Léon Charles, the Director General a.i. of the PNH, accompanied by the Chief Inspector General of the officials of the Border Police and of the Fight against Traffic of Narcotic Drugs Brigade inaugurated the new border post.
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Suffolk County Council has been piloting a digital version of a methodology used by its educational psychologists in supporting young people.
It has developed the digital Analysis of Additional Needs Tool (AANT) with Ipswich based software developer Ijyi and is looking to make it available to other local authorities.
Council business analyst Stuart Savage said the paper based version of AANT has been used over the past five years, with the educational psychologists taking referrals from schools – with the consent of parents or guardians – for children with problems. It takes them through a comprehensive psychological consultation and produces a report summary and action plan, with relevant tools and techniques, for the educators in supporting the children.
by Yves Engler / February 14th, 2021
The Liberals’ commitment to a neo-Duvalierist dictatorship in Haiti is being tested. Hopefully Black History Month offers opposition parties an opportunity to finally echo growing grassroots criticism of Canadian policy in the hemisphere’s poorest country.
Since Monday a squatter has been occupying the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince. On Sunday evening Supreme Court Justice Joseph Mecene Jean-Louis was appointed provisional interim President of Haiti by the opposition parties that say Jovenel Moïse’s mandate is over as the constitution states. But, Moïse has refused to leave, claiming another year on his mandate. He responded by arresting one Supreme Court judge and (unconstitutionally) dismissing three judges as well as sending police to occupy the Supreme Court building.
by Yves Engler / December 22nd, 2020
Add this to the “you can’t make this stuff up” file: Canada’s foreign minister recently met his Haitian counterpart, who is part of a de facto administration illegally rewriting the constitution, to discuss Venezuela’s supposed democracy deficiency. Apparently, Ottawa wants a Haitian regime extending its term and criminalizing protest to maintain its support for Juan Guaidó as “constitutional” president of Venezuela.
Last week foreign affairs minister François-Philippe Champagne spoke with his Haitian counterpart Claude Joseph. According to Champagne’s tweet about the conversation, they discussed COVID-19, Haiti’s elections and Venezuela. Presumably, Champagne relayed Ottawa’s position concerning Venezuela’s recent National Assembly elections, which delivered a final blow to opposition politician Guaidó’s farcical presidential claims. In August Joseph met his US and Canadian patrons in Washington on the sidelines of an