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Lagonav: 4 personnes sont mortes à Lavo dans une sablière

Aujourd’hui 4 personnes sont décédées du côté de La Gonave dans une sablière dans une localité qui s’appelle Lavaud. Les identités sont relevés comme: Rigaud Charlestin, Royaume Fanfan, Toussaint Elou et Ragener Jean sont les noms de ces 4 hommes qui ont perdu leurs vies dans une sablière à Lavo tout près zetwa sur l’île de La Gonave ce mercredi 24 mai 2023. Une autre victime est Salomon Maurival…

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Everybody knows that La Gonave is a whale that lingered so long in Haitian waters that he became an island. He bears a sleeping woman on his back. Any late afternoon anyone in Port-au-Prince who looks out to sea can see her lying there on her back with her hands folded across her middle sleeping peacefully. It is said that the Haitians prayed to Damballa for peace and prosperity. Damballa was away on a journey accompanied by his suite, including two wives, Aida and Cilia. When the invocations reached Damballa where he was travelling in the sky, he sent his woman Cilia with a message to his beloved Haitians. He commanded Agoue’ta-Royo to provide a boat for his wife and to transport her safely to Port-au-Prince so that she could give the people the formula for peace. Papa Agoue’ sent a great whale to bear Cilia and instructed him to transport the woman of Damballa with safety and speed and comfort. The whale performed everything that the Master of Waters commanded him. He rode Madame Cilia so quickly and so gently that she fell asleep, and did not know that she arrived at her destination. The whale dared not wake her to tell her that she was in Haiti. So every day he swims far out to sea and visits with his friends. But at sundown he creeps back into the harbor so that Madame Cilia may land if she should awake. She has the formula of peace in her sleeping hand. When she wakes up, she will give it to the people.

Zora Neale Hurston. Tell My Horse

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El primer zombi suelto en Hollywood

Por Gonzalo Jiménez

Los zombis, tal como los conocemos, son una creación de George A. Romero. Ese es el canon que, de alguna manera, ha imperado en Hollywood desde que Romero dirigiera en 1968 La noche de los muertos vivientes. Los zombis en Romero no guardan relación con el mito haitiano, salvo en el detalle de que son muertos reanimados; pero su origen es la radiación de un satélite que cayó del espacio.

El zombi ya posee entidad como uno de los monstruos clásicos del cine; hasta puede hablarse de un género de películas. Los muchos fanáticos de los filmes y series de TV sobre zombis ignoran cuál fue el primer gran éxito que el tema tuvo en Hollywood: un largometraje que había sido olvidado durante décadas hasta que la TV lo rescató en los años 60 y volvió a ser apreciado por una nueva generación. Esta es la historia de ese filme, White Zombie (La legión de los hombres sin alma, 1932).

Parte de la razón para que White Zombie no tuviera el estatus de otros clásicos del cine de horror como Drácula o Frankenstein (ambas de 1931) es que White Zombie es un filme independiente, financiado por un pequeño estudio de cine, Halperin Productions, que formaba parte de la llamada Poverty Row, que era como se designaba a los estudios menores que operaban independientemente en Hollywood, como Monogram, Majestic, Mascot y Puritan, entre muchos otros, que ya no existen y pocos recuerdan ya.

Según indica el libro Forgotten Horrors (Midnight Marquee Press. Baltimore, 1999), de George Turner y Michael Price, la palabra “zombie” fue introducida ante grandes audiencias en Estados Unidos con el libro sobre vudú haitiano The Magic Island, de William Seabrook. El concepto luego llegó al teatro, con la obra Zombie, que produjo Kenneth Webb en Nueva York y se estrenó en febrero de 1931. Sólo se ofrecieron 21 funciones de esa pieza. Curiosamente, Webb amenazó con demandar en marzo de ese año a los productores Edward y Víctor Halperin cuando estos anunciaron que iniciarían el rodaje de una película llamada White Zombie.

La historia de los hermanos Halperin es singular. Ambos arribaron a Hollywood a comienzos de la década de 1920. Tenían formación universitaria e inclinaciones por el teatro. Juntos produjeron una docena de películas mudas para los estudios First National, United Artists y Vitagraph; casi todas melodramas. Nada presagiaba que les interesaría incursionar en el género del cine de terror.

Los hermanos tenían una obsesión: encontrar una aproximación científica a la forma de hacer cine. En pocas palabras, teorizaban sobre hallar una fórmula que garantizara en 100% el éxito de una película. Sus análisis de filmes exitosos los condujo a preguntarse por qué funcionaban en la taquilla Drácula (Universal) o Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde (Paramount). Los Halperin (Víctor siempre dirigió y Edward era el productor) concluyeron que los diálogos debían limitarse al 15% del filme y que el resto debía ser pura acción.

