The President at St Christophe

January 12, 2010! We remember this painful moment that swept away relatives, friends and neighbors in 35 seconds. Many still mourn the untimely departure of their loved one.

This Sunday, January 12, 2020, 10 years later, it is time to reflect. At the foot of the monument, erected in memory of the 300,000 disappeared buried in St Christophe, the President of the Republic Jovenel Moïse, accompanied by Prime Minister Jean Michel Lapin, members of the government, parliamentarians, members of the judiciary, high ranking officers of the Haitian National Police (PNH) and the Haitian Armed Forces (FADH) and members of the diplomatic corps, laid a wreath and observed a moment of meditation.

The President at the National Palace

Then the President, accompanied by his wife Martine Moïse, laid a wreath in front of the funeral stele erected on the courtyard of the National Palace in memory of the employees of the institution killed during the devastating earthquake of January 12, 2010.

RACO DECO will carry out the plans for the new National Palace

Also on Sunday, was unveiled the winning firm of the architecture competition launched by the Haitian State was announced through the Housing and Public Building Construction Unit (UCLBP) and the Working and Reflection Group for the Reconstruction of the National Palace (GTRRPN), the big winner is the firm RACO DECO, a Haitian firm which claims to be specialized in the renovation, architecture, construction and decor of public or private buildings.

RACO DECO "will be in charge of carrying out the reconstruction plan of the National Palace. Formalities will be undertaken later, in order to recruit the firm which will be authorized to execute this plan," explained the director of the UCLBP, Clément Bélizaire.

Proposition of Raco-Deco :

"The reconstruction of the National Palace must be the catalyst for the reconstruction of our capital and of Haiti and the convergence towards living together," writes Raco déco

See other proposals : https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-29725-haiti-flash-the-4-finalist-reconstruction-projects-of-the-national-palace-in-video.html

HL/ HaitiLibre