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Haitian Embassy in DC is Responsible for Massive Haitians Repatriation

category central america / caribbean | migration / racism | non-anarchist press author Friday June 22, 2007 08:48author by Jacob François - HAITIAN PRIORITIES PROJECTauthor email info at hpp4haiti dot com Report this post to the editors

HAITI’S DIPLOMATIC CORP IS UNPRODUCTIVE AND FILL WITH INCOMPTENT

Ø Diplomatic Corp. is a drain on Haiti’s budget because of their unproductive state and their incompetent members.

Ø HPP exhorts President Préval’s and the Haitian parliament in Haiti to recall the Diplomatic Corps immediately, and investigate why official documents intended for the Haitian government are being withheld by members of the Diplomatic Corp and their mishandling of Haiti’s affairs.

Ø A new generation of Haitians less than 40 years of age are waiting to assist in reinforcing core Haitian institutions. They are well qualified and willing to work on behalf of the Haitian people. Moreover, this generation has not been involved in any corruption, which has tarnished Haiti’s image.

New Orleans, Louisiana. The anti-patriotic movement dubbed “GNB” that culminated into the 33rd coup d’état of the elected government of Haiti has left Haiti more vulnerable than ever before. Every political party in Haiti is partly to blame for Haiti’s dilemma today. One has to question where Haiti is headed in the future. The constitutional government remains in limbo, and under an international protectorate. These parties have proven themselves incapable of repairing the tarnished image of the country locally and abroad, as well as implementing clear directives on how and where the country is heading.

On October 24, 2006, Representative Alcee Hasting of the 23rd District of South Florida—a state where Haitians are the most mistreated—delivered to the Haitian Embassy in Washington, DC a letter in which he pleaded for President Préval to write a letter to President Bush demanding “Temporary Protected Status” (TPS) for Haitians. President Préval came to Washington in April 2007 and he did not speak on any bills with a direct bearing on the Haitian population that he represents, nor did he spoke about any bills that would provide relief for Haiti (See H.R.E.S. 241, H.R. 351, H.R. 454, H.R. 522 etc.).

One has to ask this question, did the embassy in Washington conceal the letter directed at President Préval, or does the President simply not care? Preliminary investigation has proven that President Préval may not have received the letter in question. Haitian Priorities Project (HPP) sent a letter to Minister Clérismé dated April 30th, 2007, and to this date no acknowledgement of this correspondence has been received. HPP is aware that Mr. Anthony Dessources, Chief of Staff for Minister Clérismé is in possession of HPP’s request. HPP is asking why the request for clarification has fallen on deaf ears. Moreover, we sent an emissary to President Préval’s office in Haiti prior to his arrival in Washington to investigate whether President Préval received the letter which was addressed to him by Representative Hasting before he came to Washington last April. Thus, it is easily to understand that lack of preparation showed in the message that President Preval delivered to President Bush regarding the plight of the Haitians living abroad during his past visit in Washington, DC.

The lines are getting longer at the Haitian Consulates abroad. Haitians have been condemned to mistreatment wherever they are. Most consulates are staffed with incompetent people. No background checks on staff as to their ability to perform the duties required by their jobs, and no jobs descriptions either. Most diplomats are not leaders in any field, nor do they have the capacity to carry such a demanding responsibility. HPP believes a diplomat must be a strategist, a powerbroker, and a business-minded individual, and such person must also be well verse in the language of the host country.

A glance at the Haitian consulates would indicate why Haiti is in limbo. Nowhere in Haiti and abroad is the government responding to the need of the people. This has to change. HPP members attempted to call the embassy phone number in Washington, DC and found no staffers to respond to calls. Demands and needs are unmet, emails are not responded to, and the overall office is dysfunctional. If the Diplomatic Corp. cannot be transformed into a profit center for Haiti, the government needs to eliminate it.

HPP urges President Preval to act swiftly and make the changes necessary within the Haitian diplomatic corp. Investigate and punish those who are intentionally withholding information pertaining to the safety and well being of Haitian living abroad and at home. Take action against those who are mismanaging Haiti’s affairs, and the “GNB” way of doing business on behalf of the Haitian people must be stop.

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Contact Haitian Priorities Project at (954) 914-5593 or e-mail:
info@hpp4haiti.com for more information about the letter that was sent to President Preval and Minister Clérismé or visit www.hpp4haiti.com.