Esta aproximación a la trama también se reflejó en su manera de hacer cine. White Zombie se completó en apenas 11 días de rodaje. Víctor Halperin y Garnett Weston escribieron el guión, con la asesoría del sargento Faustin Wirkus, otrora administrador de la isla de La Gonave, frente a Haití. El presupuesto fue de 65.000 dólares, aportados por la empresa Amusement Securities Corp. y por el productor independiente Phil Goldstone. Y como estrellas del filme se contrataron a Madge Bellamy (actriz del cine mudo que anhelaba un regreso triunfal) y Bela Lugosi, fresco del éxito de taquilla obtenido en Drácula y Murders of the Rue Morgue. En algunos libros se indica que Bela Lugosi sólo recibió 800 dólares como pago por White Zombie (en el libro Forgotten Horrors se indica que fueron 500 dólares por una semana de trabajo), pero cuesta creer que, si bien era una producción independiente, el actor húngaro se tranzara por esa cifra. Madge Bellamy, por ejemplo, comentó que le pagaron 5.000 dólares por su papel, que es estrictamente secundario frente al de Lugosi.

Lo cierto es que White Zombie en absoluto luce como una película barata. Sin duda, los diálogos y ciertos aspectos de la trama han envejecido mal. Pero todavía sorprende la dirección de fotografía de Arthur Martinelli (de lejos, lo mejor de la película). El filme se rodó en los escenarios de los estudios Universal, por lo que los hermanos Halperin le sacaron provecho a los decorados de primer nivel de la empresa; el director de arte fue Ralph Berger, quien comisionó a la empresa Howard Anderson Co. para hacer los efectos especiales y los trucos de cámara, que simulaban escenarios inmensos. Por ejemplo, el interior del castillo de Murder Legendre (Lugosi) fue usado en Drácula y en El jorobado de Nuestra Señora de París.

Jack Pierce, creador del legendario maquillaje de la criatura de Frankenstein, hizo el maquillaje de los zombis en la película, así como del personaje de Bela Lugosi, Murder Legendre. Lugosi creó con Legendre uno de sus villanos más memorables. No sólo era una cuestión de maquillaje; ayudó también los acercamientos que la cámara hacía de su rostro. Legendre crea zombis a través de la magia negra para valerse de mano de obra que trabaje sin parar en su molino de caña. Pero los zombis a los que hace alusión el título del filme son seis hombres blancos, que fueron enemigos de Legendre y éste los transformó en muertos vivientes: Latour, el brujo antiguo mentor de Legendre; Von Gelder, un terrateniente adinerado; Víctor Trischer, ministro del Interior; Scarpia, oficial del ejército; Marquis, capitán de la policía; y Chauvin, el verdugo de la isla.

White Zombie, pese a sus limitaciones, probó ser un éxito en la taquilla y eventualmente, con el paso del tiempo, encontró defensores en los espacios menos esperados, como en el del músico (y ahora cineasta) Rob Zombie, quien bautizó a su primera banda con el título del filme. En YouTube es posible ver la película completa. Una curiosidad, para quienes son fanáticos del género de horror.

(Publicado originalmente el 11 de diciembre de 2012 en el blog de los Hermanos Chang).

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Admirable Articles of Haiti's Constitution

First Article

Haiti is an indivisible, sovereign, independent, free, democratic and unified Republic.

Article 8

The territory of the Haitian Republic comprises:

a. the western part of the island of Haiti and the adjacent island of La Gonave, La Tortue, I’Ile a Vache, les Cayemittes, La Navase, La Grande Caye and the other islands of the Territorial Sea;

b. it is bounded on the east by the Dominican Republic, on the north by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south and west by the Caribbean Sea or Sea of the Antilles;

c. the air space over the land sea of the Republic.

Article 21

The crime of high treason consists in bearing arms in a foreign army against the Republic, serving a foreign nation in a conflict with the Republic, in any official’s stealing state property, entrusted to his management, or any violation of the Constitution by those responsible for enforcing it.

Article 30

All religions and faiths shall be freely exercised. Everyone is entitled to profess his religion and practice his faith, provided the exercise of that right does not disturb law and order.

Article 30-1

No one may be compelled to belong to a religious organization or to follow a religious teaching contrary to his convictions.

Article 30-2

The law establishes the conditions for recognition and practice of religions and faiths.

Article 35-4

Unions are essentially nonpolitical, nonprofit, and nondenominational. No one may be forced to join a union.

