Haiti-Déportation: Emmanuel Toto Constant n’est pas déporté en Haïti

Les autorités Américaines ont déporté en Haïti, ce mardi 26 mai 2020, 30 compatriotes qui étaient en situations irrégulières aux États Unis d’Amérique. Mais Emmanuel “Toto” Constant, n’en fait pas partie.

Contrairement à ce qui avait été annoncé dans la capitale Haitienne, depuis plus d’une semaine, l’ancien chef du Front pour l’avancement et le Progrès d’Haïti, FRAPH, Emmanuel “Toto” Constant ne faisait pas partie de cette 3eme vague de déportation, à laquelle 30 personnes ont été rapatriées par les autorités americaines, depuis la découverte du premier cas de coronavirus en Haïti, en mars dernier.

Le secrétaire d’état à la communication, Eddy Jackson Alexis, qui était venu accueillir ces compatriotes, a confirmé que le chef du FRAPH, une organisation paramilitaire, Emmanuel “Toto” Constant, n’est pas déporté en Haïti contrairement à ce qui a été annoncé. Après plusieurs temps de négociations avec les autorités de l’immigration Americaine, le chef du gouvernement, Joseph Jouthe, a pu obtenir, pour la deuxième fois, le report à une date favorable pour les autorités haitiennes, de la déportation d’Emmanuel Constant en Haïti, a fait savoir le secrétaire d’Etat à la Communication.

De son côté, le directeur général de l’Office National de la Migration (ONM), Jean Nego Bonheur Delva, qui était aussi sur le tamac de l’aéroport Toussaint L’ouverture, à fat savoir que seulement trente(30) compatriotes haïtiens, au lieu de 78 prévus, en provenance des États Unis d’Amérique, qui ont été rapatriés.

Parmi ces 30 haïtiens, 16 ont été condamnés par la juctice américaine pour diverses raisons et les 14 autres vivaient illégalement aux États Unis, poursuit le DG de l’ONM.

Ces personnes seront placées en quarantaine pendant 14 jours avant d’être testées pour déterminer si elles sont infectées à la Covid-19 ou non, à expliqué le titulaire de l’ONM.

Emmanuel «Toto» Constant, 63 ans, qui vit aux États-Unis depuis 1994, vient de passer 12 ans en prison dans l’État de New York, après sa condamnation pour fraude hypothécaire et vol à main armée en 2008. Emmanuel Constant avait été condamné par contumace en Haïti avec 14 autres personnes pour le massacre de Raboteau en 1994.

Source : FACT CHECKING NEWS

« Si je pouvais détruire l’Etat, je le ferais déjà » affirme le premier-ministre de facto d’Haïti, Joseph Jouthe

COMPLOT CONTRE LA SÛRETÉ INTÉRIEURE DE L’ETAT D’HAÏTI PAR LE PREMIER-MINISTRE DE L’ADMINISTRATION MOISE-JOUTHE

Le , menace de détruire le fonde
ment de l'État tout en admettant que le président Jovenel Moïse
et lui sont loin d'avoir une carrure d '« Homme d’Etat ».            

Mercredi 13 mai 2020–Sans savoir que ses confidences livrées à des « amis » en privé, allaient être plus tard révélées au grand public, le premier-ministre de facto Joseph Jouthe a déclaré que s’il savait comment faire pour « pouvoir détruire l’Etat, il l’aurait longtemps fait« .

Jouthe, pour citer l’exemple d’un vrai homme d’Etat haitien, a pris pour référence un homme de l’arrière-pays, qui, selon lui, respecte toujours ses paroles et avec lui « un Oui c’est un Oui et un Non, un Non. Le PM aurait-il fait allusion aux actes manqués de son patron, le président Jovenel Moise, très avide de faire des promesses sans toutefois parvenir à les tenir. Et les exemples sont nombreux : électricité 24/24 ; exportation de bananes de AgriTrans ; lajan nan pòch tout mounn ; combattre la corruption et l’impunité ; et récemment $29 lajan MonCash à plus de 1 5000 personnes nécessiteuses.

