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The lack of water in the town of Thiotte, up in the hills of Massif de la Selle, so greatly affects the livelihood of the farmers who live there that a new plan for trapping rain water, through the use of dozens of MINUSTAH funded tanks, has been initiated. In periods of dry weather, the soil becomes infertile, creating a domino effect that affects the quality of their herds and, eventually, the population. As it stands, capturing the rainwater during times of plenty seems the natural solution to Thiotte's water problem.

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Formerly known as Air Turks & Caicos, interCaribbean Airways is the country's national carrier, boasting a fleet of Beech 99 and Embraer 120 aircraft. Their operations include flights domestically (South Caicos and Grand Turk), and internationally. The recent addition of more flights into Haiti in the city of Cap Haitien adds to their current roster of destinations which includes the Dominican Republic's Puerto Plata, Santo Domingo and Santiago, Port-au-Prince in Haiti, Nassau in the Bahamas and Kingston, Jamaica.

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Deputy Abel Descollines from Mirebalais-Boucan Carré gave an ultimatum to President Michel Martelly. He declared yesterday that the government must hold election in 2014 and that if he doesn't, he himself will join the opposition against him. After two years of delay, if this does not take place, the government will be forced to resign

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The Dominican Republic (DR) is experiencing fallout from the ruling threatening to displace more than 250,000 Haitians, descendents of illegal immigrants.

Haitians have struck back at the DR's $4.5 billion tourist industry. At an airport terminal, they placed an image of a bikini-clad woman sunbathing on a beach. She has bloodied hands and the lettering below the image says the DR denationalizes more than a quarter of a million human beings.

The DR is under pressure from CARICOM to reverse the ruling.

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Haiti has a serious food insecurity crisis on its hands, and needs local growers to produce higher crop yields. St.-Rafael is one of many farming communities receiving packages of bean seeds, pesticide, and pesticide sprayers. One thousand of them were handed out at the Kore Peyizan distribution bank recently.

Minister and Agronomist, Marie Felix, from the Department of Promotion Peasantry presided over the distribution, emphasizing to growers the government needs their help to combat the food crisis.

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St.-Rafael growers are being advised by the Haitian government they need to increase crop yields. To support the growers, social assistance program, Ede Pèp, has delivered 1,000 agricultural kits to St.-Rafael.

The government is pushing hard to raise production levels in places like St.-Rafael to combat food insufficiency, blanketing many communities on the island. The kits contain bean seeds, pesticide, and pesticide sprayers. St.-Rafael growers thank the government for supporting their efforts to achieve higher crop yields.

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Grand'Anse native son, Sony Norde, came into the world on July 27, 1989. He is an up-and-coming football star, who now plays for the Bangladesh Premier League on the Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi team.

After a rookie season with San Luis FC, in which he scored eight goals, he was drafted for the Boca Juniors, an Argentinean team. Before, he played on the Haiti National Football team at the Youth and senior level divisions and with them at CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament.

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Les Anglais, a metro area, is situated in the Chardonnières Arrondissement under Haiti's Sud Department. A fertile farming community, it is inhabited by a population of 25,652.

Although the land of Les Anglais possesses excellent conditions for crops, it is besieged by hurricane activity, subjecting the cropland to repeated damage. In response, Christ the King Parish is gifting the community with $600 monthly to buy textbooks and teaching aids for Immaculate Conception School.

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The great Brazilian singer, Nelson Ned d'Ávila Pinto passed away on January 5th, 2014.

He was a famous singer and composer of sentimental music.

Nelson Ned became christian in 1993 and since then has has only recorded Christian Evangelical songs

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Here is a picture of the Cuban President Raúl Castro with the Haitian President Michel Martelly during the funeral of Nelson Mandela.

Recently, on the occasion of the 210 anniversary of Haitian independence and also the 55th anniversary of the revolution, Raul Castro stated that Cuba will never leave the Haitian people alone and that we can always count on their modest collaboration

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