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Here is the Kanaval 2014, Show Show net bt Don Kato.

The Kanaval was released on February 2, 2014 at Radio Caraibes. Don kato in an interview at radio caraibes on Sunday January 2nd released its Kanaval for 2014.

The Kanaval this year will be held in Gonaives

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Morne Hercule, a town found in the Ouest region of the country, was the site of a pilot project funded and organized by the United Nations. The 16/6 Housing Reconstruction project of the UN Agency was put together by various entities to provide 16 communities with rehabilitation. Neighborhoods in three areas were set to benefit from the plans as some 5,000 homes were commissioned throughout Petionville, Port-au-Prince and Delmas.

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Haiti is home to many a small town, many of which are found mainly on the outskirts of other, more popular and populous cities. One such place, so small in population the number is not often formally documented, is the tiny town of Platon Besace. Found in the Sud-Est Department of the country, Platon Besace lies near other towns such as Besace, Beseau, Marecage and L Abbe, as well as major cities such as Santiago, Port-au-Prince, Carrefour and Delmas. Travelers to this largely unvisited area can find it at the coordinates 18° 18' 10" North and 72° 51' 53".

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Sitting in the Artibonite region of Haiti, the small town of Pont Sonde, or, in keeping with its original pronunciation, Pont Sondé, can be found at the geographical coordinates of latitude 19° 9' 0" North, and of longitude 72° 37' 0" West. Lying near the Petite Riviere de l'Artibonite as well as the towns of Liancort and Saint Marc, Pont Sonde has a population of between one and two thousand people.

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As the rate of inflation in Haiti continues to slow down, blessedly miles away from the ghastly 42.46% recorded in September 2003 at its present 4.20%, eyes shift to how this good tide affects the country's industries. The percentage for the food, beverages and tobacco industry is 3.2%, with lowered prices on items like bread, green and dried peas, ground provisions like potatoes and yams, and citrus fruits such as lemons, grapefruits and oranges. Meanwhile, the health industry reported a 3.7% rate of inflation, while energy, water and rent housing reported 5%.

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Getting water in many areas throughout Haiti can prove a challenge; for those in Bolosse, it can be especially cumbersome. Residents of the Port-au-Prince town complain of having to wake up early to collect their ration of water before the supply runs dry. The public fountain in Bolosse is then flooded by people, adults and children, waiting to fill their containers between the hours of 6am and 11am.

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As Haitians throughout the country celebrate the 210th anniversary of their freedom from France, those in the Chicago Diaspora join in with them to observe their shared independence. In an address to the Chicago Haitians, the city's Consul General, Lesly Condé, reminded all, while wishing them the usual 'Merry Christmas' and 'Happy New Year', that the 1st and 2nd of January would bring Haiti's Independence anniversary and, in the case of the latter date, Ancestors' Day.

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Haiti at a pivotal point of transformation--a fitting setting for the story of Marc Anthony and Cleopatra, the star-crossed, tempestuous lovers whose affair blazed bright and hot during a time of shifting regime's within Egypt's shared history with Rome. The old story with a new look will take to the stage of Miami Beach's Colony Theatre from January 10, to February 9. The story, which culminates at the final battle of the Haitian Revolution, where Cleopatra will famously take her own life, was penned by actor and award-winning dramatist, Tarell Alvin McCraney.

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In Haiti's early history, following the exploration of Christopher Columbus in late 1492 and the genocide of the Haitian Arawaks under the rule of the Spanish, the nation was known as Saint-Dominique, a colony of France. Then, in 1791, a slave population numbering nearly a half million staged an uprising led famously by Toussaint l'Ouverture which could not be completely quelled by the efforts of France's Napoléon Bonaparte and swelled to triumph in 1804 with Jean-Jacques Dessalines at the helm.

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There are not very clear-cut roles within Haitian society where gender is concerned as, while men are conventionally the ones in charge of being the breadwinners, Haitian women work too and can often be found as the main financial support of their families. Still, while women work outside of the home, they are, all the same, expected to take on the traditional female roles of housekeeper, cook and child-minder. A large percentage of low-income Haitian families are of the common-law variety.

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