Dans cette deuxième partie d’une conversation privée enregistrée entre le premier-ministre de facto de Jovenel Moise et « ses amis », Jouthe s’est dit encore « étonné qu’après plus de deux semaines, il est encore toujours PM« . Il a admis avoir en moins de deux ans occupé quatre postes au sein de l’administration Tèt Kalé, sans toutefois avoir l’allure d’un homme d’Etat, à la hauteur de ses responsabilités dans un « pays fictif ».

Joseph Jouthe en donnant libre cours à ses élucubrations, a traité les habitants de Thomonde de « mauvais échantillon » tout en ravivant ses souvenirs d’enfance au cœur du paysage de sa ville natale.

« Je ne m’attendais pas à être premier-ministre » a admis l’Ingénieur Joseph Jouthe ajoutant que s’il avait l’autorité nécessaire, « il aurait renvoyé toute l’équipe » – de corrompus – « au ministère des finances ».

En tentant encore sa chance pour tourner la roue, Joseph Jouthe n’a pas écarté toute possibilité « d’être candidat » sans préciser la fonction élective et dans quel pays, car pour lui, « Haïti est un pays fictif » ki pa pral pyès koté, probablement avec Jovenel Moise comme président, indexé d’usurpation de titre – fo Enjenyè – et de détournement de fonds de Petro Caribe selon un document public de la Cour des Comptes.

Source : rezonodwes.com

Trinidad and Tobago’s First Female President Sworn Into Office

President Paula-Mae Weekes, the first woman to hold the office in
Trinidad and Tobago.                                                                        

On Monday, Paula-Mae Weekes became Trinidad and Tobago’s sixth and its first female president.

Weekes, who previously worked in the country’s Director of Public Prosecutions office of the as an attorney, took her oath of office in front of a large crowd that included members of the Trinidadian Parliament and Government of Ministers.

During her speech to the citizens of the twin-island nation, the new head of state spoke about issues that have been plaguing the country, according to Caribbean360.

“[Trinidad and Tobago] is perilously close to the point of no return”, with crime, corruption, racism, abysmal public services and an ineffective judicial system, among other problems, so thick on the ground that all hope is lost, and the country had two choices: “Option 1 – We can lament, blame, criticise and allow a miasma of despair to overwhelm us or Option 2 we can consciously and intentionally choose the alternative,” Weekes said.

Facebook’s global chief diversity officer, Maxine Williams, who’s from the country, congratulated Weekes.

“Congratulations to President Paula-Mae Weekes, the first woman to hold the office in Trinidad and Tobago,” said Williams. “The thing about ‘firsts’ is that they are bitter sweet.”

ICE To Deport COVID-Positive Immigrants To Haiti

Isabel Macdonald

HuffPostMay 11, 2020, 8:07 AM EDT

The U.S. plans to deport Haitians on Monday who say they have tested positive for COVID-19 ― a move that would put both fellow airline passengers and people in their homeland at risk. 

A manifest for the scheduled deportation flight, obtained by HuffPost, shows 100 passengers. Two of those listed, Stephane Etienne and Mackendy Calice, confirmed to HuffPost that they have tested positive for the coronavirus, and three others listed on the manifest also have tested positive, according to U.S.-based human rights group the Institute for Justice and Democracy In Haiti. The Miami Herald reported on the case on Friday.

These removals of COVID-positive detainees would align with the Trump administration’s deportation priorities, but not with pleas from foreign governments to stop deporting people with the virus during the pandemic. In the past, some Haitian deportees have tested positive once they’ve been returned to the country. A Haitian official told HuffPost in April that further removals was “putting an additional burden on all of our fragile systems.”

The latest planned removals show that Immigration and Customs Enforcement may be deporting people it knows for certain are COVID-19-positive ― a move that can spread the virus and strain the health care system in other countries. 

ICE did not respond to a request for comment on the removals. 

