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Watch the national address of Haitian president Jovenel Moise as he talks about how Haiti is handling the coronavirus crisis and other government topics that the people of Haiti need to know.

President Jovenel spoke to the people of Haiti via live television on Friday March 27, 2020

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While some political actors in Haiti are upset about the choice of Joseph Jouthe as Prime Minister, the international community, including the United States, is showing support for the new Haitian government established by president Jovenel Moise.

"The United States is ready to work with the new government of Haiti and its Prime Minister, " the American embassy said in a statement posted on Twitter Wednesday, March 4, 2020, a few hours after the inauguration ceremony. of the cabinet led by Joseph Jouthe.

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With tears in his eyes, Haitian Prime Minister Jean Michel Lapin said goodbye to public service after having served his country for 32 years. Watch the video.

Some people on the internet seem to have mistaken his tears for tears of regret. But instead the tears coming from the eyes of Jean Michel Lapin seemed more like tears of a man who could have done more for a country where to be an honest public servant is a joke.

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Opposition leader Andre Michel says the political battle continues against the new Prime Minister Joseph Jouthe whom he now considers an enemy of the opposition.

Only days after being nominated, prime minister Jouthe is now enemy number one of the Haitian radical opposition.

Democratic Sector spokesperson, André Michel, stressed that the way in which Joseph Jouthe was chosen gives reason to the political structures which had shunned political discussions and rejected any call for a truce.

"From the moment when Mr. Jouthe Joseph becomes Prime Minister under these conditions, he becomes a political opponent of the opposition.

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After countless negotiations and a dysfunctional Haitian parliament, president Jovenel Moise is promising another new government for the people.

On the same day the president announced the nomination of his new Prime Minister, President Jovenel Twitted yet another message promising a better government in Haiti.

Haiti has a New Prime Minister, Joseph Jouthe, the Finance Minister

When there is government, there are resources, there is stability and work progresses better, The president Moise said.

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In a message posted Monday on Twitter, Haitian president Jovenel Moise thanked his former Prime Minister Jean Michel Lapin for his services and set him free. Read what the president said.

Monday, March 02, 2020, President Jovenel writes:

"I want to thank the former Prime Minister, Jean Michel Lapin and his government, for the services rendered to the nation. I especially want to congratulate Mr. Lapin for his commitment, his loyalty, his patriotism and his spirit of sacrifice after a year spent at the Primature."

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Haitian President Jovenel Moise apointed Joseph Jouthe as Haiti's new Prime Minister. until being appointed Monday, March 2nd, Jouthe was the interim Minister of Economy and Finance of Haiti.

In a tweet Monday, President Jovenel said:

"Following consultations I had with different sectors of the country, I chose citizen Joute JOSEPH as the new Prime Minister, who is called upon to form, as soon as possible, a GVT of openness and consensus, capable to respond to urgent emergencies."

With Jouthe already a member of the current government and an opposition in Haiti who want things done their way or the highway, I can't wait to see the new government of openness and consensus that is about to be formed.

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Haitians from the Centre department of Haiti will be happy to know that Joseph Jouthe, the new Prime Ministers is from the town Thomonde, a commune in the Hinche Arrondissement, in the Centre department of Haiti.

Thomonde is about 15 minutes from Hinche.

Joseph Jouthe was born on October 17, 1961, in Thomonde, Plateau Central, Haiti.

What good could come out of this for the Haut Plateau Central, a region most mistreated of by all the past presidents and governments of Haiti.

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Just days after the arrival of new police armored vehicles in Haiti, photos of these vehicles are seen all over the Internet riddled with bullet holes.

Quelques jours seulement après l'arrivée de nouveaux véhicules blindés de police en Haïti, des photos de ces véhicules sont vues sur Internet criblées de balles.

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Ex Haitian senator Antonio 'Don Kato' Cheramy claims he is receiving all kinds of threats from those in power.

The senator told the media that members of the party in power, PHTK, keeps threatening him and they are spreading all kinds of rumors to force him to leave the country.

"I am not leaving," Don Kato said.

The former senator went onto say that the current government is persecuting not only him but everyone who supported him when he was an artist and also those supported him in his bid to become senator of the republic.

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