kiskeácity daily is out ! Editions of Sunday, Sep. 11 and Monday, Sep. 12, 2011

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• New book on the Haitian Spiralists (Franketienne, Philoctète) by Kaiama Glover. 
• Book signing for Jean-Max Calvin's Hors du Bleu coming up Sep. 25 in Uniondale, NY. 
• Cardicis3 Daily has become Cardicis3 Weekly. (Cardicis is a technology foundation and think tank dedicated to Caribbean integration and Caribbean linguistic diversity.) 

VIEW MONDAY'S EDITION

• PM Letter scandal: Two articles on how some in Martelly's entourage tried to make the PM designate sign a letter promising to resign in case of disagreement with the president. (Radio Kiskeya, InfoHaiti.net.)
• More prizes for Dany Laferriere's book The Return. 

From and about the blogs

• My article on Haitians' online reactions to UN rape scandal in French on Global Voices en Français. English version here.
• Caribbean journal interview with one of Digicel's top executives. 

Soccer

• French channel Canal+'s report on Haitian soccer team which made blogger Carel Pedre cry. CNN adds details of how the team's Brazilian coach recruited Haitian diaspora players for the team. 

And more!

kiskeácity daily is out ! Edition of Wednesday, Sep. 07, 2011 #Haiti #Minustah #Football #Jacmel

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Highlights


UN Rape Scandal

• Youth who leaked video receiving threats. (HPN) FR
• Uruguay apologizes. (Radio Kiskeya, BBC) FR, EN
• More and more talk of withdrawal of UN troops and specifically Brazil explicitely mobilizing for withdrawal, saying mission has run its course. FR
• Big decision day on the future of MINUSTAH  tomorrow as relevant authorities from several South American countries meet on the topic. (Haiti Libre) FR 
• Four perpetrators repatriated. (HPN) FR

From blogs and social media

MediaHacker interviews the two youth who managed to capture the UN rape video via bluetooth and leaked it to media. EN

Vague du Futur blog announces an exhibit of photographs of students from Francophone countries at the FOKAL offices in Port-au-Prince co-sponsored by Agence Universitaire Francophone (AUF). (Arts and entertainment tab) FR

www.culture509.com highlights 20 years of cooperation between Jacmel and french city Strasbourg. FR

Haiti-based Jean-Marc Tribié (@jmtribie on Twitter) posted the below picture of plywood being transported by foot in Bourdon. 

Other topics 

• Judicious editiorial in NYT by Haitian writer Isabelle Dupuy on the explosion of disaster tourism to Haiti and its translation in French by HPN. (EN in Society tab and FR in Headlines) 
• Soccer victory against Curaçao. (#Footbal tab) FR
• Jacmel's recovery a success. (Google) EN
• Haitian youth on their way to South America targeted by traffickers.(HPN) FR 
• Dominican president meets with UN representative on Haitian refugees and stateless Dominicano-Haitians. (Dominican Today) EN 
• And more!

kiskeácity daily is out ! Edition of Tuesday, Sep. 06, 2011 #Haiti #MINUSTAH

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Highlights


UN-Haiti Rape scandal:

• Demonstrations in Port-Salut, 
• exhaustive RNDDH report on sexual abuse by MINUSTAH in this and other cases in Port-Salut (including evidence of pregnancies among minors), 
• resolution for progressive MINUSTAH withdrawal, 
• Uruguay prosecuting the 4 perpetrators 
• and more.

Haitian football:
HPN poll reveals Haitian optimism for 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

Labor Day West Indian Parade in NY:
No Haitian float this year!

kiskeácity daily is out ! Edition of Monday, Sep. 05, 2011

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For now, here is Monday's edition:

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Highlights:

NGO disgrace in Haiti continues as Martelly condemns the rape of a 19 year-old by UN "peacekeepers" and Oxfam fires 6 non-Haitian staff member for unspecified misconduct.

Gary Conille officially designated as Prime Minister.

Haiti-based blog www.culture509.com relishes in Haiti's 6-0 soccer-football   victory against the Virgin Islands team which propels the team one step closer to the2014 World Cup in Brazil.

Picture by www.culture509.com

Tune in tomorrow for updates on today's West Indian Day parade on Eastern Parkway.



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kiskeácity daily is out ! Edition of Tuesday, Aug. 09, 2011

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Haiti Headlines - Voilà receives award for Tcash mobile payment program (FR & EN).  Haitian women rebuilding Haiti by removing rubble by hand (FR &EN). Haitian women receive training in soccer football .


Caribbean - Grenada calling on its diaspora. Racialized party structure in Trinidad. Jamaica getting a sweet deal on sugar.


Video - My own video of Régine Roumain talking about Haiti Cultural Exchange's goal for a Haitian cultural center in NY. Footage of London riots yesterday. Two editions of Haiti-based Metro News covering topics from the next step on the Prime Minister search, Kay Pa'm, Jean-Claude Bajeux, Voilà's Tcash, policing and student protests etc. 


Photos - Under the #Haiti tab, pictures of the Aug. 5th James Germain/Emeline Michel concert at Fokal. 


Enjoy!






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Carnival Kickoff & Digicel Soccer Cup in the Tropics

My latest Global Voices post is about carnival kickoff in the French Caribbean Overseas Departments (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyane). The post features 3 video clips of Guadeloupean mas bands Mas a Kle and Akiyo that I'm sure you'll want to see.

What's going on in Haiti on that front? Not sure. Bloggers have been preoccupied with other things but I'm sure there has been some sort of kickoff there too. (Update: HaitiXchange has just the answer to this question. Apparently, pre-carnaval festivities in Port-au-Prince have been attracting about as many people as carnival itself due to regained security.)

Not to mention, Kiskeyans are probably too busy celebrating the Caribbean Digicel Soccer Cup Championship title, subject of another post on GV and for which you can see soccerfabulous pictures here.

Photo by Alex DeCarvalho

Technorati: Digicel- Mas A Kle - Akiyo

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