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- August 10: Haiti has created an independent commission to investigage the slayings of the eight journalists killed in Haiti since 2000. (International Herald Tribune)
- August 2: The talks between UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and Haitian President Rene Preval in Port Au Prince appear to have been dominated by discussion of the continued presence of the UN peace keeping force there. (BBC NEWS)
- April 1: A Port-au-Prince man claims his son was killed by United Nations peacekeepers in crossfire in a battle to rid the slums of gangs.(GUARDIAN)).
- March 18: Haitian President, Rene Preval, travels to Cuba for routine medical tests, according to his official spokesman. Preval was first diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2001, further testing in Havana showed he was cancer-free. (PRAVDA)).
- March 6: Haitians living abroad sent more than $1.65 billion to their homeland in 2006, according to estimates released by the Inter-American Development Bank. (CARIBBEAN PRESS RELEASES)
- Feb 28: United Nations troops move into slum areas, where almost a quarter of a million people live, as part of a new "get tough" policy against the armed gangs. (BBC NEWS)
- Feb 26: A sculpture made from recycled materials found in the slums of Haiti is to tour the UK to mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the international slave trade. (24 HOUR MUSEUM NEWS)
- Feb 22: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's ousted former president, said he will return to the Caribbean nation "once the conditions are right" but has no plans to go back into government. (EDMONTON JOURNAL) (MEDIA NEWSWIRE)
