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Depi mwa Novanm 2015, Phares Duverne te gen nan sipò lavi, apre yon kriz kadyak. Yo te pwononse li mouri maten (13 desanm 2015).

Phares Duverne te ap batay pou lontan ak Renal ensifizans, yon fonksyon pòv nan ren, li te itilize pou edike plis moun sou maladi a.

Phares te youn nan sis jounalis ayisyen ki kouri met deyò Ayiti epi chèche azil nan peyi Etazini an 2002, apre sipòtè Jean Bertrand Aristide te atake repòtè deyò Palè Nasyonal la. Li te nan plizyè estasyon radyo tankou Signal FM, Radyo Vizyon 2000 ak Shekina nan Miami

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Journalist Phares Duverne is dead

Since November 2015, Phares Duverne has been in life support, following a heart attack. He was pronounced dead this morning (December 13, 2015).

Phares Duverne has been battling for a long time Renal Insufficiency, a poor function of the kidneys, which he was very vocal about and which he used to educate more people about the illness.

Phares was one of six Haitian journalists who fled Haiti and seek asylum in US in 2002, after supporters of Jean Bertrand Aristide attacked reporters outside the National Palace. He was in several major radio stations such as Signal FM, Radio Vision 2000 and Shekina in Miami

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Nivo ensekirite an kontinye ap ogmante an Ayiti. Nenpòt moun ka vin yon viktim. Koulye a, ou ka mete ladan Direktè nan Radyo Tele Metwopòl, Jounalis Wendell Theodore, kòm dènye viktim nan ensekirite sa an Ayiti. Dapre enfòmasyon ki vinn jwenn nou, nan Vandredi aswè 11 Desanm, jounalis la te viktim yon carjack pa kèk bandi ame. pandan li te ap kondwi yon Toyota rav 4 nan Delmas 75, li te atake pa ansasen ame ki te tire an lè, plis pran machin li ak tout bagay andedan li. Apre atak la, yo rapòte ke Wendell Theodore ki pa te blese pa ensidan an, te boulvèse emosyonèlman ak ajite.

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Journalist Wendell Theodore attacked, car stolen

The level of insecurity continues to increase in Haiti and anyone can be a victim. Now you can include the Director of Radio Tele Metropole, Journalist Wendell Theodore as the latest victim of insecurity in Haiti. According to information obtained, on Friday evening of December 11, the journalist was the victim of a carjack by some armed bandits. As he was driving his white Rav 4 Toyota in delmas 75, he was attacked by gunmen who fired in the air and took his car with everything in it. Following the attack, it was reported that Wendell Theodore who was unharmed by the incident, was troubled emotionally and visibly agitated.

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Some Haitian journalists received Journalism and Social Media certificates from VOA.

Haitian Journalists Updated on Journalistic Practices

Voice of America (VOA) gave ten Haitian journalists certificates upon completing the "Journalism and Social Media in the Context of Elections" workshop. The Port-au-Prince U.S. Embassy financed the program.

The journalists were instructed in writing pieces that were unbiased, coherent, and represented differing views. They also received instruction on how to post their articles on social media.

VOA's Haitian affiliate, VOA Creole, is acknowledged as the top international news agency airing on Haitian radio.

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Here is the event where President Michel Martelly referred to his minister of Communication, Rothschild Francois Jr., as bluffer and liar live on stage

On Monday, August 24, 2015, while attending the CARIFESTA 2015, President Martelly participated in a parody interview show as a journalist and called his Minister of Communication Rothschild Francois Jr., in his own Sweet Micky style, "Where are you Rotchild? Come, come give us a lie..."And then he added, these guys went to school to learn to lie. In reply, the Minister started to smile from the top of the stand where he was attending the event. Later, the Minister, a former journalist and owner of a radio station, tried to minimize the statement and said, "the President has made a joke. As minister, I did not even need to respond, everyone knows who I am."... If this is a joke, then who is the joker?

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Here is a picture of Journalist Jefferson Michel Casseus.

On Sunday, August 30, around 5:30 PM, Jefferson Michel Casseus, the popular journalist from National Television of Haiti (TNH) died in a terrible car accident. He was travelling in a green Suzuki with another journalist Jhonson Baptiste, a contributing editor of Daily Le Nouvelliste and one woman whose identity is unknown. The woman and Baptiste both died on the spot. Casseus was seriously injured. Initially, he was taken to 'Doctors Without Borders Hospital' in Carrefour, but was later shifted to the 'Hospital of the State University of Haiti' (HUEH). The doctors at the HUEH were on strike. Without considering his condition, they left him unattended on the hospital floor for almost two hours and he died. Casseus's final words were "I am choking". The other car to the accident was a Honda Accord, damaged to a lesser extent, was carrying back four people from the beach-- one of its passengers died on the spot. Casséus had a keen interest on matters related to social issues; he was a host of "Morning Magazine Agenda Show" on TNH.

