Tirelina Fran ois says:
RE: Pour Le Bien Du Pays Et Son Peuple, Merci PrJe voudrais demander à cette association du nom de COREH quel changement compte-t-elle apporter à la vie de la population haitienne? Il ne suffit pas de fonder des organisations au détriment du peuple haitien qui le plonge de plus en plus dans l'abime de la misère. Il aurait fallu de voir comment sortir le peuple dans la crasse, dans la malpropreté... Je dois dire si les Sénateurs et les Députés sont des parias, des intellectuels illettrés, le pays ne peut pas faire de progrès. Nous constatons depuis qu'Haiti commence à faire choix des va-nu-pieds dans la Chambre Législative, le pays est en regression. Des hommes qui avaient l'habitude de marcher des kilomètres à pied dans la boue pour aller à l'école, arrivés dans la chambre quel rendement peuvent-ils donner ? puisqu'ils sont habitués à vivre dans la misère et la malpropreté. Ils ne voient que du pouvoir pour acquérir de l'argent et de promotion sociale sans rien faire pour le pays... Pourtant ils se proclament patriotes, nationalistes pendant qu'ils se battent entre eux dans la chambre lorsqu'il s'agit de voter une loi pour faire marcher le pays.Haiti n'a plus besoin de ces vautours, de ces Conzé mais des hommes d'éthiques morales et sociales... Nou bouke ak avadra sa yo ki fè peyi nou okipe pa blan koulye a, kap goumen toujou pou pouvwa san yo pap fè anyen serye nan peyi a. menm wout pou lae nan depatman kote yo soti, yo pap vote lwa pou yo fè'l, yo chita nan kapital la. gade nan lòt peyi yo. Senat♪8 ak Depite se nan vil laky yo kote yo soti a yo rete, yo pa al chita nan kapital la. Se lè gen reyinion yo konvoke yo. Se konsa sa fèt nan peyi Etazini, tout Congressman rete nan Etat lakay yo, lè gen reyinyon yo ale Washington, tandiske pa nou yo depi yo fi'n vote yo, yo chita lavi'l. Kanta pou sak soti nan Nòdwès yo, yo pa bon menm. Nou bouke ak gwo Zago za yo. Nou bezwen mou'n swa ki pou mete Agrikilti, lopital, lekòl nan tout peyi a, plante pye bwa. Nou bouke ak vòlò sa yo kap pral ranmase kòb nan l'ONA pou regle zafè yo...
Jean Marie Benoit says:
Wyclef Jean’s Charity Takes Haitian Girls To ShoppingWycleaf Jean’s charity takes Haitian girls to shopping
http://blog.taragana.com/e/2010/05/19/wycleaf...
May 19 (ANI): Wycleaf Jean’s charity organization gave three Haitian girls, who lost their limbs in the earthquake earlier this year, a reason to smile - by letting them shop goods worth 1, 000 dollars at Kmart. The youngest of the three girls, Farah Maurice, 8, had lost a leg above the knee, while the other two girls, Magarette Pierre, 17, and Chantal Mori, 17, each lost an arm, in the earthquake. The rapper’s charity, 'Yele Haiti'associated with the W. 34th St. store to provide the girls with clothing, shoes and makeup. "When you come from a country where you make 1 dollar a day, giving them 1, 000 dollars is like giving them 10, 000 dollars," the New York Daily News quoted Jean, as saying. He added: "They need to know there are people like them and they’re normal. Today they’re not thinking, 'I don’t have a leg.'They’re just being kids and they’re happy." The girls will also be treated at Shriners Hospitals for Children in Philadelphia for free. They will be fitted with prosthetic limbs on June 3.
Gwo Lobo says:
Wyclef Jean: Haiti Earthquake Aid Pours Into Group That Has Enriched SingerWyclef Jean Charity's Funny Money
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/20...
