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The Court of First Instance (TPI) in Petit-Goave has just been remodeled and updated. The reception, office, courtroom, bathroom, and courtyard spaces have been re-built to be more spacious and attractive. The prosecutor's grounds have also totally been made over.

At the TIP re-opening ceremonies, attended by Prime Minister, Lamothe, and Justice Minister, Sanon, Government Commissioner, Civil, voiced his certainty the newly remodeled surroundings of TPI would add considerably to the operation and dispensation of justice in the West Department.

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Here is a picture of Cardinal Chibly Langlois with some of the Haitian political Parties at the Karibe.

The picture was taken after their first meeting where the parties agreed on the protocol of the debate.

His Eminence Cardinal Chibly Langlois is in charge of an attempt to revive the dialogue. The official dialogue will start on Friday at Hotel El Rancho

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The 2014 Haitian Carnival season. In Haiti, we call it Kanaval as this type of celebration and the way in which we celebrate it is unique to Haiti. This year the theme of the Kanaval season is "Tèt kole pou Ayiti Pi Djanm" (Together for a stronger Haiti).

On November 2013, the Haitian government made it official that the 2014 Kanaval will be held in Gonaives

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Haiti's families and history date back to 1842 when Christopher Columbus found an island in the region of the West Atlantic Ocean. This would later become the Caribbean. Even though there were already natives present, Columbus claimed the island now shared by Haiti with the Dominican Republic for Spain. He named the island the Spanish Island which later became Hispaniola.

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Haitian families generally consist of two parents who taken on the stereotypical gender roles, but some Haitian households are single parent; this compels the women to do domestic tasks as well as and support the family financially. Domestic abuse rates in Haiti are among some of the highest in the region. Most Haitians are married under common law and not by traditional ceremony. Regardless of these facts family is of upmost importance in Haiti even if a member of the family immigrates.

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The monument in remembrance of Haiti's founding father, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, is in a state of ruin that has raised the ire of youths who are unwilling to join the ranks of those who have forgotten the man's immense, indispensable efforts towards freedom for their country. He became emperor in 1804 after leading the Haiti Massacre on the minority white population that ruled the country and was responsible for 3,000 to 5,000 deaths. He was later assassinated in 1806. The Haitian people are looking to the government to rid the monument of all the trash and grotesqueries, bringing it back to the honorable state it should be in.

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Home to just under 30,000 residents, according to a 2003 census, the Petite-Rivière-de-Nippes is close to other cities including Santiago de los Caballeros, Croix Des Bouquets, and Pétion Ville. The town, known in Creole as Ti Rivyè de Nip, sits in the Miragoâne Arrondissement within Haiti's Nippes Department. The Pan American Development Foundation runs in the town the Government's PRODEP (Project for Participatory Development). Petite-Rivière-de-Nippes is one of 28 communities in which the project is run.

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For a town of only about a hundred thousand inhabitants, the North-East Department city of Ouanaminthe is certainly not behind in schooling. The city along the Haitian border with the Dominican Republic is home to many schools, though most are for small children. Once a certain level of education has been reached, older students will matriculate to schools outside of Ouanaminthe in order to continue their studies. Still, the small city is home to secondary schools and a university of its own.

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Here is the picture of Businessman Daniel Evinx who received his arrest after retrieving a total of 23 kilos of marijuana in the southern coast of Haiti. According to Jean-Marie Saloman, the
Government Commission of Les Cayes, was alerted by the police and subsequently made the arrest

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