Related Link: http://www.hpp4haiti.com
author by PIERRE PAGEpublication date Fri Jun 22, 2007 23:35author email pierrepage at hotmail dot comauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

I completely agree with your comments above. This so call Haitian embassy should be called Haitian good for nothing. I was coming from Haiti through JFK and accidentally left my passport with an immigration officer. When I went to retrieve it, the officer told me that the passport had already been return to the Haitian embassy and that I should contact my Ambassy to retrieve it or have the passport sent to me. I spent two weeks trying to get in touch with the Ambassy through phone calls (no answer). I e-mailed the Ambassy three different times after the phone calls (still no answer). I didn't even receive an auto-reply from their office. Somebody must have read the e-mails or listened to my phone messages one would think, but I still haven't heard anything from anyone. Last time I check, even their website wasn't fully updated. They are nothing but a big hole/ shame/ disappointment in the Haitian community.
It's too bad that Haiti has no real candidate to lift it up from that deep hole it keeps on digging itself into. Preval may be or appear to be a better candidate in some limited sense than the other losers we have seen in our past elections, but like most of the other ones he doesn't really care about the poor or middle class Haitians. He is too busy trying to look cool and be acceptable by the Haitian elite to investigate who's doing what. If the US, Canada, France, and the Haitian bourgeoisie aren't complaining, the Preval thinks everything is good. Aristide may have done or let people around his government done some bad things, but he remains the best out of all these loser presidents that we have had since the departure of the Duvaliers (I use Duvalier, because I didn't know the prvious governments). Preval now has another chance to prove himself as not just a slow mover, soft spoken or silent at time chief, but as someone who is willing to do something for the country at least if not for the majority of Haitians if he ever really did want to.

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author by Tommypublication date Sat Jun 23, 2007 04:09author email funsoulster at gmail dot comauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

We keep complaining about the incompetence of the Haitian government, but when are we going to do something to alleviate the situation? All I hear is about how un-professional the Haitian government is and how the government is not doing anything. Well, let’s turn it around and ask what you are doing to help the Haitian community.

Are we too busy thumbing our noses at the government to help?

The reason it seems like the Embassy workers are unprofessional and lost is because they do not know any better. After seeing and taking part in corruption for decades, they do not know anything else. Since YOU know what is un-professional, then you should work for the embassy or some other section of the government. Maybe with your leadership you can show the staffers how to be professional. We can all agree that Haitians are hard workers, so teach them and show them by example. I am sure they can follow your lead. Give them time to change. Haiti and its citizens have been looked down upon for years by the international community and by its own. Therefore, it will take time for its tarnished image to change.

Basically, if you are not part of the solution, do not add to the problem. For every wrong issue that you see or encounter, think of a way to remedy that issue.

author by Gros-mornepublication date Sun Jun 24, 2007 14:44author email estelh1014 at yahoo dot comauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

I have to agree that we have a serious problem within our diplomatic corp, largely because those who are put in positions to represent the Haitian people's interests lack the necessary knowledge or training to do the job effectively and maximize Haiti's efforts to achieve its objectives.

I personally have experienced the culture of incompetence that exists within the Haitian diplomatic mission on numerous ocasions. I've been to the Haitian consulate in Miami to have my passport renewed on several different occasions, not only that one gets the sense that the staff is extremely incompetent, but they're also very arrogant and disrespectful in the manners of which they interact the populace whom they're there to serve.

I believe we can do better, but it will require some real leadership from Port-au-prince to start staffing the Haitian diplomatic missions base on a merit system rather than political patronage or chronism which has resulted in the current mess we now conviniently called the Haitain diplomatic corp.

The fact is we have plenty of people out there who are up to the task and capable of doing a phenomenal job in Haiti's behalf, but are not giving the opportunity because they don't know the right people or have the right connections and that's only failing our beloved country.

Until such time that we as a people realized that we ultimately will be best served collectively when we have our best and brightest in positions to advance our causes, Haiti will continue to lag behind and those of us living abroad will continue to get mistreated because we are continually represented by morons who have not a clue as to what their jobs entail.

We are already more than a hundred of fifty years behind the civilized world, we cannot afford to waste any more time, we therefore must clean house and send those illprepared to represent the Haitian interests packing and bring in young bloods knowledgeable and well equipped with the necessary skills to conduct the people's business.

"I will forever bleed Blue and Red"

author by Jacob François - Haitian Priorities Projectpublication date Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:01author email info at hpp4haiti dot comauthor address www.hpp4haiti.comauthor phone 954-914-5593Report this post to the editors

The lines are getting longer at the Haitian Consulates abroad. Haitians have been condemned to mistreatment wherever they are. Most consulates are staffed with incompetent people. No background checks on staff as to their ability to perform the duties required by their jobs, and no jobs descriptions either. Most diplomats are not leaders in any field, nor do they have the capacity to carry such a demanding responsibility. HPP believes a diplomat must be a strategist, a powerbroker, and a business-minded individual, and such person must also be well verse in the language of the host country.

Feel free to send to us your resume, under the link entitle Human Capital on www.hpp4haiti.com
is where we going to post the information that will be available to the Haitian Government at no charge.

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