2019 En Haïti, Une Année À Marquer D'une Croix Rouge
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FREE Thanks to our ADVERTISERS Please Support SOUTH FLORIDA’S MOST READ HAITIAN NEWSPAPER THEM! January 1 - 15, 2020 | Vol. 20 No. 448 www.lefloridien.com PHONE: 305.610.7481 2019 en Haïti, une année à marquer d’une croix rouge Nous voilà sur le point de tourner la page d’une année 2019 qui fût diffi- cile et éprouvante à bien des égards pour l’ensemble des Haïtiens. Alors que le pays retrouve un semblant de normalité suite à une “trêve” in- staurée inespérément pour le temps des fêtes, la tension reste palpable. La longue crise socio-politique qui a secoué Haïti durant d’inter- minables mois a fini par mettre la population sur le carreau. Encore groggy par un climat qui s’appar- entait par moments à une guerre civile, les Haïtiens ont vécu dans le désordre et le chaos le plus total. Retour sur les événements majeurs qui ont marqué l’actualité en 2019 et qui ont poussé la nation au bord du précipice. Suite à la page 12 A Look Back at 2019’s South Florida Haitian Community’s ÉDITORIAL Biggest Stories and Best Moments Bonne et heureuse Making a Year in Review for some année à nos chers big news happening in the South Flor- Page 4 ida Haitian Community is not an easy lecteurs task. Of course, this community is in full expansion in terms of a grow- Pompeo exhorte ing population; however, it is not the same case in terms of big projects that les haïtiens could make a positive impact in the Page4 lives of its members. au dialogue Continued on page 10 Using phone while Haiti’s leader marks independence day amid security concerns driving in Florida now PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitian to work with the government and help Page9 President Jovenel Moïse broke with create employment. results in tickets tradition on Wednesday and celebrated the country’s independence day in the “We’re still extremely poor,” he said. capital for security reasons following “Those who continue to get rich find it À Môle Saint Nicolas, months of political turmoil. normal that they do not pay taxes, find it normal that there can be no compe- Jovenel Moïse fait Moïse, whose government has been ac- tition, find it normal that they set pric- cused of corruption, denounced graft es for consumers, especially when this du vélo Page 13 during his speech at the National Palace consumer is the state itself.” Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in Port-au-Prince and urged Haiti’s elite Continued on page 9 LE FLORIDIEN 2 HAITIAN TRADITION JANUARY 1 - 15, 2020 | VOL. 20 NO. 448 This Soup from Haiti Is a Perfect Way to Mark the New Year and the Country’s Freedom By TAYLOR ADAMS richness of people.” As we get ready for New Year’s Day, Taste-wise, expect the squash to be some people will make black-eyed complemented by beef, potato plan- peas, maybe some greens, possibly tains and various vegetables. some ozoni soup. So, trying it … I have a call to action: I, however, will be thinking of soup Do you know a place serving good joumou. Haitian cuisine, possibly soup jou- Nearly falling off a hill with Sarah Marsalis-Lug- mou? Let me know; we’ve been hunt- Two years ago, I was in Haiti for my inbill (left) near Yvon, Haiti.Scott Luginbill ing and haven’t yet found it. There are second time, that time over the New Soup joumou, pictured in Les Cayes, Haiti, on recipes online, of course, if you want to New Year’s Day 2018 | Taylor Adams even having lived there a while. Year, where I first had this squash soup. try making it yourself. Though, Marsa- lis-Luginbill says it doesn’t taste quite “One of my favorite things about the While it’s tradition to have this on New the same here (and I’ll vouch that she’s soup is the representation of the free- Year’s Day in Haiti, it’s not really for a good cook). The soup consumed this day is a lovely dom that comes with it, and so when I good luck, but rather to mark Haiti’s one, embracing winter squash and en- hear the stories and the pride and how independence from French colonizers With that being said, you can always hancing it to a barely spicy meal, best connected it is to their culture, I just in 1804, when it became the first free go to Port-au-Prince to try the food and shared at a long table with as many immediately feel drawn to the people black republic in the world. It’s an in- discover this wonderful country. friends as possible. and the hearts of Haiti,” she says. “It’s credible story, really, of the only slave there when you taste the soup: You uprising that