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Here is a picture of Haiti Prime Minister Evans Paul with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington D.C.

Paul Evans, the Haitian Prime Minister accompanying Godson Orélus, the CEO of the PNH and Mr. Fritz Jean-Louis, his Delegate Minister of on election matters, reached Washington DC (USA), on a three day tour (September 16 to 18). He had a packed well prepared agenda with him for his U.S tour. He had to attend the forum of the Black Caucus Foundation, to meet the U.S Secretary of State John Kerry and discuss the importance and his administration's ability to hold a fair, free and credible election in Haiti. As the Organization of American States (OAS) is actively observing the Haitian election, the Prime Minister visited its headquarters and met the honorable Luis Leonardo Almagro Lemes (Uruguay), the Secretary General and Ambassador Nestor Mendes (Belize), the Assistant Secretary General of OAS, respectively.

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Here is a picture of the actual funeral of Max Beauvoir, the Leader of Haitian Voodoo Religion who passed away in September, 2015 in his home. He received a proper funeral according to the rules of the Voodoo religion

Haitians who adhere to Voodoo do not consider death to be the end of life-- there is an afterlife. When one dies, the soul essence hovers near the corpse for seven to nine days. During this period, the individual free soul can be captured and made into a "spiritual zombie" by a sorcerer. Thus, to avoid this capture, the voodoo priests perform a nine night ritual so that the soul may live in the dark waters for a year and a day. After that, the deceased's relatives perform the Rite of Reclamation to raise the deceased person's soul essence and put it in a clay jar known as a govi. When Max Gesner Beauvoir, the supreme leader of Haitian voodoo died on September 12, his body was kept until everyone paid a visit and made it home for the funeral. Prime Minister Paul Evans met with the daughter and step-son of the deceased, the couple Rachel and Didier Dominique. A 'national tribute was arranged on September 16, at the Champ de Mars. In a somber environment, the Government of the Republic of Haiti extended its sincere condolences to the relatives and friends of the deceased and to the members of the voodoo community. President Michel Martelly has described his death as a "great loss for the country".

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Here is a picture of Brooklyn Democrat Samuel Pierre who has made the decision to remove his candidacy for the November's special election,

Samuel Pierre, onetime Brooklyn Borough Director in the Community Affairs Unit, Office of the Mayor of New York City and more recently, a candidate in the November election for ex-state Sen. John Sampson Senate seat, has decided to withdraw himself from the upcoming election. Pierre was accused by the Kings County Democratic Party of a 2013 misdemeanor conviction for which he had pleaded guilty for accepting bribe over $50. In 2008, Pierre received two designer t-shirts and free dinners from a family friend, Kenol Janvier for helping him with his green card issues. Pierre, now 30, says that although he was too young then (22), but he never asked anything in exchange of his service. Had it been now, in 2015, his approach would be totally different.

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Here is a picture of U.S. presidential candidate Martin O'Malley as he is asking the UN to take responsibility for cholera outbreak in Haiti.

U.S. presidential candidate Martin O'Malley says the UN needs to take responsibility for the cholera outbreak taking the lives of 8,000 victims since the earthquake. Abundant proof UN Nepalese soldiers' feces entered Haiti's water system makes the UN culpable.

The UN refutes charges it is to blame. Although the international body has supported a $2.2 billion project to eradicate cholera, it has only collected 13% of the money necessary to combat the plague.

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Here is a picture of Vice-Consul of Haiti Judnie Galdine Souffrant as she has decided to paralise traffic on the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic

Vice Consul of the Haitian Consulate, Judnie Galdine Suffering, obstructed the Ouanaminthe border road with her car, impeding traffic for two hours. She invoked diplomatic immunity for refusing to hand over identity documents and car registration.

Consulate and Human Rights Committee representatives arrived to remove the car blocking the road. International conventions still require diplomats ". . . to respect the laws and regulations of the State of residence . . ."

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Here is a picture of MINUSTAH Lieutenant General José Luiz Jaborandy who died on August 31.

