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The World Bank has published its most recent Doing Business 2015 study for over 200 economies in the world ranking them by such factors as ease of Starting a Business, Dealing with Construction permits, Getting Electricity, Enforcing Contracts, Getting Credit, Registering Property, Protecting Minori...
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The Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) and the Caribbean Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (CAIPA) have announced the 2nd hosting of the Caribbean’s Regional Investor of the Year Awards 2014 (RIYA 2014).   Companies from Haiti and other Caribbean countries...
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The Caribbean airline LIAT is launching flights to Haiti, announced the company. Beginning with December 5, 2014, LIAT will operate flights from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, every Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday. The planes will take off from Santo Domingo at...
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The 6th annual Business Investment Expo & Conference is returning to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Organized by HRA, this network and information sharing event is scheduled for January 15-16, 2015, at the Karibe Convention Center. "After much debates and multiple requests from various stakeholders, we hav...
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The construction of the new 2,562 meters-long and 42 meters wide runway of the Cap-Haitien International Airport is fully completed, announced the office of Prime Minister Lamothe. The construction of the fire station is also underway.   The Prime Minister has visited the airport, along with...
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The NAHP will be hosting the 3rd annual conference on Haiti Diaspora Engagement & Innovation themed, “Haiti Beyond Haiti – Policies and Pathways to Effective Diaspora Engagement” on November 14 & 15 on the campus of Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.   The annual conference,...
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Canadian Aéroports de Montréal (ADM) donated about 100 check-in counters, mechanical scales, some 2,000 luggage trolleys, and more than 500 seats to the Cap-Haitien Airport. The equipment from the former airport terminal building at Mirabel, closed in 2004, is heading to Haiti through ...
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There are 915,000 Haitian immigrants and their children who live in the US, shows RAD Diaspora Profile, a study by Migration Policy Institute for the Rockefeller-Aspen Diaspora Program (RAD).   The number of Haitian Immigrants in the United States increased fast in the last decades, from 90,0...
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On August 5th, Giovanny Dorélien was installed as the new Director General at the Ministry of Planning and External Cooperation, replacing Jean Yves Robert who served in this position for 13 years.    Previously, Dorélien has been working as Executive Vice President at the ...
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The largest cruise company in the world - Carnival Corporation & plc signed a memorandum of understanding on July 31, 2014, that calls for the development of a new cruise port in Tortuga Island in Haiti.   The amount of investment, per the Letter of Intent, is $70 million and represents the l...