Haiti earthquake aid pours into group that has enriched singer JANUARY 14--The Haiti earthquake has already triggered hundreds of thousands of donations to musician Wyclef Jean's charitable foundation, which expects to raise upwards of $1 million a day in the disaster's wake. However, Internal Revenue Service records show the group has a lackluster history of accounting for its finances, and that the organization has paid the performer and his business partner at least $410, 000 for rent, production services, and Jean's appearance at a benefit concert. Though the Wyclef Jean Foundation, which does business as Yele Haiti Foundation, was incorporated 12 years ago--and has been active since that time--the group only first filed tax returns in August 2009. That month, the foundation provided the IRS with returns covering calendar years 2005, 2006, and 2007--the only periods for which it has publicly provided a glimpse at its financial affairs. In 2006, Jean's charity reported contributions of $1 million, the bulk of which came from People magazine in exchange for the first photos of a pregnant Angelina Jolie (the actress reportedly directed that the publication's payment go to Jean's charity, not her personally). As seen on the following pages from the foundation's 2006 tax return, the group paid $31, 200 in rent to Platinum Sound http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/20... a Manhattan recording studio owned by Jean and Jerry Duplessis, who, like Jean, is a foundation board member. A $31, 200 rent payment was also made in 2007 to Platinum Sound. The rent, tax returns assure, "is priced below market value." The recording studio also was paid $100, 000 in 2006 for the "musical performance services of Wyclef Jean at a benefit concert." That six-figure payout, the tax return noted, "was substantially less than market value." The return, of course, does not address why Jean needed to be paid to perform at his own charity's fundraiser. But the largest 2006 payout--a whopping $250, 000--went to Telemax, S.A., a for-profit Haiti company in which Jean and Duplessis were said to "own a controlling interest." The money covered "pre-purchased... TV airtime and production services" that were part of the foundation's "outreach efforts" in Haiti. No further description of these services was offered, though the return claimed that "the fees paid are below market" and that the use of Telemax was the "most efficient way of providing these services." The group's tax returns also report "consultant" payments totaling $300, 000 between 2005-2007, while the 2006 return reported nearly $225, 000 in "promotion and PR" costs. These expenses are not itemized further in the IRS returns.
Jara Plezide says:
RE: Les Opposants Au Retour Du Dictateur Aristide Sont Majoritaires En HaitiLes groupes opposes au retour d'Aristide sont majoritaires. Qui sont-ils 1. Les organisations de femmes 56% de la population qui ont ete victimes de la repression de l'ancien dictateur Jean Bertrand Aristide: http://www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?article84... 2. Les jeunes 70% de la population qui etaient les victimes principales de l'ancien dictateur: http://metropolehaiti.com/metropole/archive.p... 3. Les paysans 45% de la population. Aristide avait fait bruler le quartier general du mouvement paysan papaye suite a leurs protestations contre la corruption et les actes represifs du regime: http://metropolehaiti.com/metropole/archive.p... 4. La presse etait une des grandes victimes de la dictature d'Aristide. Pour trouver les details cherchez sur google avec le titre suivant: "La Presse dans le Collimateur des Ennemis de la Démocratie"
Gina Merenthie says:
Is Humanitarian Assistance Being Used To Influence Haiti’s Elections?Is humanitarian assistance being used to influence Haiti’s elections? This week Americans saw a full court press positioning Wyclef Jean as the presidential candidate for Haiti’s upcoming elections. Newspapers, cable news, and local TV channels all ran favorable stories speculating about whether or not Wyclef would run. This type of media exposure does not come cheap – and does not come without the support of influential connections. It also raises really important questions about the US role in Haiti’s elections. Many Haitians are beginning to ask questions about why there is such a focus on Wyclef and why such a focus on forcing elections in November? Is the Clinton machine trying buy a president that will bow down to Boss America? Are they withholding aid until their chosen president is elected? Does Wyclef think the American people will elect him? Does Clinton think Haiti is just a joke? Let’s take a look at each of these questions with the information that we have right now. First, it is clear that Presidents Aristide and Preval have irritated the international community with their refusal to implement needed reforms and general incompetency – and rightly so