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Here is an other beautiful painting in Little Haiti Mural Project 2014. This painting is located on 54th Street, between Miami Avenue ans First Avenue, NE.

Art Basel was founded in 1970 by three Basel gallerists, Trudi Bruckner, Ernst Beyeler and Balz Hilt. Art Basel has two editions-- one in Basel, Miami Beach and another in Hong Kong. It provides international platforms for art galleries to show and sell their work, giving them access to collectors, museum directors and curators. Today, Miami, a city of 2.6 million people has three major contemporary art galleries of which Art Basel Miami Beach is arguably the most important one.

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The mission of Little Haiti Health Center in Miami-Dade County is to protect, prevent disease, promote and improve the health of all residents and visitors of Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County irrespective of the person's race, color, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation or national origin and improve the general condition of health of all people in Florida through integrated state, county community effort.

Little Haiti Health Center constantly strives to find creative solutions and manage available resources wisely through concerted efforts. The Health Department has a published directory of testing and treatment centers all across Florida for varieties of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, including HIV.

Any person in the Little Haiti area who is 13 years old or more, needs our assistance may contact: Miami-Dade County Health Dept. Little Haiti Health Center, Phone Number: 305-795-2100 (main).

Little Haiti Health Center
300 NE 80th Ter, Miami, FL 33138
(305) 795-2100

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Haitian Heritage Museum in Little Haiti is the first Haitian Museum of its kind founded outside the country, in Miami, Florida. It is a non-profit organization committed to highlight and preserve Haiti's rich heritage and culture. It is a place where the visitors and the local community can witness rich collections of Haitian art, historical artifacts, literary works, music and films. This award winning museum also organizes cultural events, art exhibitions and educational programs for the Miami-Dade community since 2004. It is a treasure for the local community that celebrates Haitian culture through exhibits and community programs. The walls of the museum are covered with dozens of pieces of colorful framed Haitian art and artifacts of all sorts are meticulously scattered throughout. The creators and founders behind this great museum are Evelyn Pierre- the Executive Director and Serge Rodriguez- the Director of Operations.

Haitian painting had a peak period between 1950 and 1975 and the greatest works of Langston Hughes, America-African writer, on Harlem Renaissance were published between 1930s and 1940s. The museum in the heart of Little Haiti is a Mecca for Haitian art and culture in America. Because strategically, Florida is the most common first stop for Haitians who come up to settle in America and simultaneously, it often becomes the last stop for people returning their homeland. Many Haitians and Haitian-Americans consider South Florida as one sort of bridge to their motherland. The exhibits of the museum through visual arts, text and architecture depict Haiti's path to freedom, from the scourge of slavery to independence in 1804. The museum itself is quite small in size but its contribution is not restricted within its four walls. They work in local schools, teach students about Haitian literature, history and music--they also organize periodic field trips.

Haitian Heritage Museum
4141 NE 2nd Ave #105c, Miami, FL 33137
(305) 371-5988

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May 30, 2016 - As soon as President Jocelerme Privert received the report from the Verification Commission, handed it over to the President of the CEP, Leopold Berlanger, who would be responsible to determine on whether or not to follow the recommendations of the Commission. One of the recommendations was to redo the presidential elections. The only comment from Privert was to urged the CEP to "make good use of the report and the decision was not his to make"

Some say that president Privert intelligently transferred a hot potato over to the CEP

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Here is a picture of Leopold Berlanger who was elected President of the new CEP..

Councillor Leopold Berlanger (born in Port-au-Prince in 1955), installed on 30 March, 2016, as a member of the new Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) has been elected as the President of the CEP on March 31, 2016, by other members of the council. The task of the new CEP will be to organize good, credible elections in the best conditions and in the shortest possible time, inspiring the confidence of the voters fulfilling all the implementations as per the Constitution. Leopold Berlanger is a graduate in Human Sciences degree on Social Work from Ecole Normale Supérieure of the University of Haiti, Higher Institute of Earth Sciences of the ITC, Netherlands (1980). He is a Doctorate in Sociology (1 St year of a 3rd cycle Doctorate) from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences at the University Paris V, Sorbonne in France and holds a Certificate in Regional Planning and Development Planning, University Paris I, Sorbonne France (1982). He participates in the management of many institutions and can write and speak Creole, French, English and Spanish.

