PM launches a $21.6 billion welfare package

Thursday, April 13, 2023, Prime Minister a.i. Ariel Henry in his official residence in Musseau, launched a social assistance program for the poor, in the amount of 21 billion 600 million Gourdes over a period of 6 month. This program, mainly funded by the International Global Fund (IMF) to the tune of 15 billion gourdes, will target 7 departments.

Serious fire at the Faculty of Agronomy (FAMV)

"It is with dismay and with the greatest sadness that we have just learned of the damage caused by a fire on the evening of Thursday April 13, 2023 at the Faculty of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine (FAMV) located in Damien," informed Talot Bertrand, Agricultural Engineer. We do not know for the moment the causes of the fire but the damage is expected to be considerable despite the intervention of the firefighters, who seemed limited in their actions due to lack of water on the spot according to witnesses...

Terrain conflict : Me André Charléus killed

In the afternoon of Wednesday April 12, Me André Charléus, one of the lawyers for the peasants of Piatre, engaged in a land conflict with the inhabitants of Délugé, a small town in the commune of Montrouis, was killed in an ambush on the RN#1, near Vendôme. His corpse was burned by his assassins.

Wagner Group : Denial of PM

Acting Prime Minister Ariel Henry formally denied rumors that his government had requested the help of Russian mercenaries from the Wagner group to fight armed gangs in Haiti.

Artibonite : Sub-police station looted and burned

The Petite-Rivière de l'Artibonite sub-police station was looted and then set on fire by bandits from the "Gran grif" gang of Savien. Recall that this sub-police station had been abandoned by the police since the death of 6 of their brothers in arms in Liancourt, on January 25 https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-38701-icihaiti-insecurity-6-police-officers-killed-in-clashes-with-the-gran-grif-gang.html during an attack by heavily armed men. The bandits took away, among other things : "a pickup, a powerful autonomous projector, a generator, beds and cupboards...

Incredible : The racketeers demonstrate

For the second day in a row, a movement paralyzed activities at the passport application center in Pétion-ville. Incredible but true, racketeers considering themselves aggrieved by the establishment of the Delidoc website have sown chaos in the offices.

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