for the most part. Many insiders have said that the Clinton team is fed up with Preval and his stonewalling and they are casting around for a candidate they can get into the presidency who will play ball. The thinking is that they can wait to really get down to the business of rebuilding Haiti until November when they get someone friendly in office. Wyclef is an attractive option – notwithstanding his tax issues, mismanagement of aid funds, and complete lack of experience – because he’s been a long time supporter of Clinton participating in the Clinton Global Initiative annually. Given his total lack of experience and willingness to play ball, he is ideal. Second, while Clinton has not publicly commented on Wyclef’s candidacy, his fingerprints are all over the media blitz. It is rumored that Clinton is giving PR powerhouse Burson Marstellar a lucrative contract to do the public relations for the Haiti Interim Reconstruction Commission (HIRC). It is an interesting coincidence that the contract is said to be $700, 000, or the exact amount that Hilary Clinton’s campaign owes Burson. The Burson team is populated with former Clinton officials. Furthermore, some of the big management consulting companies are rumored to be vetting potential candidates. We should expect to see a smear campaign against prominent Haitians that could be viable candidates but who do not fit into the Clinton machine. Third, it is astounding that the most powerful political figure in the world, Clinton, has only been able to scare up 10% of the pledged aid money. It is astounding that given his personal commitment to Haiti that there is still now overarching organization to the provision of aid in country. Aid is ad hoc and insufficient, particularly given the significant dollar amount of aid funds. By all accounts, the Haitian recovery is a disaster. Many Haitians have started to question whether aid is merely a tool to influence Haiti’s elections. They expect to see forced elections in November that will be a disaster resulting in a candidate they did not elect, but who will magically be able to get the aid funds released and put to work making him or her Haiti’s savior. This is a cynical view to be sure, but it is just so unfathomable that Clinton the powerful Haiti Czar cannot do better. Finally, if Wyclef is the chosen candidate it appears to Haitians that the outside world thinks they are just a joke. What little experience Wyclef can point to is abysmal. On the personal front, he has gone into foreclosure on his Miami mansion. It was said that he also stiffed the builders for $2 million. He owes the state of New Jersey about $180, 000 in back taxes. His Yele Haiti Foundation has been mired in nothing but controversy since it was thrust into the spotlight after the earthquake. He was accused of not paying taxes on his foundation since 2000. Red flags were raised when he filed three years of taxes on the same day. In 2007, the Foundation spending exceeded revenues, which were a mere $79, 000 – compared to the millions he’s raking in today. Reviews of his tax returns showed that it was closely linked to bolstering his business. Three of the Board members of the Foundation are involved in his personal music and business endeavors. He has been accused of using aid funds to: stage a concert in Monte Carlo (for $160, 000), set up his mistress in a NY apartment, acquire the for-profit Telemax TV station, rented an office in NY to build a music studio, to name just a few. Furthermore, he is not even qualified to run under Haiti’s constitution because he has US citizenship. Is our constitution unimportant? For Haitians, to take such a person seriously as a candidate, means that whoever is behind him does not take Haiti seriously as a country. It would be like electing some self-promoting rapper to the US presidency. Haiti is at a crossroads here and needs someone who really knows the country – not some poverty pimp who has used Haiti’s dire straits to profit his personal goals. They also believe that American politicians are not above influencing elections globally because they are not above influencing them in their own country (see the case of Clinton pushing Senate candidate Joe Sestak to drop his candidacy for an appointment to a US Presidential commission). Everyone appreciates that Wyclef has always talked so positively about Haiti. He wears the Haitian flag in his concerts as a symbol of his pride. That is certainly commendable. But as a leader for a country that is so desperate, he is not at all qualified and has a questionable track record. Haiti deserves better – and they deserve to make their own choice – not have a candidate foisted on them.
Sandra Beausejour says:
Haiti: Groups Raise Doubts About Wyclef Jean's CharityGroups raise doubts about Wyclef Jean's charity
By RYAN NAKASHIMA, AP Business Writer
Fri Jan 15, 8:42 pm ET
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100116/ap_on_hi_...