led to the founding of a Source: dallasobserver.com Really, my friend Sarah Marsalis-Lug- taste the richness of the soup with your state that was free from slavery and inbill puts it well — as she should, mouth, but then you also taste this rich- ruled by non-whites and former cap- she’s been to the country many times, ness of culture, richness of pride and tives. Worcester Diocese closes Haitian ministry office By Telegram & Gazette Staff options for donors who want to help the education programs, especially the WORCESTER — A longterm project schools run by the Sisters of Ste. Anne run by the Worcester Roman Catholic in Haiti. Diocese to help Haitian children has ended Jan. 1. In the meantime, the bishop encourages those who are still interested in helping Bishop Robert J. McManus Tuesday children through the parishes to either announced the Haitian Ministry will no support their parish’s existing twinning longer fundraise for school students in program or ask if their parish will get Haiti, the poorest of nations in the West- involved if they are not yet twinning. ern Hemisphere. The bishop continued, “Subsidiarity is Instead, according to a press release, an important operational principal in the the diocese will “refocus on its original life of the Catholic Church and in many mission to promote twinning between global, nonprofit organizations such parishes in the Diocese of Worcester and as Catholic Relief Services. It means parishes in the Diocese of Les Cayes.” supporting the local community to de- termine how to best address their most The decision to close the Haitian Apos- critical needs.” tolate office will save the diocese about $100,000, according to Raymond Del- Cardinal Chibly Langlois, Bishop of Les Cayes, Haiti, left, and Bishop Robert J. McManus, right, Delisle said the twinning program is the sign a document connecting the Diocese of Worcester and the Diocese of Les Cayes. Sr. Marie Ju- isle, chancellor and spokesman for the dith Dupuy, SSA, directs the signing ceremony during mass at St. Joseph Church Sunday, Septem- backbone of the relationship between diocese. ber 3, 2017. [T&G Staff/Rick Cinclair]. Source: www.msn.com the Worcester and Haitian diocese. Source: msn.com Beginning in January the diocesan Of- fice of Fiscal Affairs will coordinate Parish in Sucrerie Henri, Haiti, for near- bank transfers to the twinning parishes “I am grateful for the tireless work with ly 18 years. in Les Cayes, which were being done by the Haitian Adopt-a-Student and back- the Haitian Ministry. pack programs which Sr. Marie Judith St. Gabriel supports St. Anne with Dupuy of the Sisters of St. Anne has $1,027 per month, part of which helps The diocese’s Haitian Apostolate had provided with various staff people over the St. Anne clinic, he said. St. Gabriel been run by Sister Marie-Judith since the years,” Bishop McManus said. also pays $15,000 per year to support May 2005. She plans to pursue a new the St. Anne parish school and several career. Currently, 15 parishes “twin” with Hai- chapel schools, Rev. Brault said. tian parishes. She said she starts this month as a full- Rev. William C. Konicki, pastor of Sa- time student at Anna Maria College, Parishes such as Sacred Heart of Jesus cred Heart of Jesus Parish in Hopedale, working on a bachelor’s degree in crim- in Hopedale and St. Gabriel, the Arch- said his parish has been twinning with inal justice in preparation for a master’s angel in Upton have been twinning for St. Gerard Parish in Point Simone, Hai- in homeland security, in hopes of be- many years with their parishes in Haiti. ti, for 18 years. coming an immigration officer, the -di More recent parishes to join the effort ocesan press release said. include Christ the King in Worcester Sacred Heart has a covenant with St. and St. Roch in Oxford. Gerard to send $900 per month, he said. “I think the changes came at the right It pays salaries for St. Gerard to keep time,” said Sister Marie-Judith. “I’m “Our commitment to our (twin) parish operating its school at the church and very grateful to (Bishop McManus) ... has allowed the people of St. Gabriel’s the school at each of its three mission for recognizing my big effort in this to have an awareness of Church that is churches or chapels. ministry,” she said. not only inward, but outward,” said Rev. Laurence V. Brault, pastor of St. Gabri- After discussion with the leadership of The bishop expressed his appreciation el, the Archangel Parish in Upton. His the Sisters of St. Anne, the bishop and to Sister Marie-Judith. parish has been twinning with St.