Article 52

Citizenship entails civic duties. Every right is counterbalanced by a corresponding duty.

Article 52-1

Civic duties are the citizen’s moral, political, social and economic obligations as a whole to the State and the country. These obligations are:

a. to respect the Constitution and the national emblem;

b. to respect the laws;

c. to vote in elections without constraint;

d. to pay his taxes;

e. to serve on a jury;

f. to defend the country in the event of war;

g. to educate and improve himself;

h. to respect and protect the environment;

i. to respect scrupulously the revenues and properties of the State;

j. to respect the property of others;

k. to work to maintain peace;

l. to provide assistance to persons in danger;

m. to respect the rights and freedom of others.

Article 52-2

Failure to abide by these provisions shall be punishable by law.

Article 100

Sessions of the National Assembly are public. However, they may be held in closed session at the request of five (5) members, and the resumption of public sessions shall then be decided by an absolute majority.

Article 103

The Legislature has its seat in Port-au-Prince. However, depending on the circumstances, this seat may be transferred elsewhere to the same place and at the same time as that of the Executive Power.

by Dunilefra, working for Political Analysis

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Beachside Landing by morealtitude

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[PREMIERE] DE NETFLIX AU STUDIO PIGALLE : LE DUO GAGNANT 

KERBER & OMICILLe son de Randy Kerber et Jowee Omicil, c’est à la fois quelque chose qui vient de très loin et qui nous parle de très près, qui prend son temps et se développe lentement, où la souplesse aérienne vient se marier aux forces telluriques. Avec l’album « Y PATI », qui paraîtra le 11 décembre sur le label KOMOS, les deux musiciens qui s’étaient rencontrés sur le tournage de la série “The Eddy”, signent un superbe album de jazz ambient expérimental.

Cette poésie onirique est le fruit de la rencontre du saxophoniste Jowee Omicil et du claviériste-compositeur Randy Kerber. Le premier, né en 1977 à Montréal et résidant aujourd’hui à Paris, est d’origine haïtienne (on peut d’ailleurs l’entendre chanter en créole sur les titres « Grenadié » et « La Gonave »). Passé par le Berklee College of Music, il a joué aux côtés de Branford Marsalis, Marcus Miller, Tony Allen ou encore Francisco Mella et a déjà enregistré 5 albums en son nom propre.

Le second, né en 1958 en Californie, est sans doute l’un des musiciens les plus écoutés au monde (bien que rares sont ceux qui le connaissent). En effet, outre sa carrière aux côtés de Lionel Hampton, Don Ellis, B.B. King ou même Michael Jackson, Randy Kerber a enregistré en tant que claviériste pour plus de 800 bandes originales de films, parmi lesquelles Titanic, Forrest Gump, les trois premiers Harry Potter, La La Land, La Couleur Pourpre… Randy, c’est ce musicien invisible mais présent partout.

Les légères dissonances avec le saxophone finissent de parfaire le tableau spectral de ce qui apparaît comme étant à la fois une ode à Albert Ayler et aux orchestres jazz des années 30.

Leur rencontre, Jowee Omicil et Randy Kerber la doivent d’ailleurs au cinéma. Car c’est sur le tournage de la série « The Eddy », produite par Damien Chazelle pour Netflix, que les deux artistes ont croisé leurs chemins. Attentif à l’alchimie entre les deux acteurs-musiciens, c’est le directeur du label de jazz KOMOS, Antoine Rajon, qui les a réunis au studio Pigalle à la faveur d’un mois de juillet déconfiné. Le cinéma semble ainsi irriguer leur création : difficile de ne percevoir, en particulier sur le titre « Ascenseur 2020 » (disponible sur Bandcamp), l’influence de Miles Davis et de sa B.O. d’Ascenseur pour l’échafaud. On y retrouve quelque chose de ces ambiances sonores un peu brumeuses d’où se détachent les improvisations toutes en intensité, ici d’une trompette, là-bas d’un saxophone alto.

Cet album est aussi un véritable régal pour les amoureux de claviers. Pour obtenir ces sons atmosphériques, Randy Kerber est allé chercher ce qui se fait de mieux dans cette nouvelle génération de synthé qui décuple les capacités d’expression des pianistes en rendant chaque touche sensible aux mouvements du doigts : un véritable instrument total qui permet au claviériste de reproduire ou de transfigurer les capacités de modulation sonore d’un flûtiste, d’un guitariste, d’un accordéoniste… Parmi ces synthés révolutionnaires, on peut donc entendre sur l’album l’Expressive E Osmose et le Haken Continuum, mais surtout le génie de Randy Kerber qui se transforme, avec ces beaux jouets, en homme-orchestre.

