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Trump ally Erik Prince plans to keep personnel in Haiti for 10 years to fight gangs and collect taxes
The Straits Times
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August 14, 2025
The prominent Donald Trump supporter and private security executive Erik Prince says he has a 10-year deal with Haiti to fight the country's criminal gangs, and then take a role in restoring the country's tax-collection system. In an interview...
Blackwater founder and Trump supporter Erik Prince signs 10-year security deal with Haiti
BusinessLIVE
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London/Mexico City/Port au Prince — The prominent Donald Trump supporter and private security executive Erik Prince says he plans to keep his forces in Haiti for 10 years under an arrangement that will eventually give his firm a role in the...
Trump ally Erik Prince plans to keep forces in Haiti for 10 years
BDNews24
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The prominent Donald Trump supporter and private security executive Erik Prince says he plans to keep his forces in Haiti for 10 years under an arrangement that will eventually give his firm a role in the country's tax-collection system. In an...
Experimentation of the technological branch of the baccalaureate in computer science
Haiti Libre
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Haiti - Education : Experimentation of the technological branch of the baccalaureate in computer science 14/08/2025 09:58:53 With the aim of improving youth employability, the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID)...
Trump ally Erik Prince plans to keep forces in Haiti for 10 years to fight gangs and collect taxes
The Economic Times
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August 14, 2025
The prominent Donald Trump supporter and private security executive Erik Prince says he plans to keep his forces in Haiti for 10 years under an arrangement that will eventually give his firm a role in the country's tax-collection system. In an...
Exclusive-Trump ally Erik Prince plans to keep forces in Haiti for 10 years to fight gangs and collect taxes
The Malaysian Star
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August 14, 2025
August 14 (Reuters) -The prominent Donald Trump supporter and private security executive Erik Prince says he plans to keep his forces in Haiti for 10 years under an arrangement that will eventually give his firm a role in the country's...
Scientists race to save reefs amid bleaching crisis
The Virgin Islands Daily News
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For more than a decade, Mariane Aimar-Godoc regularly labored underwater, collecting coral eggs by moonlight to raise in nurseries and transplant back onto degraded reefs. As director of the nonprofit Guadeloupe Initiative for the Restoration of...
Haiti gang leader “Barbecue” challenges FBI after U.S. charges
Africanews
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August 13, 2025
U.S. charges Jimmy "Barbecue" Chérizier and American collaborator in sanctions-busting scheme One of Haiti’s most powerful gang leaders, Jimmy Chérizier, known as "Barbecue," has openly challenged U.S. authorities after being indicted by a federal...
Gangs in Haiti kill 2 elite police officers in latest attack against law enforcement
The Independent
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August 13, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Haitian nationals with 'protected' immigration status at risk of deportation come February
CAI - Massachusetts
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August 12, 2025
The Trump administration plans to end protected immigration status for citizens of Haiti in February, more than 15 years after the Obama administration granted it following a devastating earthquake in 2010. The program, called Temporary Protected...
From crisis to cultivation: Haiti’s small farmers build resilience one seed at a time
The Gleaner
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August 13, 2025
PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): For years, low-quality seeds have been a concern in Haiti, with continual climate shocks and political insecurity adding to the existing challenges that farmers face in their attempts to grow food. Instead of having seeds...
U.S. grand jury indicts one of Haiti’s most powerful gang leaders and one of his friends
Los Angeles Times
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August 13, 2025
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A federal grand jury has indicted one of Haiti’s most powerful gang leaders and a U.S. citizen accused of conspiring with him to violate U.S. sanctions and fund gang activities in the troubled Caribbean country, the U.S....
BBQ is Cooked! US Turns Over 11 Million Haitians into Potential Informants with $5 Million Bounty
Magnetic Media
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August 12, 2025
August 12, 2025 The United States just set fire to the underworld in Haiti — and this time, the smoke might finally flush out the man many call the most feared in the Caribbean. On Tuesday, the U.S. government slapped a $5 million bounty on the...
U.S. indicts Haiti gang leader ‘Barbecue,’ offers $5 million reward for capture
Virgin Islands Free Press
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August 13, 2025
WASHINGTON — Haiti’s most notorious gang leader has been indicted by a federal jury in Washington, D.C., after which the FBI announced a $5 million bounty for information leading to his capture. Jimmy Chérizier, aka “Barbecue” 48, is one of the...
Earthquakes: Planning architecture, engineering and design to address hazards before they become disasters
The Manila Times
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August 12, 2025
THE Philippines sits along the Pacific Ring of Fire — the belt of tectonic activity around the Pacific Ocean where more than 75 percent of the world’s volcanoes and 90 percent of earthquakes occur. This archipelago’s location atop major tectonic...
US grand jury indicts one of Haiti's most powerful gang leaders and one of his friends
98.7FM & AM1340 WGAU - Georgia
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August 12, 2025
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted one of Haiti's most powerful gang leaders and a U.S. citizen accused of conspiring with him to violate U.S. sanctions and fund gang activities in the troubled Caribbean country, the...
US grand jury indicts one of Haiti’s most powerful gang leaders and one of his friends
Journal Advocate - Colorado
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August 12, 2025
By DÁNICA COTO and ASHRAF KHALIL, Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted one of Haiti’s most powerful gang leaders and a U.S. citizen accused of conspiring with him to violate U.S. sanctions and fund gang...
Dominican Republic deploys pilot facial recognition system on Haiti border
Biometric Update
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August 11, 2025
The Dominican Republic has begun a pilot for a facial recognition system along its border with Haiti, the Director General of Immigration announced. Vice Admiral Luis Rafael Lee Ballester said the new biometric technology is part of a broader...
“Failed state”: The label that obscures Haiti’s crisis and fuels the logic of international intervention
Latinoamerica21
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August 11, 2025
On January 6, 2025, journalists David Adams and Frances Robles published the report “Massacre after massacre: Haiti’s grim spiral into a failed state” in the New York Times. The article highlighted the collapse of public security in the country,...
From crisis to culture: farmers in Haiti build the resilience of a seed at a time
The European Times
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August 10, 2025
Instead of having seeds that grow reliably, farmers face prizes that can only increase 40 or 50% of the time. This decreases not only their yield and their profit, but also decreases their ability to maintain their livelihoods. The organization of...