe and architect Albert Mangonès passionate Citadel. The Ministry of Culture and Communication is pleased and hopeful that the various components of the society seized this monument founder and proclaim that the mission of conservation, preservation and backup can be only a matter of 'State. It rests on the arms of all the forces of the country can be an honor for the authorities - which do not unload all - and especially civil society commits more and more. He appreciates the way of civil society through actions of general interest to claim that the nation is us, that this heritage is ours, all of us.

The presentation of plaques to the guards of the Citadel, seven men who for over thirty years providing its maintenance and cleaning, has been applauded by the audience standing. One of their job is dangerous, it is to remain suspended, attached to a vein, 45 feet high, clinging to a ladder, to uproot the trees rooted among the old stones, seeds brought by wind.

The screening of the documentary "The Citadel Henry", written and narrated by Monique Rocourt, raised in me the pride of being part of this nation legatee of energy so powerful. This is an example of a man in all the greatness it can achieve on this earth and beyond. Walls challenge. They question us. Why can not we walk in the footsteps of men of brass?

1804 and 2009, two different circumstances, but so similar, through their affinity combinatorial hi, opportunities and possible collapse. A nation that has no other choice but to rise above impossible.

"The Citadel", a folkloric ballet

Design and texts of folk ballet "The Citadel" presented the audience are Monique Rocourt. The choreography and choreographic design are Nicole Lumarque. The dream. A citadel for my King. Construction. They must be given a voice. The hymn to liberty. Advance. Six tables to recreate the grandeur christophienne so poetic, musical with the gestural dance.

The dinner offered delicious dishes with original names related to The Citadel. An auction of works by Philippe Dodard, Rachelle Castera Herter and Savannah Savary, and a great show hosted by the Villa Russo followed. The draw of a raffle has been thirteen happy. Mizik Mizik moderated the ball which ended this evening made magnificence and hope for "The Citadel". Four sponsors have enabled the realization of the gala: Well, Délimart, AUTO and Sun Auto Plaza.

The signatures of the sales-Ledger "The Citadel Henry" will be held Thursday, December 17 at local ISPAN, angle Chériez Street and Martin Luther King, from 10 am to 2 pm, Saturday, December 19th at the Cercle Bellevue, Bourdon 10 am to 5 pm, and Sunday, December 20 at OASIS Street Panamericana 11 am to 1 pm The price is 100 U.S. $ 4375 or gourds. The book goes on sale in bookstores both the Pleiades, Asterix Petion-Ville and I guess.

I invite you to build your library that play that highlights the high historical values of our cultural heritage.

By Savannah Savary

Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive returned satisfied in Port-au-Prince on Friday.

Back from Canada where he made an official visit of six days, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive returned satisfied in Port-au-Prince on Friday.

"It is a journey that I regard as essentially positive, said Friday Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive after a visit of six days in Canada. We have established strong links with partners with whom we used to work, "he said during an interview with the press lounge Diplomatic Toussaint Louverture Airport, minutes after the descent of plane.

Mr. Bellerive who made this visit primarily as Minister of Planning and External Cooperation was pleased to have met many political figures including Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Mayor of Montreal Gérald Tremblay and the Governor of Canada Michaëlle Jean Haitian origin.

In New York, where she stopped, Prime Minister held discussions with various foreign dignitaries who want to invest in Haiti. "We talked to investors and we've channeled," he said. Speaking to an audience of fellow about 24 hours before his return, Jean-Max Bellerive had estimated that "Haiti has no fundamental problems other than the Haitians themselves.

In turn, the federal government is ready to release for Haiti an additional 15 million dollars over two years. According to Jean-Max Bellerive, these funds will be used primarily in the context of improving prison conditions and security in border areas.

Asked about the issue of banditry recorded these days in the capital, Mr. Bellerive said that the CSPN (Supreme Council of National Police) will meet tomorrow on Saturday to ask and analyze the problem of insecurity. "Too much effort has been increased to attract investors in the country that can do the bandits," he said in a firm tone.

Mr. Bellerive was accompanied by his Foreign Minister, Marie-Michele Rey, and Secretary of State for Public Security Luc Eucher Joseph. But, according to the Prime Minister, Mr. Joseph has made the trip only as a representative of the Department of Justice. Emphasize that no presidential decree on the appointment of new secretaries of state has not yet been released a month after the inauguration of the Préval Government / Bellerive.

Upon his arrival, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive aquellir Dominican Minister of Economy, Temistocles Mountains, arrived Friday in Port-au-Prince for a working meeting. This visit, according to a statement issued Thursday in Santo Domingo, falls within the framework of strengthening bilateral relations between the two countries.

Haiti The problem of establishing the Higher Council of Judiciary (CSPJ)

The problem of establishing the Higher Council of Judiciary (CSPJ) and its involvement in the Haitian judicial system has been central to discussions at the Fourth Congress of the National Association of Haitian Magistrates (ANAMAH) held on 17 and December 18, 2009 at Hotel Le Plaza. This was also the occasion to renew the new office at the head of the association.


Discussions during the two days of the fourth congress of the National Association of Haitian Magistrates (ANAMAH) took place on the need to install the Superior Council of Judiciary (CSPJ) created by a law published in the Official Journal of the Republic, The Monitor, December 27, 2007. Different panelists who spoke on the issue have recognized that the creation of CSPJ is "absolutely necessary" for the course of justice in Haiti. They said the lack of political will of the Executive to appoint the President of the Court of Cassation is the main obstacle to establishing the highest court in the country.

"The political implications are too heavy so the executive does everything possible to prevent the creation of CSPJ," fumed Mr. Léon Saint-Louis. This, he says, explains why many previous attempts have failed.

All the panelists who spoke during the two days are in the refusal of the Executive to appoint the President of the Court of Cassation an obstacle to the process of establishing CSPJ.

"The Executive has, inter alia, the constitutional responsibility to enforce the laws of the Republic has chosen not to enforce a law under the Constitution which requires the amendment, however, said the barrister of the Bar, Mr. Gervais Charles, adding that the law establishing the highest court in the country has yet been adopted since 2007. The installation of CSPJ for which judges are fighting not only in the interest of the judiciary, says Mr. Charles, this concerns the whole community.
On "The Judiciary in the future movement of the creation of CSPJ" This Fourth Congress, says past president of the ANAMAH, Me Durin Duret Jr, reflects the determination of the judiciary to consider reports that must exist between this and the CSPJ association is an institution of organization, control, discipline and deliberation and whose mission is to ensure the careers of judges and punish when necessary.

The judiciary, a power dependent

The judges of courts of different countries who took part in the congress denounced the stranglehold of the executive over the judiciary and the fact that the Minister of Justice, in their opinion, behaves as the head of the judiciary. "If justice is under the Ministry of Justice for its operation, this dependency is spreading also in terms of judges, at times, are influenced by the government in making their decision," denounced Me St. Louis. He said only the creation of CSPJ can free the judiciary from the clutches of the Executive. "The creation of CSPJ, institution that will break with the past practices of the executive, is" an absolute necessity, "he said.

Mr. Vandal, meanwhile, argued the same meaning to say that the creation of this institution is an "appropriate response to the need for independence of the judiciary, also denouncing the interference of the Executive and the Legislature in exclusive affairs of the judiciary. However, Mr. Patrick Pierre-Louis noted that the CSPJ is a tool, a means but not an end in regard to independence per se of the judiciary.

For her part, Ms. Danielle Saada, head of the Justice Section of MINUSTAH, said that the complexity of the task of judges and lack of resources are the main obstacles in performing their work. She took the opportunity to reiterate the need to strengthen the judicial system to make it more effective.

Ultimatum to the Executive ...

After this congress, a resolution issuing ultimatum to the Executive for the implementation of the law establishing the CSPJ was adopted by a majority of judges present. However, the text still needs to be revamped will be sent shortly to the Executive which say they hope a wise decision. They also threatened to cease all activities across all jurisdictions in the country to force the executive to "take its responsibilities towards the nation."

Haiti: A blind revoked in search of justice

After 15 years at the National Television of Haiti, Peterson Célius Orelma, a blind, was revoked by Director Pradel Henriquez. Mr. Samuel Madistin, the victim's lawyer said the case was heard by the Superior Court of Audit since May 20, 2008 and to date no decision has been taken. Slowly raising the indignation of the victim.
Peterson Célius Orelma, used the position of receptionist at the National Television of Haiti since 1992, was revoked in 2007 by Director Pradel Henriquez because he is blind, and that this post is reserved for women, according to Mr. Samuel Madistin.

The lawyer said that after his office was contacted by Peterson, he is confronted by a ciyoyen who needed to be assisted, while being aware that the Superior Court of Auditors and Administrative Disputes (CSC / CA) is afraid to litigants and lawyers discouraged by putting too much time for making a decision and its execution.

However, with perseverance and lots of fighting, the case was heard before the Court and heard by Judge Joseph Paul Yves May 20, 2008. But after 19 months, no decision has been taken.