Pour cette exclu, on a choisi de vous présenter « Luxologie », un titre un peu à part, dont la tonalité lumineuse dénote avec le mystère ambiant des autres morceaux. Ici, ce ne sont pas les synthés dernière génération qu’a choisis Randy Kerber mais l’ancêtre du Mellotron, le Chamberlin (un instrument à clavier électromécanique), seul capable de produire cet instrumentation rétro à souhait. Les légères dissonances avec le saxophone finissent de parfaire le tableau spectral de ce qui apparaît comme étant à la fois une ode à Albert Ayler et aux orchestres jazz des années 30. Un album à ne pas manquer et dont la sortie est prévue pour le 11 décembre.

>>> Pré-commander Y PATI de Randy Kerber & Jowee Omicil

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île de La Gonave

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Alex Webb HAITI. Etroits, La Gonave. 1986.

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“But on the island of La Gonave they made a king out of a sergeant of Marines.” “Oh, no, they didn’t.” “But King Faustin Wirkus—” “All I have to say about Wirkus and that white king business is that he had a good collaborator. Let’s have another round of orange juice.” “You mean to say he was no king at all?” “I mean just that.”

from tell my horse, from a trustworthy and knowledgeable seeming local. only a few years after the purported kingship. willing to bet the stories of him being considered a king are highly exaggerated

Gonâve Island or Zile Lagonav is an island of Haiti located west-northwest of Port-au-Prince in the Gulf of Gonâve

On July 18, 1926, U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant Faustin E. Wirkus (1896–1945) was proclaimed by the residents of the island as King Faustin II, where he ruled over the island with the tribal queen Ti Mememnne as co-monarchs. His reign lasted until 1929, when he peacefully abdicated and returned home to the United States.[6] Ti Memenne would continue to unofficially rule the island until her death in that same year. For context, Haiti is a republic and abolished the monarchy in 1859 with Fabre Nicolas Geffrard.

According to an official biography,[5] Wirkus was born in 1896 in Rypin (Congress Poland, in the Russian Empire) a small town now in Poland, however, numerous ship passenger lists (records of the U.S. Customs Service) show his correct birth place as Pittston, Pennsylvania.[6] He and his parents settled in Dupont, Pennsylvania, a coal mining community northwest of Wilkes-Barre, where he was raised.[5] At the age of 11, he started sorting coal in Pittston.

Wirkus enlisted in the US Marine Corps in 1915 and served in the 1st Advance Base Brigade in Haiti and rose to the rank of corporal in 1918 then to gunnery sergeant in 1920.[7] During his service in the Marine Corps, he was promoted to a lieutenant in the Garde d'Haiti, commanding a squad of native troops on La Gonâve. After rescuing a young woman in trouble, he found out that she was Queen Timemenne of La Gonâve. He was welcomed by the population as Timemenne had told them how kind he was to her, and in part, due to the unusual circumstance that he had the same first name as the former emperor of Haiti, Faustin Soulouque, later known as Faustin I ("Faustin the First"), who died in 1867. Somewhat bizarrely, the natives proclaimed him Faustin II in a Voodoo ritual[8] and he ruled jointly with Queen Timemenne for three years.[5][8][9] He became known for dispensing ready but gentle justice.[10]

Queen Ti Memenne of La Gonâve (also written as Timemenne; 19th-century – fl. 1929) was the tribal ruler of La Gonâve, a Haitian island located west of Hispaniola in the Gulf of Gonâve, in the 1920s. While her reign was not officially recognized by the republican government of Haiti during American occupation, she maintained political, economic, spiritual, and social leadership of the island. Arrested by the Garde d'Haiti for being a practitioner of Vodou, she was shown compassion by Faustin E. Wirkus, an American military officer who assisted in her release. She later proclaimed Wirkus to be the reincarnation of former Haitian Emperor Faustin Soulouque and crowned him as a co-ruler over La Gonâve.

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i THINK the only direct sources for this are this guy's memoir and the magic island by william seabrook which seems pretty sensationalist. so i think this might not have happened. the us military believes it though

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Arctic Heating & Cooling owner Evert Bek

Local businessman helps install water filters on Haiti, where water is the Elixir of life

By Emma Palova EW Emma’s Writings

Lowell, MI- At the best, a running water system on the forgotten island of La Gonave off Haiti consists of a cistern tipped upside down with a hose that leads through the window inside a hut.

