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Here is a picture of Former Haitian President, Rene Preval. He has been hit with a lawsuit for the sum of $ 13 million.

Mr. Charles Edward Narcisse, a businessman who has been working in the import and export between Quebec and Haiti brought this lawsuit for something called: "immeasurable" damage. These issues took place been due from 1996 to 1998.

The complaint was filed at the courthouse in Longueuil, on October 17

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Here is a picture of New York marathon. In 2013, the J/P HRO organization has decided to sponsor them to make a major Haitian representation at the New York Marathon for the first time.

New York marathon is the largest marathon in the world organized by New York Road Runners.
This popular race attracts many athletes annually

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The United Nations, an intergovernmental organization with the objective to promote cooperation and piece. Beside peace, The United Nations supports international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, civil rights, civil liberties, political freedoms and democracy
The UN organization was founded in 1945 after World War II to replace the League of Nations. It had its original objective to stop and prevent wars between nations
The organization started with 51 member states; there are now 193.
It has six principal organs: the General Assembly; the Security Council; the Economic and Social Council; the Secretariat; the International Court of Justice; and the United Nations Trusteeship Council; the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme and United Nations Children's Fund.

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Many true geniuses in any field go about creating masterpieces outside the notice of the public. The same can said to be true for the seriously underrated comedic talent that is Maxime Clerge. Also known as Pe Maximo, Clerge is most recognized for his stand up comedy show in which he performs as various politicians from Haiti's past, including Emmanuel Charlemagne and President Jean Bertrand Aristide, equipped with impressive, mostly uncanny voice impressions that leave the crowd in stitches.

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Hollywood super-babe Pamela Anderson will show in November, at the New York City Marathon, that the race is not for the swift, but for those with the biggest will to give. The sex icon and former Baywatch actress will put on her running shoes in the hope of raising money to fund Sean Penn's J/P Haitian Relief Organization to the tune of at least half a million dollars. Currently in training mode, Anderson has taken to the internet super-information highway of Twitter and Facebook to promote her run and raise awareness of the cause.

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Adonis 'Superman' Stevenson has flown through Cloud to retain his title as the World Boxing Council's light-heavyweight champion after a longer than normal--for the Haitian born Canadian boxer--fight against America's Tavoris Cloud. In the match that went seven rounds before a bloodied and exhausted Cloud was given a reprieve in his loss, Stevenson claimed his ninth consecutive victory and upped his stats to 22-1. This win makes Stevenson's 19th win within the distance.

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Jalousie has been turned into a colorful tribute to Haitian artist, Prefete Duffaut, whose imaginary cities rose up from canvas in a profusion that exemplifies the world's view of what a shanty town should, ideally, be. Reasons for choosing Jalousie as the site for this tribute range from the town's mayor wishing to make it a new tourist attraction, to wanting to give the residents a sense of national identity.

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Jalousie has been turned into a life sized replica of a Prefete Duffaut painting, in which houses, bathed in rich color, illustrate the image of a happy shanty town to the world. Hoping, among other reasons, to give the town a new sense of identity, the government has presented a broken-down city with inhabitants possessed of many reasons to be unhappy as a gay, bright and inviting.

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While heavily criticized for its use of $6 million USD on a renewal initiative for Jalousie, the Martelly Administration remains firm behind their project, stating that it is about altering the perception people have of the area as well as to make the inhabitant's living conditions better. The project is also said to have provided 2,500 jobs. For funding, the administration utilized funds from international donations and Petrocaribe, though the brunt came from the public treasury. It is part of a wider development project for the country in which 800 similar projects have been planned.

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