Haiti Cholera

Haiti Elections results

Les Resultats des Elections du 28 Novembre 2010
Mirlande Manigat et Jude Célestin doivent disputer le second tour des présidentielles selon les résultats préliminaires publiés par le Conseil Electoral Provisoire (CEP).

L'ex première dame recueille 31,37% des votes soit un écart de 9 point sur son principal adversaire. Le candidat de la plateforme présidentielle, Jude Célestin, avec 22 % des suffrages exprimés devance le chanteur populaire Michel Martelly. M. Célestin ne compte qu'environ 6 800 voix de plus que M. Martelly qui est crédité de 21,84% des votes.

Le candidat de Renmen Haiti, Jean Henry Céant est en 4 eme position avec 8,18 % des votes, suivi par l'ex premier Ministre Jacques Edouard Alexis avec 3,07%. La sixième position est occupée par l'industriel Charles Henry Baker, 2.38 %.

Les 13 autres candidats ne dépassent pas la barre des 1%.

Source: Radio Metropole d'Haiti

Economy in Haiti

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By most economic measures, Haiti is the poorest country in the Americas. It had a nominal GDP of 7.018 billion USD in 2009, with a GDP per capita (PPP US$) of 1,255.^[1]
It is an impoverished country, one of the world's poorest and least developed. Comparative social and economic indicators show Haiti falling behind other low-income developing countries (particularly in the hemisphere) since the 1980s. Haiti now ranks 149th of 182 countries in the United Nations Human Development Index (2006). About 80% of the population were estimated to be living in poverty in 2003.^[1] Most Haitians live on $2 or less per day.^[76] Haiti has 50% illiteracy,^[77] and over 80% of college graduates from Haiti have emigrated, mostly to the United States.^[78] Cité Soleil is considered one of the worst slums in the Americas,^[79] most of its 500,000 residents live in extreme poverty.^[59] Poverty has forced at least 225,000 Haitian children to work as restavecs (unpaid household servants); the United Nations considers this to be a modern-day form of slavery.^[80]
About 66% of all Haitians work in the agricultural sector, which consists mainly of small-scale subsistence farming,^[1] but this activity makes up only 30% of the GDP. The country has experienced little formal job-creation over the past decade, although the informal economy is growing. Mangoes and coffee are two of Haiti's most important exports.^[1]
Mining and economic geology: Natural resources of Haiti include bauxite, copper, calcium carbonate, gold, marble and hydropower. Haiti contains relatively small amounts of gold, silver, antimony, tin, lignite, sulphur, coal, nickel, gypsum, limestone, manganese, marble, iron, tungsten, salt, clay, and various building stones. Gold and copper are found in small quantities in the north of the country. The government announced the discovery of new gold deposits in the northern peninsula in 1985, but long-standing plans for gold production proceeded slowly. Copper also was mined, beginning in the 1960s, but production of the ore was sporadic. There are bauxite (aluminum ore) deposits on the southern peninsula, but large scale mining there was discontinued in 1983. The country’s only bauxite mine, the Miragoâne mine in the southern peninsula, produced an average of 500,000 tons of bauxite a year in the early 1980s; however, in 1982 the declining metal content of the ore, high production costs, and the oversupplied international bauxite market forced the mine to close. Bauxite had at one time been the country’s second leading export. Haiti apparently has no hydrocarbon resources on land or in the Gulf of Gonâve and is therefore heavily dependent on energy imports (petroleum and petroleum products).

Note: Whatever sad it may sound to you, it is never too late to change our statu quo. Haiti used to be called one of the most prosperous country in the world. But today we see and hear the opposite. Let's start the change now. Do not wait. Yes, WE CAN!


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List of Candidates in the Haiti 2010 Elections

Name List of candidates for president of Haiti elections 2010

ABELLARD Axan Delson – Party : Konbit Nasyonal pour Devlopman (KNDA)
ALEXIS Jacques Édouard – Party : Mobilisation pour le Progrès d’Haïti (MPH)
ANACACIS Jean Hector – Party : Mouvement Démocratique de la Jeunesse Haïtienne (MODEJHA)
BAKER Charles Henry Jean-Marie – Party : Respè
BIJOU Josette – Party : Indépendant
BLOT Gérard Marie Necker – Party : Platfòm 16 Désanm
CÉANT Jean Henry – Party : Renmen Ayiti
CÉLESTIN Jude – Party : INITE
CHARLES Eric – Party : PRNH
CHRISTALLIN Yves – Party : Oganizasyon Lavni (LAVNI)
JEUDY Wilson – Party : Fòs 2010
JEUNE Jean Chavannes – Party : Alliance chrétienne citoyenne pour la reconstruction d’Haïti (ACCRHA)
JEUNE Léon J. – Party : Konbit Liberation Ekonomik (KLE)
JOSEPH Génard – Party : Groupement Solidarité
LAGUERRE Garaudy – Party : WOZO
MANIGAT Mirlande Hyppolite – Party : Rassemblement des Démocrates Nationaux Progressistes» (RDNP)
MARTELLY Michel – Party : Repons peyizan
NEPTUNE Yvon – Party : Ayisyen pou Ayiti
VOLTAIRE Leslie – Party : Plateforme Ansanm Nou Fò

I encourage all Haitians Citizens not to be too passionate when making a choice for the president. The time is come for us to know What we choose and Who we choose and How we choose. After 206 years of poverty, the Haitian People need a change. We need to live as human being. It is time for us to go for a new lifestyle. Do not go to vote because there are elections but go to vote because we need to make a difference. God bless you! God bless Haiti!

Haiti Elections 2010

Haiti's presidential elections are scheduled to be held Nov. 28. There are 19 candidates seeking to become president of the Caribbean country struggling to recover from a January earthquake that killed as many as 300,000 people and left more than 1.5 million homeless.
Five candidates participated in a forum Saturday at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg. It was broadcast live online to more than 160 radio stations in the U.S., Canada, France, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Haitian-Americans cannot vote in their homeland, but they can raise money for candidates and influence their friends and family in Haiti.

A look on the Haiti Agriculture in the Past ten years

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Production of coffee in 1999 totaled 28,000 tons, as compared with the record-high of 43,600 tons in 1962. Sugarcane is the second major cash crop, but production has been declining; in 1976, Haiti became a net importer of sugar. Sugarcane production in 1999 was 1,000,000 tons. Other agricultural production figures for the 1999 growing season (in thousands of tons) were bananas, 290; corn, 215; rice, 102; sorghum, 96; dry beans, 36; and cocoa beans, 5. Haitian agriculture is characterized by numerous small plots averaging slightly over one hectare (2.5 acres) per family, on which peasants grow most of their food crops and a few other crops for cash sale; few farms exceed 12 hectares (30 acres). Haiti employs an unusual form of farming called arboriculture. Combinations of fruit trees and various roots, particularly the manioc plant, the traditional Haitian bread staple, replace the grain culture of the usual subsistence-economy farming. Crops are cultivated with simple hand tools; the plow or animal power is only rarely employed, except on sugarcane plantations.

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