However, most often you will see a container full of dirty rain water known as the municipal well. The villagers haul water in buckets on donkeys or on their heads. Usually when tested, the water is full of coliform bacteria, which causes cholera, according to Lowell resident and business owner Evert Bek. Bek was part of a team that installed water filters in Haiti at the beginning of March. The project was spearheaded by the Lowell Rotary Club. “There is no running water on the island,” said Evert. “There is no electricity, no bathrooms, people live in huts. They use rainwater collected in cisterns.” The team installed 80 water filters which are cones filled with sand and stones from the local sources. Each dwelling paid 35 cents per water filter. It takes 10 gallons of water to get the filters started before using as safe water supply, according to Bek.

Bek was astonished at the living conditions on Haiti, located only 709 miles from Miami. Most recently, Haiti was hit by hurricane Matthew on Oct. 4, 2016, and the country still suffers in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in 2010. A typical dwelling is made of cement, it has a dirt floor, one room. And it accommodates anywhere from two to 10 people. During the week-long stay, Evert said, he only saw meals cooking outside twice. “One day we had beans and rice, the next day we had rice and beans,” he said. “The laundry is done outside by hand.” Usually, the huts are scattered all around with a church as the center point. The team stayed in the village of Pikmi. “We had to have a translator,” said Bek. The island, which has no industry, was conquered by the French in the 1600s. The official language is Creole, which is a French African dialect.Their guide and translator was a self-taught man, who called himself Day Day. People use small motorcycles as transportation, but they mainly walk. It is not uncommon to see three to four people riding a motorcycle.Old pick-up trucks are left wherever, when they stop working. The land is just clay and rock, because the top soil eroded as the forests were harvested unlike in the neighboring Dominican Republic. “The island sits on a bare rock,” said Evert. Approximately 100,000 people live on 287 square miles. Weekly, there is a village market, where animals are traded. Charcoal on the island is used as a cooking fuel. However, there are no tools to fix anything. In contrast to the overall living conditions, the population wears discarded t-shirts bearing losing sports teams’ logos, peddled by different organizations from the USA. Kids and adults walk around with non-working phones. “It’s a status symbol,” said Evert. “There is a lot of corruption in the country, you got to be ready to get your valet out to get anything done.” Churches have done a lot of work on the island in schools and education. Kids go to schools in uniforms, and there are orphanages in good condition. According to Evert, the big unknown remains the economy on the island even once the water problem is solved. “You have water and then what?” he said. There are a lot of unfinished houses on the island due to lack of materials and finances, and corruption. A typical banker sits outside with a duffle bag of money on the corner of gravel streets. He holds dollars in one hand and Haitian Gourdes in the other hand. If you go into a “store,” you will not get any change back. “I learned the hard way,” laughed Bek. The team stayed in a guest house with water and kitchen, leased through an organization based in Saranac. “I like to help out,” he said. “Be grateful for what you have.”

Featured photo is of a Wednesday market on the Haitian island of La Gonave.

This post was also written as a response to the Daily Post prompt @elixir <a href="https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/elixir/">Elixir</a>

For more info on Haiti go to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti

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Installing water filters in Haiti Inspiring communities Note: This is the fist installment in the Inspiring Communities series featuring men and women who inspire us in our communities to help other people achieve well-being in a money-driven world.

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60 days.

It’s official. I’m going to Haiti! I am leaving on 15 May for Fredericton, Canada, and I will fly from there to Port-au-Prince the following day. I will be on the island of La Gonave shadowing the lovely Susie Munsell for an entire month until 20 June. I’ll fly back from PAP to Montreal, spend the night, and then fly back from Montreal to Fredericton on 21 June. Whew. Those are the cold hard…

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Yesterday I had the pleasure to support MATÈNWA on their 25th Anniversary supporting the folks of La Gonave, Haïti through education. The bonus was hanging with the talented @sanba_zile Go support 👉🏾 @friendsofmatenwa https://www.matenwa.org/ #matenwa #matènwa #djsuperduke (at Venezia Restaurant Boston) https://www.instagram.com/p/CebTb7fuNoD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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« La PNH arrête trois narcotrafiquants jamaïcains et saisit 635 kilos de mariguana »

« La PNH arrête trois narcotrafiquants jamaïcains et saisit 635 kilos de mariguana »

La police maritime haïtienne et la Garde côtière des États-Unis ont procédé à l’arrestation de trois narcotrafiquants jamaïcains le mercredi 27 Octobre 2021 dans les eaux territoriales de l’île de la Gonave. Port -au- Prince, https://www.lemiroirinfo.ca, Jeudi 28 octobre 2021 Dans la foulée, ils ont procédé à la saisie de 635.5 kilogrammes de mariguana. Pour l’instant les narcotrafiquants  sont…