Etienne and Calice, the two Haitian men who said they tested positive for COVID-19, were in “total lockdown” inside Pine Prairie Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing Center in Louisiana, Calice said. They’re isolated from the detainee general population in a special area for those who test positive for the virus. Etienne’s coronavirus tests have twice come back positive, he said. Calice, who said he hasn’t been allowed to go outside in more than a month, tested positive on April 26. 

They said they were surprised to learn that they, along with three dormmates who also tested positive, were scheduled to be deported to Haiti on Monday.

Retired Republican Senator Jeff Flake will vote for Biden over Trump and says GOP needs 'a sound defeat' in 2020 election

Griffin Connolly

April 28, 2020, 3:12 PM EDT

Jeff Flake has emerged as one of the most vocal Republican critics of Donald Trump: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Retired Republican Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona will not be voting for Donald Trump this November. No, he'll be voting for a Democrat for president for the first time in his life.

"This won’t be the first time I’ve voted for a Democrat — though not for president [before]. Last time I voted for a third-party candidate. ... But I will not vote for Donald Trump," Mr Flake said in an interview with The Washington Post.

Mr Flake insisted that he is "not trying to burn the place down or anything else," but that he's trying to get back what he feels is the lost soul of the Republican party.

The best thing for the future of the Republican party would be "a sound defeat" for Mr Trump in November, Mr Flake said. "No doubt. Long term for the Republican Party, you bet. And for conservatism as well."

By the end of his first and only term as senator from 2013 to 2019, Mr Flake had the worst relationship with Mr Trump of any Senate Republican, as he openly and consistently denounced many of the president's controversial remarks and opposed a handful of his political and judicial appointments.

The men's relationship was never strong. Mr Flake called on Mr Trump to withdraw from the 2016 presidential race after the emergence of the Access Hollywood tape where Mr Trump openly brags about sexually assaulting women. Mr Trump was so enraged with Mr Flake that his White House was recruiting GOP primary challengers against the senator in the summer of 2017.

While many Republican senators who were critical of Mr Trump early in the 2016 campaign, such as South Carolina's Lindsey Graham, eventually fell in line with the president and have become some of his closest political allies, Mr Flake remained defiantly on the periphery. When he announced his retirement from the Senate in the fall of 2018 amid politically untenable approval ratings, he delivered a scathing speech against the state of politics in Washington that spared no one, not least of all his Republican colleagues nor Mr Trump.

The GOP's aggressive public embrace of the president's hard-nosed political style isn't a Washington-only phenomenon, Mr Flake lamented in his interview with the Post. Trumpism has ensnared Mr Flake's home state politicians, too, including many people to whom the former senator has long personal and political ties.

Arizona Republicans have been complicit in a "total capitulation of the party to Trumpism," Mr Flake vented in the Post interview.

In February, more than 14,000 people flocked to the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix for one of the president's notoriously lively and raucous campaign rallies. In years past, many Arizona lawmakers were reticent about appearing onstage with the Mr Trump. That's no longer the case.

"The other night it was painful to watch the rally in Arizona: the president onstage with virtually all of my Republican colleagues from Arizona — the governor on down, some of whom had been reluctant previously to be on a campaign stage with the president. But who have just completely and utterly thrown in," Mr Flake said.

It is not all gloom and doom for his party, though, Mr Flake suggested. In private conversations, many Republicans acknowledge they've submitted to a "trade-off" in which they publicly tolerate Mr Trump's bombast and anti-institutionalism in exchange for his signature on conservative policies, his nomination of conservative judges and his enactment of tax and regulatory reform. That trade-off is not intended to last forever.

Mr Flake expressed confidence that the GOP can veer back towards a vision that is more inclusive and not fuelled, in his own words, by "anger and resentment."

"I don’t know anyone who thinks that this is the future of the party. This is a demographic cul-de-sac we’re in, if nothing else. Anger and resentment only go so far; you have to have a governing philosophy. I don’t know of any of my colleagues who really believe this is it."

