Barbancourt receives the silver medal...

At the German Rum Festival held in Berlin, the Society of Rum Barbancourt won in the category "Agricole vieux" the silver medal for his Rum "Estate Reserve" The gold medal was won by "Rum Company Old Guadeloupe" and bronze b "J. Bally" for its rum 7 years of age.

Ratification of the Law on transnational fraud

Monday, in extraordinary session, the law penalizing transnational fraud was finally passed [9 for, 3 against, 3 abstentions] by senators in the same terms as the lower house, which had amended 6 items. The text will be sent to the National Palace to be promulgated by the President Michel Martelly in the official gazette "Le Moniteur".

New demonstration of Lawyers

Following their march November 6 https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-9821-haiti-justice-lawyers-took-to-streets.html nearly a hundred lawyers, on strike since October 23 made a peacefully Monday, 7 times around the courthouse to continue to ask the authorities to revoke Me Francisco René,

the Government Commissioner of Port-au-Prince, after the arrest they describe as illegal of Me André Michel in October https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-9722-haiti-justice-excesses-without-precedent-in-haitian-history.html

Sinister in Miragoâne

Monday, shortly before 8:00 pm a fire broke out in a two-story commercial building in downtown Miragoâne (Nippes). Protection services and the people have in a firest time fought unsuccessfully against the fire, then the fire trucks, from Port-au-Prince, came as reinforcements helped to circumscribe the sinister, whose the cause for the moment, remain unknown. No casualties were reported, but the material losses are significant.

Clash CIMO-students...

Monday, clashes between officers of Intervention and Maintenance of Order Corps (CIMO) and students from the Faculty of Law and Economics (FDES) of the State University of Haiti (UEH) disrupted the activities of downtown of Port-au-Prince. CIMO agents, informed of the holding of the march (to commemorate the first anniversary of thedisappearance of the student Damaël D'Haiti) were positioned early Monday outside the remises of the FDSE. Students frustrated, put up barricades of burning tires to show their disagreement, stone throwing and tear gas have followed...

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