LOS ANGELES – Groups that vet charities are raising doubts about the organization backed by Haitian-born rapper Wyclef Jean, questioning its accounting practices and ability to function in earthquake-hit Haiti. Even as more than $2 million poured into The Wyclef Jean Foundation Inc. via text message after just two days, experts questioned how much of the money would help those in need.
"It's questionable. There's no way to get around that," said Art Taylor, president and chief executive of the Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance, based in Arlington, Va.
Taylor reviewed Internal Revenue Service tax returns for the organization also known as Yele Haiti Foundation from 2005 through 2007. He said the first red flag of poor accounting practices was that three years of returns were filed on the same day — Aug. 10 of last year.
In 2007, the foundation's spending exceeded its revenues by $411, 000. It brought in just $79, 000 that year.
"Here's the bottom line: for an earthquake of catastrophic proportions, do people really believe that this organization is in a position to do anything right now?" he said.
Jean, a 37-year-old Grammy-winning artist, has been imploring followers to text "Yele" to 501501 to donate $5 to his foundation in support of Haitian earthquake victims. The foundation, founded in January 2005, intends to airlift supplies using a FedEx plane into Haiti early next week carrying medical supplies, water and Clif Bars, according to foundation president Hugh Locke. An Associated Press review of tax returns and independent audits provided by Jean's foundation showed that it was closely intertwined with Jean's businesses. Three of the five foundation board members — Jean, Jerry Duplessis and Seth Kanegis — are involved in his personal music and business endeavors. According to an IRS tax return from 2006 reviewed earlier by the Web site The Smoking Gun, the foundation paid $250, 000 to buy airtime from Telemax S.A., a for-profit TV station in Haiti that is majority owned by Jean and Duplessis. Part of that money went to pay for a concert in Haiti put on by Jean himself, Locke said.
Another $160, 000 that year was spent on a concert in Monte Carlo that Jean participated in, of which $75, 000 paid for backup singers and $25, 000 went to Jean through a company he owns with Duplessis, Platinum Sound Recording Studios Inc., Locke said.
"I'm not saying he didn't benefit from it," said Locke, who says his own salary is $8, 100 a month after taxes. "We were paying that to Platinum Sound because that covered the cost of him participating in the event."
Locke argued that the foundation took in "several hundred thousand" dollars in exchange for Jean's work through the proceeds of an auction. The foundation also rents office space from Platinum Sound, paying about $2, 600 a month in New York. Locke said the foundation also plans to partner with Jean's Sak Pase Records to build a music studio to provide vocational training to Haitian children. Sandra Miniutti, vice president of marketing for Charity Navigator, an organization that evaluates charities, said the foundation was too small to have been examined recently, although the current flood of goodwill may change that. Its revenue in 2008 was $1.9 million. "My concern is it goes against our first tip, and that is to give only to groups with experience with disaster relief," Miniutti said. "I think it's very hard for a new organization even with the best intentions to handle something on this magnitude."
Locke said the foundation has been directly involved in delivering food and providing clean-up services in many disasters, including the hurricanes that devastated Haiti in late 2008. Jean's standing among Haitians can help the foundation gain access to gang-controlled or other troubled regions, he said.
"We have a niche which no one else occupies," Locke said.
He said the foundation is now seeking bridge financing to allow it to use money that has been pledged in unprecedented volumes by text message. It could take at least a month for donors' money to flow in because it is not released until they pay their phone bills. That delay presents a challenge and an opportunity, the Better Business Bureau's Taylor said.
"The challenge is they can't do anything until they get the money," Taylor said. "The opportunity is that some people may change their minds and decide that $10 or whatever they text to him might be better used somewhere else.
rocroy says:
Pour Le Bien Du Pays Et Son Peuple, Merci PrLes principaux responsables du Collectif pour le Renouveau Haitien (COREH) écrivent au président de la République René Préval pour solliciter audience. Changement de stratégie et changement de ton, font remarquer les analystes. Nous publions ci-après la lettre signée des sénateurs Youri Latortue et Evalière Beauplan, des députés Steven Benoit, Robert Mondé, Pierre Féquière Julien, Jean David Génesté, Joseph Nelson Pierre Louis, Esdras Fabien et des citoyens Yves Edwige Lalanne et Carl Murat Cantave.
