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Dominican Company took $10 million to build the Parliament building.

When in March 2012 then president Martelly visited the Dominican Republic, he was awarded the country's highest honor for a foreign Head of State, mainly for his effort to lure investment in the reconstruction of earthquake torn Haiti. However, according to an explosive March 31, 2012, report by star Dominican journalist Nuria Piera, Martelly as a candidate, president-elect, and president of Haiti, received bribe close to $2.6 million in over a dozen payments from a Dominican Senator named Félix Ramon Bautista. The payment came from the bank accounts of two Bautista-owned firms and in return, three Dominican companies, connected to Senator Bautista, received Haitian government contracts totaling $343.32 million. Senator Bautista Rosario was also the secretary of the ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD). Those contracts were: (1) Constructora Hadom (98% owned by Bautista) won the contract to rebuild Haiti's Parliament Building, destroyed in the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake, for $33.77 million; (2) Constructora Rofi S.A. was awarded to build a new housing development at Fort National for $174.31 million; and (3) Construcciones y Diseños R.M.N. S.A., won $135.31 million contract to build another housing development in Bowen Field. A closed bid with three companies belonging to the same person is horrendous and when these deals finalized by the former Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive on November 8, 2010, became the target of an audit by the succeeding Prime Minister Garry Conille, he was forced to resign. Since receiving the advance of $10 million, there is no trace of Constructora Hadom. A recent spot investigation made by UCLPB concludes that it was a total waste of money as nothing has been done for the amount disbursed so far.

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Here is a picture of a protest paking place on June 21, 2016 where some stones and bottles thrown towards the Haitian Parliament

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Here is a picture of the new pre-fabricated homes where the new Haitian parliament will be located until a more permanent one will be built. Edmond Mulet handed pre-fabricated Temporary Haitian Parliament Building to Kelly Bastien.

The pre-fabricated Haitian parliament offers much more comforts to the Haitian law makers. The houses are air-conditioned and provide adequate space to conduct the businesses of the country

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This is what the Haitian government want to make the new Haitian Parliament look like.

On the last week of 2012, the government will give official signal to start work on the new building. The ceremony will take place on
avenue Marie jeanne at Bicentenaire of Port-au-Prince.
The new Parliament is estimated to cost between 33 and 34 million

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Here is a picture of the plan to rebuild the Haitian Parliament. The cost to rebuild the Haitian Parliament is estimated at 33-34 million with funding provided by IMF.

It is also estimated to create close to three hundred jobs in the process. Work will statr in January 2012 and completion is scheduled for January 2015.

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