Senate will amend the budget

Thursday, Senator Nènèl Cassy, President of the Senate Committee "Economy and Finance" said "The budget project 2017-218 will be returned to the Chamber of Deputies", considering like other of his colleagues, that there are many allocations and decommitments to be made in the budget to the profits of promising projects, a budget voted too easily and without modification by the Lower House... https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-21758-haiti-politics-finance-bill-2017-2018-voted-almost-unanimously.html

Haitian drowned in Lake Enriquillo

On Thursday, the body of a Haitian national, about 34 years old, was found lifeless in the waters of Lake Enriquillo, on the Dominican side. The body was examined by forensic doctor Slimer Francisco Mendez, who certified that the death had been caused by drowning asphyxiation.

More than 4 million CINs will expire

More than 4 million National Identification Cards will expire in December 2017, Jean Marie Charles, the Technical Director of the National Office of Identification (ONI), which proposes the adoption of several measures, to renew them without problems...

Canada : First check to asylum seekers

The Government of Canada will provide $623 per person to thousands of Haitian asylum seekers who have arrived since June by illegally crossing the Canadian border from the United States. Our compatriots should use this fund to pay for permanent housing https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-21916-haiti-canada-towards-a-temporary-work-permit-for-asylum-seekers.html

Inauguration of 2 Document Centers

On Friday, two new Reception and Delivery Documents Identification Centers (SRLDIs) will be inaugurated in the department of the North-West, respectively at the Administrative Complex of Port-de-Paix and the office of the Directorate General of Taxes (DGI) of Saint-Louis du Nord.

Citizen Protector : Senate has chosen

The jurist Jacnet Auxilus was chosen as candidate of the Senate to the position of Protector of the Citizen. The deputies will in turn complete a list of 3 personalities, from which the Executive will choose the new head of the Office of Protection of the Citizen (OPC).

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