Haiti: Port-au-Prince, le 28 juillet 2010 Son Excellence,
Monsieur René Préval
Président de la République
Palais National Monsieur le Président, Le Collectif pour le Renouveau Haitien (COREH) se réjouit de l'opportunité qui lui est accordée de vous adresser cette lettre en ce moment difficile de la vie nationale. En référence aux différentes approches déjà mises en oeuvre par l'opposition, le COREH croit peut-être comprendre que votre silence traduit votre désapprobation des voies et moyens jusque-là utilisés pour la tenue du dialogue souhaité. Aussi s'estime-t-il heureux, au cas d'une justification de cette préoccupation, de pouvoir rectifier le tir à travers cet essai de formalité par lequel il sollicite officiellement de vos offices toutes affaires cessantes une rencontre autour de la question électorale. Le COREH s'érigeant en facilitateur, n'entend tirer aucun avantage personnel des retombées de la présente au cas ou elle aurait l'effet pour lequel elle est dressée. Il espère uniquement par cette démarche oeuvrer en faveur d'un climat de paix et de stabilité, indispensable à l'aboutissement du processus électoral et aux avancées économiques du pays. Monsieur le Président, vous êtes trop intelligent pour qu'on vous fasse de portrait. Le COREH à la faveur de ses multiples incursions dans les milieux internationaux a sa conviction désormais formée. Il en est venu à la conclusion que quelque part, il y a des mains habiles qui nous polarisent dangereusement et nous dressent les uns contre les autres dans la déloyale perspective de déclenchement d'une crise sans précédent avec des finalités cachées. A qui profitera cette crise ? Quelle en sera l'économie pour notre pays meurtri ? Sans vouloir vous faire de lecon en tout cas, le COREH veut bien croire que comme lui, vous êtes assez averti pour en mesurer l'ampleur et les conséquences. Continuer >
Le Nouvelliste en Haiti - Nouvelles d'Haiti: actualités politique, nationale, économique, société, culture, sport. Haitian news: Politics, economy, society, culture and entertainment, sports. Le Nouvelliste en Haiti - Nouvelles d'Haiti: actualités politique, nationale, économique, société, culture, sport. Haitian news: Politics, economy, society, culture and entertainment, sports. Le Nouvelliste en Haiti - Nouvelles d'Haiti: actualités politique, nationale, économique, société, culture, sport. Haitian news: Politics, economy, society, culture and entertainment, sports. Le Nouvelliste en Haiti - Nouvelles d'Haiti: actualités politique, nationale, économique, société, culture, sport. Haitian news: Politics, economy, society, culture and entertainment, sports. Le Nouvelliste en Haiti - Nouvelles d'Haiti: actualités politique, nationale, économique, société, culture, sport. Haitian news: Politics, economy, society, culture and entertainment, sports. Le COREH en profite pour préciser que cette démarche s'inscrit dans un ultime effort de patriotisme et dépassement de soi devant la colossale misère du peuple haitien. Elle n'est nullement un changement de position mais une nouvelle lecture, une nouvelle manière d'aborder les composantes critiques de l'heure. Au moment de rédiger la présente, le COREH garde encore les mêmes appréhensions, les mêmes préoccupations, les mêmes convictions par rapport au mode de fonctionnement de votre gouvernement mais il veut se conforter à l'idée que la maturité des acteurs politiques réside dans leur capacité de concilier leurs contraires même dans un contexte de différences apparemment inconciliables. A des moments précis de la trajectoire de la vie, favorisée par le cours des événements. L'esprit du destin se saisit parfois de certains hommes