Lieutenant General Jaborandy, who led MINUSTAH as Force Commander, has died. He assumed the leadership post in March 2014.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed sorrow in a press release, sharing ". . . he was grateful to the Lt. General for his leadership and dedication to the cause of peace . . . shown during his deployment."

Ban sent the Jaborandy family his deeply-felt sympathies and to the Brazilian government. Jaborandy was born in Brazil.

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Here is a picture of the former Boston police detective Yves Dambreville.

Yves Dambreville, a 33-year veteran of the Boston Police Force was brutally gunned down by some unknown hooligans on August 26, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Dambreville has left behind a legacy of cultural outreach who would be remembered as a man of many identities. He served as a liaison to the city's Haitian community and other immigrant neighborhoods. This retired Boston police detective was one of the most visible and influential members and held as a pioneer in the Boston's Haitian community for decades. He was the first Caribbean community's official link to Boston City Hall and the Mayor's Office who arranged for educational and job training opportunities for hundreds of people. Dambreville settled in Boston in the late 1960's. He was the city's second Haitian-American police officer after his brother Manny. He served as a trusted advisor to two former Boston Mayors, Ray Flynn and Tom Menino, a responsibility overlapping his police work.

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Here is a picture of the new interim Chancellor, Lener Renauld who is also also Minister of Defense

Mr. Lener Renauld, the Haitian Minister of Defense and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship was installed as the new Interim Chancellor by the President Martelly. He replaced Duly Brutus, who announced his resignation on April 5 to run as a candidate for the presidential election. Renauld was severely criticized recently when the foreign embassies in South Africa and several other places failed to pay their regular payments like rent and salary. Some sources indicated that the foreign minister of Haiti has not forwarded any money for these embassies. As a Haitian Minister of Foreign Affairs, he should have set up a budget at the beginning of the year; the lack of funds appears to be a mystery. Some even suggested that the Haitian government is bankrupt due to the election. In last July, to prevent a humanitarian crisis, Renauld invited the intervention of the OAS and other international communities on the issue of repatriations of Haitians living in an irregular migratory situation in the Dominican Republic.

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Here is a picture of two former friends and political allies, Evans Paul, K-Plim and former President Jean Bertrand Aristide

Evans Paul, the present Haitian Prime Minister (born 25 November 1955) rose to the political prominence in the 1990s as an ally of the two time controversial former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. He is known to his comrades as K-plim (the pen), or Konpè Plim. When on December 25, 2014, Martelly recommended Evans, as a successor to Lamothe following his forced resignation on Dec.13, the nomination of Evans, a former Lavalas, appeared to many as an effort by the President to make consensus with his radical opposition. Evans was the former president of the Democratic United Committee (Komite inite Demokratik, KID); he was elected mayor of Port-au-Prince (with 88% vote) in the 1990 elections that brought Jean-Bertrand Aristide's 'National Front for Change and Democracy Party' to power; and he ran unsuccessfully for the Haitian presidency in the 2006 elections under the Democratic Alliance Party banner.

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Here is a picture of the foreign minister of the Dominican Republic, Andrés Navarro. He went to New Jersey in an attempt to dissuade a nonbinding resolution in the state Senate

On Thursday, August 6th, Andrés Navarro, the Foreign Minister of the Dominican Republic visited New Jersey to meet local politicians and dissuade them from passing a nonbinding resolution in the state Senate, which would criticize the Dominican Republic for stripping the citizenship of about 240,000 people who were born in the DR, but their parents were undocumented immigrants. A 2013 ruling of the Constitutional Tribunal of the Dominican Republic (Ruling No. 168-13) retroactively stripped citizenship from as many as 240,000 people born since 1929 to Haitian parents in the Dominican Republic. Following an international outcry, this resolution, sponsored by New Jersey State Senator Raymond Lesniak (D), respectfully urges the Dominican Republic to reinstate the citizenship of those of Haitian descent born in the Dominican Republic.

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