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Poor Little Rich Haiti to Be Fleeced of Copper-Silver-Gold Via Caracol Deep-Water Port

avatarPosted on by July 30, 2022

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Plans are under way for Canadian and US corporations to mine Haiti’s northeast area near Caracol, which has been discovered to contain a wealth of silver and gold, in addition to copper. As in the Dominican Republic’s Pueblo Viejo project, construction of the mines will involve dynamiting of mountains, and the ore will be extracted by an opencast (or open-pit) mining process that contaminates large volumes of water with cyanide. UPDATES: Attempts to issue mining permits to the US’ VCS Mining LLC and Canada’s SOMINE SA, without any environmental impact assessment (EIA) were thwarted by Haiti’s Senate in January 2013. Plans to dredge a deep-sea port in the pristine Bay of Fort Liberte were scrapped in April 2014.

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Pentavalent Vaccines Promoted by WHO Despite Deaths of Healthy Children – Part II, Haiti | Le vaccin pentavalent promu par l’OMS malgré des décès des enfants en bonne santé – 2ème Partie, Haïti

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

By Emmanuel Bruno Marino, AlterPresse | All-India Drug Action Network | Translations by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Within two months of the start of a campaign of vaccination with pentavalent vaccine in India by the World Health Organization (WHO), four healthy inoculated children died. Nevertheless, on April 16, 2012 Haiti announced that it would introduce the pentavalent vaccine Quinvaxem into its national immunization program at a cost $11 million. (English | French)

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Pentavalent Vaccines Promoted by WHO Despite Deaths of Healthy Children – Part I, Asia

avatarPosted on by March 5, 2019

All-India Drug Action Network open letter | Ranjit Devraj, IPS | Haiti Chery. Despite widespread concern over their safety, efficacy and cost, India’s central health ministry approved the inclusion of pentavalent vaccines in its universal immunization program for seven provinces. Dr. Jacob Puliyel likened the deaths in vaccinated children to the penicillin sensitivity reaction and said it borders on criminality to administer pentavalents to children without first testing them for hypersensitivity.

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Strengthened Haiti-Venezuela-Argentina Collaboration | Renforcement de la coopération entre Haïti, le Venezuela et l’Argentine

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

By Amos Cincir, Le Nouvelliste | Translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. A tripartite agreement of collaboration was signed at Haiti’s National Palace on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 between Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Lamothe, Deputy Foreign Minister of Venezuela Temir Porras, and Ambassador of Argentina to Haiti Marcelo Sebaste. The aid will consist of agricultural tools, an identification system, and literacy education. (English | French)

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Chilean Farmers Fight Brazilian Billionaire’s Plans for Thermoelectric Plant In Area of Rich Marine Biodiversity

avatarPosted on by March 5, 2019

By Marianela Jarroud, IPS, Tierramerica | Haiti Chery. Plans to build the Castilla Thermoelectric Project, near an area of rich marine biodiversity has sparked fierce opposition from the Chilean farming town of Totoral, which has scored its first victory in court. Behind the Castilla project is the energy company MPX, a subsidiary of the EPX Group owned by Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista.

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Amplified Acceleration of Ice Loss from Antarctica to the Sea

avatarPosted on by March 5, 2019

PRESS RELEASE, UT Austin Institute for Geophysics. A study of nearly 40 years of satellite imagery has revealed that the floating ice shelves of a critical portion of West Antarctica are steadily losing their grip on adjacent bay walls, amplifying an already accelerating loss of ice to the sea.

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Rapid Changes to Global Water Cycle Imply Severer Floods, Droughts, Famines

avatarPosted on by December 12, 2018

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. An article by Paul Durak and colleagues in the Journal Science represents yet more confirmation that the effects of global warming are stronger than anticipated from scientific models. An intensification of water evaporation and precipitation over the Earth implies severe consequences for living things, including famines, floods, droughts, and general climate instability.

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New Religion of Kopimism Promotes ‘Exchange Without Beginning and Without End’

avatarPosted on by March 11, 2019

By Muriel Kane, Raw Story | Interview of Isak Gerson with Alison George | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. “Life as we know it originated with the DNA molecule’s ability to duplicate itself, irrespective of the original creation of the Universe.… Copying is fundamental to life and runs constantly all around us…. ‘From all at one and from one to all – and then back – exchange without beginning and without end.'”

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Francoist Nun Charged With Theft of Babies from Poor Single Women | Ladrones de bebés ante la justicia

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

By Inés Benítez, IPS, Cambio3. Eighty-year-old Catholic nun, María Gómez, is charged with involvement in the 1982 disappearance of a child who was reunited as an adult with her biological mother in 2011. The Spanish nun is alleged to have belonged to a network that stole babies from clinics and sold them to infertile couples. Such networks had continued in Spain well into the 1970s and 1980s. (English | Spanish)

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Haitian National Police on Strike After 3 Killed in 48 Hours | La police nationale haïtienne en grève après la mort de 3 policiers en 48 heures

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

By Staff (rh gp jep kft rc), AlterPresse | Jose Flecher, Le Matin | AHP | Translation by Dady Chery for Haiti Chery. Since the beginning of the year, 12 policemen have been killed in Port-au-Prince, including 3 who were killed on April 16-17, 2012. One of them, Walky Calixte, was shot by the bodyguard of an MP. (English | French)

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U.S. Judge Finds Intentional and Systemic Racial Discrimination in Capital Cases | A Mother Would Have Lost Both Sons

avatarPosted on by December 20, 2018

ACLU PRESS RELEASE | Jessica Jones, WUNC. In a landmark decision, North Carolina Superior Court Judge Gregory Weeks found intentional and systemic discrimination by state prosecutors against African-American potential jurors in capital cases and commuted the sentence of death-row prisoner Marcus Robinson to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

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New Wildlife Sanctuaries in the Sundarbans for Freshwater Dolphins

avatarPosted on by March 5, 2019

By Staff, SPX via Terra Daily | Staff, Wildlife Conservation Society. The Government of Bangladesh recently declared three new wildlife sanctuaries for endangered freshwater dolphins in the world’s largest mangrove ecosystem – the Sundarbans. In 2009 these areas were discovered to harbor thousands of freshwater dolphins, when only a few hundreds were thought to remain in the entire world.

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Nicaraguan Women and Their Revolution | Mujeres y su revolución en Nicaragua

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

By Tortilla con sal, You Tube. Nicaraguan women talk in this inspiring video about leaving behind a past as domestic servants and factory workers. Now women feel encouraged to study to improve themselves, still raise children alone but with hope for the future, and exercise political power in their communities.(English | Spanish)

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