Le Nouvelliste Haiti: Les victimes de la manifestation du 13 décembre 2014

Port-au-Prince: UN soldier fires live ammunition at unarmed protestors

AS MARTELLY PREPARES TO JETTISON LAMOTHE: NATIONWIDE UPRISING GAINS STRENGTH IN HAITI

By: Kim Ives - Haiti Liberte

A nationwide uprising against the regime of business partners
President Michel Martelly and Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe continued
to gain steam this week with massive demonstrations in several major
cities, including Port-au-Prince, Léogane, Petit Goâve, Cap-Haïtien,
Fort-Liberté, Ouanaminthe, and Aux Cayes.

Feeling the protests' heat, Martelly made a short televised national
address on Nov. 28 to announce his formation of an "advisory
commission" made up of 11 people whom he called "credible, honest, and
trusted by society" to provide him "in eight days" with "a
recommendation" on what path to take out of Haiti's political
imbroglio, saying that "the nation is divided, the problems are many,
the problems are complicated."

Martelly outlined five categories of recommendation which he had
gleaned from "two months" of "consultations" with Haiti's political
actors: 1) remove Lamothe as Prime Minister; 2) dissolve Parliament on
Jan. 12, 2015 when the terms of most senators and deputies expire; 3)
change the composition of the Electoral Council; 4) form a Constituent
Assembly to overhaul Haiti's 1987 Constitution; and 5) extend
Parliament's life or put in place a council to function in place of
Parliament.

Tellingly, Martelly did not include, or even mention in his address,
the principal demand of the nationwide protests: that he and his prime
minister immediately resign, ceding power to a State Council and
Supreme Court judge, as happened when demonstration-beset-dictator
Gen. Prosper Avril resigned in March 1990. The ensuing Dec. 16, 1990
election, carried out without the supervision of any occupying force
like the current UN Mission to Stabilize Haiti (MINUSTAH), was among
the fairest in Haitian history.

AHP: La commission présidentielle consultative a-t-elle reçu un mandat secret?A-t-elle une surprise pour la constitution?

Agence haitienne de presse (AHP)

La Commission présidentielle consultative formée récemment par le président Michel Martelly pour officiellement lui  faire des propositions de sortie de crise, est déjà au coeur de tous  les questionnements .

Déjà mercredi, le président du Sénat la mettait en garde contre toute recommandation qui ne tiendriat pas compte  du Sénat de la République, soulignant que  le Grand Corps existera  tant que la constitution sera en vigueur.

De son côté, le Directeur exécutif de l'Initiative de la sociéte civile appelait  la commission présidentielle à faire  des recommandations qui favorisent la création d’un climat favorable à la tenue des prochaines élections.

Cependant, plusieurs secteurs soupçonnent cette commission dont la plupart des membres sont presentés comme des proches du pouvoir, d'avoir des ambitions qui ne sont pas de son ressort.

Nouvelle manifestation anti-gouvernementale ce vendredi à Port-au-Prince et dans plusieurs villes de province: Fanmi Lavalas apporte son soutien pour réclamer aussi justice pour les victimes du 5 décembre 1991

Port-au-Prince, le 4 décembre 2014 – (AHP) -  L’Organisation Politique Fanmi Lavalas apporte son plein soutien à la manifestation anti-gouvernementale annoncée pour demain 05 décembre rappelant que cette date marque  le 24eme anniversaire de l’attaque armée survenue au cours d’un meeting du candidat à la presidence, Jean Bertrand Aristide, à Pétion ville.

L’ancien sénateur Lavalas Louis Gérald Gilles a fait savoir que cette manifestation sera l’occasion de réclamer justice pour les victimes de cette attaque, et celles du régime de Martelly, appelant la population à prendre part en grand nombre  à ce mouvement.

Louis Gerald Gilles indique que la manifestation devrait parcourir plusieurs quartiers populaires, passer devant les locaux du parlement, de la primature, de l’ambassade de France pour aboutir devant le palais national.

UNIFA, Four Years of Growth

University of the Aristide Foundation for Democracy - Monday, October 6, 2014

UNIFA Medical Students in the Laboratory

In the fall of 2014, UNIFA an accredited institution of higher education in Haiti, began its fourth academic year since its rebirth in 2011.  The University was founded by former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.  When he returned to Haiti from forced exile in South Africa in the spring of 2011 he promised to dedicate himself to education in Haiti.    Since then he has done just that, reopening UNIFA just six months after his return.   There are now over 1000 students studying at the UNIFA campus in four degree granting programs: Medicine, Nursing, Law and Political Science, and a brand new program in Physical Therapy.

New School of Physical Therapy Opens

The new School of Physical Therapy, which opened on Oct 6, 2014, is the first Physical Therapy School in Haiti. (There are only a handful of Physical Therapists in Haiti and all were trained elsewhere.)  This program is a partnership between UNIFA and Stony Brook University, State University of New York.  This school answers the acute need for Physical Therapists in Haiti, a need that became particularly clear after the 2010 earthquake when many people suffered devastating injuries that require intensive rehabilitative treatment.  Stony Brook faculty are working with UNIFA faculty to create the curriculum, and they will provide the much of the teaching staff for the courses particular to Physical Therapy.