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Here is a picture of Clarens Renois who was elected to represent the Protestant sector.

On September 22, the high level committee for the Mediation Commission of the Protestant sector in Haiti chaired by Reverend Gerald Bataille, after their second level of discussion, has nominated journalist Clarens Renois as their sole candidate to run for the presidency. Renois has won the nomination by surpassing two other candidates-- Chavannes Jeune and Jean Paleme Mathurin. A resolution has been signed by the Mediation Commission to find a consensus formula so that the commission can decide definitively on the Protestant nomination and the candidates who were not nominated may remain eligible to run further and contest.

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Here is a picture of Radio personality Jacques Sampeur who is a candidate in Haiti presidential Election on 2015.

Jacques Sampeur, a presidential candidate from Konbit Liberasyon Ekonomik party is different from others in his league on many counts. While his other contenders are making a plethora of promises, he prefers to speak sensibly and identify the real deterrent causes, which if removed can make our lives easier. He believes his countrymen are matured enough to think and decide, but need some good representatives whom they can trust. He believes a good representative's agenda should be based on the following premises: modernizing agriculture to lower food cost, create quality education, rebuild poor neighborhoods, modernizing Haitian cities to reduce the load of population explosion in Port-au-prince, create environment to draw investment and tourism, mentor youth, facilitate wealth for the middle class, create an agency which will be dedicated to the improvement of Haitian-Dominican relationship. Jacques Sampeur is a radio personality and the director of ATV 42. He understands and admits that there are very few leaders who would ever want to achieve them other than making false promises, because they all run for power and nothing else.

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Here is a picture of two famous Haitian media personalities, Valéry Numa and Clarens Renois.

Clarens Renois is primarily known to the public as a journalist. He runs an online media, the PNH (Haiti Press Network) that he founded and a correspondent of Agence France Presse in Haiti. On August 13, Clarens, one of the most respected members in the media, both in Haiti and abroad got involved in a debate with reporter Valéry Numa on a Radio Vision 2000's Guest Space Show. The host criticized Renois rather harshly without giving the honor he deserves as one of the most noteworthy candidates for the presidency of Haiti (from the platform of Union Nationale pour l'Integrité et la Reconciliation). He is a charming gentleman with a sensitive heart and attentive ear. His moral and ethical journalism has involved himself with Radio France International (RFI), Radio Suisse Romande, Voice of America, CNN, ABC news USA, and CBC Canada. The host of the show Valéry Numa became very much vocal about Clarens' most efforts and his initiative to form a coalition of forty presidential candidates; he even had termed that as an act of a greenhorn. However, Renois replied, you cannot put anyone's idea into the voters' heads. They will act by their hearts. And he reminded Numa, holding a microphone does never make one almighty; the duty of a journalist is not to advise but to ask questions humbly and find the answers.

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Here is a picture of Lionel Moise who is a news co-anchor at WBBM-TV/CBS 2 in Chicago

The Chicago based CBS owned WBBM-TV/CBS 2 television channel has announced the name of Lionel Moise as the co-anchor for weekday morning news, beginning Monday, September 21. Moise will join Erin Kennedy behind the anchor desk. This would be his first appointment in Chicago. Service has always been a central part of Lionel's life. Earlier, he has worked at WLTX - News 19 in Columbia, South Carolina, with similar responsibility of a morning newsreader. He was a reporter/producer at WXIA in Atlanta, GA. In Atlanta he started through Gannett's Talent Development Program. Prior to joining his news career, Lionel worked with President Clinton's Haiti Team. His Haitian-American root involved him on the development work following the 2010 earthquake. This insightful and energetic broadcaster has also served as an adjunct professor in visual storytelling at the University of South Carolina and completed his MBA at USC in June this year, earned an undergraduate degree in broadcast journalism and psychology. Moise is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and won two Emmy Awards for his work at WXIA.

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Here is Gamall Augustin, Director General of National Radio and Television of Haiti.

21 July 2015 saw the installation of Gamall Augustin as the seventh Director General of Radio Télévision Nationale D'Haïti (RTNH). The RTNH is the state broadcaster of Haiti and airs information about the activities of the government and promotes the Haitian culture. Mr. Gamall succeeded Hérold Israël who has held the post since January 2015. The government spokesperson, Francois Rothchild Jr. and Calvin Cadet, the Director General of the Ministry of Communication entrusted Gamall Augustin with his responsibility. With the new post, he was also asked to pay heed to the instructions laid down by the Head of State, while carrying out the functioning of the media. The upcoming events to be covered by the media include inter alia, elections and the Caribbean Arts Festival. It is the first objective of the new DG to peacefully conclude the broadcast of these events.

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