Today’s ephemeris: national holidays, events marking the history of Haiti, proverbs… the online agency Juno7 brings you a refresher.
Today is Wednesday, July 10, 2024
July 10, 2005: the journalist Jacques Roche was kidnapped on July 10, 2005 and murdered by his captors. His body was found on July 15, 2005 in Delmas 4. Born in 1961 in Cavaillon, Jacques Roche was a journalist, writer, speaker, poet, and storyteller. He was mainly known for his cultural articles published regularly in the daily newspaper Le Matin and as the host of a television program on civil society sponsored by the group 184.
July 10, 2013 : the Haitian State prohibits, through a ministerial decree, the production, importation, marketing and use of bags, inputs, objects made of expanded polystyrene (EPS), polystyrene or styrofoam, for single food use throughout the national territory.
July 10, 2015 : The American Chamber of Commerce in Haiti (AMCHAM Haiti) is launching MATCON, a trade fair dedicated to the construction industry, on the SONAPI industrial park site. A first in Haiti.
July 10, 1810 : Death of General Lamarre at Môle Saint Nicolas. General Lamarre was a hero of the War of Independence who distinguished himself during the battle of Léogâne against the French general Neterwood. After the assassination of Dessalines, he joined the Republicans of the West and the South. He was sent, in 1807, by Pétion to support the insurgents but he was forced to flee, Christophe’s troops being on his tail. He took refuge at Môle Saint Nicolas where he was carried off by a cannonball after resisting the assaults for three years. His body was buried on site and his heart sent to Pétion.
July 10, 2015: Haiti’s ambassador to France, Madame Vanessa Matignon, presented Madame Véronique Rossillon, President of AFHEC and founder of the Alcibiade Pommayrac Center, during a ceremony organized at the Maison de l’Amérique Latine in Paris on July 10, 2015, with the prize from the Haitian Embassy in France to honor her exemplary work in the service of education in Haiti for over 40 years.
Deceased on July 23, 2018, in Paris, Mrs. Véronique Rossillon was a faithful friend of Haiti and Haitians. In 1976, she created the Alcibiade Pommayrac Center in Jacmel and contributed generously and effectively to its operation. The Alcibiade Pommayrac Center promoted quality education accessible to the most deprived children and those most eager to learn. This center offered the opportunity to many Haitians to achieve brilliant studies and sometimes to continue them abroad.
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