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Here is a picture of the nine member CEP formed in April, 2013.
The Provisional Electoral Council was first evolved as an interim solution in Haitian's 1987 Constitution to oversee the first presidential and local elections. It was then decided that after the first election, a Permanent Electoral Council would be established as per Article 192 for future elections, but that has never been constituted. All elections since 1990 were run by Provisional Electoral Councils. Recently, on March 29, 2016, the interim President Jocelerme Privert appointed a 9-member Provisional Electoral Council. The council, on March 31, 2016 following their installation and swearing-in, held the first working session and elected their office bearers with the following responsibilities. 1) Léopold Berlanger (Press sector): President; 2) Carlos Hercule ( Episcopal Conference of Haiti): Vice President ; 3) Marie Frantz Joachim (Woman sector): General Secretary; 4) Frinel Joseph (Reformed worship): Treasurer ; 5) Kenson Polynice (Peasant / Voodoo sector): Member ; 6) Marie-Herolle Michel (Patronal sector): Member; 7) Josette Jean Dorcély (Union sector): Member ; 8) Jean Lucien Bernard (University sector): Member ; and 9) Jean Simon Saint-Hubert (Human Rights sector): Member.

A Decree published in Le Moniteur conformed the following members of the CTCEP

Pierre Simon Georges ;
Néhémy Joseph ;
Marie Clunie Dumay Miracles ;
Jean Marie Vianney Emmanuel Ménard ;
Jacqueline Patricia Chantale Raymond ;
Gloria Margarette Girault Saint-Louis ;
Léopold Berlanger ;
Marie Carole Innocent Floreal Duclervil ;
Applys Félix.

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On Wednesday, March 30, 2016, at the Court of Cassation (Champ-de-Mars), the 9 members of the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) appointed by the interim President Jocelerme Privert through a presidential decree on March 30, 2016 were sworn-in and installed with the stated object to organize credible, transparent and inclusive elections. In accordance with the statement of General Policy of the Prime Minister, the main tasks of the 9-member Electoral Council will include (i) Resume the electoral process after evaluating the steps already taken; (ii) Implement technical recommendations and (iii) Finalize and announce the election results. On the following day, March 31st, after the swearing-in and installation ceremony, the new members of the CEP held their first working session to elect their office bearers. Léopold Berlanger representing Press sector and Carlos Hercule, representing the Episcopal Conference of Haiti were elected President and Vice President respectively.

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Here is a picture of Me Carlos Hercules, a member of the new Provisional Electoral Council (CEP)

Carlos Hercules, representing the Episcopal Conference of Haiti, is a new member and the Vice President of the new Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) formed on Tuesday, March 29, 2016, at the National Palace. Hercules always have remained fearless, never bowed to pressure whether as one simple lawyer or as the President of the Bar of Port-au-Prince, or as the President the Federation of Bar Associations of Haiti (FBH). He raised his voice when Judge Lamarre Bélizaire acquitted the alleged leaders of the gang Galil, Woodly Ethéart, aka "Sonson Lafamilia" and Renel Nelfort aka "Le Récif". He never remained silent on the issue of untimely payment of remuneration to the electoral operators. In 2002, with an experience of four years (since 1998), he refused to become the President of the Bar, because the decree that regulates the legal profession in Haiti, permits a lawyer to become a member of the Order, if he/she has completed five years since his/ her swearing.

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Here is a picture of Pierrot Delienne, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister a.i. Interior

On Monday, March 28, 2016, in the salons of the Chancellery in Musseau, Pierrot Delienne, a newcomer to the cabinet has been installed as the new Minister of Foreign Affairs, and also as the Minister of Interior and Territorial Communities (ad interim), replacing the outgoing Chancellor Lener Renauld. Pierrot Delienne was a professor of marketing and program manager at the Haiti Quisqueya University and holds an MBA from the University of Quebec in Montreal (1983), a business administration degree and a law degree from the State University of Haiti. In 2006, he represented as Minister Counsellor in Geneva at the Mission of Haiti to the World Trade Organization (WTO). During his speech for the occasion, the new Chancellor has pledged to make Haitian diplomacy more dynamic and prominent on the international stage. Haiti will be more visible on the international bodies and on the World stages to protect the rights and interests of Haitian nationals living outside and inside the country.

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Jean Tholbert Alexis (born November 29, 1973) from the political party ANSANM NOU FO is a lawyer by profession. About three years ago, in July 2013, Judge Jean Serge Joseph was investigating charges of massive corruption against former President Martelly's wife, Sophia St. Rémy Martelly, and their son, Olivier Martelly. During his process of investigation, he was always under pressure and threatened personally by Martelly, Lamothe and others and the situation worsened when he issued summons to Martelly family along with several high government officials to testify before him. Finally, in a secret July 11 meeting (which the accused later denied), Martelly, Lamothe, Sanon, and other officials aggressively told the judge to call off the investigation. As a consequence of that, two days later, the judge died from a brain hemorrhage. Following that incident, Jean Tholbert Alexis, as the President of the Lower House ordered the inquiry into the death of Judge Jean Serge Joseph. However, when Deputy Sadrack Dieudonné, the President of the Commission of Inquiry, responsible for studying the circumstances surrounding the death of Judge Joseph, wanted to question Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe, the driver and his close security guard as well as those of President Martelly, Jean Tholbert Alexis, the President of the Lower House made things difficult and refused to sign and deliver the invitations for new the hearings as was called for!

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