In the opinion of Mr. Madistin, three months is the maximum period sufficient for the Court to make and enforce decisions.

For his part, Peterson said Orelma be disappointed that the Court refuses to take a decision after all this time that the case was heard. He continues: "if the Director Pradel Henriquez was a misjudgment and discriminatory on my person, then the former President of the Court drove the knife in the wound, completely ignoring my rights as a litigant."

So says he: "I hope that the current President of the Court, Mrs. Nonie Mathieu, differs from its peers and it is working to change the image of the Court before it ceases to be the descent into hell for dismissed employees. "

From his side Mr. Samuel Madistin hoped that judicial reform advocated by the Department of Justice will also affect the Superior Court of Auditors.

A giant step in the right direction

In any democracy, sealing a political alliance in view of the conquest and exercise of power is a laudable initiative, as it opens promising new prospects for significant changes to the country. Given the growing concern that exists about the future of the democratic process, I personally welcome the leaders and members of the OPL, those of the Fusion of Haitian Social Democrats and the Democratic Convention unit who understood that the time has finally arrived to leave the past behind and look to the future.
By agreeing to put aside all their old battles clan to offer the nation a patriotic alternative to the progress and democracy, the parties constituting the new political structure has performed an act fraught with meaning: despite the disappointment, discouragement and great despair that Unity Lespwa has aroused among different components of Haitian society, there are still reasons for hope.

Bravo! It is a giant step just taken.

A major step that will, we believe, significantly contribute to the stabilization and economic development. If the activists of these parties have participated actively and constructively to the creation of this platform because they have realized that to save the country from the disaster, a broad alliance was necessary, even unavoidable. However, admittedly, if this alternative was more than necessary, we must admit that it is not enough to save the country. In this sense, I think it is necessary and even beneficial to leave the door open for other political parties who consider the current policy, as practiced at the National Palace, will lead the country anyway disaster. We believe that in this particularly difficult, it is necessary to find common solutions to the problems of Haiti. In coming together, combining credible parties, men and women authentic, we manage to develop potential solutions that will lead to a political future for our youth and society as a whole. Form a coherent whole to restore confidence, consolidate democratic gains, strengthening the institutions of the Republic, Haiti commit towards a modern and sustainable economic development, rebuild the infrastructure of the country, tackling serious environmental problems related to environmental degradation, etc.., what are the challenges of the day. So, remain open and be united. Together we will.
garyguiteau@yahoo.com

Haiti news: Oasis accoste le quai de Labadie

The "Oasis of the Seas" was anchored to the new dock Labadie, this Thursday, December 3, 2009. Haitian officials satisfied with the benefits of partnership with the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line (RCCL) through the Company Labadie Nord (Solano) are large: the development of tourism in the north. Back on a day-discovery.



"Elsie, the greenery is intact, the road less tortuous. I see goats grazing and peacekeepers on duty, described, Live, Marcus Garcia at his accomplice Radio Melody with the ardor of young journalists eager to scoop the original angle, the important detail that another rate , Thursday, December 3, 2009, just minutes from the bay of Labadie when wet, for the first time since its commissioning, the largest, finest, most luxurious cruise ship in the world, the "Oasis of the seas. As the unexpected eruption of Vesuvius, laughter erupts in the bus carrying senior journalists, amused by the spontaneous association funny goat and blue helmet while the new flagship of Royal Caribbean Cruise Line (RCCL) stands before the illuminated wonder Marcus, a star of radio from its beginnings in the seventies at Radio Haiti Inter.

On the site where rushes a bit annoyed the bus driver who missed a first entry, hundreds of cruise passengers, some pink skin, tanned, discover the craft market, a little before ten o'clock in the morning. A few steps away, a brass band and majorettes make the solemn moment and thwart the sound tests conducted on the platform of a small amphitheater to host the first part of the ceremony. Azor, sparkling in a white robe, talks with Ti Corn, fresh, everlasting, sunny voice. Read more

News: Death penalty sought for man accused of killing family

NAPLES, Fla. — Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a Haitian-born man accused of cutting the throats of his wife and five children.

A state attorney’s office spokeswoman said paperwork was filed Thursday morning declaring prosecutors’ intentions in the case against 33-year-old Mesac Damas.

Damas is charged with killing his 32-year-old wife, Guerline, and their children who ranged in age from 19 months to 9 years old. Their bodies were discovered Sept. 19 in the family’s Naples town house.

Damas has pleaded not guilty, although when he was arrested in his native Haiti he admitted his guilt to a reporter and said he wanted to be executed. Later he told investigators that “bad spirits” made him do it.