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- NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
- NEWS_POSTED_ON: Jan 04, 2015
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By Dady Chery
NEWS JUNKIE POSTNov 17, 2014 at 6:20 pm. Photo: Glyn Lowe
Haitian President Michel Martelly, along with dozens of cabinet ministers and members of the private business sector, went on a European tour from October 27 to November 2, 2014, to promote the notion that Haiti is “open for business” with Europe. We are beginning to get a glimpse of the kind of business they had in mind: a fire sale of Haitian sovereignty itself.
Overview
On November 13, 2014, Haiti’s Senate committees on Finance, Justice, and on Public Works, Transport, Communications, Energy and Mines, were delivered a letter that calls for an investigation into the circumstances under which a contract was granted that allows control of all customs tariffs of the Republic of Haiti by a foreign company for 10 years. The contract was entered into by Haiti’s Minister of Economy and Finance, Marie Camelle Jean-Marie, and the Societe Generale de Surveillance SA (SGS).
The correspondence to the Senate committees was drafted by Haitian lawyers Newton Louis St Juste and André Michel, who consider the contract with SGS to be corrupt. They have alerted the press of their action. The two lawyers feel that a scandalous agreement was entered into under opaque circumstances that merit the scrutiny of Haiti’s Senate because: