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Hip-Hop Artist Mecca Aka Grimo On His Latest Moves

Miami-based hip-hop artist and activist MECCA aka GRIMO was featured on Coming Home Haiti, Revolt TV’s documentary on Creole-language rap that appeared on the network recently. This marks one of several times that mainstream, international media has taken note of that musical genre. Mecca aka Grimo discussed being part of the doc, and what he has b

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (sentinel.ht) – The de facto Prime Minister Evans Paul announced late Friday night that the tax hikes of October 1, 2015 and the pay and privileges for former ministers were nullified. PM Paul made the declaration in hopes of warding off movements and a nationwide strike scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, November 9 and 10, 201

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (sentinel.ht) – Under a barrage of allegations that his party had committed electoral fraud, Jovenel Moïse, held a press conference Friday to rather claim himself President-elect of Haiti after the first round. Moïse, who managed a banana plantation for the first family before becoming a candidate, did not flinch when he said

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (sentinel.ht) – The second-placed candidate for president, Jude Celestin, declared the first-round election results placing him and the ruling party’s Jovenel Moise in a runoff, a farce. He also denounced repression on protesters being placed by President Michel Martelly and called for an investigation into the ele

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (sentinel.ht) – Moments following the release of election results on Thursday a senior director of Pitit Dessalines, Maxo Gaspard, was shot a block from his party headquarters on Delmas 33 as a protest was about to begin. Presidential Candidate Jean-Charles Moïse was live with Zenith FM at about 5:30 pm, November 5th, 201

Music and social media influencer Karen Civil will release her self-help business and entrepreneurship book entitled Live Civil: 5 Tools for Unlocking Your Potential and Living Your Purpose.Karen will offer her fans a preview this weekend. The book will have its official release later on this month. Readers can look forward to receiving prescriptiv

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (sentinel.ht) –The Martelly administration announced it would defer tax hikes it imposed on October 1, 2015 until December 2015. It responded hours before a deadline set by the nation’s unions to strike was met. The National Platform of Loyal Transport Unions (PNSTF) said it required a return on the decree before midnigh

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (sentinel.ht) – If President Michel Martelly and the de facto Prime Minister, Evans Paul, do not return on the new hike in taxes it decreed in October 2015, the National Platform of Loyal Transport Unions (PNSTF) said it would strike for two days on Monday and Tuesday, November 9 and 10, throughout all of Haiti. The unionists

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (sentinel.ht) – President Michel Martelly’s paramilitary force, BOID, and the Haitian National Police are said to be participating in training and briefings for suppressing a revolution which may break out in the coming days. The Haitian policed force of about 7,000 officers will be backed up by a United Nations Stabilization

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (sentinel.ht) – On Wednesday, former National Assembly President, Simon Desras, said the banana plantation, funded to the tune of $27 million from the Public Treasury, is actually owned by First Lady Sophia Saint Remy Martelly’s infamous brother Kiko Saint Remy, whom the PHTK candidate for president, Jovenel Moïse, i

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (sentinel.ht) – The Provisional Electoral Council of Pierre Louis Opont on Monday said it was “forced to postpone to Thursday, November 5, 2015, the publication of preliminary results of the presidential election of October 25, 2015.” After establishing a committee, of the same electoral council themselves, on October 29, 2015

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