Haitian soccer president accused of sexually abusing young players

Dr Yves Jean-Bart, the president of the Haitian national soccer
team has been accused of sexually abusing multiple young players

The longtime president of the Haitian national soccer team’s governing body has been accused of sexually abusing multiple young players at the country’s training complex.

Yves Jean-Bart, the head of the Haitian Football Federation for the past two decades, allegedly used the threat of expulsion from the training center against fearful young females to commit numerous criminal acts within the past five years, multiple sources told The Guardian. Jean-Bart, widely known as “Dadou,” denied the charges.

“There is a lady who works there who puts pressure on the girls to have sex with Dadou,” an alleged victim told the Guardian. “He will see a nice girl who is attractive and he sends the lady to tell her that she is going to be thrown out of the centre. She starts crying and then the lady says: ‘The only way to resolve this is to speak to Dadou.’ At that moment, the young girl has no choice but to put up with the sexual abuse.”

Another alleged victim was reportedly impregnated by Jean-Bart and had an abortion at the age of 17.

“She was put under pressure not to talk,” a former player said. “Another of our best young players lost her virginity to Dadou when she was 17 in 2018 and also had to abort. These girls who live at the FIFA center … it’s such a shame because they want to play for the country but if they speak about this situation they will be fired. They are hostages.”

In February, Jean-Bart was elected for the sixth time as president of the federation. He claims the accusations are “clearly a maneuver to destabilize the FHF, the character of the president and his family.”

“[There has] never been any complaint against the federation, nor against the staff engaged in our academy, nor against my person,” Jean-Bart said. “This kind of practice of sexual abuse is almost impossible in our camp center given the physical structures, the principles of education and continuous awareness that we have put in place.

“I would not encourage such practices in Haitian football, much less in the center which is under my responsibility. If there were such cases, I would encourage the victims to file a complaint with the federation and the judicial authorities of the country. We are ready, at the level of the federation, to support them.

“To date, in women’s football in Haiti, where there are generations of players who are now 50 or 60 years old, there has never been, to my knowledge, even suspicions of this kind. Personally I am and I have been a non-violent man. I don’t understand how someone can make me look like an executioner to the point where families would feel intimidated by me.”

Players often move to the training center as teenagers, often from impoverished backgrounds. The complex was funded by FIFA and opened in 2001.

The alleged victims stayed silent due to Jean-Bart’s influence.

“I’m so afraid. Dadou Jean-Bart is a very dangerous person,” another alleged victim said. “There are a lot of people who want to talk but they’re so afraid, especially for the parents who are still in Haiti.”

One of Jean-Bart’s friends has also been accused of attempting to rape a Haitian star, while she was living at the suburban complex, outside of Port-au-Prince.

“She managed to get away from him and her parents know the situation,” said another source who is close to the player’s family. “But Dadou has tried everything to keep it quiet.”

The Haitian football federation also is facing scrutiny for misuse of up to $6 million in funds from FIFA. Several sources said the training center hasn’t been maintained and is falling apart.

“The last time I set foot there, I wanted to vomit,” said a former coach at the center. “It is despicable. Ten kids sleep in every room, there are no sheets, no clean toilets. It’s unimaginable. Where did the money go? The federation received millions, and they didn’t even buy sheets.

“This center. is a nightmare. FIFA’s inspectors came, we thought they were going to say something, but it didn’t happen. It’s impossible. How can they say nothing? The young people have no medical monitoring, they eat the same thing every day – rice, pasta, bananas, chicken – drink water that you wouldn’t ever drink and in the meantime the FA officials have their own doctor and organize banquets. It is obscene.”

The federation denied the facility is in a dilapidated state.

“These are modern and more than decent facilities and all our foreign visitors come out amazed by the beauty of the place and the efforts made by our young people and our managers to keep it very correct,” the federation said. “We are making a lot of effort to increase the self-esteem of our young people and their supervisors, otherwise they would not have been able to achieve such beautiful feats in the face of the countries of America and the Caribbean, clothing and other needs all year round.”

Source : New York Post