The PM shuns the Senate for the 2nd time

On Thursday, Acting Prime Minister Ariel Henry shunned the Senate's invitation to discuss the current crisis for the second time in a week. The President of the Senate, Joseph Lambert, sent him a third invitation for Tuesday, March 22, while asking the population to note "the characterized bad faith displayed by Ariel Henry and his allies of the September 11 agreement in their refusal to dialogue."

Zombie Checks

Michel Patrick Boisvert, the Minister of the Economy in order to eliminate fictitious jobs ("zombie" checks) announces the end of the bank transfers of salaries set up by his predecessor in 2018 which he describes as "vast corruption" https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-25829-haiti-politic-end-of-payment-by-check-of-salaries-in-the-public-service.html and that henceforth the salary checks will be delivered by departmental employees who will travel in person to hand-deliver pay checks to public servants. See also : https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-23881-haiti-politic-the-civil-servants-will-have-to-pick-up-their-pay-check-personally.html

Comment by former Senator Benoit

"With Ariel Henry in power, Haiti is guaranteed to destroy itself under the indifferent gaze of a Prime Minister for whom our lives have no importance [...] How many Haitians still have to die, be kidnapped, sequestered and ruined, for us to understand that Ariel Henry is incapable of good governance and a sinister character ?" said former Senator Steven Benoit.

The PM met the members of the future CEP

Thursday, according to a source from the Primature, the Prime Minister a.i. Ariel Henry met the 9 members (confirmed by their reciprocal sector) of the future Provisional Electoral Council (CEP).

Boxing Championship : 3 Haitians will defend our two-tone

Blandina Salnave (64 kg), Kathreen Sterling (52 kg) and Saintelise Jean (57 kg) are the 3 Haitian boxers, in search of medals, who will defend the colors of Haiti at the Continental Boxing Championship under the aegis of the Confederation American Boxing (AMBC) which will take place in Quayaquil, Ecuador from March 22 to April 5.

Covid-19 : Many vaccines but underused in Haiti

The US Government has delivered 500 million Covid-19 vaccines worldwide, including 836,800 to Haiti which, in addition to other vaccine donations, has only used 376,220 doses since the start of the epidemic https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-36217-haiti-diaspora-covid-19-daily-bulletin-729.html

HL/ HaitiLibre