et les apprête à la tâche spécifique de la réinvention de l'histoire. Le COREH est acquis donc à la conviction que, et vous Monsieur le Président, et l'opposition, vous êtes suscités par l'histoire pour contenir les fâcheux événements qui se préparent au lieu d'en être les forgerons et les acteurs. Il croit que le destin vous a choisis vous et l'opposition pour le faconnement de la dernière inflexion de l'histoire contemporaine. C'est vers ce dernier sursaut de sauvetage national que l'histoire nous convie, vous et nous, à converger notre énergie et notre bonne foi. Monsieur le Président, le COREH rejette l'hypothèse que le président de son pays puisse se positionner aux antipodes des intérêts immédiats de la nation qu'il dirige. Il croit absurde au possible que le Président des Haitiens puisse s'ériger contre les Haitiens. Pourquoi il ose espérer à l'avance que, dans un fort élan de patriotisme, vous vous positionnez, en tant que président de tous les Haitiens, en faveur de la paix et de la création des conditions minimales à la satisfaction des désidératas du peuple haitien. Monsieur le Président, pour le drapeau, pour la patrie, pour le pays et pour nos pères, pour la paix le progrès, pour le bien être de tous, soyons maitres de notre destin. Asseyons-nous et vidons les contentieux électoraux à travers une interaction positive et judicieuse pour le bien-être de tous. Espérant que cette lettre vous trouvera déjà acquis à la conviction de cette assise dans l'intérêt supérieur de la nation, le COREH vous prie d'agréer, Monsieur le Président, ses patriotiques salutations.
antonioj says:
RE: Wyclef For President"Why not Tonton Dezirab as Prime minister
Jesifra as Foreign Office Miniter
Tonton Bicha and all the other clowns as Head of something
Haiti will be back
" If Preval can be President why would you denied them the presidency, all of the above will do a better job than the "singe" Preval
leopold f Bourg says:
Wyclef For PresidentWhy not Tonton Dezirab as Prime minister
Jesifra as Foreign Office Miniter
Tonton Bicha and all the other clowns as Head of something
Haiti will be back
Tirelina Fran ois says:
RE: Le Peuple De Port-Au-Pce Reclame Le Retour D'AristideLmwen pote apwi mwen bay mou'n ki di lapwòte avan nou regle tout lòt bagay.. Se vre paske lè w ale lòt peyi, yo toujou ap imilye nou yo di ayisien santi, peyi a sal, pa gen peyi kap vi'n fè touris lakay nou ni achte pwodwi kap soti laky nou, l♪8 yo gade sou entènèt kijan Ayiti sal, mou'n yo ap vann sou fatra, yap manje sou fatra, mouch toupatou. machann ap kwit manje sou mò yo. Mou'n ap vann manje tou pre lopital, tou pre simityè, kote ki gen anpil mikròb..Sa te vekse'm lè'm te rankontre yon Dominiken nan Dajabon, vi'l panyòl ki kole ak Wanament. Li di:" Poukisa se Ayisyen Bondye te ba yo kò'm vwazen, lè yon lòt ayisyen te poze'l kesyon, li di se premye pèp sou tè a li rankontre ki malpwòp konsa yo viv tankou kochon, yo mache sal, lari yo sal, yo renmen rete nan fatra. mwen te di 'l se pa fòt yo, si dirijan yo pa mete estrikti, pèp la pa kab fè anyen. Alò, mwen ta mande mou'n ki responsab netwaye lari yo, sa vle di ki responsab anviwonman ak sanitasyon nan peyi Ayiti pou yo fè yon ti jefò pou leve imaj peyi a, ke yo gade tankou poubèl fatra. Mwen bouke tande pawòl sa pèp ayisyen salòp tankou kochon. Se pa tout ki salòp men mou'n ki responsab yo, paske yo pa fè travay yo, lakòz yap joure tout ayisyen kochon. tanpri mou'n ki responsab yo w♪8 si na wete etikèt kochon an nan do pèp la. L♪8 yon mou'n ap jete fatra nan lari nou dwe bali yon sanksyon fè'l peye yon amann pou sa. Paske mou'n pa dwe viv ak fatra.
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